HackMIT, hosted by MIT, is a weekend-long hackathon for beginners, offering workshops on Python and JavaScript, mentorship, and prizes. Ideal for high school and college students (18+)new to coding.

Ai4 2026, held August 4–6 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, is America’s largest AI industry conference. It brings together 12,000 attendees, 1,000 speakers, and 400 exhibitors to showcase real-world AI applications across sectors, featuring training sessions, industry tracks, networking events, and major technology announcements.

The AI for Good Global Summit 2026 will be held in Geneva and will be a pivotal United Nations event focused on leveraging artificial intelligence to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

AI World Congress 2026, held in London in June, is a major global event focused on artificial intelligence innovation and industry adoption. Organized by WMO L., it brings together leaders, researchers, and companies to explore AI advancements, ethics, business applications, and future technologies through keynotes, panels, exhibitions, and networking opportunities.

Rise of AI Conference 2026 is Europe’s 10-year anniversary gathering of AI leaders. It blends an intimate 300-seat in-person summit at Humboldt Carré with free online streaming. Expect high-level keynotes, applied-AI talks, regulation and trust discussions, real-world use-cases, and networking among policymakers, researchers, investors, and corporates.

Technovation Girls is a free technology-based program for girls or women (ages 10 - 18). Working in teams (of 1 to 5), girls find a problem in their community and build a mobile app to help solve it. Along the way, they develop their collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

Hoya Hacks at Georgetown University is a 36-hour in-person hackathon with beginner tracks and workshops. Sponsors like Google provide mentorship for novices.

This is a replay of the session that took place on the Centre Stage during the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 8 to 11 July, 2025. This keynote explores how artificial intelligence can empower educators, learners, and institutions to unlock human potential. From personalized learning pathways to scalable tutoring and inclusive content creation, we’ll examine real-world applications of AI that are reshaping education.

This is a replay of the session that took place on the Centre Stage during the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 8 to 11 July, 2025. This urgent and deeply personal keynote reframes AI as a defining force that can either reinforce global inequality or ignite a new era of liberation. Drawing on a legacy of resistance, it exposes the emerging frontiers of digital power—data, compute, and algorithmic control—arguing that the Global South, rich in data and ingenuity, remains largely invisible in the digital economy.

This global hackathon uses NASA data for projects on space and global issues, with beginner workshops and virtual options.

Gain access to all Kaggle beginner level competitions.

This is a platform showing some of the world's best online and in-person hackathons for all ages. A hackathon is both a workshop and a contest, usually lasting between a day and a few days, where people come together in teams to collaboratively design, build, and present innovative solutions—often in the form of software or technology prototypes.

Devpost is a platform showing the world's best online and in-person hackathons for all ages. A hackathon is both a workshop and a contest, usually lasting between a day and a few days, where people come together in teams to collaboratively design, build, and present innovative solutions—often in the form of software or technology prototypes.

Hack Club is a platform where all high school hackathons in the US are shown. Hackathon is a social coding marathon where teenagers come together to build projects for a weekend and share them with the world. A hackathon is considered both a workshop and a contest event.

The most beginner-friendly workshop/contest events for building amazing games and apps in different parts of the world.