February 14, 2026 Dubai

February 14, 2026 Dubai

The Ruya AI Hackathon

The Ruya AI Hackathon

The Ruya AI Hackathon

Join us for the one-day, in-person technical competition focused on self-improving AI agents, systems that can learn, adapt, and optimize their behavior over time.

Ruya AI Hackathon 2026

Ruya AI Hackathon 2026

Ruya AI Hackathon 2026

Hackathon focused on self-improving AI agents, systems that can learn, adapt, and evolve.

Design and deploy self-improving AI agents that can optimize their own behavior over time. Join the region’s top AI builders, researchers, and engineers for an intense, in-person competition focused on the future of autonomous systems.

What
We Bring

Expert judges

Good food

A great set-up for your team with our partners at AUD

What
You Bring

Your Ideas

Positive Vibes

A readiness to crank out code

What’s the project
you’ve been sitting on?

What’s the project you’ve been sitting on?

A research agent?

A research agent?

A library for the agentic era?

A library for the agentic era?

An agent training framework?

An agent training framework?

Whatever the idea, it’s time to stop talking and start coding.

Whatever the idea, it’s time to stop talking and start coding.

This is your green light.

This is your green light.

What’s the project you’ve been sitting on?

A research agent?

A library for the agentic era?

An agent training framework?

Whatever the idea, it’s time to stop talking and start coding.

This is your green light.

What Will You Build?

What Will You Build?

What Will You Build?

Participants will design self-improving agent systems that can:

Learn

From data and feedback loops to improve performance.

Adapt

Strategies over time based on changing environments.

Optimize

Workflows, decisions, or behaviors autonomously.

Event Details

Event Details

Event Details

What to Expect?

What to Expect?

What to Expect?

One-day, in-person challenge

Work on real-world agent systems

Work on real-world agent systems

Learn from expert mentors in AI and autonomous systems

Learn from expert mentors in AI and autonomous systems

Win up to $5,000 and partner prizes

Win up to $5,000 and partner prizes

Collaborate with elite engineers, researchers, and startups

Collaborate with elite engineers, researchers, and startups

One-day, in-person challenge

Work on real-world agent systems

Learn from expert mentors in AI and autonomous systems

Win up to $5,000 and partner prizes

Collaborate with elite engineers, researchers, and startups

Prizes

Prizes

Prizes

1st Place

$5,000

AWS Credits

Partner Prizes

1

2nd Place

$2,500

AWS Credits

Partner Prizes

2

3rd Place

$1,500

AWS Credits

Partner Prizes

3

Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors and Partners

Who Should Apply?

Who Should Apply?

Who Should Apply?

This hackathon is designed for technically strong participants who want to work at the frontier of AI:

Top AI & Engineering Students

Top AI & Engineering Students

Top AI & Engineering Students

Early-career engineers and researchers

Early-career engineers and researchers

Early-career engineers and researchers

Developers building autonomous agent systems

Developers building autonomous agent systems

Developers building autonomous agent systems

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