Build North: Ship Something Real 🍁

One sprint. One challenge. Ship something with a clear user, a clear value-add and a credible path to production. The top 10 teams will demo live on stage, and winners take home prizes across 4 award categories! 🏆 We are bringing together some of Canada's most ambitious AI builders for a virtual AI build sprint, followed by an in-person Demo Day in Toronto for the top 10 teams. Rally your team (or join solo), pick a problem that actually matters and ship the idea you've been thinking about all year, with hands-on technical support from our partner teams along the way. This could be your shot at turning it into a real business with real momentum! Winners walk away with prizes, API credits, merch, and a golden ticket from Georgian: a pitch session with experienced investors and a warm intro to an early-stage fund. Who Should Join Builders creating AI products, agentic tools and ambitious side projects. Starter Package Every team, including solo builders, gets access to: Packages go out at kickoff on October 16. The hackathon Discord server will be our main communication hub for registration details, kickoff updates, submission instructions, and everything else you need throughout the event. Timeline What You'll Submit: The following are required for submission: Submissions will be through Devpost and are due October 25 at 11:59 PM ET. Detailed instructions will be shared in the hackathon Discord community after kickoff. Judging Criteria A panel of judges will assess submissions in two rounds: online judging on Oct 26 to select the top 10, followed by live judging at Demo Day on Oct 29 to pick the final winners. Prizes Judges Our judges bring deep experience across AI, product, engineering and business to evaluate your submissions. Mentors Our mentors will be hands-on throughout Build Week to help with technical questions, product direction, and troubleshooting. Rules FAQs Still have questions? Join the hackathon Discord server or reach out to Aryan Khurana (AI Developer Advocate @ Georgian) at [email protected]. ​Partners Georgian Transferred Learnings Transferred Learnings is Georgian's technical community for AI builders and founders who are actively shipping AI products and want to stay ahead of the field. Through in-person events and Discord, members ideate, build and connect. Interested in joining? Apply here. TAPNET Toronto AI Practitioners Network (TAPNET) was founded in 2024 to provide high-quality content and networking opportunities for AI practitioners in Toronto. We have an active community of members and host regular in-person events. Follow us on LinkedIn, Meetup or Luma. EXPO Expo is a full-stack React Native framework with cloud services that cover the whole app lifecycle. Developers build with the Expo SDK's 100+ production APIs, the CLI, and dev tools, then ship with Build, Update, and Workflows: compile for iOS, Android, and web from one codebase, push over-the-air updates without an app store round trip, and automate builds, tests, and releases. From first prototype to production monitoring, Expo helps teams move faster at every stage of the app lifecycle. Clerk Clerk is the complete user management platform for modern web and mobile applications. They give developers everything they need to build secure, polished authentication and user experiences without spending weeks building identity infrastructure from scratch. With Clerk, teams can easily add authentication, user profiles, organizations, multi-factor authentication, social logins, user management, and session management, all with flexible APIs, components, and SDKs built for modern frameworks. From startups to growing teams, Clerk makes it easier to ship faster, scale securely, and give users a seamless way to sign up, sign in, and manage their accounts. Google Cloud for Startups Google Cloud for Startups helps AI founders scale from idea to IPO with the world’s most advanced open infrastructure. We provide eligible startups with up to $350,000 USD in Google Cloud credits over two years, dedicated access to high-performance TPU and GPU clusters, and direct technical support from our AI Customer Engineers. Whether you are fine-tuning foundational models or building complex agentic workflows, Google Cloud provides the infrastructure, Gemini models, and Vertex AI tools you need to build quickly and securely. Learn more and apply today.