

Iterate - London RL Hackathon w/ Cognition & Originator
Join us on November 29-30th at Dawn Capital's office, to build RL projects with Cognition and Originator, during this 24-hours hackathon and compete for 5k+ of prizes!
🗓️ Event Details
Hackathon details
The hackathon will take place at Dawn Capital's office in the heart of London. Teams will have 24h to build & pitch demos to our Jury panel on Sunday afternoon.
Schedule:
Saturday, 9am - 10am : Arrivals and networking
Check-in
Breakfast
Saturday, 10am - 10:30am : Opening Remarks
Tracks and technical challenges presentation
Partners presentations
Saturday, 10:30am - Sunday, 2:00pm : Hacking
Lunch at 1pm on Saturday
Dinner at 7:30pm
Lunch at 12pm on Sunday
Submissions at 2:00pm on Sunday
Sunday, 2:00pm - 3:00pm : Judging
5 finalists selected by our jury
Breakfast served in the meantime
Sunday, 3:00pm - 4:30pm : Finalists demos
5 finalists - 5 minute each
Sunday, 4:30pm : Award Ceremony
Participants: 100 spots
Jury :
to be announced
Prizes:
1st prize: 1.5k£ cash + credits
2nd prize: 1k£ cash + credits
3rd prize: 500£ cash + credits
🧑💻 Setup and teams
Food and drinks will be provided.
Teams of max 6 hackers. Every participant must register and be accepted individually. We will open a discord channel closer to the event so you can form your teams.
About Cognition
Cognition is an applied artificial-intelligence lab building the next generation of software agents. Founded by a team of competitive programming gold-medalists, the company is on a mission to empower engineers and creators to go further, faster.
Their flagship product “Devin” is described as “the AI software engineer” — a system that learns to write code, reason about problems, and collaborate alongside human teams.
The company recently raised approximately $400 million in a round that pushed its valuation to about US $10.2 billion.
About Originator
Originator builds high-fidelity RL environments for complex computer-use and tool-use tasks, powered by a team of experienced AI researchers and repeat founders with past exits.
Note that this is an in-person event in London.