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9-day AI hackathon

Secrethon
2026

Nine days building with LLMs and AI against problems supplied by real organisations — every case its own body of open data, its own mentors, and its own criteria for a finished answer.

When

October 2–11, 2026

Where

UCU, Lviv · Online

Entry

Free · Up to 300

Prize pool

$4,500

Register now

Registration deadline

Registration closes 30 September, 23:59 Kyiv time.

Three case files

Each is standalone — its own case owner, mentors and sub-challenge. You take one.

SEC-2026-01

Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Job postings and companies analysis

Read the open hiring market at scale — who is recruiting, for what, and how the organisations behind the postings connect to each other. The Ministry brings the case; your agents do the reading.

  • Open job-posting sources
  • Public company records
  • Entity and relationship extraction
  • Agentic pipelines over unstructured text
Case open
SEC-2026-02

Unobio

Drug market analysis

Map a pharmaceutical market out of open data — products, players, movement, and the signals that only show up when sources are reconciled against each other. A commercial case with messy inputs and no answer key.

  • Open pharmaceutical registries
  • Market and pricing signals
  • Cross-source reconciliation
  • Agentic research and summarisation
Case open
SEC-2026-03

Mantis Analytics

Simulation of geopolitical shocks on supply chains

Model what a shock does to a supply chain before it happens — trace the dependencies out of open sources, then simulate how a disruption propagates through them. The hardest kind of open-data problem: the answer is a forecast, not a lookup.

  • Open trade and logistics sources
  • Supply-chain dependency mapping
  • Event and shock modelling
Case open

Nine days, opening to close

  1. 02.10Friday

    Opening session

    Kick-off, with the cases and the judging criteria handed out. Teams start building the same day.

  2. 02–11.10Nine days

    Hackathon week

    Nine days of work with mentors on site and online, building against the case your team picked.

  3. 11.10Sunday

    Closing session

    Final submissions, demos to the judges, and the results announced in front of everyone.

How a record is judged

Submission score
Every submission is scored against its own track while you are still building.
Meeting the task criteria
A score alone does not win it. Each track's case owner sets what a finished answer has to do.

Who is behind it

Thank you for your support.

  • MonoGeneral partner
  • Ministry of Defence of UkraineTrack partner
  • Mantis AnalyticsTrack partner
  • UnobioTrack partner
  • Ukrainian Catholic UniversityVenue partner

Register your team

Up to 300 places, free entry, hybrid across all nine days. Bring a team or find one on the day.

Register now