Dan Mercede (Dan-Mercede)

Founder building governed AI systems: fail-closed execution, audit-grade receipts, agent infrastructure, and reliable automation.

Escondido, California, United States
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HTCJ × PROOF Aviation Futures Challenge

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Build the Future of Flight. Then Prove It.

Non-monetary prizes
Jun 24 – Oct 27, 2026
113 participants

AI Builders Hackathon

Online

Building the Future of Intelligent Systems. The Internet Needs Better AI.

$33,900 in prizes
Winners TBD
3510 participants

CALL-E: Your Code Is Calling

Online

Turn your code into an AI agent that makes real phone calls.

$10,000 in prizes
Winners TBD
3208 participants

Agentic Cinema: The Blockbuster Hackathon

Online

Lights. Camera. Code.

$75,000 in prizes
Winners announced
10110 participants

CockroachDB × AWS Hackathon - Build with Agentic Memory

Online

Agents that think. Agents that act. Agents that remember; reliably, globally, at any scale.

$8,750 in prizes
Winners announced
3698 participants

Build with Gemini XPRIZE

Online

$2,000,000 in prizes. Build with Gemini. Ship products that impact the world.

$2,000,000 in prizes
Winners announced
26407 participants

Arm Create: AI Optimization Challenge

Online

One challenge. Three frontiers of AI. All powered by Arm.

$8,000 in prizes
Winners announced
2475 participants

Build with DataHub: The Agent Hackathon

Online

Build AI agents with DataHub's open-source Context Platform.

$20,500 in prizes
Winners announced
3066 participants

Backblaze Generative Media Hackathon: Build with Genblaze on B2

Online

Build the next generation of AI media apps. Generate with Genblaze. Store on Backblaze B2.

$10,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1309 participants

IGAD Hackathon 2026: Smarter Early Warning, Stronger Communities

Ngong, Kenya

Transforming information into action for safer, more resilient communities

$10,000 in prizes
Jun 22 – Jul 31, 2026
509 participants

Daytona HackSprint w/ Braintrust - SF, July 2026

San Francisco, CA, USA

We’re bringing together San Francisco’s brightest AI builders for an intense one-day sprint to create projects at the frontier of AI.

$8,000 in prizes
Jul 24, 2026
115 participants

OpenAI Build Week

Online

Join a global week of building with Codex

$100,000 in prizes
Winners announced
46685 participants

Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud

Online

Build your own AI Agent on Qwen Cloud - compete for $70K in prizes across five tracks.

$45,000 in prizes
Winners announced
8452 participants

Slack Agent Builder Challenge

Online

Whether it's your first agent or your fiftieth - Slack is where it ships.

$42,000 in prizes
Winners announced
4415 participants

FutureAI Global Hackathon 2026

Online

Join developers worldwide to build the next generation of AI innovations.

Non-monetary prizes
Winners announced
459 participants

UiPath AgentHack

Online

Build the AI agents of tomorrow.

$50,000 in prizes
Winners announced
4003 participants

GitLab Transcend Hackathon

Online

Intelligent orchestration, now with context.

$20,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1559 participants

Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon

Online

Building Agents for Real-World Challenges

$60,000 in prizes
Winners announced
14443 participants

DeveloperWeek New York 2026 Hackathon

Queens, NY, USA

Join the nation's largest challenge-driven in-person and online hackathon @ DeveloperWeek New York 2026!

$9,250 in prizes
May 25 – Jun 10, 2026
612 participants

SDxUCSD Agent Hackathon

San Diego, CA, USA

Build AI agents with YC companies' tools

$1,500 in prizes
Apr 12, 2026
72 participants