Become a partner of Ohrid TechAthlon 2026. Showcase your brand to a highly engaged audience of developers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts, connect with top talent, and challenge our hackers with your real business problems....
A 48 h innovation festival packed with engineering competitions, hands-on challenges, workshops and showcase moments — built for creators, dreamers and doers.
Ohrid TechAthlon is a premier event dedicated to advancing technology and innovation through the exploration of complex challenges across diverse sectors, disciplines and technologies. Our goal is to harness the synergy of technology and creative problem-solving to develop solutions with meaningful, real-world impact.
More than a competition, TechAthlon is a platform for technologists, developers, designers, marketers and problem-solvers to showcase their skills and tackle impactful challenges. Participants learn from peers, receive expert mentorship, and build solutions with real societal benefit — all in one high-energy weekend by Lake Ohrid.
Work with fellow tech enthusiasts in dynamic teams to brainstorm and develop groundbreaking solutions.
Dive into the latest trends and technologies making waves in the tech world — from AI to IoT, design to game dev.
Winning teams gain direct admission to our partners' Ideation and Acceleration Programmes — with up to €20,000 in seed funding and access to university and corporate startup programs.
Engineers, coders, and makers who build the core product.
Designers who shape how the product looks and works.
People with business, marketing, and sales skills.
Students who want to learn, meet people, and build something new.
Anyone interested in startups, technology, entrepreneurship, R&D, innovation or future career opportunities.
Developers, engineers, or product profiles who want to design and prototype practical digital solutions for sustainable mobility challenges.
Marketing, communication, or storytelling professionals interested in shaping how sustainability solutions are framed, explained, and pitched.
People with a business, management, or startup background who want to turn ideas into viable, implementable concepts with real-world potential.
Curious, motivated students and freelancers passionate about sustainability and technology, eager to learn by working alongside professionals in a real innovation environment.
As startup and corporate partner, you’ll have the unique opportunity to enjoy the event benefits: presenting your company and you product/services to the highly engaged audience of tech innovators, connect with top talent and potential recruits, network with local community, meet fellow attendees (industry leaders, entrepreneurs, exhibitors and experts), exchange ideas, build industry-talent-academia for future projects, establish new valuable connections and many more.
Workshops, flash talks and panel discussions led by industry experts. Master the skills before you use them.
The Ideathlon. Form a team, define a problem, and turn your idea into a concept with mentors at your side.
The Tech Hackathon. 24 hours to build a working prototype and pitch it to the jury, industry leaders and investors.
Ohrid TechAthlon unfolds in three phases. In the Learn Phase (workshops + challenges), you gain the knowledge and skills tied to your chosen challenge topic. In the Build Phase (Ideathlon), you put that knowledge into action, developing a project aligned with the challenge theme. The final Compete Phase (Tech Hackathon) is where you showcase your solution in a competitive arena — and shine.
Developers, designers, marketers and business strategists — every skill set has a place. No gatekeeping, no prerequisites.
Connect with fellow hackers, mentors and founders from across the region. The friendships and teams you build here last way past the weekend.
Industry experts, mentors and partner companies bring actual problems from the real world. You ship actual solutions. No toy datasets, no fake clients.
Win cash, seed funding, and direct pipelines to accelerator programs, internships and jobs.
Whether you’re just discovering your talent or ready to launch, there’s a track built for your stage.
The Ideathlon sets the stage for exhilarating, innovative challenges across diverse domains — Web Development, Creative Design, AI, IoT, Game Development, FinTech, Sustainability and more. Designed for fresh starters and inspiring young minds, it combines themed workshops with a challenge-based mini-competition, guided by mentors through learning-by-doing. Exceptional projects are recognized, rewarded — and earn the chance to advance to Day 2: the Tech Hackathon.
The Tech Hackathon is a 24-hour sprint designed to turn ideas from concept to reality — an intensive design, coding and agile development challenge where aspiring entrepreneurs, developers, designers and makers pitch ideas, form teams, validate concepts and build business prototypes. Winning teams take home cash prizes, sponsor goodies, and fast-track entry to partner acceleration programs.
Each edition, our mentors and partners (challengers) bring interesting challenges, tasks and problems needed to be solved during the event sessions (workshops, challenges, and hackathon). Pick one, team up, challenge yourself and build a working prototype in 24-48 hours.
