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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CALL-E: Your Code Is Calling

Featured

Online

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

$10,000 in prizes
Sep 14, 2026 11:45 AM EDT to submit
393 participants

AI Builders Hackathon

Online

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

$4,000 in prizes
Submissions open soon
867 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
Aug 18, 2026 05:00 PM EDT to submit
2493 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
Aug 17, 2026 04:00 PM EDT to submit
22524 participants

Arm Create: AI Optimization Challenge

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Online

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

$8,000 in prizes
Aug 14, 2026 07:00 PM EDT to submit
1874 participants

Build with DataHub: The Agent Hackathon

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

$20,500 in prizes
Aug 10, 2026 05:00 PM EDT to submit
2079 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
Aug 03, 2026 05:00 PM EDT to submit
1138 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
430 participants

Prometheus July AI Challenge

Online

The Prometheus July AI Challenge is an online hackathon that brings together the next generation of AI and Machine Learning!

$1,500 in prizes
Jul 30, 2026 11:45 PM EDT to submit
817 participants

HTCJ Aviation Futures Innovation Challenge

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Build the next 100 years of flight through AI, aviation, aerospace, mobility, workforce innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Non-monetary prizes
Jun 24 – Jul 27, 2026
30 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

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Join a global week of building with Codex

$100,000 in prizes
Winners TBD
46789 participants

Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud

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

$45,000 in prizes
Winners TBD
8480 participants

Slack Agent Builder Challenge

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

$42,000 in prizes
Winners TBD
4439 participants

FutureAI Global Hackathon 2026

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

Non-monetary prizes
Winners announced
462 participants

UiPath AgentHack

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Build the AI agents of tomorrow.

$50,000 in prizes
Winners TBD
4017 participants

GitLab Transcend Hackathon

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Intelligent orchestration, now with context.

$20,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1565 participants

Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon

Online

Building Agents for Real-World Challenges

$60,000 in prizes
Winners announced
14476 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
615 participants

SDxUCSD Agent Hackathon

San Diego, CA, USA

Build AI agents with YC companies' tools

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