YUNet AIgnite 2026
Youth Upskill Network - YUNet
Prize breakdown
Final Ceremony
Prize name: Final Presentation & Awards Prize type: Other Number of winning projects: 20 Prize breakdown: Top 20+ teams will be selected from the Primary Round and invited to present their projects at the Closing Ceremony. - All finalist teams will receive a Certificate of Excellence. - The Top 3 teams will receive awards from the hackathon prize pool. - Finalists will get the opportunity to showcase their solutions and pitch before the judging panel at the Closing Ceremony.
Non-cash20 winners
Timeline
- Submissions openNov 1, 2026
- Submission deadlineNov 5, 2026
About
AIgnite is an Agentic AI Hackathon where young developers, students, and innovators build practical B2C solutions using AI agents, APIs, and modern AI technologies.
The challenge focuses on turning everyday consumer problems into usable AI-powered products across areas such as Education, Career, Productivity, Finance, Lifestyle, Services, and Accessibility.
Participants can compete solo or in teams of 2. The hackathon has an online preliminary round followed by a physical final round, where selected teams will improve their solutions and pitch them to a panel of judges.
Get startedChoose a real-world consumer problem, build an AI-powered solution using agentic AI, APIs, or other modern AI technologies, and submit your prototype in the preliminary round.
Top teams will advance to the final round to refine their solutions, demonstrate their working prototype, and pitch their ideas to the judges.
- Submissions open
- Nov 1, 2026
- Deadline
- Nov 5, 2026
- First seen
- Oct 5, 2026
- Last seen
- Oct 6, 2026