AI Security Hackathon - By Hackathons.team

🔒 AI SECURITY HACKATHON — San Francisco

One day. Build anything agentic with security at its core.

A one-day, in-person hackathon for builders exploring AI and security. Build an agent, break something responsibly, or create a tool that makes AI safer. Ideas are wide open—bring something worth showing.

🏆 CASH PRIZES

🥇 1st: $1,000
🥈 2nd: $500
🥉 3rd: $250

🤝 SPONSORS & SPONSOR PRIZES

🚀 WASMER

Wasmer lets you run apps and code anywhere—from your laptop to the cloud to the browser—in a secure sandbox. The new Wasmer SDK gives AI agents a local sandbox for executing code, making it a natural fit for agentic security projects.

Wasmer track — best projects built with the Wasmer SDK:
🥇 1st: $5,000 in Wasmer credits
🥈 2nd: $2,500 in Wasmer credits
🥉 3rd: $1,500 in Wasmer credits

Hackathon offer: 3 months of Wasmer Pro free—a $1,500 value.

Learn more · SDK documentation

☁️ TENKI CLOUD

Winner’s prize: $10,000 in Tenki Cloud credits.

Startup program: Eligible startups can access up to $50,000 in credits through Tenki Cloud’s startup program.

🏢 VENUE PARTNER — ENTREPRENEURS FIRST

Entrepreneurs First (EF) turns exceptional individuals into funded founders. Some might have an early idea, others may need a cofounder. What matters is their potential. We back these founders first, then give them a bridge to Silicon Valley. To date, their companies are worth > $16B.

🗓 WHEN & WHERE

Sunday, September 13, 2026
📍 EF, 501 Folsom St, San Francisco

⏱ Doors: 9:30 AM
🛠 Build: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
🎤 Demos & judging: From 6:00 PM

All times Pacific. In-person participation is preferred, but great remote teams are welcome.

⚖️ JUDGING

Working demo on a real, authorized target · technical depth · originality · shock factor · progress made on the day.

Sponsor tracks use the same rubric, plus how effectively the project uses the sponsor’s product.

⚖️ JUDGES

Faidra Patsatzi
CTO & Co-founder, Asage (EF) · ML researcher, Stanford and TUM, ex-AWS

François Levy
Co-founder, Asage.ai (Entrepreneurs First)

Agni Tripathi
Staff Product Manager at Intuit · works on adversarial evaluation of AI agents, including the open-source ShipReady framework

Shashank Shelat
Cybersecurity Leader · 14+ years across Security Operations, Incident Response & AI Security

Ayush Ojha
Wasmer · co-organiser and Wasmer track judge

Sai Santosh Vernekar
Chapter Leader, OWASP Bay Area · security at Poshmark

Alnur Askar
Co-founder, Re-Lev

Falco Schneider
Founder, ex-UltraRelevant · runs AI BEAVERS SF, judged HackNation

Binoy Perera
Founding Ops & GTM, AgentMail (YC S25) · building email infrastructure for AI agents

👋 WHO SHOULD COME

Security researchers, agent builders, red-teamers, and anyone who ships. Come solo or in teams of 1–5. All experience levels welcome.

Spots are limited. Register below.

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