EAT_HACK - the world's first AI & eating hackathon

EAT_HACK - the world's first AI & eating hackathon on Oct 3, 2026 in London, United Kingdom. Hosted by Gianni Austin, Oriol Morros Vilaseca, Sophie Yau. Tickets Free. approval required to attend. (Europe/London time).
50 seats. £1,000+ in prizes. And we're hiring
30 seats taken from 100+ applicants. 20 seats remaining. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
The brief: build AI for retail using behavioural data.
Alongside you will be The Shelf. 25 of the most innovative and exciting challenger brands which all 50 builders can eat, drink and vote on.
What you get:
- A day building on the layer underneath retail decisions, grounded in 28 behavioural science principles, applied across 4M+ products and 56,000+ product attributes.
- £1000+ in prizes.
- The opportunity to be hired.
- Great food. And lots of it:)
Structure & Prizes
2 tracks (to be announced). 1 sidequest.
- £300 overall winner for build score x multiplier
- 2x £100 track winners for build score alone (has to be different from overall winner)
- £50 side-quest winner
- Hampers, gadgets, merch and other prizes!
Timetable
- 09:00 - Arrival & team formation
- 10:00 - Intro
- 11:00 - Build
- 14:00 - Lunch
- 17:30 - Submission, closed judging & break
- 18:30 - Live final
- 19:30 - Closing Ceremony
- 20:00 - Home
Open to technical and non-technical specialists and generalists. You can come with a team, form one on the day or go solo. Judges to be announced.
EAT_HACK is hosted by Really Good Culture. We're building the world's first predictive retail intelligence system.
