Paris Accel’s AI Innovate Series Hackathon

About

The rules of company building are being rewritten in real time.

The next generation of founders is right here in Europe and they're thinking globally from the start.

With AI shortening the path from idea to product, founders can now move faster than ever before, but what does the future hold and who will be building it?

AI Innovate is where Future Founders can come together, share ideas, build and meet the people worth building with across five cities. Paris is our fourth stop and we can't wait to see the ideas of Future Founders come to life.

Join the hackathon, imagine what comes next and build it. In one day!

Schedule - October 22, 2026:- 08:00: Registration and breakfast- 09:00: Kickoff and hacking- 12:00: Lunch- 16:00: Top 8 teams pitch- 17:00: Winners announced- 18:00: Off the Record with Mati StaniszewskiTeams of [solo–5]

Fireside ChatMati Staniszewski - ElevenLabs (Off the Record, 18:00)

TracksComing soon

What every builder gets

$100 Anthropic credits

$100 Modal credits

$120 Vercel AI Gateway credits

110k ElevenLabs credits

$25 Supabase credits (1 month Pro)

1 free month of n8n Cloud Pro

Lovable and Aiven credits

1 month of Miro Enterprise access

1 free month of Lightdash Cloud Pro per team

$50 OpenAI credits

Prizes and sponsors

Cash prizes: €1,500 for 1st place, €1,000 for 2nd, and €500 for 3rd

Mentorship with the Accel team + AI Innovate winner's backpack, per winner

Anthropic: $5,000 in API credits per winning team

$12k in Aiven credits + 2 hours of SA-time to the teams that come in first, second and third place

AWS: $25,000 and a 1:1 mentor session with an AWS leader

ElevenLabs: 1.1M credits, per winning team member

Lighdash: 12 months free of Cloud Pro

Lovable: credits + mentorship with the Lovable team

Miro: one year's Enterprise access for the winning team

Modal: $5,000 in credits per team

n8n: free year of Cloud Pro, worth €600, per winning team member

OpenAI: Major AI credit grant per team

A Pocket device per winner

Supabase: $5,000 in credits to the winning team

Vercel: $12,000 AI Gateway credits

In-Person Attendance: all team members must be physically present at the venue for the duration of the hackathon. Remote participation is not permitted.

Food and drinks provided throughout the day

Who should applyTechnical builders with founder intent. You can take an AI product from zero to working in a day, you've shipped real things before (bring a demo, GitHub or portfolio), and you're seriously exploring a company. Come as a founding team or solo if you move fast alone. If you ship, apply.

Brought to you by Accel & Iterate.

Official page and registration: lu.ma/0v3c010v