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The first edition is done. The region is next.

Adria Hack Sarajevo ran overnight from Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September 2026 at HTEC, with builders from across Europe and the wider EMEA region. Twelve teams shipped working projects and demoed them the next day. Here is what they built.

[01]First edition

Adria Hack Sarajevo, 2026.

First edition complete24-hour startup hackathon

BuilderBase × Adria Tech Arena

Adria Hack Sarajevo

The first Adria Tech Arena event. Twelve teams built through the night around three partner-backed tracks, and demoed to a room of partners and investors the next day.

Date
12–13 September 2026
Location
Sarajevo — hosted at HTEC
Podium
MediScribe · Quasr · AmopAI

Tracks

  • AI Infrastructure
  • HealthTech
  • Fintech
Get notified about the next edition
Builders seated on the tiered blue seating at HTEC Sarajevo, listening during the opening of Adria Hack Sarajevo.

Confirmed partners

Backing the first Sarajevo edition.

BuilderBase

Hosting platform

Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Azure

Cloud & API credits

MongoDB

Cloud & API credits

Google Cloud

Cloud & API credits

HTEC

Venue & mentorship

Infobip

Sponsor & mentorship

Prelint

Sponsor & credits

C&S Asset Management

Sponsor & talent

GDG Sarajevo — Google Developers GroupGDG Sarajevo

Community partner

BiscuitBiscuit

Technology partner

Bloomteq

Mentorship partner

Ministry of Programming

Mentorship partner

Zira Group

Supporting partner

qla.dev

Supporting partner

BH Futures Foundation

Community partner

LovableLovable

Supporting partner

Fondacija 787Fondacija 787

Supporting partner

BHBAN — Business Angels NetworkBHBAN

Supporting partner

[02]Launch timeline

How the arena rolls out.

A deliberate sequence, built step by step from Sarajevo. Each stage is announced only when it is real — and the first one has now happened.

  1. [01]

    Open

    Founding community opens

    Builders, mentors, and partners join the founding list.

  2. [02]

    Done · 12–13 Sep 2026

    First hackathon

    Adria Hack Sarajevo — twelve teams built around partner-backed tracks.

  3. [03]

    Next up

    Demo night

    Builders demo publicly to sponsors, investors, founders, and mentors.

  4. [04]

    Roadmap

    Regional city scouting

    The model expands city by city across the region.

[03]What participants build

Real products, not slide decks.

Twelve teams built across three partner-backed tracks — AI Infrastructure, HealthTech, Fintech — and demoed to partners and investors the next day. These three took the podium.

The two-person MediScribe team holding their first-place certificates after the Adria Hack Sarajevo final.

Certificate

First place

Awarded to

MediScribe

Listens to a consultation, transcribes it, and prepares a structured SOAP draft the clinician reviews and completes.

Demo video

12–13 September 2026 · Sarajevo

A member of the Quasr team holding the second-place certificate at the Adria Hack Sarajevo award ceremony.

Certificate

Second place

Awarded to

Quasr

One workspace for terminal agents on macOS: Codex, Claude Code, and plain terminals, organised into projects and views.

Live site

12–13 September 2026 · Sarajevo

The three-person AmopAI team holding their third-place certificates at the Adria Hack Sarajevo award ceremony.

Certificate

Third place

Awarded to

AmopAI

Upload a Keras model and the dataset it was trained on, and get three compressed variants back, each benchmarked against the original.

RepoDemo video

12–13 September 2026 · Sarajevo

What comes next

Sarajevo is set. The region is next.

The first edition is done. Join the founding community to hear about the next one before it opens.

Join the founding communityBecome a founding partner