Festiverse 2026: The World’s Biggest Festival Hackathon ($300K+ in Prizes)

Festiverse 2026 🪔✨ The World’s Biggest Festival Hackathon -> More Details to follow as we come closer to the event. Code for culture. Build for the world. 🌍🪔 This Diwali, we are bringing you something special. From the festival of lights and joy, Festiverse is becoming a global gathering of builders, dreamers, creators, engineers, designers, founders, artists, and storytellers who want to imagine how the world will celebrate in the future. Festiverse is a global hackathon where culture meets technology, tradition meets imagination, and celebration becomes something we can build together. This year’s theme is: Festivals in the Age of AI 🪔🤖✨ How will people celebrate in the future? How will AI, apps, agents, voice, AR, payments, creator tools, social platforms, community technology, and immersive experiences transform the way we celebrate festivals, holidays, rituals, and cultural moments? From Diwali to Christmas, Holi, Eid, Lunar New Year, Dashain, Thanksgiving, local street festivals, family gatherings, and new digital traditions, Festiverse invites participants to build products that make celebration more meaningful, accessible, creative, connected, and joyful. Whether you build an AI festival planner, a cultural storytelling app, a virtual celebration experience, a community coordination tool, a gifting marketplace, a creator platform, a festival commerce product, a safety tool, or something completely unexpected, Festiverse is your place to bring it to life. 🎆 A Celebration, Not Just a Hackathon 🎇 Festiverse is designed to feel fun, welcoming, colorful, and full of energy. Expect a weekend of building, meeting amazing people, sharing culture, wearing festive outfits, enjoying food and drinks, taking photos, making memories, and celebrating what the future of festivals could look like. This is not just a place to code. It is a place to create, connect, celebrate, and have fun. 🪔✨ Main Stage 🏙️✨ San Francisco Festiverse will be hosted with San Francisco as the main stage, bringing together builders from one of the world’s most creative technology ecosystems. Global hackathon hubs include: NY • Tokyo • Seoul • London • Mumbai More global participation details will be announced soon. Date and Time 🗓️🪔 Starts: Saturday, November 7 Ends: Sunday, November 8 Time: 8:00 AM on November 7 to 5:00 PM on November 8 Venue 📍 Venue details will be announced soon. The Challenge 🎆 The main problem statement is: Festivals in the Age of AI Participants are challenged to build something that reimagines how people celebrate, organize, share, preserve, and experience festivals in the future. Your project can focus on culture, community, creativity, logistics, storytelling, payments, commerce, accessibility, safety, travel, food, gifting, family coordination, event discovery, virtual celebration, or anything else connected to festivals and celebration. The best projects will not just use technology. They will make celebration feel more human. 🪔 What You Can Build 🎨💻 ✨ AI festival planning assistant for families and communities 🪔 Cultural storytelling app that preserves traditions across generations 🎁 Festival gifting and shopping assistant 🍛 Food, vendor, and local business discovery platform 🎆 Virtual festival experience for remote families 🏮 Community coordination tool for temples, cultural groups, clubs, and neighborhoods 🌍 Multilingual festival guide for global communities 📸 Festival memory capsule powered by photos, voice, and AI 🎭 Creator platform for festival content, music, dance, art, and storytelling 🧓 Voice first festival assistant for elders and families 🚦 Festival safety, crowd coordination, and accessibility tools 💸 Payments, donations, ticketing, and commerce tools for celebrations 🕯️ Ritual reminder, calendar, and family tradition organizer 🎮 Game or immersive experience inspired by festivals around the world Tracks 🏮 🪔 Culture and Community Build tools that help people preserve traditions, connect w