Berlin: Agentic FinAI Hackathon
The future of finance is agentic.
Join us on April 11th in Berlin for a full day of building and shipping AI agents applied to real-world financial use cases with production-grade infrastructure, on-site technical mentorship, and cash prizes on the line.
Hosted by cognee and Dify, joined by N26 — a leading European fintech bringing domain expertise and real-world problem framing to the table.
Limited to 80 participants. Grab your spot early.
🚀 Who Should Join
This hackathon is for engineers, AI practitioners, and builders who want to work at the intersection of agentic AI and real-world financial use cases; or ship something compelling with cutting-edge agent infrastructure.
Participants will compete in 2 tracks:
🏦 Finance Track — Build agents that solve real problems in financial services. Think fraud, compliance, portfolio management, conversational banking. Specific challenges will be revealed soon, shaped by our industry partner.
🔓 Open Track — Build anything you want using cognee and Dify. The best agent wins.
On-site you'll have access to both engineering teams, domain mentors, tutorials, and quick-start templates so you can ship fast without friction.
🏆 Cash Prizes
€1,000 in cash prizes across two tracks plus surprise swag and partner perks.
🏦 Finance Track — top 3 teams win €300/ €200/ €100 + N26 promo codes. Judged on technical execution, domain relevance, and demo quality.
🔓 Open Track — two sponsor awards, each with cash + swag + cloud credits + a public shoutout:
🧠 Best cognee use — €200 + cognee swag + cognee Cloud voucher
⚙️ Best Dify use — €200 + Dify swag + Dify Cloud promo code
Teams of up to 4. A team can only win one award.
🛠 Technical Stack
Participants will get hands-on access to:
cognee — open-source knowledge engine for agent memory, recall, and reasoning. With cognee, you'll build knowledge graphs that let agents understand relationships across documents, conversations, and data sources. All participants will receive a 2 week free cognee API key to use cognee Cloud throughout the hackathon. See repository: link
Dify — workflow builder for composing, testing, and deploying multi-step agent pipelines. Each participant will receive a free 1-month Team Plan promo code, distributed on the day of the event (includes sufficient model API credits for the hackathon). Dify is also available as open-source if you prefer to self-host with your own model API keys. See repository: link
📅 Schedule
10:00 — Doors Open & Networking
10:40 — Opening Keynotes & Team Matchmaking
Nemanja Bibic — Head of Growth @ cognee
Idir Ouhab Meskine — Head of SA Europe @ Dify
Akhil Bojedla — Lead Software Engineer @ N26
13:00 — Lunch
17:30 — Submission Deadline
18:00 — Live Demos
19:00 — Award Ceremony & Networking
💯 Judges
Pavel Zorin — Platform Lead, Principle Engineer @ cognee
Idir Ouhab Meskine — Head of SA Europe @ Dify
More TBA
📢 N26 is hiring!
Scan the QR code to submit your application.
The talent acquisition team will review all submissions and be in touch if there is a match with open positions to begin the interview process.
Alternatively, feel free to browse N26 careers page to apply to specific positions that are the best fit for you!