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Community AI Agent Hackathon

An exclusive community hackathon where engineering leaders, innovators, and builders team up to solve meaningful problems with AI.
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26 July
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9am - 7pm
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OfferZen Offices
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Awards & Swag
What is the Community AI Agent Hackathon?
Join top engineers and tech leaders for a high-energy AI Agent hackathon. The Challenge? Build an autonomous AI agent that plans, executes, adapts, and measures its way to achieving a real-world KPI.

Core Hackathon Features:
  • ‍🧠 Build an AI Agent that solves real-life business problems
  • 🚀 Single-day sprint (9 AM–7 PM) with structured hacking blocks and mentor check-ins
  • 🏆 R50 000 in cash prizes, tech swag, and spot awards
  • 🎓 Mentorship and judging by engineering leaders from top SA companies
  • 🍻 Post-event networking drinks
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Why join?
🤝 Build with like-minded devs
🧃 A fully catered day to fuel your flow
🙌 Personalised mentorship
🏆 Compete for exclusive prizes and swag
🤖 Sharpen your AI and rapid-prototyping skills
Spots are limited — apply to join!
With only 40 spots available, this is an exclusive, application-only event. Selected participants will receive a confirmation email by the first week of July.
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More about the event organisers
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Where great teams hire great developers. OfferZen is South Africa’s largest tech talent marketplace, connecting top tech talent to the best opportunities.
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Otinga provides effective and powerfulAI-tools and services to use hackathons, innovation challenges and ideathons in enterprise innovation.
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FAQs

A hackathon is an event where participants collaborate to develop software or hardware projects in a limited time. It is an opportunity to learn, collaborate, and create something new.

Attendees need to bring their own laptops with, be willing to work in a randomised team and must use AI to hack on the day.

Participation is free, however with only 40 spots available, this is an exclusive, application-only event. Selected participants will receive a confirmation email by the first week of July.

Yes! Teams on the day will actually be randomised. So you'll be allocated your own team before the event.

Yes there will be prizes. More information coming soon.

Should you not be able to join on the day, please let us know as soon as possible so we can let someone else on the waitlist join.