A free, in-person mini-hackathon on open-source AI. Build a working prototype in one afternoon with open-weight models, on-site mentors and side challenges from Google Gemma, Lovable and ElevenLabs. Dinner and networking after.

87 registrations

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Industry Collaborator

Builders & venturesDec 2025

Co-organizerLinz

Google DevFest Linz · The Great AI Hackathon

co-hosted with GDG Linz at JKU · winners ceremony at Dynatrace HQ

Full-day AI hackathon — SDG-oriented prototypes.

144 participant records · 19 teams · 20 judged projects

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Industry Collaborator

Community & ecosystemOct 2025

OrganizerLinz

War for AI Talent

JKU LIT Open Innovation Center

Flagship event on hiring, talent and the AI labour market. Speakers from Google Austria, Microsoft Austria, AWS Austria, NXAI (Sepp Hochreiter), Dynatrace, McKinsey, PwC, Impact AI, Syntactiq, Nineteen Twenty-One.

~200 participants · ~200 on the waitlist · 10 senior speakers · 40+ at the leadership dinner

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