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The Largest Agentic AI Hackathon in ASEAN 🌏

🔴 LIVE NOW — July 8–12, 2026 — Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

View Event Website: https://aabw.genaifund.ai/

2,000+ AI builders · 500 agentic projects · 30 AI enablers · 10 enterprises. Build Week is underway — if you're just finding us, there's still time to register for the Official Kick-Off (Jul 11) and Demo Day (Jul 12).

Locations by day(please register for the workshop seperatly):

Day 1 (Jul 8) — ENABLE: Tasco Office
Day 2 (Jul 9) — INTEGRATE: AWS HCMC Office (300–500 pax)
Day 3 (Jul 10) — DESIGN: VNG Campus
Day 4 (Jul 11) — Official Kick-Off & BUILD: Galaxy Innovation Park
Day 5 (Jul 12) — DEMO DAY: Galaxy Innovation Park

Each workshop day (Jul 8–10) has its own venue and check-in — please don't come to Galaxy Innovation Park before Jul 11.

Most hackathons end with a demo. This one ends with a deployment conversation. You know the drill. You build something impressive over a weekend. You demo it. Someone claps. You get a LinkedIn post out of it. Then the prototype sits in your GitHub and everyone goes back to their day jobs. That's not what this is. Agentic AI Build Week is 5 days where Southeast Asia's most serious AI builders come together to build agents that actually work — and move toward actual deployment. No toy problems. No demo theater. Real enterprise briefs, real infrastructure, real outcomes.

🚨 Registering now? Select Builder to compete in the hackathon, or Guest to attend the workshops and Official Kick-Off Day (Jul 11) without submitting a project. Approval required.

The Room Has Formed

Builders, engineers, and leaders from AWS, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Tencent Cloud, Vietjet, VNG Games, KFC Vietnam, Tasco, Phong Vu, Shinhan Future's Lab, GoTymeX, Guardian, and 100+ technology, enterprise, and ecosystem partners are in the room this week — building, mentoring, judging, and having pilot conversations on Demo Day. These aren't logos on a slide. They're the people evaluating what gets built.

💰 Up to $1,000,000 in AI Credits and Perks — Yours Just for Showing Up Registered builders get access to a $1M+ credit pool spanning the full AI stack — AWS, Tencent Cloud, Microsoft for Startups, Google for Developers, Kimi, Qwen, Agora, Langfuse, ClickHouse, BytePlus, TRAE, Notion, ZenRows, Bright Data, Apify, TinyFish, Antitech, n8n, Daytona, Featherless, and Virtuals. Perks access is open now — claim yours in the Event Portal at aitalent.genaifund.ai.

What Makes This Different

Every problem statement is real. Every winning solution is evaluated for deployment — not demo polish. Enterprises evaluate and can deploy winning solutions after Demo Day; a strong build could be live within 90 days.

💡 Not a traditional hackathon. Real enterprise briefs, real constraints, real evaluators with authority to greenlight a pilot. 💡 Production-first. Builds are judged on deployment-readiness, not 5-minute demo polish. 🤖 First in SEA — twice over. Robotics & Physical AI and Gaming AI have never had a dedicated track at a Southeast Asian hackathon before. Both debut here. ⚡ The full AI stack is in the room. AWS, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Qwen, hyperscalers, model providers, and dev tooling — all present for one week.

The Tracks — Ten Industries, Plus Founder Mode

Each track is backed by a partner or investor network. Problem statements publish July 1; confirm your team's track on Devpost (max 60 teams/track, first come first served).

Enterprise AI

☁️ Built with AWS — open-innovation track for production-ready AI
🚗 Mobility — with Tasco
🍗 F&B — with KFC Vietnam
🛒 Retail — with Phong Vu
🏨 Retail & Hospitality — with Guardian and The Anam
✈️ Aviation — with GenAI Fund
🤖 Robotics & Physical AI ★ FIRST IN SEA — with GenAI Fund
💳 Financial Services I — with Shinhan Future's Lab
💰 Financial Services II — with GoTymeX
🚀 Founder Mode — AI-native ops track; up to USD 150K investment opportunity from GenAI Fund and its investor network

Consumer AI

🎮 Gaming ★ FIRST IN SEA — with VNG Games

🎙️ The Experts in the Room

50+ mentors and speakers — operators who've deployed AI inside real organisations, in the room all week as judges and evaluators. Confirmed keynotes include:

Girish Patil — Tech Lead, Applied AI, AWS (Day 4 Keynote)
Dr. Benedict The — Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Vietjet
Full judge, mentor, and speaker roster at aabw.genaifund.ai

Who Gets the Most Out of This Week

👨‍💻 The Technical Builder (~60% of attendees) — Developers, CTOs, and technical founders shipping production-grade AI agents.

💼 The Business Builder (~40% of attendees) — Founders, product leaders, and executives building the moat, not just the demo.

🏗️ Enterprises — Your workflow challenge becomes the builder brief; you evaluate on Demo Day.

⚡ Tech Partners — In front of 2,000+ builders across the week.

Builder Night — The Official Networking Event

📅 Wednesday, July 9 — details and RSVP at luma.com/gaf-u7gd Note: this replaces the previously planned separate Image & Video AI, Gaming, and Physical AI networking nights — if you already registered for one of those, you're covered and don't need to do anything further.

By the Numbers

👥 2,000+ AI builders 🏢 10 enterprises contributing real problem statements 🔧 100+ technology, enterprise, and ecosystem partners 🛠️ 15 agentic AI workshops ⚖️ 50+ mentors and speakers 💰 $1M+ prize and perks pool

How the Week Runs

Day 1 | Jul 8 — ENABLE (Tasco Office) — AI infrastructure, models, and tooling.

Day 2 | Jul 9 — INTEGRATE (AWS HCMC Office) — cloud infrastructure, model providers, platform workshops.

Day 3 | Jul 10 — DESIGN (VNG Campus) — enterprise AI design, observability, production readiness.

Day 4 | Jul 11 — Official Kick-Off & BUILD (Galaxy Innovation Park) — the hackathon opens.

Day 5 | Jul 12 — DEMO DAY (Galaxy Innovation Park) — submission deadline 9:00 AM, judging in two rounds, showcase, and awards. Prize details are announced live at the Jul 11 Kick-Off.

Built by the Team That Ran Vietnam's Largest AI Hackathon

GenAI Fund is Southeast Asia's first AI-focused venture fund, founded by former AWS operators. We built Vietnam's largest AI hackathon — active across 6 ASEAN markets with 100+ enterprise AI deployments.