Amsterdam Tech Week June 2026

THE
BIGGEST
HACKATHON
IN EUROPE.

The Megathon · Amsterdam · June 2026

500+ of Europe's best builders in one room. Two days to ship a real product. €100,000 in prizes. The biggest hackathon Europe has ever seen.

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40K+
Community Reach
200+
Hackathons Run
2 Days
Build & Demo
100%
Profits → Prize Pool

Europe has world-class builders.
But no world-class stage.

The US celebrates its builders. Asia runs hackathons with thousands of people. Europe? We have the talent — Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon — but nowhere to come together and compete at that level.

100+ Hackathons

WE'VE BEEN
IN THE ROOM.

Our team has competed in, organized, and judged over 100 hackathons across Europe. We know exactly what's broken — and what's worth fighting for.

The typical European hackathon
50–75
People in a room
Whoever
Said yes to judging
$0
Real prizes. Free API credits don't count.
0
Press coverage. Nobody outside the room ever knows.
The projects are incredible. But the scale kills the visibility. European hackathons stay small, so European builders stay invisible.
The Megathon
500+
Of Europe's strongest builders in one room
Top Judges
VCs, founders, and industry leaders who actually build
€100K
Grand prizes that attract grand builders
Global
The kind of event that makes international news
The fire is already there. The builders are real. What's been missing is the scale. That's what we're building.
The Event

THE STAGE
THEY DESERVE.

A two-day megathon built to put European builders on the world stage.

When
June 27–28, 2026
Weekend after TNW →
Where
Amsterdam
Init Building / WFC →
Scale
500+ Builders
Participants, not spectators →
Format
2 Days — Build & Demo
Hacking both days, demos on day 2 →
Prizes
€100,000 Prize Pool
Grand prizes, track prizes →
Judges
Top VCs, Founders & Industry Leaders
People who write checks →

Theme: Build to Win

Ship a real product in 48 hours. Not a prototype, not a pitch deck — a working product that people can use. Judged on execution, market potential, and technical craft.

How it works

The Two Days

Day 1 — Saturday, June 27

Day 2 — Sunday, June 28

Powered by Megas

SOFTWARE THAT
HANDLES SCALE.

500+ participants need more than spreadsheets. Megas is a production platform already running real hackathons.

For Participants

For Organizers

The Team

WHY US.

The platform. The venue. The direct line to labs. Every piece this event needs, covered by someone who already does it professionally.

Tijs Nieuwboer

Tijs Nieuwboer

Founder & Lead Organizer
Founder, Lerai · AI Automation
  • Built the platform we're running on — Megas is live and production-ready. Registration, team matching, submissions, judging — all built in.
  • Organized 10+ hackathons across 4 countries — knows the format, the energy, the logistics. Has brought together thousands of builders at events in NL, DE, BE, and FR.
  • Ships culture personified — built an app by voice while running the Amsterdam Marathon. Self-taught developer. This is who builders follow.
  • The network to fill the room — personal relationships with AI Builders (3K), Young Creators (30K), Kickstart AI, Codam, and the communities that matter. Host, connector, and the energy in the room.
Thomas Zwart

Thomas Zwart

Venues & Infrastructure
CCO, WFC Amsterdam · Partner, AI AM
  • We don't need to find a venue — he runs one. CCO at WFC Amsterdam: 4,000m² tech hub with event spaces, a startup community, and an 850-spot parking garage.
  • 15 years of large-scale event infrastructure — has turned raw real estate into living tech communities. Knows power, wifi, catering, security, and crowd flow at scale.
  • Deep in AI and climate tech — business partner at AI AM, investor at Carbon Equity. Brings the corporate and VC network to make this event happen at scale.
Rogier Muller

Rogier Muller

Developer Relations & Credibility
CTO, BlueMonks Group · Compliance fintech transforming how enterprises look at risk
  • Cursor's top 0.001% usage globally. Not just an ambassador — the person Cursor points to. That's a sponsor conversation, not a cold email.
  • Official Cursor & OpenAI Ambassador. Direct relationship with the tools every builder uses. Two target sponsors, one person who knows them all inside and out.
  • Runs monthly developer events for the labs in Amsterdam. Cursor nights, OpenAI workshops — already building the communities these companies invest in. Proven reach, proven format.
Boris de Wit

