# EAT_HACK - the world's first AI & eating hackathon

Source: https://aihackclub.com/hackathon/eat-hack-the-world-s-first-ai-eating-hackathon-2026-10/
Official page: https://lu.ma/hdf7uc43

- When: Saturday 3 October 2026, 20:00
- Where: London
- Host: Really Good Culture
- Entry: free

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.