🦾 It’s a Wrap: The Paris Defense Tech Hackathon

We did it again: we’ve organized Europe’s largest defense tech hackathon.

Our first hackathon in Munich back in June gathered 150 participants, hackers, mentors, and visitors, making it the largest thus far.

After doing a hackathon in Copenhagen with slightly more than 100 participants three weeks ago, we gathered 170+ participants at Station F in Paris a week ago. This made it yet again, Europe’s largest defense tech hackathon 🥳

Here are the winning teams:

1st place: “Automatic event-based detection and tracking of UAVs and Shahed drones in challenging lighting conditions” by Gregor Lenz, Karl Vetter, Florian Corgnou, Shannah Santucci, Kai Dierenbach, Filipp Trigub, and Patrick Madlindl

2nd place: “Magnetic Navigation for Sub-marine drones” by Hugo Biais, Axel Nguyen–Kerbel, Stefan AGRICI, David Podolskyi, and Yoan Di Cosmo

3rd place: “Anti-Helicopter Mine” by Antoine Besset and Adhémar de Senneville

Thanks to our jury, Max Makarchuk, Bryan Sardoch, Cyrus Hessabi, Lukas Koestler, Adeline Bailly, and Madis Koplimäe, for evaluating the hackathon submissions!

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 Max Makarchuk, Head of AI at BRAVE1, a Ukrainian state-backed accelerator striving to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the best technology possible:

Future Events

Our next hackathon will take place again in Munich, at the same time as the Munich Security Conference on February 13-16, 2025 – you can sign up already:

We have many more hackathons across Europe planned for next year, and we’ll announce them shortly.

In the meantime, there are two more events which we’ll be hosting online:

Tomorrow: EDTH x Counteroffensive Pro

We welcome ​Tim Mak, founder of Counteroffensive Pro – an English-language publication on Ukrainian defense innovation – for a chat about Ukrainian military tech concepts emerging from the battlefield and the regulatory environment for foreign investors

January 22, 2025: Virtual Demo Day

​In 2024, we gathered 300+ participants pursuing 80+ projects across our three major European Defense Tech Hackathons in Munich, Copenhagen, and Paris.

Sign up for our virtual demo day on January 22, 2025, to learn more about what the top-notch teams at our Copenhagen and Paris hackathons developed after the hackathon:

Launching the EDTH Talent Platform

Finally, we're very happy to launch our talent platform to make matchmaking more efficient within the community. This is targeted towards you if you:

• are looking for a job within a defense tech startup,

• are looking for a co-founder,

• want to simply stay up-to-date with opportunities going forward.

Rest assured, we will never share any information with external parties without your consent. If you want to sign up, please fill out this form, and we will reach out individually!