Mark June 3-5 red in your calendar as Hacker Games hackathon series will be back to Vilnius. VGTU’s Linkmenų Fabrikas will be abuzz with hundreds of engineers, developers, makers, hackers and ambitious creatives competing in three separate tracks – hardware, software and games. We already have a significant prize pool accumulated, so let’s have a quick look at it.

So what’s on the plate?

Hacker Games very special t-shirts for all participants will provided by our long-time friends Koralis and Metasite. Also, a special Sunday dinner will brought by the evergrowing TransferGo. And the winners of final pitches will get:

• Electronics Lab Kit + Maker Membership for a Month for Each Team Member from Green Garage

• €1000 for Industry Event Trip from Game Insight

• €500 in Cash from Startup Highway

• PEBBLE Smartwatches from Adform

• 12 Month Subscription to Unity Pro (with iOS Pro, Android Pro, Team license) from Unity

• Special VR prize – Gear VR from Aresi Labs

• And more to be announced soon!

We already have dozens of confirmed mentors – software, hardware and business developers – from companies such as Vinted, Adform, Metasite, Green Garage, Aresi Labs and 1stdibs.com, to name just a few. Get it touch with our team should you want to become one!

How it will work?

• it’s a 48 hours event, so be ready to work till late at night or even overnight, we will make sure that you would be filled with coffee and have a corner for a nap;

• you come on Friday evening, pitch your idea, form teams and start developing products;

• mentors from various professional backgrounds will come to help you in the process, so do not panic if you are stuck with your product;

• you will have to prepare your final pitch and show your best in front of the Jury on Sunday afternoon, winners will get it all!

Register here and get ready to meet Vilnius creators’ scene on the first summer weekend! Kaunas event this March was awesome, let's make the Vilnius one even better!