Launching from Sarajevo. Built for the region.
The arena for the next generation of Adria builders.
Adria Tech Arena brings together ambitious engineers, founders, students, sponsors, mentors, investors, and startups through hackathons, demo nights, fellowships, and partner-backed innovation programs across the region.
First programs start in Sarajevo. Regional expansion follows city by city.
First city: Sarajevo. Next: Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Skopje, Podgorica. Now accepting builders, mentors, partners, and founding supporters.
[01]What we are building
Not another event. A regional operating system for builders.
The region has talent. What it needs is structure, visibility, and access. Adria Tech Arena is designed to connect high-potential builders with the people and organizations that can help them build faster: mentors, sponsors, startups, universities, companies, and international partners.
[01]
Build
Curated hackathons and challenge tracks where teams build real projects, not slide decks.
[02]
Demo
Demo nights and project showcases that put builders in front of companies, founders, mentors, and future backers.
[03]
Scale
Fellowships, regional chapters, investor access, and partner programs that keep momentum going after the event ends.
[02]Platform
More than hackathons.
Hackathons are the starting point. The long-term goal is a full regional platform for talent, startups, partners, and city-level tech communities.
[03]Why now
The Adria region does not lack talent. It lacks connective tissue.
Builders across the region are learning, shipping, founding, and experimenting, but too many of them are isolated from sponsors, mentors, investors, companies, and each other. Adria Tech Arena exists to make that network visible and useful.
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Companies need better access to young technical talent.
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Students need real projects, mentors, and visibility.
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Startups need builders, early users, and community.
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The region needs more founder energy, not only conference panels.
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Sponsors need measurable ecosystem impact, not just logos on posters.
[04]First stop
Sarajevo starts the arena.
The first Adria Tech Arena programs launch from Sarajevo: a founding builder community, partner-backed events, and the first Adria Hack edition. From there, the model expands across the region.
[05]Regional by design
One platform. Multiple cities. One builder network.
The first events happen locally. The network compounds regionally. And the region is only the start — the arena is built to expand across Europe and launch its builders onto the world stage.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo
The first Adria Tech Arena programs launch from Sarajevo: a founding builder community, partner-backed events, and the first Adria Hack edition.
[06]For partners
Back the builders before everyone else notices them.
Adria Tech Arena gives companies, cloud platforms, universities, banks, telecoms, startups, and ecosystem partners a direct way to support and meet high-potential regional talent.
Talent access
Meet selected builders, engineers, students, and early founders.
Brand visibility
Show up as a real supporter of the next generation of regional tech.
Challenge tracks
Bring real problems and let teams build around them.
Impact reporting
Receive a post-event report with participants, projects, photos, outcomes, and visibility.
Sponsorship can include cash, venue, food, prizes, API credits, mentors, speakers, or media support.
[07]For builders
Build with people who are actually serious.
Join a curated regional community where you can meet technical teammates, build real projects, demo publicly, learn from mentors, and get on the radar of the companies, startups, and investors who can back what you build.
Find teammates
Build real projects
Meet mentors and investors
Demo to partners and backers
Find a path to funding
Join future regional chapters
[08]First format
What an Adria Hack looks like.
[01]
Apply
Builders apply individually or with teams. We curate for quality, motivation, and mix of skills.
[02]
Meet
Participants meet mentors, partners, challenge owners, and other builders.
[03]
Build
Teams work through a focused sprint with technical support, workshops, and office hours.
[04]
Demo
Finalists present to judges, sponsors, investors, founders, and the community.
[05]
Continue
Strong projects get visibility, follow-up, partner and investor introductions, and demo-night opportunities.
The arena is forming
The arena is forming now.
Whether you want to build, sponsor, mentor, volunteer, or bring Adria Tech Arena to your city, this is the moment to join early.