SundAI Hack x AIT Summer Epic Kick

Join us for a groundbreaking hackathon where active AI builders come together to code, collaborate, and innovate in real time. This isn’t your average event – it’s a full-day, hands-on sprint geared exclusively for builders working with foundation models and generative AI.

What to Expect

• Real-Code, Real Solutions: Bring your laptop and dive into live coding demos that showcase your latest experiments, creative hacks, and technical breakthroughs.

• Collaborative Co-Creation: Work solo or team up with 1–5 peers to turn ideas into functioning prototypes. This is all about sharing the nuts and bolts behind building impressive AI applications.

• Networking & Community: Engage with a passionate community of AI practitioners. Exchange practical insights, debug challenges together, and expand your professional network.

• Structured Day-Of Flow:

• 12:00 – Welcome
• 12:00 – Doors Open & Lightning Intro
• 14:00 – Optional neighborhood lunch walk
• 19:00 – Online Demo Submission
• 20:00 – Live Demo Presentations

Space is limited to ensure quality interactions and hands-on engagement, so secure your spot as soon as possible.

When & Where

• Date: Sunday, August 3rd, 2025
• Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (local time)
• Location: Paris, Île-de-France (exact details provided upon registration)

Please note: Catering is not included; plan accordingly.

Registration

Registration is open now. Sign up using the registration button at the top of this page and provide your contact info along with a link to your GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Email. Once registered, you will receive further details including the precise location. Don’t wait — spots fill up fast!

Why Join This Hackathon?

This hackathon is built by builders, for builders. Whether you’re polishing your startup MVP, testing a side project, or taking your first leap as a founder, you’ll find the support, mentorship, and community to push your project forward. Expect real-time feedback from peers, hands-on advice from top mentors, and prizes including High-Performance Computing tokens and cash rewards for top projects.

Sponsor the builders shaping what’s next

Fintech DevNight - Fintech DevNight is a vibrant community for FinTech innovators, fostering deep dives into the cutting edge of financial technology. Hosted by Flowistic GmbH and AI Tinkerers - Paris, these events explore critical topics such as machine learning applications, MLOps, and AI ethics within the financial sector. Join fellow professionals in Paris to connect, share insights, and advance the future of finance. Fintech DevNight provides a crucial platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration, empowering participants to navigate the complexities and opportunities of AI in finance. We are grateful for their commitment to building a strong FinTech ecosystem.

Join us to meet your next AI hire, user, or investment.

AI Tinkerers Hackathon Stats

AI Tinkerers is a global, curated network of AI builders hosting events in over 65 cities worldwide. They connect active builders shipping products with foundation models and generative AI, including engineers, developers, startup founders, and frontier researchers. The community focuses on technical contributions, live demos, and deep code dives, providing a platform for practitioners with technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds to share knowledge and collaborate on ambitious projects. AI Tinkerers emphasizes diversity and inclusivity, fostering innovation through varied perspectives united by high technical standards and a passion for advancing AI.

• Attendees: This exclusive community of 4,082 subscribers comprises elite technical professionals, with 42% specializing in AI/ML research, 31% in full-stack software engineering, and 27% in technical leadership. Members possess deep expertise in PyTorch, LLMs, and agentic architectures. Notably, the group features prominent open-source maintainers from Hugging Face and graduates from top-tier institutions like École Polytechnique.

• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft, alongside open-source and AI leaders such as Hugging Face, Mistral AI, LangWatch, and Black Forest Labs, and innovative startups like ElevenLabs, Docker, Datadog, Algolia, and Zoom, and more

• Demos: Across 130 submissions, 83 demos have been presented at AI Tinkerers - Paris. The most exciting themes have focused on agentic production workflows, knowledge-graph-driven reasoning (GraphRAG/context graphs), and system architectures for scalable, reliable deployments. Technically, structured outputs and tool/function calling, cost/latency reductions, eval/benchmarking, and multimodal/local execution have been repeatedly explored.

• Testimonials:

  “Overall, it was high-quality content and it made me want to come back for the next ones!”

  — Product manager, AI community

  “Great organization, partners and food! Lovely folks and good industry insights”

  — ML engineer, happtiq

  “It was all really good...”

  — AI engineer, finance

  “Having so many volunteers involved from the community was exceptional...”

  — AI consultant, NLP

  “Engaging, open to further discuss experiences.”

  — Full-stack web developer

  “Great event, thank you very much!”

  — AI engineer, finance

  “Having 7 demos in 6 hours or of such a small group semt exceptional...”

  — AI consultant, NLP