About this hackathon
🧬 Self-Accelerating AI for Drug Development 📍 San Francisco 📅 October 16–22, 2026 AI is starting to reshape how drugs are discovered and developed. The biggest opportunities will come from building systems around the real workflows, constraints, and decisions of people already doing the work. This hackathon brings together drug developers, scientists, biotech founders, and operators with AI engineers, researchers, and technical builders to work on real problems across the drug development process. Drug developers bring the workflows, bottlenecks, datasets, and scientific context. AI builders bring the models, agents, infrastructure, and engineering needed to turn those problems into working systems. Over the course of the week, teams will explore how AI can improve the full development loop — from scientific reasoning and experiment design to data analysis, execution, decision-making, and iteration. The goal is not to build generic demos. It is to test what becomes possible when AI