HackRome

​HackRome is a one-day hackathon that brings together 100 builders, researchers, and founders in the heart of Rome to build ambitious ideas together.

​You’ll be free to work on anything you want: a side project, a startup idea, a research concept, or something completely unexpected.

​HackRome exists to help shape the next generation of European companies, starting with experimentation, research, and ambitious ideas. It’s a hands-on builder event designed to help ambitious people turn ideas into something real in just one day.

​What to Expect

• ​Build alongside ambitious founders, engineers, and researchers

• ​Receive feedback from operators and founders

• ​Compete for grants and partner prizes

• ​Turn an idea into something real in a day

​Prizes

• ​€10k in cash grants:
  for the most promising teams to keep building after the hackathon

• ​€30k in OpenAI API credits:
  for the best use of OpenAI technologies

• ​€10k in ElevenLabs credits:
  for the best use of ElevenLabs technologies

​Agenda

​09:30 - 10:00 Doors open
10:00 - 10:30 Kick off
10:30 - 13:30 Build
13:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 18:30 Build
18:30 - 19:00 Award ceremony
19:00 - 23:00 Closing party

​Codex Workshop

​During the day, Alex Fazio, Codex Ambassador, will host a hands-on workshop on OpenAI Codex. Register here.

​About Apeira

​Apeira is building a new residence for ambitious builders and researchers in Europe. Cohort 01, in partnership with The Residency, starts in July: a small group of selected builders living and building together for two months. Apply here.

​About Bending Spoons

​Bending Spoons is one of Europe’s leading software companies, building and scaling products used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. From Milan, they’ve acquired and grown platforms including Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, and Vimeo.

​About Exein

​Exein is the global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, protecting over 1 billion devices with AI-powered security built directly into firmware. Their technology secures critical infrastructure, automotive, robotics, and industrial systems worldwide.

​About Codex

​OpenAI Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent, designed to help teams build and ship faster. It’s a powerful AI-driven software engineering assistant that can read, generate, edit, and even run code. Learn more at https://openai.com/codex/.

​​About ​ElevenLabs

​ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company. Its technology enables developers and creators to generate realistic speech, multilingual dubbing, voice agents, and audio experiences at scale.

​​About ​Paradigma

​Paradigma is an AI lab building infrastructure for autonomous research. Its goal is to help researchers and builders collaborate with AI systems capable of accelerating scientific discovery.

​Community Note

​The next generation of European companies will not appear by accident. They will be built by people in rooms like this.