QNX Global Hackathon 2026 ($50,000 in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: December 15, 2026

Applications are open for the QNX Global Hackathon 2026. For many years, QNX has been working the programs folks guess their lives on, from medical gadgets and manufacturing facility flooring to trains, robots, and greater than 275 million automobiles. It ensures not simply that your code runs, however precisely when. Now QNX 8.0 is free for non-industrial use, and the QNX staff needs to see what you do with it when no one palms you a spec.

Build a robotic that reacts in microseconds as a substitute of milliseconds. Write the motive force no one has written but. Port one thing you like to QNX, or construct the tooling you all the time wished existed. If it runs on QNX 8.0, or helps another person construct for it, it counts. Pick your class and compete for a share of $50,000. Show what you are able to do!

Categories

• Robotics & Medical. Real-time purposes the place timing, security, or reliability is crucial.
• Automotive & Mobility. Software-defined car and different mobility purposes.
• Low-level Software. Board assist elements or system drivers constructed with the QNX Driver Development Kit.
• Developer Tooling & Host Tools. Tools that make constructing for QNX simpler, on the host or the goal.
• Open-Source Contribution & Ports. Porting an present open-supply challenge to QNX or contributing upstream to the QNX open-supply ecosystem.
  • Submit a brand new repository, created throughout the Submission Period, containing your porting or contribution work: the patches or porting layer, the QNX construct recordsdata, construct and run directions, and your documentation. Reference the upstream challenge by URL somewhat than copying its historical past into your submission. Do not submit a fork of the upstream challenge.

Prizes

• Get your palms on an actual-time OS, free. QNX Everywhere offers you QNX SDP 8.0, QNX Developer Desktop, and the QNX Hypervisor for non-industrial use, plus free coaching programs to get you transferring. No goal {hardware} required; QEMU works, and so does a Raspberry Pi 5.
• In 275 million automobiles. Now in your laptop computer. Not a educating version or a stripped-down trial. It’s the identical QNX that ships in industrial programs, and till QNX Everywhere, constructing on it meant a industrial license.
• Compete for $50,000 in prizes. Plus swag, a espresso chat with a QNX exec, and a characteristic on the QNX weblog and social channels.

Eligibility

The Hackathon IS open to:

• Individuals who’re not less than 18 years or older on the time of entry;
• Teams of Eligible Individuals; and
• Organizations (together with companies, not-for-revenue companies and different nonprofit organizations, restricted legal responsibility firms, partnerships, and different authorized entities) that exist and have been organized or integrated on the time of entry.

Application

Here are what to submit:

• A URL to your public code repository on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. It should include all supply code, property, and construct and run directions wanted to breed the challenge and should present that the challenge genuinely builds for or runs on QNX 8.0, not merely that QNX 8.0 is known as in the README.
  • The repository have to be public and open supply, with an open-supply license file detectable on the high of the repository web page (About part).
• A textual content description explaining the options and performance of your challenge.
• An illustration video, underneath three (3) minutes. It ought to present the challenge performing on the system it was constructed for, have to be uploaded to YouTube and made public, and should not embody third-get together logos or copyrighted music except you may have permission to make use of them. Judges should not required to observe past three minutes.
• Build and run directions specifying the QNX model, the goal ({hardware} or QEMU), and the toolchain used.
• One class, chosen on the submission kind.
• For Open-Source Contribution & Ports submissions:
  • The URL of the upstream challenge you ported or contributed to
  • The URL of your pull request, should you opened one
• If you’re getting into the Best Codelab / Tutorial bonus prize, the URL of your codelab in the designated discipline on the submission kind.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to QNX Global Hackathon.