Boris de Wit

AI & Hype
  • The energy. Europe's loudest advocate for builders — gets people fired up about what European tech can be.
  • Founder of Starboat — full-stack agentic dev. Builds the kind of stuff participants will be building.
  • Runs AI workshops & hackathons across Europe — knows how to mentor, judge, and keep 500 people shipping.
  • AI alignment researcher — brings depth and credibility to the technical side of judging.
Miguel Castillo

Miguel Castillo

Operations & Events
  • The ops brain. PhD physicist — treats event logistics like a system to optimize. Nothing gets missed.
  • Co-Founder & CPO at DoQcheck — runs product at a startup. Knows timelines, execution, and shipping under pressure.
  • 10+ hackathons co-organized — catering, schedule, check-in, energy management. Has done this exact job before, repeatedly.
  • The person who makes sure 500 people are fed, the wifi works, and the demos start on time.
Triverra
Co-Organizing
Young Creators
30,000+ members
Co-Organizing
 TAG
TAG
Co-Organizing
The Network

COMMUNITIES
& PARTNERS

40,000+ builders across active, engaged communities and strong ecosystem partnerships.

Sponsors

Communities

3,000+
AI Builders
Amsterdam · 50+ events/yr →
30,000+
Young Creators
Netherlands-wide →

Ecosystem

KS
Kickstart AI
AI Adoption NL
Non-profit accelerating AI adoption in the Netherlands. 7,500+ engineers and data scientists.
Codam
Codam
Coding College & Venue
Free peer-to-peer coding college on Marineterrein Amsterdam. Diverse talent pipeline.
TV
Tulip Ventures
Student Startups
Amsterdam's largest student startup association (UvA). Recently launched XLerate with ASIF Ventures.
Ace Ventures
Investment & Media
Investment company spanning media, live commerce, entertainment, VC, sports.
AI Beavers
AI Beavers
Hamburg, Germany
Builder community that ships. Bi-weekly hack sessions, AI hackathons. 400+ at their last event.
Tectonic
Tectonic
Ghent, Belgium
2,000-person tech conference by FTI, In The Pocket & NextGen. AI, digital sovereignty, European leadership.
Marketing

HOW WE
MAKE IT BIG.

Three engines that compound. A platform that retains, a community that markets itself, and content that keeps sponsors visible long after the event.

The Platform

The Megathon isn't a one-off. Every builder joins Megas — profiles, leaderboards, achievements, hackathon history. Pre-events on the platform build the funnel. The event itself seeds an entire ecosystem.

Community Marketing

Every builder who helps make this the biggest hackathon in Europe gets rewarded. Post, tag, create content, bring friends — earn Hype Points. More HP = real perks. The community decides how big this gets.

Content & Media

The event generates months of content. Sponsors stay visible long after the last demo. Every piece of content carries your brand.

Tools & Infrastructure
API
AI & dev tool credits — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot. Builders need these to compete. Your product in 500+ hands under real pressure.
Infra
Hosting & cloud — deploy targets, databases, storage. Projects need to be live, not localhost.
Dev
Developer tools — IDEs, testing, CI/CD, payments. If builders use it, we want it at the event.
Prize Pool & Cash
€100K
Total prize pool target. Grand prizes attract grand builders. This is what makes it Europe's biggest.
Venue
Event space for 500+ — two days, full production. Catering, A/V, wifi infrastructure.
Media
Marketing & production — livestream, press, content creation. Make the event visible to the world.
Sponsor Tiers

WHAT YOU GET.

Every tier is designed around real value — your brand in front of builders, your tools in their hands, your name on the stage.

Title Sponsor
Track Sponsor
Community Sponsor
→

BE PART
OF THIS.

This isn't another meetup. This is the Megathon — Europe's biggest hackathon. 500+ builders, €100K in prizes, two days in Amsterdam. The companies behind it get to say they helped build the stage European tech has been waiting for.

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