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Build the Future of Data + AI with the Tower Pipeline Challenge

Ready to turn raw data into intelligent AI workflows? The Tower Pipeline Challenge: Data-to-AI invites hackers to build practical, production-ready applications powered by data pipelines, orchestration, and AI tooling.

Your project could include:

• Running dbt models for data transformation
• Launching AI agents for advanced data analysis
• Building interactive dashboards with Hex or Marimo
• Creating automated workflows, data apps, and more

Whether you’re building AI copilots, analytics tools, or intelligent automations — this challenge is all about turning data into action.

Tower gives developers a powerful platform for:

• Pythonic serverless compute
• Workflow orchestration & scheduling
• Lakehouse data storage for AI projects
• Team collaboration on Python apps
• Production deployments & shared development environments
• Data ingestion from APIs and databases
• Feature engineering pipelines for AI inference

• 2 months of free Tower Team Plan access
• Up to 5 users
• 10,000 free compute minutes/month
• A $300 value to continue building even after the hackathon

The winning team will receive:

• 6 months of free Tower Team Plan usage
• 10,000 compute minutes/month
• A total value of $900
• PLUS: every winning team member receives a Brick for Builders device (up to $350 value each)

Created by Brick, these palm-sized devices help you stay focused by temporarily blocking distracting phone notifications with a simple tap. No subscriptions. No complicated setup. Just deep focus for builders.

Check out past hackathon projects and ideas from previous events:
Past Hackathons by Tech Europe

Build something powerful. Automate workflows. Train smarter AI systems. And turn your data pipelines into winning projects.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.