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National Security Hackathon

Hosted byCerebral Valley and Shield Capital

Sat Apr 26,

9:00 AM

Sun Apr 27,

5:00 PM

PDT

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