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SAP Office, San Ramon · Oct 3, 2026
Dublin's very first Dublin Hacx. 12 hours, 10am to 10pm. Walk in with an idea. Walk out with something real.
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Bring an idea, get 12 hours to build it, and show what you made by the end of the day. That's it — Dublin Hacx, October 3, 2026 at the SAP Office in San Ramon.
Officially Backed
We run the Emerald Hacking and Innovation Club. Dublin Hacx is the event we kept wishing existed, so we're just building it ourselves. By students, for students.
About
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Build window
Cost — totally free
"The day I stopped just talking about building stuff and actually built something."
It's Dublin's very first Dublin Hacx — 10am to 10pm, 170 people from around the Bay Area, one room. First time touching code or your tenth project, doesn't matter. You leave with something you actually built and a few people you didn't know that morning.
Run out of the Emerald Hacking and Innovation Club at Emerald High. By students, for students.
Executive Event Manager
Leads event coordination from start to finish, connecting teams and helping guide sponsorship and overall direction alongside the team.
Director of Sponsorship & Partnerships
Builds and stewards the sponsor relationships that fund the event, from first outreach through partnership.
Director of Brand & Communications
Owns the public voice of Dublin Hacx — social presence, promotion, and everything in between.
Executive Director of Venue & Scheduling
Secures and manages the venue, and architects the master run-of-show that keeps all twelve hours running to the minute.
Executive Director of Judging & Outreach
Assembles and leads the judging panel, sets the evaluation criteria, and heads external outreach to the wider community.
Executive Director of Volunteer & Speaker Relations
Recruits and coordinates the volunteer corps, and brings in the guest speakers who headline the day.
Every great hack starts with a question.
The Theme
Bring any idea. Build it into reality.
There are no themes, no required tracks, no boxes to fit inside. Whatever you're curious about — that's the brief.
Pick something you actually want to make, then make it. By 8pm it should run — not be a slide deck about a thing that could run.
From first commit to live demo, the only constraint is the clock. Mentors and workshops keep you moving.
Saturday, October 3, 2026 · SAP Office, San Ramon, CA
Schedule
Daytime
Active schedule time: 10:00 AM, Check-In.
Arrive, sign in, grab your badge & swag bag.
Sponsors intro, judging criteria, and the green light.
12 hours start now. Build, ship, repeat.
Hot meal to keep you fueled for the afternoon.
Beginner-friendly sessions on web, AI, and hardware.
Refuel for the final stretch of building.
Final commits, demo prep, and devpost uploads.
Show your project to industry mentors.
Winners announced. Prizes handed out. Confetti.
Pack up, say goodbyes, and head home.
Judges
Co-Founder & CTO @ Context66
United States
Co-Founder and CTO of Context66. He previously held senior leadership roles at Salesforce, Viasat, Intel, and LG Electronics. He's recognized as a distinguished engineer and inventor, known for bringing cutting-edge technology into practical, everyday use.
Staff Performance Engineer @ ServiceNow
Pleasanton, California
15+ years in performance engineering and distributed systems, building scalable enterprise cloud and Generative AI platforms. Google Cloud certified in GenAI; has judged and mentored at hackathons including UC Berkeley's AI Hackathon 2026.
Director of Technical Consulting @ Salesforce
United States
Leads a team of enterprise architects delivering Revenue Cloud, CPQ, and Agentforce solutions for major enterprise clients. Holds 23 industry certifications, is an IEEE Senior Member, and was named Salesforce's FY24 CMT Technical Architect of the Year. An active mentor and judge across the tech community — hackathons, IEEE conference reviewing, and industry awards panels — passionate about helping the next generation of technologists build and present real-world solutions.
Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
United States
Senior Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineer at NVIDIA, specializing in AI infrastructure, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud-native platforms. Previously at Intuit and Red Hat, where he contributed to large-scale infrastructure, observability systems, and open-source cloud-native technologies including the Loki Operator ecosystem. His expertise spans AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, platform engineering, observability, and scalable distributed systems.
Software Engineer II @ Apple
Cupertino, California
Software Engineer II at Apple, building backend and distributed systems. Previously at Microsoft, Oracle OCI, and HSBC, working with Go, Java, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS. Holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UT Dallas. His interests sit at the intersection of AI/ML systems, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure, and he especially enjoys mentoring early-career builders.
Full-Stack Geospatial Software Developer @ Land IQ
United States
Full-Stack Geospatial Software Developer at Land IQ and Research Assistant at George Mason University's Center for Air Transportation Systems Research. His work spans production AI/ML and geospatial platforms for California state agencies and AI-enabled decision-support systems in aviation. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from George Mason University and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
United States
Senior Staff Software Engineer with expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML platforms. He has architected and built large-scale production systems for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, focusing recently on streaming data platforms using Kafka, Benthos, and Kubernetes. His broader interests span platform engineering, observability, reliability, LLM inference and serving, and scalable AI infrastructure. Santosh is an IEEE Senior Member and enjoys mentoring builders and evaluating projects for technical depth, practical impact, and real-world scalability.
Founder & Chair @ Dream College Path · Variant Systems
United States
Technology leader, entrepreneur, and education advocate. Founder of Dream College Path and Variant Systems Inc., and Chair of DVTI. He holds an M.S. in IT Management with postgraduate certification in Cloud Computing and AI for Leadership. In 2025–26 he served as Destination Imagination Team Manager for the Windmere Ranch 8th Grade Girls Team, mentoring them all the way to the Global Finals. Learn more at DreamCollegePath.com and VariantSystems.us.
Principal AI Scientist @ SAP Labs
United States
Principal AI Scientist at SAP Labs, where he works on artificial intelligence and machine learning with more than 12 years of experience in the field. He has judged several hackathons and competed in many of them himself. He believes in AI as a way to build things that actually matter — and in hackathons as one of the best places to put that belief to work.
Staff Software Engineer
United States
Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, Agentic AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, and high-availability control planes. He has architected resilient, large-scale production platforms for mission-critical workloads, focusing recently on multi-pod agentic execution harnesses, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool integration, and multi-model LLM routing. Nandish enjoys mentoring builders and serving as an industry reviewer and judge, evaluating complex systems for technical depth and real-world problem solving.
Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
United States
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 10+ years of experience across LinkedIn, Meta, Google, and Yelp, specializing in backend platform engineering, data infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems. His expertise spans data lakehouse and cataloging platforms, ads ranking and delivery infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native backend services. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has judged and mentored at multiple internal hackathons at LinkedIn and Meta.
Want to become a judge? Email parvaan.dublinhacx@gmail.com
FAQ
Any high school student in the Bay Area. You don't need to be from Dublin or Emerald HS — bring your friends from any school.
Join the community
Registrations are closed — follow our socials to stay updated on announcements, team-finding, and everything leading up to the day.
Partner with us
Dublin Hacx puts your brand in front of 170 of the Bay Area's most driven high-school engineers — for a full 12 hours, and in every story they tell afterward. Every dollar funds free meals, swag, and prizes.
Sponsorship tiers
Every package is flexible — tell us your goals and we'll tailor the perks to match.
$6,000
Our top tier — main event co-branding
Mix, match, and dream up your own package — a branded challenge, a custom prize, a workshop. We'll tailor it to your goals and budget.
Let's chat over email →$600
$1,800
$3,500
Product / Custom
No budget line? Contribute what you make. We'll match your visibility to the value you bring.
Get in touch
dublinhacx@gmail.com
Tell us your goals and we'll send a tailored package within 48 hours.
Current Sponsors
Venue partner: SAP Office, San Ramon
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