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# $hackathon_ in Prague
- URL: https://www.therecursive.com/hackathon_-in-prague/
- Published: 2026-10-08T10:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T10:22:24.000Z
- Description: $hackathon_ brings 100+ developers to Prague on 19–20 October to build gen AI for financial services on real, sandboxed data.
- Author: The Recursive
- Tags: Calendar, UnBundled

📅 **Date:** 19–20 October 2026  
📍 **Location**: Prague, Czech Republic  
🏢 ****Venue**: [National House Vinohrady](https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x470b948f7aa403e3:0xfc1057921d1a3298?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111&ref=therecursive.com)

[$hackathon\_](https://thefintechers.com/hackathon?ref=therecursive.com) – Coding the future of finance – is a 30-hour gen AI hackathon for financial services, organized by The FinTechers with Deloitte and AWS. It opens **Czech Startup Week 2026 in Prague** and brings together 100+ developers, banks, regulators and fintech builders to work on real industry problems using sandboxed transactional data.

**Applications close on 12 October.** [Apply now](https://thefintechers.com/hackathon?utm%5Fsource=therecursivewebsite&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=hackathon-autumn-2026&utm%5Fcontent=the-recursive-events). 

## The challenge

Teams pick from seven tracks, each built around problems financial institutions face today:

1. Agentic payments & money movement
2. Stablecoins & new financial infrastructure
3. Cybersecurity & fraud in the age of gen AI
4. Gen AI onboarding, KYC & trust
5. Compliance & RegTech copilots
6. Finance operations & back-office AI
7. Open / wildcard

All teams get anonymized transactional data from the TSYS sandbox, plus AWS credits and access to Amazon Bedrock.

## Who it's for

There are two categories: enterprise teams come from banks, enterprises and software houses; community teams are independent developers and students. Teams have 3–6 people.

## What to expect

- 30 hours of building, overnight included, with the venue open the whole time
- Optional workshops and mentor office hours with experts from Deloitte, AWS, Mastercard, the Czech National Bank's Financial Market Supervision team and more
- Live demos on Day 2 in front of a jury that includes Deloitte, AWS and Komerční banka
- A €6,000 prize pool (€3,500 / €1,500 / €1,000) plus an audience award
- A direct line into the rest of the week: Engaged Investments and UnBundled – Autumn edition, the fintech track inside Engaged Investments

## The organizer

The FinTechers is a CEE fintech community and accelerator based in Prague. It connects founders, financial institutions, investors and regulators through events like UnBundled and programs that help fintechs scale across the region.