🤖 Build the Future of Agentic Autonomy

AI Tinkerers Vienna is supporting the AIM (AI Impact Mission) and BitGN community for the high-stakes finale of their hackathon on personal and trustworthy autonomous agents. This isn’t about building another wrapper; it’s about engineering agents that can reason, use tools effectively, and remain robust in the BitGN sandbox environment.

The API is now frozen. This means the infrastructure is set, and the focus shifts entirely to optimization, reasoning logic, and evaluation metrics. We are gathering the top practitioners in Vienna on April 11th to witness the final evaluations and crown the winners.

Space for the onsite finale is strictly limited to 200 attendees. Register above to join the local builder community for the final showdown.
❗❗❗Anyone online can join, only the onsite place has limits.

🛠️ The Challenge: Reasoning Over Memorization

Participants are competing to build agents that solve complex tasks within the BitGN sandbox. The evaluation rewards agents that can handle:

• 20 Practice Tasks: Ranging from prompt injection defense to rumor detection.
• Runtime-Generated Scenarios: Tasks designed to fail if an agent relies on simple memorization rather than active reasoning.
• Live Leaderboard: Real-time performance tracking against a global community of builders.

If you are deep into agent orchestration frameworks like OpenClaw, experimenting with mid-thought steering in GPT-5.4, or optimizing KV cache with TurboQuant, this is the environment to test your stack.

Sponsors

→ Time to Act group
→ Klartext AI
→ Ai Austria
→ AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

📅 Finale Schedule

⚖️ Judging & Prizes

We are looking for technical depth in architecture and reliability in execution. The onsite finale features a total prize pool of 500€ for the top-performing agents.

🤝 Partners for the AIM Hackthon

This event is made possible by organizations committed to the “builders-first” ethos of AI Tinkerers.

AIM (AI Impact Mission) is a pan-European community and non-profit association focused on ethical AI adoption. They serve as a bridge between high-impact research and practical deployment, specializing in RAG systems and agentic workflows.

BitGN provides the specialized infrastructure for benchmarking autonomous agents. Their sandbox environment allows developers to validate agent performance against real-world scenarios and security threats.

📸 Experience the Community

See what happens when builders get together to pop the hood on generative AI.

Event photos

AI Tinkerers - Vienna

AI Tinkerers - Vienna

AI Tinkerers - Vienna

AI Tinkerers - Vienna

AI Tinkerers - Vienna

AI Tinkerers - Vienna

AI Tinkerers Vienna Stats

• Attendees: This community of 296 professionals is dominated by AI/ML specialists (29%) and data scientists (15%), supported by a robust 13% core of full-stack engineers. Key distinctions include a high density of PhD-level researchers and a significant presence from the fintech and construction sectors. Members are specifically distinguished by their focus on agentic workflows and production-grade AI implementation.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech leaders from Google, Bitpanda, and Dynatrace, AI innovators like Mistral, Aleph Alpha, and PrimeIntellect, and teams from STRABAG, Siemens, and Amazon, along with emerging startups such as Kodex AI, CopilotKit, and SciPub+ and more.
• Demos: 14 demos were submitted and 13 were presented. The most engaging topics covered agentic text and self-review systems, healthcare AI safety, and practical developer/data tooling. High-interest sessions included Oliver Lukesch’s agentic grant harness, Giang Dao’s deterministic safety approach, and Christopher Helf’s parlament.fyi. Others stood out for CodeDD code due diligence, Felix Krause’s ESG KPI pipeline, and trace-driven agent debugging.
• Testimonials:

  “It is quite informative and I like that the presentations are not purely slides. This allowed it to be more spontaneous and more interactive. It is cool to see what problems people have and sharing advices between each other.”

  — Data scientist, healthcare AI

  “Short & Concise event introduction, great time management between speakers to make sure people don't ask too much questions and take up too much time”

  — CTO, digital therapeutics

  “- A lot of interesting people - Cool demos”

  — Staff engineer, AI startup

  “Big thanks for organising this! Super insightful stuff and really good vibes.”

  — AI startup founder

  “Very cool project, very nice explanation and fantastic demo”

  — CEO, AI publishing startup

  “Really enjoyed it, would love to come back again!”

  — CTO, digital therapeutics

  “Inviting interesting people, keeping the conversation tech-focused”

  — CTO, AI grants startup

If your organization wants to support the local builder community, learn about sponsorship opportunities here.