Time to Accelerate Defense Innovation in the Asia-Pacific 🚀

Join us for the second Taiwan Defense Tech Hackathon on September 17–19, 2027, in Taiwan. The venue will be announced soon.

Our first edition in Taipei brought together participants and guests from 16 countries and produced 15 projects. This time, teams will build and test hardware prototypes alongside industry engineers.

Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and build projects with real-world impact that could save lives. Throughout the event, you’ll get hands-on guidance from seasoned mentors, and after the hackathon, we’ll help you take your project closer to real-world deployment.

Challenges

We’ll focus on solving urgent security and defense challenges in the Taiwanese context, from countering grey-zone drone incursions and swarming threats to resilient communications under jamming and undersea cable disruption, GNSS-denied navigation across the Strait, maritime domain awareness, low-cost sensing and autonomous interception, edge AI for distributed operations, and asymmetric solutions that multiply the impact of every operator.

Goals

1. Solve urgent defense and security challenges: Each hackathon features a fresh set of challenges sourced directly from partners in Taiwan, the EU, NATO, and beyond, driven by real needs.
2. Launch new careers and companies: Whether you’re breaking into the defense sector or building your own product and company, we connect you with jobs, funding, and pathways toward real-world deployment.
3. Strengthen partnerships between Taiwan and Europe through defense innovation: By building and shipping real systems, we demonstrate what a fast, capable, and resilient Taiwanese defense ecosystem and strong collaboration with Europe can achieve.

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.

Agenda

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