First edition Villa3 Hub, Dilijan Date TBC
Students from Dilijan and across Tavush spend a day with people who build things for a living — then present a working idea to a jury before the evening is out.
40.7408° N, 44.8630° E ELEV ≈ 1,250 M TAVUSH, ARMENIA
Choose your ground
Each area comes with its own speaker and its own juror. You pick a first and a second choice when you apply — the numbers matter, so keep them handy.
Waste, water, air — pick the problem you can actually see from your window. Build something that turns it into information a community can act on, and say who would use it.
Speaker & juror — Lusine Minasian · Lia Apikyan (TBC)Tavush grows fruit and people pick it by hand. Design the software a drone would need to help — and the business plan that makes it worth buying for an orchard here.
Speaker & organizer — Ricardo BergmannAgents forget, repeat themselves and lose the thread. Tackle context and memory: what an agent should keep, what it should throw away, and how it decides.
Speaker & juror — Arevik Khachatryan · Albert PoghosyanArchives, crafts, music, language, the things Armenia would hate to lose. Use the new tools to make something that keeps a piece of culture alive and reachable.
Speaker & juror — Mohamed Rashad · Anna GargarianYou don't need a team or an idea in advance. Come with a first and second choice of area — teams are formed on the day.
Who you'll present to
Seven people from business, tech and the arts. In the morning they brief you. In the evening they judge what you built.
Speaker & juror — Area 01 (TBC)
Speaker & juror — Area 01
Opens the day: coffee and sleepless nights — dos and don'ts at hackathons.
Organizer & speaker — Area 02
Juror — Area 03
Speaker & juror — Area 03
Speaker & juror — Area 04
Briefing: AI tools for art and culture.
Juror — Area 04
9:00 to 21:00Date TBC
Twelve hours, two long build blocks, and two folk-dance breaks to get the blood moving again. The whole thing peaks at 20:00 when the winners are named.
Check in at Villa3 Hub.
The team, the venue, the sponsors, the prize fund, food and drinks, and how the day is covered on social media.
Lusine Minasian — coffee and sleepless nights: dos and don'ts at hackathons.
At the venue.
Two and a half hours on your challenge. At 12:45, everyone up for Armenian folk dance.
Self-organised and self-paid — plan where you're going before you're hungry.
Three hours to finish and rehearse. Folk dance again at 16:45.
Last one before you're on.
Show the jury what you built and what you'd do next.
200,000 AMD prize fund.
Photos, contacts, and the long way home.
Where it happens
A working hub in the middle of Dilijan — the town people call Armenia's Switzerland, an hour and a half from Yerevan through the tunnel.
Registration
No experience required, and no team required. If you can explain why an area interests you, that's enough to start.
Applications close — deadline TBC
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