# Festiverse 2026: The World’s Biggest Festival Hackathon

- **When:** Nov 7 at 8:00 AM – Nov 8 at 8:00 PM (PST)
- **Where:** Location TBA
- **Hosts:** [Ayush Ojha](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/ayushojha)
- **Format:** Hackathon
- **Registration:** Open (host approval required) — https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/festiverse-sf-2026
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/festiverse-sf-2026

## Festiverse 2026 🪔✨ 

**The World’s Biggest Festival Hackathon -> More Details to follow as we come closer to the event. **

This Diwali, from the festival of lights and joy, we are bringing you something special.

Festiverse 2026 is a global hackathon where builders, designers, founders, artists, storytellers, students, engineers, and creators come together in San Francisco to imagine the future of celebration.

This year’s theme is **Festivals in the Age of AI**.

How will people celebrate in the future? How will AI, apps, agents, voice, AR, payments, creator tools, social platforms, community technology, and immersive experiences transform the way we celebrate festivals, holidays, rituals, and cultural moments?

From Diwali to Holi, Eid, Christmas, Lunar New Year, Dashain, Thanksgiving, Pride, local street festivals, family gatherings, and new digital traditions, Festiverse invites participants to build products that make celebration more meaningful, accessible, creative, connected, and joyful.

Whether you build an AI festival planner, a cultural storytelling app, a virtual celebration experience, a community coordination tool, a gifting marketplace, a creator platform, a festival commerce product, a safety tool, or something completely unexpected, Festiverse is your place to bring it to life.

### Main Stage 🏙️

**San Francisco**

Global hackathon hubs include:

**NY • Tokyo • Seoul • London • Mumbai**

More global participation details will be announced soon.

### Date and Time 🗓️

**Starts:** Saturday, November 7  
**Ends:** Sunday, November 8  
**Time:** 8:00 AM on November 7 to 5:00 PM on November 8

### A Celebration, Not Just a Hackathon 🎆

Festiverse is designed to feel fun, welcoming, colorful, and full of energy.

Expect a weekend of building, meeting amazing people, sharing culture, wearing festive outfits, enjoying food and drinks, taking photos, making memories, and celebrating what the future of festivals could look like.

This is not just a place to code. It is a place to create, connect, celebrate, and have fun.

### Traditional Attire Encouraged 🥻🪔

To make Festiverse more fun, colorful, and meaningful, attendees are encouraged to wear traditional attire, cultural outfits, or festive clothing that represents a celebration, community, heritage, or tradition they care about.

This is not required, but highly encouraged.

### Food, Drinks, and Experience 🍛🥤

Food, drinks, snacks, and essential hackathon support will be provided throughout the event.

Expect building time, community moments, team formation, mentor support, demos, judging, celebration, and plenty of fun throughout the weekend.

### Tracks 🏮

**Culture and Community**  
Build tools that help people preserve traditions, connect with family, organize communities, or celebrate cultural identity.

**AI and Celebration**  
Use AI to create new ways of planning, personalizing, storytelling, translating, recommending, or experiencing festivals.

**Creator and Media**  
Build experiences for photos, videos, music, digital art, stories, live streams, avatars, performances, or festival content creation.

**Commerce and Gifting**  
Build tools for festival shopping, gifting, local vendors, food ordering, creator marketplaces, ticketing, payments, or donations.

**Access and Inclusion**  
Create products that make festivals easier to participate in for elders, immigrants, people with disabilities, remote families, multilingual communities, and first time attendees.

**Open Innovation**  
Build anything bold, useful, beautiful, emotional, or unexpected that fits the theme of festivals and celebration.

**Sponsor Tracks**  
Sponsor tracks will be announced soon.

### Prizes 🏆

Prizes will be announced soon.

### Sponsors and Partners 🤝

Sponsors and partners will be displayed soon.

Festiverse is open to partnerships with AI companies, developer platforms, cultural organizations, universities, community groups, creator platforms, food and beverage brands, fintech companies, local businesses, and global festival communities.

### Eligibility 👥

Teams can have **1 to 4 people**.

Solo builders are welcome.

Teams can be formed before the event or at the venue.

All participants must apply and be approved before attending.

Only approved attendees will be allowed to enter.

Participants must bring a valid government issued ID. Only government ID will be accepted for check in.

### Visa and Travel Support 🌍🛂

If you need visa support or an invitation letter to attend Festiverse, we are open to helping where possible.

Please DM one of the hosts with your request, your location, and the type of documentation you need. The organizing team will review requests and provide event related support when possible.

Visa support does not guarantee visa approval, travel funding, or entry into the country.

### Photos and Videos 📸🎥

Photos and videos will be taken during the event for event memories, social media, recap content, sponsor updates, and future Festiverse promotions.

By attending Festiverse, you understand that photos and videos may be captured during the event and may be used by the organizers for event related content and promotional purposes.

If you have any concerns about being photographed or recorded, please speak with one of the hosts at check in.

### Power, WiFi, and Setup 🔌

Power will be available at the venue.

Multiple power strips will be available throughout the event, but participants are encouraged to bring their own chargers and any personal adapters they may need.

WiFi details will be shared at check in.

### Overnight Stay 🌙

Overnight stay details are still being decided.

More information will be announced soon.

### Community Link 📱

Discord, Slack, or community link coming soon.

### Submission Platform 📂

The submission platform will be announced soon.

All project submission details, deadlines, demo rules, and judging instructions will be shared before the final submission window.

### Judging Criteria 🏆

Projects will be judged based on:

**Creativity and Originality**  
How fresh, exciting, and unexpected is the idea?

**Cultural Relevance**  
Does the project thoughtfully connect to festivals, traditions, celebration, or community?

**Usefulness and Impact**  
Would people actually use this? Could it make celebrations better, easier, safer, more inclusive, more creative, or more meaningful?

**Technical Execution**  
How well does the project work? Is the demo functional, clear, and technically impressive?

**Design and Experience**  
Is the product easy to understand, beautiful, intuitive, and enjoyable to use?

**AI and Innovation**  
If AI is used, is it meaningful to the product? Does it create something that was not possible before?

**Presentation**  
Can the team clearly explain the problem, solution, demo, impact, and future potential?

### Ready to Build? 🪔🚀

Spots are limited.

Secure yours now and join builders from around the world as we imagine the future of celebration.

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