Hugging Face
Hackathon O1
Agenda
5 – 7 November 2026
· Nestwork & Scale 7, Doha · all times Doha time
Thursday
5 Nov · Kickoff
Friday
6 Nov · Build
Saturday
7 Nov · Pitch
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
Registration & check-in
Coffee, settle in, find your spot
5:00 PM
Welcome & opening remarks
5:20 PM
Challenge reveal
Rules, judging criteria and how the credits work
5:50 PM
Team mixer
Applicants find teammates
6:20 PM
Workshop 1 — Getting Started
Hub, Jobs & fine-tuning + credit setup · Younes, Aritra & Niels
8:00 PM
8:30 PM
Workshop 2 — System 1 Guardrails
Abdulaziz
🕌 The venue pauses
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
for Friday prayer.
11:00 AM
1:00 PM
Friday prayer break
Venue pauses
2:00 PM
2:45 PM
Workshop 3 — Image & Video Generation with Diffusers
Sayak
3:30 PM
4:15 PM
Fireside chat with Basem
Basem — ex-CTO at Cisco, now Advisor to Qai
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
Workshop 4 — Local Models (llama.cpp)
Niels
Night
Soft submission checkpoint
Have a form, video or doc ready to review
2:00 PM
Submission deadline
Space, demo video and your sheet row — all in
2:00 PM
3:45 PM
Judges review & shortlist finalists
Teams prep their pitches
4:00 PM
6:00 PM
Finalist pitches
3 minutes + Q&A each
6:00 PM
Judges deliberate
6:30 PM
Awards & closing
Group photo