Explore the challenges and compete for prizes!
We divide them into two categories:
Each edition, our mentors and partners (challengers) bring interesting challenges, tasks and problems needed to be solved during the event sessions (workshops, challenges, and hackathon). Pick one, team up, challenge yourself and build a working prototype in 24-48 hours.
Each edition, our mentors and partners (challengers) bring interesting challenges, tasks and problems needed to be solved during the event sessions (workshops, challenges, and hackathon). Pick one, team up, challenge yourself and build a working prototype in 24-48 hours.
The Tasks and Challenges eligibility
Buy your ticket ahead of time. Get Together. Be there.
Ohrid Techathlon is a hackathon built to push young entrepreneurs toward real business ideas, not just code. Teams spend a weekend turning a rough concept into a working prototype, then pitch it to a jury of founders, engineers, and industry mentors. The event is organized to give participants a full cycle: idea, build, feedback, pitch.
The themes change every edition. This year, teams work on business and technology solutions in Web Development, Creative Design, AI, Blockchain, IoT, Game Development, FinTech, Sustainability and more. You still need to bring a feasible, original idea; the tech framework's angle and tech stacks just set the boundary for what you(can) build inside.
You learn by building, not by sitting through slides. You spend the weekend next to founders, engineers, and mentors who show up specifically to work with participants, and those conversations often turn into job offers, co-founder matches, or investor introductions. Your ticket also covers meals, snacks, and coffee for the full event, so the cost buys access, not just admission.
Ohrid Techathlon is open to anyone between 15 and 29 years old.
No. Ohrid Techathlon needs programmers, but it also needs designers, business strategists, and people who are simply good at solving problems. Mentors run workshops during the weekend so non-technical participants can contribute to a working prototype, including no-code tools that let you build without writing a line of code.
That's fine. Say so on your application or tell an organizer when you arrive. Ideas get pitched at the start of the event, and you're free to join whichever one interests you most.
No. You can apply solo. If you do, the organizers help match you with teammates during the kickoff session, once everyone's specialties are on the table.
Teams run up to 5 people. You don't have to declare your team before the event unless a specific challenge says otherwise.
Three ways work best. Talk to the mentors and tell them you're looking; they actively match solo participants. Bring friends or classmates who already share your interest. Or wait for the on-site team-building session that runs right after task details get announced, and build a team from people you just met.
Every specialty gets its own badge color. Marketing wears blue, programmers wear yellow, and so on through the rest of the disciplines. Check the badge before you ask who does what.
Yes, up until your team leader submits the project and presents the idea. Once voting rounds open, team details lock: no more changes to the team name, project name, members, or attachments.
Click Apply Now and fill out the short application. Applications get reviewed on a rolling basis, and you'll get a confirmation email with next steps once you're in.
Standard tickets run €24.99. Students pay €14.99. If you register early, you lock in the early bird rate of €19.99. Every tier includes food and drinks for the full weekend.
Other participants and/or guests (guests, companies, entrepreneur, startup founders, innovators, experts etc.) are also invited to join with a special price ticker starting from €24.99.
For more info about tickets and what is included (benefits and perks) please visit Tickets section.
Two reasons. Ticket revenue covers part of the organizing cost; sponsors cover the rest, but not all of it. A ticket price also filters for participants who are actually committed to showing up and building, while staying low enough that cost isn't a barrier.
If your question isn't covered here, reach out to the Ohrid Techathlon organizing team directly through the event's official contact channel.
Meet the experts who’ll be guiding participants at HackYeah — developers, analysts, AI and security specialists, UX/UI designers, tech leads, product and project managers, lawyers, academics, and entrepreneurs, all ready to share their knowledge and help turn bold ideas into finished projects. Say hello to this year’s Mentor lineup!
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. Beyond funding, they bring mentors, experts, and real-world challenges to the table, connecting bright minds with the industry problems that matter most. Together, we’re not just hosting an event — we’re building a community where innovation, technology, and business meet to shape the future.
A two-day innovation festival packed with engineering competitions, hands-on challenges, workshops and showcase moments — built for creators, dreamers and doers.
Location: UIST“St. Paul The Apostle” · Ohrid | Time: Autumn 2026
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