Cal Hacks

Cal Hacks 12.0 @ the Palace of Fine Arts in SF, October 24-26! 🧸🚀 Empowering students to build w/o boundaries @ UC Berkeley!

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

🚀 Applications for the world’s largest in-person AI Hackathon are OPEN!

🗓 June 20–21, 2026
📍 UC Berkeley

Join us for 24 hours of hacking, building, and connecting with top companies.

Apply now: https://t.co/XHpSOzq5s4

Priority deadline: Apr 26
Final deadline: May 17

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

🚀 Applications for the world’s largest in-person AI Hackathon are OPEN!

🗓 June 20–21, 2026
📍 UC Berkeley

Join us for 24 hours of hacking, building, and connecting with top companies.

Apply now: https://t.co/XHpSOzq5s4

Priority deadline: Apr 26
Final deadline: May 17

[Jeremy Fiance @jfiance]

"This is going to be the greatest next 10-20 years." @alighodsi

Sat down with arguably the most visionary entrepreneur of our time, @Databricks Founder/CEO, at @CalHacks in front of 3,400+ student engineers.

PSA: Databricks is tripling new-grad hires this year.

[Jeremy Fiance @jfiance]

I had the chance to host the keynote at @CalHacks last weekend with @alighodsi, Founder & CEO of @Databricks, in front of 3,400+ student engineers.

If there’s one thing the event proved, it’s that this generation was made for the AI era.

Databricks is tripling new-grad hires this year, and you could see why. Today’s engineers are building, shipping, and learning at a pace that matches the technology itself.

Ali’s message to the crowd: lean into that intensity.

Grateful to Ali for joining and to the Cal Hacks team for putting on an incredible event. You created something truly special for thousands of future builders!

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

@attiyt @elevenlabs Thanks for coming!

[Fetch.ai Innovation Lab @fetch_ai_IL]

.@CalHacks x @Fetch_ai Innovation Lab - Meet the winners 🎉

After reviewing over 85 submitted projects with amazing utility, we’ve concluded 7 winners 👇

@WSana81

[Rox @rox_ai]

Congrats to the winners of the Rox Tech Prize at Cal Hacks - @vardhans03 and @jpsingaraju 🏆

We challenged hackers to build AI agents powered by LLMs - systems designed to act autonomously on messy, real-world data

Their agent system that continuously monitors clinical trial protocols for regulatory compliance was fantastic!

[The Daily Californian @dailycal]

From Friday to Sunday, energy drinks, mattresses, computers and tech start-ups littered the floor and tables at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where nearly 3,000 “hackers” competed in the 12th annual Cal Hacks, a three-day hackathon
https://t.co/tS8A3VFMMe

[Sam Poder @sam_poder]

Cal Hacks 12.0 was insane! I'm super proud of the whole team for pulling it off :D

We had 3.3k hackers and 700 projects were shipped - that's double last year's Cal Hacks!

Plus we did it all at the Palace of Fine Arts w/ great food, a silent disco, and beautiful designs.

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

@edwardshturman @sam_poder Thanks for coming!

[Mingjie Jiang @mingjie]

first time visiting @CalHacks irl since i departed berkeley — very insane to see what the team is doing + hear about some of the stats!!! well done 🫡

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

♥️♥️♥️

[Mingjie Jiang @mingjie]

first time visiting @CalHacks irl since i departed berkeley — very insane to see what the team is doing + hear about some of the stats!!! well done 🫡

[Jeremy Fiance @jfiance]

Thanks for inspiring @CalHacks — and great to see you!

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

@jfiance Thank you for coming! It was nice seeing you!

[Alex Kern @kernio]

Truly inspired to see thousands of builders creating the future at @CalHacks 12.0. We never imagined it would be getting bigger and better each year, over a decade after 1.0.

Really enjoyed our chat @zoink!

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

@kernio @zoink It was great seeing you, thanks for coming!

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

@IsaiahBallah Thank you so much for coming!

[Cal Hacks @CalHacks]

Thank you so much for coming!

[Dylan Field @zoink]

So awesome to meet so many incredible builders — and hear about their excitement for the future — at @CalHacks today!

[Dylan Field @zoink]

So awesome to meet so many incredible builders — and hear about their excitement for the future — at @CalHacks today!

[Sam Poder @sam_poder]

I'm giving a talk on open sourcing your Rails startup @ SF Ruby in November: https://t.co/qB6HMkchKo! You should come along!