All Upcoming Google Cloud Hackathons in 2026: Virtual & In-Person
List of verified Google Hackathons with dates from May 1, 2026 onward
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One of the busiest years I’ve ever seen for Google-run hackathons is 2026. There are competitions with global eligibility, free virtual entries, and huge prize pools. Some close in a few days. Some continue into June. And following Google I/O, an entirely new wave is anticipated.
The full deduplicated list of confirmed events with dates starting on May 1, 2026, arranged by category, is provided below. These are operated directly by Google, Google DeepMind, Google Cloud Labs, Kaggle, GitLab, and Arize AI. They are the highest-signal opportunities.
Team USA x Google Cloud Hackathon
📍 Virtual
🗓️ Deadline: May 11, 2026, 5:00pm PDT
🔗 Event Link
Your mission is to vibe code with Gemini to transform Team USA and publicly available data into interactive dashboards, web apps, or AI agents that showcase Team USA’s collective power. Your project should fit into one of the following categories:
Challenge 1: The Team USA Performance Parity Report
Challenge 2: The Hometown Success Engine
Challenge 3: The Road to LA28 Games Bracket
Challenge 4: The Athlete Archetype Agent
Challenge 5: Choose Your Own Challenge
Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon:
📍 Virtual
🗓️ Deadline: Jun 11, 2026, 2:00pm PDT
🔗 Event Link
🤝 Sponsors: Google Cloud, Arize, elastic, Gitlab, Fivetran, DevPost
Building Agents for Real-World Challenges is your opportunity to move beyond the chatbot and into the world of agents that accomplish tasks for you. This hackathon is designed for every level of technical builder: whether you are writing your first script or architecting complex systems, this is your chance to build an agent that can reason, plan, and execute tasks under your oversight. Built with Gemini’s advanced reasoning and our technology partners’ solutions, you will create agents that help people get more done. You provide the logic; Gemini provides the brain; our partners provide the superpowers.
The Gemma 4 Good Hackathon
📍 Virtual
🗓️ April 2, 2026-May 18, 2026
🔗 Event Link
🤝 Sponsors: Google Cloud, Kaggle
With the release of Gemma 4, a new family of open models is officially in your hands. Leverage local frontier intelligence, native function calling, and multimodal understanding to tackle the issues that affect your community. We want to see how you enhance Gemma 4 models through post-training, domain adaptation, and agentic retrieval to ensure accurate, grounded outputs. Whether you’re optimizing E2B and E4B models for edge-based solutions or deploying the 26B and 31B weights for complex tasks, every contribution pushes the boundaries of what AI can achieve.
Google I/O Build with AI Hackathon x Google Cloud Labs
📍 Computer History Museum, Mountain View
🗓️ May 22, 2026, 9:00 AM — 6:00 PM
🔗 Event Link
🏆 The winning team will receive an exclusive, private pitch session with the Deal Team and the founders of Google’s AI Futures Fund!
How to keep monitoring
The three sites that update the most frequently are gdg.community.dev/events/ (filter by your region for fresh local hackathons; major chapters in Bangalore, Berlin, London, and San Francisco historically post May–July events on short notice); kaggle.com/competitions (new Google Community Hackathons launching regularly since the March 19, 2026, platform expansion); and devpost.com/hackathons filtered for Google.
The Google for Developers blog (developers.googleblog.com) and Google Cloud blog (cloud.google.com/blog) typically announce official competitions one to four weeks before launch; expect a wave following Google I/O on May 19–20, 2026.
Happy Hacking!! 🚀
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