Invitation to support the Global AI Hackathon

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Dear Alumni,

We’re reaching out with an exciting invitation!

Hack-Nation, in collaboration with the MIT Sloan AI Club, the MIT Club of Northern California, and the MIT Club of Germany, is hosting the Global AI Hackathon Series — two additional 24-hour global innovation sprints in 2026 (July 18–19, and October 3–4) uniting MIT students, AI researchers, and engineers from 65+ countries. The hackathon runs online, with local hubs in the Bay Area, Boston, London, Munich, Dresden, Zurich, Paris, Linz, Delhi, Yerevan and Pakistan coming together for after-parties and community celebrations.

🚀 Our mission is to spark innovation, foster entrepreneurship, and build community at the frontier of applied AI. Over ~5,000 AI talents from 65+ countries have applied for our previous hackathons and more than 500 AI applications were built during our hackathons in 2025.

We're looking for passionate AI professionals to help make this a success — as mentors, jury members, sponsors, or local supporters in the Bay Area or Boston. Your support and insights would mean a lot to our team of MIT students and alum organizers. Also there is the opportunity to join as a mentor for a startup accelerator incubating AI ventures coming out of the hackathon.

1st day of the hackathon: Mentoring will take place and you can pick any time after 9:00 am PT

2nd day of the hackathon : The jury deliberation, finalist pitches and award ceremony take place 8:00 am - 2:00 pm PT / 11:00 am - 4:00 pm ET

👉 Interested in getting involved or learning more? Reach out to us at lbieske@mit.edu or knw@alumn.mit.edu.

👉 Slide deck: e-mail us

👉 Website: https://hack-nation.ai/

Warmly,

Linn, Kai on behalf of the Global AI Hackathon Team

P.S. if e-mail is not your thing - join our Q&A WhatsApp group: https://tinyurl.com/whatsapp-ask-a-question

First Name *

Last Name *

E-Mail *

What school are you an alum of? *

MIT

Harvard

Stanford

Yale

Princeton

CMU

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LinkedIn Profile URL *

Position *

Affiliation *

City *

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We are curious to learn more about you and your background *

Could you or your organization become a sponsor? *

Yes

Would you or your organization be able to support with one of the following sponsorship options?

Prizes

Compute credits

Cash

Physical spaces

Sponsor an AI challenges which will be tackled during the hackathon

Other:

How do you like to support? *

Become part of the jury team

Mentor participants

Become a VC partner / Angle investor

Become a local co-host

Help with outreach

Become a mentor for the AI startup accelerator

Other:

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Briefly tell us how you would like to support *

In what location would you like to join the jury team? *

MIT (Cambridge, MA)

Stanford

Online (Zoom)

WhatsApp number - WhatsApp is used for day off jury coordination *

Are you currently looking for a US Visa (e.g., O1) and are interested in getting in touch with our visa agency? *

Yes, looking for a visa within next 3 months

Yes, looking for a visa within next 6 months

Yes, looking for a visa within next 9 months

What do you hope to get out of the Global AI Hackathon?

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