AI BuildFest 2026

Overview

48-Hour Online AI Hackathon

Organized by Frontend Arena | In collaboration with Adaption

• Event Dates: December 10–12, 2026

• Format: Online

• Duration: 48 hours

• Team Size: 2–4 members

About AI BuildFest 2026

AI BuildFest 2026 is a 48-hour online hackathon focused on building AI-powered solutions for real-world challenges. It brings together students, developers, and AI enthusiasts to explore how custom-trained AI models can be developed and applied to practical problems.

Participants will work in teams to understand a challenge announced during the hackathon, prepare or generate a suitable dataset, train their own model using Adaption’s platform, and build a working solution that demonstrates its capabilities.

The event emphasizes practical model development, problem-solving, experimentation, and the creation of useful AI applications.

Hackathon Theme

Own Your AI: Train a Model That Solves a Real Problem

Participants will be challenged to build an AI solution in which a trained model plays a meaningful role in addressing a real-world problem.

The official problem statements and challenge requirements will be announced to registered participants during the hackathon. Teams will then have the event period to understand the challenge, develop their approach, train a model, and implement their solution.

Challenge Format

AI BuildFest will follow a challenge-based format. No specific tracks or problem statements are being published in advance.

• Official problem statements will be revealed during the hackathon.

• Teams will select or be assigned a challenge according to the instructions announced by the organizers.

• The challenge will require participants to develop an AI-based solution using the Adaption platform.

• Detailed requirements, deliverables, and submission instructions will be communicated when the challenge is announced.

Teams should be prepared to work with data, train a model, and demonstrate a functional solution within the 48-hour period.

Required Use of Adaption

Adaption is the technology partner for AI BuildFest. Teams must use Adaption’s platform as part of their model-development workflow.

Dataset Preparation or Generation

Teams will use Adaptive Data to transform raw files into a training dataset, or Invent-a-Dataset to generate a dataset suited to their challenge.

Model Training

Teams will use AutoScientist to train their own model for the selected task.

Solution Development

Teams will build a…

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