Mexico City Hackathon
Join Latin America’s entrepreneurial revolution
Join a Community
Connect with visionary entrepreneurs and thought leaders in Mexico and Latin America.
Innovate & Hack
Leverage AI and modern technology to foster innovation and promote economic freedom.
Find Opportunities, Make Connections
Meet your future colleagues, find your future employer, and discover new opportunities.
Earn Prizes
Compete and win prizes to accelerate your Hackathon ideas.
What You’ll Do
The Mexico City Hackathon is a week-long event for Latin American college students with experience or interest in technology, entrepreneurship, and free-market ideas. You will build, pitch, and innovate unique solutions to local educational, economic, and social issues using cutting-edge AI tools.
The Hackathon is hosted in partnership with the Universidad de la Libertad, at their campus in Mexico City, and includes participation in the Radical Innovation Summit, placing you in the broader Latin American innovation and venture ecosystem.
What You’ll Get
This Hackathon is a gateway to connect you with funding opportunities, companies, local entrepreneurs, job opportunities, and more. You will join an atmosphere of entrepreneurs focused on improving their communities with real-world solutions.
The winning team will earn a prize to build their concept.
How It Works
Concept Development
Define an education-related challenge and pitch a market-based solution.
Prototype Building
Create a functional tech demo using earned resources.
Final Pitch
Present your solution to a panel of judges and peers.
Teams will receive a $100 Codex credit per team member sponsored by OpenAI. During our hackathon, students will have the opportunity to receive project feedback from successful entrepreneurs in the tech industry to ensure the feasibility and innovation of the project.
What to Expect
Tuesday
Arrival & Opening Dinner
Check in, welcome dinner, and an opening address framing the week’s central questions.
Wednesday
Full Day of Programming
Morning is programming, brainstorming, and ideating. Afternoon is rapid prototyping. Evening is dinner featuring a Radical Innovation Summit speaker.
Thursday
Radical Innovation Summit
Participants will attend programming at the Radical Innovation Summit all day.
Friday
Final Presentation
Participants will finalize their presentations in the morning. Final pitches and winner announcement in the afternoon.
No Cost to Attend
Every accepted participant attends on scholarship
Accepted participants receive a full scholarship covering programming, shared lodging, and meals — and a partial scholarship covering some travel costs.
Join Us
You could be the entrepreneur that Latin America needs.