London AI x Science Hackathon

London AI x Science Hackathon

October 3–4, 2026 · London

Over 48 hours, teams will push frontier AI at the hardest open problems in science: autonomous science, novel materials discovery, decoding complex biological systems and more!

You'll building on real tools and real data from the partners of this hackathon, then pitching live in front of judges, VCs, and leading researchers.

Timed to open Deep Tech Week London, the event lands you in the room days before the city's biggest AI and deep-tech week kicks off!

October 3-4 2026
Day 1 (9AM–late): Kickoff, hacking, mentorship
Day 2 (until 7:30PM): Final builds, demos, judging, awards
Teams of 3–5

Fireside Chats
Georgia Channing - Hugging Face (broad scope, AI x Science)
Natasha Latysheva - Google DeepMind (bio-focused, AlphaGenome)

Tracks
Computer-use agents with Originator
Autoresearch for discovery - Open Maths Problems track, co-designed by Cambridge Compute Co. (C3) and AIDDA Institute
Drug and protein design with Serova
Materials manufacturing with Polaron

What you get
• GPU compute credits
• API credits
• 1:1 mentorship from sponsor labs
• Curated datasets and starter repos

Prizes
• Cash prizes for the top teams
• Compute and API credits
• Thematic prizes from track sponsors

Sponsors
Anthropic - The team behind Claude, building reliable AI to help people think, create, and solve complex problems.
Google DeepMind - frontier AI research lab turning scientific breakthroughs into real-world solutions, from protein folding to reinforcement learning.
Hugging Face - the open platform for building, sharing and running machine learning models, tools and datasets.
Cognition - the AI lab behind Devin, the AI software engineer that plans, writes and ships code autonomously.
Modal - serverless cloud platform for running AI and data workloads at scale, without managing infrastructure.
Serova - biotech company working on protein design and protein-protein interaction stability, with applications in immunotherapy.
Polaron - Imperial College London AI spinout building the intelligence layer for materials science.
Cambridge Compute Co. (C3) - GPU cloud infrastructure platform, co-hosting the Open Maths Problems track with AIDDA Institute. AIDDA Institute - research institute focused on algorithmic discovery.
Originator - reinforcement learning studio, hosting the computer-use agents track.
Voyager Ventures - climate and deep tech venture capital fund
IQ Capital - deep tech venture capital fund.
GXL - AI platform for scientific literature and research, built around its Paperclip tool.
Amass - data infrastructure and API platform for life sciences.

In-Person Attendance: all team members must be physically present at the venue for the duration of the hackathon. Remote participation is not permitted.

Food and drinks provided throughout the weekend

Who should come
Researchers, ML engineers, and AI scientists. Anyone who wants their work to end up in a paper, a lab, or a company.

This event is part of London Deep Tech Week [deep-tech-week.com/london-2026], presented by Deep Tech London [deeptech.london], leading up to the headline summit on the 8th.

Brought to you by Iterate & futurebio.xyz