# National Security Hackathon

- **When:** Apr 26 at 9:00 AM – Apr 27 at 5:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** Location TBA
- **Hosts:** [Cerebral Valley](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/cv), [Shield Capital](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Shield-Capital)
- **Registration:** Closed (the event has ended) — https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/national-security-hackathon-5a6fa1dc
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/national-security-hackathon-5a6fa1dc

Apply for *another*** **weekend of building in support of national security at our second annual National Security Hackathon, in partnership with Stanford DEFCON and Shield Capital!

Hack on problems that *matter* – problem statements curated by US military stakeholders. Judges and mentors from the US government / military and top startups.

#### Schedule:

Thursday, April 24th: Defense tech career fair at Stanford's campus hosted by Stanford DEFCON.

Friday, April 25th: Cocktails and team building at Stanford's campus.

Saturday, April 26th: 24 hours of hacking on problem sets begins in San Francisco, featuring speakers from the hottest startups and government stakeholders.

Sunday, April 27th: Judging and prizes awarded!  

#### Thank you to our sponsors!

**Sponsored by**: Shield Capital, In-Q-Tel, NATO Innovation Fund, Vannevar Labs, and Scale AI  
**Compute and inference from**: Groq, Windsurf, Anthropic, and Microsoft  
**Data from**: Maxar, Dedrone, and Distributed Spectrum  
**Hardware from**: Code Metal

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