The future of finance is agentic.
Join us on April 11th in Berlin for a full day of building and shipping AI agents applied to real-world financial use cases with production-grade infrastructure, on-site technical mentorship, and cash prizes on the line.
Hosted by cognee and Dify, joined by N26 β a leading European fintech bringing domain expertise and real-world problem framing to the table.
Limited to 80 participants. Grab your spot early.
π Who Should Join
This hackathon is for engineers, AI practitioners, and builders who want to work at the intersection of agentic AI and real-world financial use cases; or ship something compelling with cutting-edge agent infrastructure.
Participants will compete in 2 tracks:
π¦ Finance Track β Build agents that solve real problems in financial services. Think fraud, compliance, portfolio management, conversational banking. Specific challenges will be revealed soon, shaped by our industry partner.
π Open Track β Build anything you want using cognee and Dify. The best agent wins.
On-site you'll have access to both engineering teams, domain mentors, tutorials, and quick-start templates so you can ship fast without friction.
π Cash Prizes
β¬1,000 in cash prizes across two tracks plus surprise swag and partner perks.
π¦ Finance Track β top 3 teams win β¬300/ β¬200/ β¬100 + N26 promo codes. Judged on technical execution, domain relevance, and demo quality.
π Open Track β two sponsor awards, each with cash + swag + cloud credits + a public shoutout:
π§ Best cognee use β β¬200 + cognee swag + cognee Cloud voucherβοΈ Best Dify use β β¬200 + Dify swag + Dify Cloud promo code
Teams of up to 4. A team can only win one award.
π Technical Stack
Participants will get hands-on access to:
cognee β open-source knowledge engine for agent memory, recall, and reasoning. With cognee, you'll build knowledge graphs that let agents understand relationships across documents, conversations, and data sources. All participants will receive a 2 week free cognee API key to use cognee Cloud throughout the hackathon. See repository: linkDify β workflow builder for composing, testing, and deploying multi-step agent pipelines. Each participant will receive a free 1-month Team Plan promo code, distributed on the day of the event (includes sufficient model API credits for the hackathon). Dify is also available as open-source if you prefer to self-host with your own model API keys. See repository: link
π Schedule
10:00 β Doors Open & Networking
10:40 β Opening Keynotes & Team Matchmaking
Nemanja Bibic β Head of Growth @ cogneeIdir Ouhab Meskine β Head of SA Europe @ DifyAkhil Bojedla β Lead Software Engineer @ N26
13:00 β Lunch
17:30 β Submission Deadline
18:00 β Live Demos
19:00 β Award Ceremony & Networking
βπ― Judges
Pavel Zorin β Platform Lead, Principle Engineer @ cogneeIdir Ouhab Meskine β Head of SA Europe @ DifyβMore TBA
π’ N26 is hiring!
Scan the QR code to submit your application.The talent acquisition team will review all submissions and be in touch if there is a match with open positions to begin the interview process.Alternatively, feel free to browse N26 careers pageΒ to apply to specific positions that are the best fit for you!