Join us on Spaces to talk with some of the winners from the last Flow Hackathon 🔥

They'll be sharing what learnings they have from the process, what they've been up to since, & tips for anyone entering the #FlowToTheFuture Hackathon! 👀

Twitter Space: Hackathon Building Strategies - Insights from previous winners 🌊 Session 1

Twitter Space: Hackathon Building Strategies - Insights from previous winners 🌊 Session 2

Flow

Developer Advocate, Flow

Andrea Muttoni

Hackathon Kick-off and Office Hours

Join Flow’s Co-Founders for a fireside chat about the future of web3 and the unique opportunities it presents.

Product Co-Founder, Flow

Layne Lafrance

Flow Founder Fireside + Hackathon Kick Off - Vancouver Chapter

Agenda:
- Why Web3? Discussing key differentiators. 
- Key Concepts. Building a foundation. 
- New Concepts/Features + Best Practices

Senior Software Engineer

Jeff Doyle

Hackathon Resource Workshops

Extend the Fan Experience // On-Chain Gaming

Staff Software Engineer

Bastian Müller

Director, Engineering

Kan Zhang

Flow Workshop: FanX + Gaming

Generative AI  // Identity + Self-Expression

Co-Founder and Chief Protocol Architect

Alex Hentschel

Flow Workshop: Gen AI+

Agenda:

6:30-7:30pm Panel discussion:

1. What was the most significant hurdle you overcame in the last ~5 yrs building Flow? How did you overcome it? Technically? Mentally?
2. What is the most under-utilized/unappreciated aspect of the public, open software platforms, like Flow?
3. What do you see as the most significant opportunity in web 3? for the tech to uniquely solve?

7:30-7:40pm Rapid fire: 

1. the moment you knew web3 needed Flow
2. why building Flow is important to you
3. who/which projects you took most inspiration from in your own design thinking/process

7:40-8pm Q&A

Co-founder and CTO

Dieter Shirley

Leo Zhang

Founders Fireside - Hackathon Panel

Agenda:
- Innovate to Make a Difference
- Build with Azure Open AI Service
- Leverage large-scale, generative AI models to build cutting-edge apps and use cases, including writing assistance, code generation, and reasoning over data.
Detect and mitigate harmful use with built-in responsible AI.
- Build with AI and Cloud Scale Databases
- Build new intelligent cloud-native applications with Azure - AI, Azure CosmosDB or Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure managed services for apps.
- Q&A

Microsoft

Principal AI Global Black Belt

Simon Lacasse

Microsoft Workshop: Build the next big thing with Azure Open AI Service

Chainlink

Developer Advocate, Chainlink Labs

Andrej Rakic

Chainlink Workshop: Flow and Chainlink Integration

Google Cloud

Developer Advocate, Google

Allen Day

Amazon Web Services

Head of Web3, North America

Brad Feinstein

National Technology Officer

John Weigelt

Unicorn Lead, Enterprise

Sylvia MacPherson

Dapper Labs

Director, Dapper Labs

Anuke Ganegoda

Niftory

Co-Founder, Niftory

Anir Agarwal

Emerald City DAO

Founder, Emerald City DAO

Jacob Tucker

.find

Co-Founder, .find

Bjarte Karlsen

Increment Finance

Founder, IncrementFi

Jonny

Flowverse 🌊 - Discover Flow Blockchain

Co-Founder, Flowverse

James Petchey

Nishanta Dharmaseri

Flovatar

Founder, Flovatar

Luca Basile

Founder, Lilico Wallet

Hao Fu

Smart Contract Engineer, Flow

Josh Hannan

Engineer Manager, Flow

Jerome Pimmel

Bohao Tang

Flow Hackathon Season 2

Unleash your creativity and innovation to redefine what an on-chain gaming experience can be. From autonomous worlds to immersive multiplayer games, the possibilities are endless.  
*Special judging bonus for users using the Flow Unity SDK.*

Gaming

Redefine how AI can be integrated with on-chain logic in our daily lives, by building innovative solutions that are more secure, decentralized, and privacy-focused.  
*Winners also win Azure OpenAI credits!*

Most of web3 is still desktop-first. It’s time that changed - this track is all about meeting the users where they are: on their phones.  
*Special judging bonus for users using Swift, Kotlin, React Native SDKs.*

Mobile

Join this track to build and improve on powerful DeFi protocols that will bring financial services to everyone in the world.  
*Special judging bonuses if your solutions extend and are interoperable with existing DeFi primitives on Flow like IncrementFi and Celer.*

DeFi

Anything goes in this track – a blank canvas to experiment with on-chain logic and the future of Web3. IoT, Manufacturing, <insert your amazing idea here> – all is welcome!

Everything else

Closely tied to our grants and RFP wishlist, this track will be dedicated to working on foundational innovations that will unlock new use-cases and opportunities.  
*There will also be specific wishlist items that will have extra milestone bounties.*

Ecosystem Tooling and Infrastructure

1st - $20000 in $FLOW

2nd - $12000 in $FLOW

3rd - 3x $6000 in $FLOW

Top 10 - 10x $15000 in $FLOW

Cloud Credits

Platinum

Google

Amazon Web Service

Microsoft Azure

Gold

QuickNode

RNS Hack_Overflow 2.0

PUCodeHackathon 2.0

Udhyam 2.0

RAScade

Organizer