A one-day AI conference followed by a seven-day inter-university build sprint.
Open-source AI leaders, founders, researchers and builders came together at Imperial College London to explore what useful autonomous systems can become.
The edition in numbers
Create the infrastructure where autonomous agents can collaborate, communicate, transact and develop a reputation.
Create agents that operate useful products, automate real workflows and help people make better decisions.
The programme moved from a public opening conference into focused workshops, hands-on building, final submissions and live demos.
01 Mar
Keynotes, sponsor sessions and team formation at Imperial College London. Building begins after the evening programme.
03—04 Mar
In-person technical sessions covering agent frameworks, OpenClaw tools and sponsor infrastructure.
05—06 Mar
Teams finish their systems, record demos and submit projects to DoraHacks by the end of 6 March.
07 Mar
Live demonstrations for judges, industry leaders and investors, followed by the final review.
Mid March
Winners are announced and selected projects move into post-hack support and investor introductions.
Registration and coffee networking
Sponsor primer · Anyway
AI-powered monetisation with zero fees.
Sponsor primer · Unibase
On-chain data infrastructure for the next wave of AI.
Sponsor primer · Cantor8
Building the future on Canton Network.
Sponsor primer · Z.ai
Compound AI systems and what a single product can really do.
Break and networking
Sponsor primer · FLock.io
Privacy-first AI and federated learning without compromise.
Elevator pitch · Yat Siu
AI, gaming and the ownership economy.
The Claw is the Law
A keynote and fireside conversation on open-source AI, agents and the systems builders will create next.
What’s Your Dream?
A fireside conversation with founder and investor Simon Squibb.
Lunch and networking
Escape Velocity · High-growth AI startups
Break and networking
Deep dive · The Compression Company
Making AI models smaller, faster and cheaper to run.
Where the Smart Money Goes · Venture capital and AI
AI in the Real World · Applied AI
What Comes Next? · The AI frontier
Build mode · The hackathon begins
Teams form, mentors circulate and the week-long inter-university build sprint gets underway.
FLock.io · Sierra.ai · Z.ai · Cantor8
The Compression Company · Animoca Brands · Lovable · Anyway · SuperCell · AfterQuery
Virtual Protocol · Unibase
CogX · Blockchain For Good Alliance (BGA) · BaseUK · SuperteamUK · ManusAI · Fabrics Ventures · Delphi Ventures · Moonshot AI · AminoAnalytica · BioDock.ai
Applications are closed