AI Application & Innovation
AI Application & Innovation Competitions 2026
This page lists AI application and innovation competitions that are open, undated, or rolling, then recently closed ones. Industry, startup, education, and agent challenges are included when that is the published type. Research challenges framed as applications are included. Deadlines follow the organizer’s dates; an unknown time or timezone stays unconfirmed.
Open, undated, and rolling
Show this type in the calendar15th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition — Industrial AI Agents Track
MIIT Torch High Technology Industry Development Center and Beijing Fengtai District Government · 2026-10-31 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Date to be confirmed
Global Call for AI × SDG Best Practices 2026
NIRA, World Economic Council and Etion · 2027-03-31 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Date to be confirmed
Recently closed
CrowdStrike x NVIDIA AgentWorks Hackathon
CrowdStrike (with NVIDIA) · 2026-10-20 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
AI + Education Innovation Application Skills Competition 2026
China Association for Educational Technology (CAET) · 2026-10-15 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
China (Guangxi)–ASEAN AI + Law Application Innovation Competition 2026
Guangxi Department of Justice and Wuzhou Municipal Government · 2026-10-15 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
2026 iCAN x Baidu AI No-Code Agent Challenge
iCAN Competition Organizing Committee (with Baidu AI Cloud, NexAI) · 2026-10-15 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
RIMPA Global Hackathon 2026
RIMPA Global · 2026-10-12 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition 2026 (Macau Secondary School Division)
UNU Institute in Macau, UNU Global AI Network, Macau Computer Society (guided by United Nations University; supported by the Macau Education and Youth Development Bureau) · 2026-10-09 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
Snapdragon AI Lab Build & Present Challenge 2026
Qualcomm · 2026-09-30 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
FuturEd AI Hackathon 2026
Epignosis / TalentLMS and University of Crete CSD · 2026-09-24 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
InstaLILY × Google DeepMind Toronto Hackathon 2026
InstaLILY with Google DeepMind · 2026-09-24 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
HackAlem AI 2026
Astana Hub and partners · 2026-09-19 · Exact time / time zone not announced · Closed
Questions about this type
What belongs in AI application and innovation?
Application, industry, startup, education, governance, and agent competitions. Hackathons and data-leaderboard contests keep their own pages.
How are deadlines shown?
Dates are the registration or submission dates published by the organizer. A missing time or timezone stays unconfirmed and is not turned into a countdown.