$10,000 QNX Global Hackathon

QNX, the BlackBerry company whose real-time operating system runs in medical devices, factories, trains, robots and more than 275 million vehicles, is running an online global hackathon on Devpost. Entrants build a working project that runs on or targets QNX 8.0, which is now free for non-commercial use through QNX Everywhere, and compete in one of five categories for a share of $50,000 USD in cash prizes.

What you get:

• Grand Prize: $10,000 USD, a Code the Future podcast episode and a coffee chat with QNX CEO John Wall
• Best in each of five categories: $4,000 USD each plus a coffee chat with a QNX senior executive
• Runner-up in each of five categories: $2,000 USD each
• Three Honorable Mentions at $1,000 USD each
• Two bonus prizes at $3,500 USD each: Best Codelab or Tutorial, and Best use of QNX-specific Technologies
• Community Choice: a feature on the QNX blog and social channels plus QNX swag
• Free access to QNX SDP 8.0, QNX Developer Desktop, the QNX Hypervisor and free training courses for non-commercial use

What you'll do:

• Build an application, driver, library or component that runs on QNX 8.0 (QEMU or a Raspberry Pi 5 is enough), or a host tool that supports building for QNX 8.0

• Individuals aged 18 or over at the time of entry, teams of eligible individuals, or legally organised organisations
• Not open to residents of, or organisations domiciled in, places where US or local law prohibits participating or receiving a prize, including Brazil, Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and any other country comprehensively sanctioned by US OFAC
• Sponsor and Devpost employees, judges and their families are not eligible
• Projects must be newly created between November 2 and December 15, 2026, or significantly updated during that period
• The repository must be public and open source with a visible licence file, and must genuinely build for or run on QNX 8.0
• Submissions in English, or with an English translation