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▮ Tallinn, Estonia · 48 hours · Debut edition

AI Builders
Weekend

100 Builders. 48 Hours. Hackathon meets LAN party. We're bringing back the raw community energy of late-night LAN parties, combined with modern AI product development, live workflows, and retro gaming.

Whether you're a non-tech enthusiast, active founder, or senior engineer: join us to build, compete, or spectate and learn how real AI products get built live, from scratch.

WhenAutumn 2026

WhereTallinn

Builders100 seats

Spectators100 passes

What's on the line

Prize poolReal money for winning teams

Sponsor prizesAwards from partner companies

Hiring on the spotCompanies recruiting from the floor

Investors in the roomWatching you build and pitch

Plus mentors, speakers, LAN night, and a permanent profile in the network.

Join the waitlist Sponsor or invest

01 · Get in line

First come, first served.

The room holds 100 builders and 100 spectators, and applications are reviewed in the order they arrive. Joining the list early is the single biggest thing you can do to get accepted. There is no second queue and no way to jump it later.

Pick builder or spectator. It isn't final. The list is notified first and you decide then. Dates, venue, prize pool and full format follow soon, to the list before anyone else.

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Select your role

Builder You want to build. Solo is fine. Come alone and go alone, or form a team on the day. 100 seats. Spectator: look over the shoulder Not ready to build yet. Watch it happen from inside the room, up close, all weekend. 100 passes.

Position in the queue is what decides who gets in. Everything else follows by email.

Place confirmed · Debut edition

You're in the queue. We'll email with dates, venue and everything else before it goes public.

Move up the queue

Everyone who joins with your link moves you up five places. First come, first served, so this is the one lever you have.

Join the Telegram group

02 · What's on the table

What a seat is worth

The cash prize is the smallest thing on this list.

Prize poolReal money for winning teams, split so beginners compete against beginners. Figure published once partners are locked.
Sponsor prizesSeparate awards from partner companies: hardware, credits, subscriptions, category bounties.
Hiring without the CV screenCompanies recruit from the floor. They watch you work for 48 hours. The most honest interview that exists.
Investors in the roomEarly-stage funds and angels watching you build and pitch. Some teams leave with a first conversation.
Mentors on the floorSenior engineers, founders and operators, there the whole weekend, looking at your work.
A permanent place in the communityEvery participant gets a public profile on our platform with your skills, your background and a portfolio of what you shipped, seen by every partner company, investor and founder in the network, long after Sunday.
Speakers & panelsPeople shipping AI products in production, not keynote theatre.
LAN night & afterpartyCounter-Strike 1.6, Quake III, and the part of the weekend nobody posts about.

03 · Industry Track

Build against a real problem.

Manufacturers, logistics firms, clinics, banks and factories bring a problem that costs them money every week. Teams can build against one of those instead of an open brief, with the company sitting on the other side of the table.

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For the team

A real user, real constraints, and a company with budget and a reason to sign a pilot on Monday.

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For the company

Several independent attacks on the same problem in 48 hours, plus direct access to whoever solved it.

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Open track

No partner brief. Build the thing you've been carrying around. Same jury, same prizes.

04 · Partners, sponsors, investors

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Ten slots. Chosen, not sold.

We keep the partner count low so each one is actually visible, instead of one logo in a wall of forty. Category exclusivity goes to the first partner in each vertical, and we turn down anything that doesn't fit the room.

Fintech, cloud, telecom, enterprise software, AI infrastructure, industry, funds. Slots close as they fill and the number doesn't move.

hey@aibuildersweekend.com

Tell us who you are and what you'd want out of it.

Ways to take part

Title & brand sponsor

A stand on the floor, a keynote slot, presence across the weekend and everything that comes out of it.

Industry challenge partner

Put a real business problem in front of every team. Leave with working solutions and the people who built them.

Prize & grant sponsor

Fund a category, name it, hand the award over yourself on Sunday.

Investor / fund

Jury seat, two days watching founders execute under real pressure, first conversation with every team.

Product booth

Demo your tooling to a room of builders who will use it that same weekend. The shortest feedback loop you'll get all year.

Hiring partner

Recruit from the floor. Watch candidates work for 48 hours before you read a single CV.

Something else

Venue, hardware, food, credits, speakers, community. If it makes the weekend better, tell us.

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The channel

The community lives in Telegram.

Not just announcements. It's the community channel, where builders find teammates, trade tools and workflows, and talk to the people organising it. Dates, venue, prize pool, speakers and the moment applications open land here first, before the emails go out.

Join the Telegram group

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