BECOME A

HACKATHON

PARTNER

Our traditional Innovator, Catalyst, and Visionary partner packages follow a fixed-fee model that isn’t tied to any single project. That keeps the event free of commercial influence and makes it a place open-source communities trust and want to join.

With every Hackathon partnership, you’ll send your own team members to the event and sponsor the same number of open-source contributors, so your support brings more of the community into the room. Our two top partnership tiers give you a seat on the Hackathon jury, which picks the winners in six categories.

**NEW IN 2027: THE LAUNCHPAD PARTNER TIER**

True to our commitment to projects that last beyond the hackathon weekend, Launchpad partners go one step further and back a specific project before, during, and after the event. We curate the project together with you, so it can be tied directly to your business or community needs. Your involvement and goals are shared openly with all hackathon attendees, and the project stays open for the whole community to use.
Only two spots available!

ONLY TWO SLOTS AVAILABLE!

What You Get as a Partner

EMPOWER OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION
Support the open-source communities our industry is built on and help create projects that shape the future of the open web.

BRAND AWARENESS
Get visibility across the CloudFest Global audience and word of mouth from influential voices in the industry.

Reward Your Team
Give your R&D employees a unique incentive: hands-on work with the open-source community, far from their daily routine.

NETWORKING
Spend three days working alongside the developers, maintainers, and decision-makers who shape the open web.

LASTING IMPACT
Every hackathon project is built to continue beyond the weekend, so your support goes into open-source work that keeps growing after the event.

ATTRACT NEW TALENT
Watch developers, security experts, and maintainers solve real problems over three days—a better signal than any interview—and meet them in person.

WHY You Should Be a Partner

For our 10th edition, 110+ developers, security experts, and open-source maintainers from 20+ countries will work on the questions that will define hosting and the web in the coming years. As a partner, you’re in the room where we build the solutions.

What our teams will tackle, and why it matters for your business:

The agent-ready web: open standards like MCP and WebMCP that let AI agents work safely with websites, CMSs, and hosting platforms, instead of just scraping them. Be ready when your customers’ sites become agent-facing.

A fair deal between AI and the open web: control for site owners over how AI crawls, uses, cites, and pays for their content. Offer your customers real protection for what they publish.

Trust you can verify: open evals, guardrails, and content credentials that make AI behaviour measurable and AI output traceable. Build trust in the AI features you ship.

Secure by default: defences against prompt injection and supply-chain attacks, and vulnerability handling every maintainer can manage. Reduce risk across the stack you and your customers depend on.

Sovereign, efficient infrastructure: self-hostable stacks and local-first AI that keep the web independent and affordable. Stay independent of single vendors and keep costs predictable.

Compliance with open tooling: practical answers to the EU AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act and the European Accessibility Act. Meet new obligations with tools everyone can use and verify.