Future Forge ALMA Hackathon

​Free GPU. No API keys. No cloud bill.

​We're opening ALMA's local inference stack to the room and seeing what Cebu builds on it.

​FUTURE FORGE — The ALMA Hackathon

​Wed, Oct 22 · 10 AM – 6 PM · Global Education Center, Cebu · Free to join

​You get an endpoint serving Gemma 4, running on our own hardware. No rate limits, no credit card. Everything stays on our infrastructure, which means you can build the kind of thing you can't safely put through a public API.

​WHO IT'S FOR

​Students and working devs. Teams of 3–4. No team? Sign up solo and we'll match you before the day. First hackathon is fine — we'd rather have you here than not.

​WHAT YOU BUILD

​A working demo in one day, running on local models. Coding tools, RAG over private documents, agents, workflow automation, whatever nobody's made yet. Your call. Bring an idea, not code — everything gets built on the day.

​We'll send registered teams setup instructions ahead of time so you're building from the first minute.

​JUDGES

​· William Heath — Chief AI Officer, ALMA

​· Terenz Jomar Dela Cruz — Chief Technology Officer, ALMA

​· Jared Barong — Technology Coordinator, BYU

​PRIZES

​🥇 $300 · 🥈 $200 · 🥉 $100

​Lunch and snacks covered. Bring your laptop.

​Ten teams only — capped by what our hardware can serve, not by marketing. Registration closes Oct 20 or when the tenth team is in.

​Register → Open Google Form