Yummy Future Hackathon Festival
Yummy Future Hackathon Festival
Presented by Yummy Future · Sponsored by AWS
📅 October 23–25, 2026
📍 South Bay + Online Worldwide
☕ Sip. 🤝 Meet. 🛠️ Build. 🏆 Compete.
Your next teammate might be one coffee away.
For three days, Yummy Future brings together the energy of a café, the curiosity of a demo floor, and the excitement of a hackathon. Explore new tools, meet the people behind them, collect Mission Card stamps, and turn a useful idea into something you can show.
Come with a team or find one here. Bring a problem from work, your neighborhood, or everyday life. Local businesses are welcome to share the challenges they would love someone to solve.
Join us in the South Bay—or build alongside us from anywhere in the world.
🎟️ Your Mission Card: A Festival Passport
Pick up your Mission Card at check-in and make your way through the café: meet people at the challenge boards, ask a question at a sponsor station, share what you are building, and collect stamps as you complete your missions.
Every stamp marks a step from “I just arrived” to “Look what we made.”
Here is how the planned on-site missions work:
Day 1 · Find Your People 🤝
Check in, complete your participant profile, and collect your badge → unlock your Coffee Pass.
Complete a verified team-matching action and update your status → unlock your Food Pass.
Register your team, choose a challenge, and submit your one-line idea → qualify for the announced sponsor gift or prize-draw activity.
Day 2 · Make It Work 🛠️
Check in and share your team’s daily plan → unlock your Coffee Pass.
Show a working prototype, meaningful code, an API integration, or another verified build milestone → unlock your Food Pass.
Complete a sponsor integration or put mentor advice into practice → work toward sponsor rewards. Share a 60-second progress video or join a scheduled team interview for additional reward opportunities.
Day 3 · Show What You Made 🏁
Check in and complete your final submission → unlock your Coffee Pass.
Pass your technical check and join your judging room on time → unlock your Food Pass.
Complete your final demo → finish your last mission and qualify for the announced sponsor gift.
Meet someone. Try something. Show your progress. Earn your next unlock.
Mission rewards require staff verification. Menus, quantities, sponsor gifts, and any prize-draw rules will be announced before the event.
🤝 Sponsor Office Hours Throughout the Day
Have a question you would normally leave unanswered? Bring it straight to the people behind the product.
The festival will feature a rolling program of Office Hours across participating sponsor companies during event hours. Each sponsor will have scheduled support slots, with café meeting points and Zoom access for remote participants.
You can:
Explore a product or API through a live walkthrough.
Ask about a challenge, integration, or technical blocker.
Join a short team consultation to work through your next step.
Take that advice back to your build—and turn it into your next Mission Card milestone.
Check the sponsor boards for times and scan the QR code to join the queue. Public Q&A sessions will be recorded; individual team consultations stay private unless the team agrees otherwise.
📺 Live Demos, All Day Long
There is something to follow throughout the event day: sponsor product demos, quick project showcases, team progress updates, and conversations with the people doing the building.
Watch on the café screens, join a scheduled show-and-tell segment, or follow online. Public segments will be livestreamed and recorded, with replays and highlights capturing how projects develop across the weekend.
The early demos are a chance to share work in progress. Sunday’s finalist demos are where teams compete for the awards.
🏆 Chase the Grand Prize
Take your project from a whiteboard conversation to a live demo—and compete for the grand prize.
The planned awards program also includes sponsor challenge awards, recognizing how teams turn technology into useful solutions.
Grand prize details, sponsor prizes, and final award categories are coming soon.
Judges will look at the problem you solve, product execution, originality, meaningful technology integration, business potential, and the clarity of your demo.
🗓️ Your Three-Day Plan
Friday, October 23 · Meet, Match & Get Started
Morning: Check in, pick up your Mission Card, and join the opening and sponsor challenge briefings.
Midday: Explore the Idea Marketplace. Give a 30-second pitch: what do you want to build, and who would you love to build it with? Find collaborators at the challenge and team-matching boards.
Afternoon: Join sponsor Office Hours, explore live demos, and work through your first missions.
Evening: Get mentor feedback, confirm your team and challenge, and register your project idea.
Saturday, October 24 · Build, Play & Make Progress
Morning: Share your team’s daily plan, unlock your coffee, and start building.
Throughout the day: Move between focused build time, sponsor Office Hours, live demos, and mentor sessions. Test your prototype, ask for help, and share a quick progress update.
Afternoon and evening: Show a verified milestone to complete your food mission. Check your integrations and prepare your submission, slides, and backup demo video.
Sunday, October 25 · Submit, Demo & Celebrate
Morning: Complete your final submission before the published deadline, test your demo setup, and take part in preliminary judging.
Afternoon: Selected finalists present live to the judges, with on-site and remote teams joining the same demo program.
Closing: Grand prize and sponsor award announcements, a celebration of the projects, and the final Mission Card milestones.
Exact session times, the event time zone, and submission deadlines will be announced before kickoff.
🌍 A Global Festival, With a South Bay Home
Online participants can join team matching, sponsor briefings, Office Hours, and the competition. Remote ideas and teammate requests will also appear on the café’s matching boards, helping people connect across locations.
Everyone follows the same submission deadline and judging criteria. Replays and shared FAQs help participants catch up across time zones; finalists present through the shared Zoom demo room.
Coffee and food missions are part of the on-site café experience.
🚀 Ready to Join?
Register and choose in-person or online participation.
Complete your profile so teammates can find you.
Join a team and choose a challenge.
Build and submit: your project summary, team details, product and repository links, required integration evidence, a short slide deck, and a 2–3 minute backup demo video.
The proposed finalist format is 2 minutes to pitch + 2 minutes to demo + 2 minutes of judge Q&A.
Bring your laptop, charger, and curiosity. Joining remotely? Have headphones, reliable internet, and screen sharing ready. Venue details, joining links, and final competition rules will be shared through the event hub.
Come for the coffee. Find your team. Make something worth showing.