AI Security Hackathon - By Hackathons.team
🔒 AI SECURITY HACKATHON — San Francisco
For the day:
The entrance is around the corner of the main entrance , the door will be wide open during the day
Remote Instructions:
Most of you should have been invited to the platform BuilderBase. The invite will have landed in the email address you used for Luma — if you don't see it, please check your spam folder.
BuilderBase is the platform we'll be using throughout the day. It's where you form teams, select tracks, and so on. There will be an update on submissions posted around 12 PM today, but in short: the submission is a video, three minutes maximum, showcasing what you've built. You also need to make sure the GitHub repository behind your project is open source and link it in your submission. There's a free-text field as well, where you can write about the project, your inspiration, and anything else you want the judges to know.
https://builderbase.com/event/ai-security-hackathon-by-hackathonsteam
One day. Build anything agentic with security at its core.
A one-day, in-person hackathon for builders exploring AI and security. Build an agent, break something responsibly, or create a tool that makes AI safer. Ideas are wide open—bring something worth showing.
🏆 CASH PRIZES
🥇 1st: $1,000
🥈 2nd: $500
🥉 3rd: $250
🤝 SPONSORS & SPONSOR PRIZES
🚀 WASMER
Wasmer lets you run apps and code anywhere—from your laptop to the cloud to the browser—in a secure sandbox. The new Wasmer SDK gives AI agents a local sandbox for executing code, making it a natural fit for agentic security projects.
Wasmer track — best projects built with the Wasmer SDK:
🥇 1st: $5,000 in Wasmer credits
🥈 2nd: $2,500 in Wasmer credits
🥉 3rd: $1,500 in Wasmer credits
Hackathon offer: 3 months of Wasmer Pro free—a $1,500 value.
Learn more · SDK documentation
☁️ TENKI CLOUD
Winner’s prize: $10,000 in Tenki Cloud credits.
Startup program: Eligible startups can access up to $50,000 in credits through Tenki Cloud’s startup program.
🏢 VENUE PARTNER — ENTREPRENEURS FIRST
Entrepreneurs First (EF) turns exceptional individuals into funded founders. Some might have an early idea, others may need a cofounder. What matters is their potential. We back these founders first, then give them a bridge to Silicon Valley. To date, their companies are worth > $16B.
🗓 WHEN & WHERE
Sunday, September 13, 2026
📍 EF, 501 Folsom St, San Francisco
⏱ Doors: 9:30 AM
🛠 Build: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
🎤 Demos & judging: From 6:00 PM
All times Pacific. In-person participation is preferred, but great remote teams are welcome.
⚖️ JUDGING
Working demo on a real, authorized target · technical depth · originality · shock factor · progress made on the day.
Sponsor tracks use the same rubric, plus how effectively the project uses the sponsor’s product.
⚖️ JUDGES
Faidra Patsatzi
CTO & Co-founder, Asage (EF) · ML researcher, Stanford and TUM, ex-AWS
François Levy
Co-founder, Asage.ai (Entrepreneurs First)
Agni Tripathi
Staff Product Manager at Intuit · works on adversarial evaluation of AI agents, including the open-source ShipReady framework
Shashank Shelat
Cybersecurity Leader · 14+ years across Security Operations, Incident Response & AI Security
Ayush Ojha
Wasmer · co-organiser and Wasmer track judge
Sai Santosh Vernekar
Chapter Leader, OWASP Bay Area · security at Poshmark
Alnur Askar
Co-founder, Re-Lev
Falco Schneider
Founder, ex-UltraRelevant · runs AI BEAVERS SF, judged HackNation
Binoy Perera
Founding Ops & GTM, AgentMail (YC S25) · building email infrastructure for AI agents
👋 WHO SHOULD COME
Security researchers, agent builders, red-teamers, and anyone who ships. Come solo or in teams of 1–5. All experience levels welcome.
Spots are limited. Register below.