🦾 Build Stuff That Matters

One week to go, and more than 200 participants registered on Luma for our next European Defense Tech Hackathon in Paris 🦾 

You can still sign up as a hacker, mentor, or visitor:

Whether you're new to defense tech and like to explore a project for a weekend, or you're a seasoned defense tech insider – this will be for you:

We have prepared challenges based on real problems and gathered mentors who have been to the frontline to put you in the best position to develop solutions that will be deployed in the real world and save lives

We're thrilled to have Helsing as our key partner, whose early commitment allowed us to make this hackathon happen.

And we brought many more great partners on board over the past weeks:

Delian Alliance Industries, Comand AI, General Catalyst, DefSecIntel Solutions, Entrepreneur First, Inflection.xyz, SE3 Labs, Defense Innovation Highway | DIH, BRAVE1, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and STATION F

We'll have additional mentors from Defence Builder, Eyeson, Avalor AI, Farsight Vision, Ark Robotics, Capgemini, OVNI Capital, Partech, Keen Venture Partners, and Atlantic Labs, and Gleb Maltsev is joining us as a pitch coach.

It’s time to accelerate European defense innovation!

It’s a Wrap: The Copenhagen Defense Tech Hackathon

Last weekend, we organized the Second European Defense Tech Hackathon in Copenhagen with 100+ participants and 19 projects  🚀

If you have attended the Copenhagen hackathon, we'd very much appreciate your feedback – please take 5 minutes and help us to improve future hackathon editions: https://forms.gle/k2jzf2Rn3sSXPku66

1st place: "Unmanned aerial vehicle identification to avoid friendly fire by interceptor drones" by Benjamin Mirad Gurini, Khrystyna Rozhenko, Moritz Holz, Martin Kistler

2nd place: "Unmanned underwater vehicle navigation by a deployable system" by Filip Bąk, Wiktor Kurdek, Jędrzej Drozdowski

3rd place: "BRUMBAAL – Control system for a fly-by-fiber drone swarm" by Matúš Bojňanský, David Hlavinka, Peter Zajac, Tomas Ondrejka, Michal Ondrejka

Read more about the themes of the hackathon in our blog post:

Also, check out our YouTube channel, as we’re posting clips and recordings from the hackathon there – such as this one with Aske Nerup, Major from the Danish Ministry of Defence, talking about the need for defense innovation and how a hackathon like ours can help to advance it:

Future Hackathons

We haven’t announced it publicly yet, but we already wanted to let you know:

We’ll be back in Munich with a hackathon at the same time as the Munich Security Conference on February 14-16, 2025 – you can sign up already: