Time to Accelerate Defense Innovation!

Join us for the second edition of the Australian Defense Tech Hackathon on March 12–14, 2027, in Canberra, Australia.

Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and work on projects that could save lives. We'll prepare challenges based on real-world problems, and you can also bring your own project and receive feedback from experienced mentors.

We'll put you in a position to deploy your project in the real world after the hackathon 🚀

Goals

1. Solve urgent defense and security challenges: Get inspired by the challenges we prepare together with partners in Australia and NATO, driven by real needs. You can also bring your own project and get feedback from people who have been on the front line, so you're solving real problems.
2. Launch new careers and companies: Whether you're breaking into the defense sector or building your own product and company, our goal is to put you in a position to continue towards deployment.
3. Strengthen Australia through defense innovation: This is where Australia's top talent meets the most pressing threats. By building and shipping, we demonstrate what a fast, capable, and resilient Australian defense ecosystem looks like.

Focus Areas

• OSINT

• Computer Vision & Edge AI

• Unmanned & Autonomous Systems (UxS)

• Electronic Warfare (EW)

• Modular Sensors

• Drone & Counter-Drone Tech

• Battlefield Economics & Scaling Production

• Hypersonics and Missile Defense

…and more

Visitors

To give participants time and space to focus on their projects, we'll have no visitors during the hackathon. If you're curious about the outcomes and what the teams have built, please sign up as a visitor for our demo day on Sunday.

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