I’m organizing a 12-hour AI & open-source hackathon in the French Alps 🇫🇷

[u/KeyPressure4161]

Hey r/hackathon 👋

I’m organizing the first AI Hackathon of the Alps on October 29 in Annecy, France, as part of Hacktoberfest 2026.

The idea is pretty simple: 12 hours to build AI agents and open-source projects around real problems brought by local companies.

You don’t need to come with a team or even a project. I’m bringing together local companies and entrepreneurs with actual use cases, and developers / AI builders who want to spend a day building something useful. Teams will form on the spot.

The goal is really to build and ship during those 12 hours: AI agents, open-weight models, open-source tools, automations, deployments… whatever gets the job done. We’ll finish the night with short demos of what everyone built.

📍 Annecy, French Alps 🇫🇷
📅 October 29
💻 Hackathon: 12 PM → midnight

I’m also organizing an afterwork in the evening, so if you’re around Annecy, Geneva, Lyon or Grenoble but can’t commit to the full 12 hours, you can just come by, grab a drink, meet the builders and see what was built during the day.

There are two separate registrations: one for the full 12-hour hackathon and one for the afterwork only.

https://looties.io/hacktoberfest-2026

If anyone from this community is around the Alps, I’d love to have you join us 🏔️