🇺🇸Hackathons in San Francisco in 2026
San Francisco is hosting 423 hackathons in 2026, with a combined prize pool of $75K across Artificial Intelligence, Social Impact, Cloud.
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Hackathons
32
Avg Prize
$8K
Organizers
114
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Ongoing
Agentic AI Hackathon: AWS Community Day Bay Area 2026
In Person
Sep 30 – Oct 15, 2026John VargheseSan Francisco, United States
Cloud
Artificial Intelligence
Social Impact
Ongoing
SVYCA Youth for Earth (Y4E) Hackathon
In Person
Sep 20 – Oct 18, 2026Silicon Valley Youth Climate ActionStanford, United States$3K
Climate Tech
Social Impact
Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Upcoming
AI-Native Startup Hackathon | #SFTechWeek
In Person
Oct 7 – Oct 8, 2026Vin WanfanSan Francisco, United States$500
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Entrepreneurship
Upcoming
"Build an Agent" Hackathon
In Person
Oct 7 – Oct 8, 2026Monid AISan Francisco, United States$5K
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud
Upcoming
Pax Silica Hackathon: SF Tech Week
In Person
Oct 7 – Oct 8, 2026Sean ChiuSan Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Fintech
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Upcoming
Hardware hackathon: turn a vintage toy into a voice agent
In Person
Oct 8, 2026AssemblyAISan Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
IoT
Fintech
Upcoming
Multiplayer Hackathon by Party (SF)
In Person
Oct 8, 2026Julian AlbertsSan Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Social Impact
Upcoming
Spaces by WZRD Tech: Agency (air launch + mini-hackathon) | #SFTechWeek
In Person
Oct 8, 2026Avi RaoSan Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Upcoming
AI Hackathon: Sales Copilot AI
In Person
Oct 8 – Oct 9, 2026TatianaSF comSan Francisco, United States$30K
Artificial Intelligence
Edtech
Friday, October 9, 2026
Upcoming
Punk Software Hack Night: Dismantle Network Effects #SFTechWeek
In Person
Oct 9, 2026BoweiSan Francisco, United States
Tech
Upcoming
Cyberdefense Hackathon
In Person
Oct 9 – Oct 10, 2026tokens&San Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud
Data Science
Upcoming
Build It Anyway: Signal Hunt with Apify | SF Tech Week Hackathon for Non-Technical Builders
In Person
Oct 9, 2026ApifySan Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Social Impact
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Upcoming
Cofounder, Help or Join a Startup
In Person
Oct 10, 2026Startup OasisSan Francisco, United States
Entrepreneurship
Upcoming
Hyphen-Hacks
In Person
Oct 10 – Oct 11, 2026Lick-Wilmerding High SchoolSan Francisco, United States
IoT
Artificial Intelligence
Climate Tech
Upcoming
Bay Area Agentic AI Hackathon hosted by UC Santa Cruz & CISCO
In Person
Oct 10 – Oct 12, 2026Susan GrassoSanta Clara, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Upcoming
AI-Native Startup Hackathon
In Person
Oct 10 – Oct 11, 2026Ayush OjhaSan Francisco, United States
Artificial Intelligence
Entrepreneurship
Upcoming
#SFTechWeek - Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trust
In Person
Oct 10, 2026ezioStanford, United States$50
Artificial Intelligence
Web Development