SOFTSWISS brought together 34 teams from across the company for its AI Hackathon 2026, a 46‑hour challenge dedicated to creating real‑world AI tools.
The event featured a €25,000 prize pool for the winning teams, with participants joining from 21 countries – from Brazil to Vietnam – supported by 13 mentors and 8 technical advisors.
For the first time in SOFTSWISS hackathon history, two teams shared first place. One first-place solution captures early business signals and converts them into qualified sales leads, while the other provides an end-to-end mechanism for managing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 2.0. Each team received €7,000.
Second place went to a team whose AI-powered casino constructor generates colours, visuals and content to accelerate casino setup. Third went to the team that came up with the gamification concept built around city construction mechanics.
The AI Hachaton also included a solo participation track. The winner presented a proof of concept of an AI-powered tool for reviewing payment service provider (PSP) integration documentation. A special mention went to a solution for monitoring branded search results across priority markets.
Denis Romanovskiy, Chief AI Officer at SOFTSWISS, said: “This AI Hackathon proved one more time that real results can be achieved with AI. With roughly 70% of submitted projects assessed as potentially viable, SOFTSWISS will track all initiatives for structured follow-up. This result shows that non-technical teams can develop tools with clear potential for the product pipeline.”
SOFTSWISS will next bring that same focus on technology and AI to Tech Race Summit 2026, its debut cross-industry high-load technology conference taking place on 10 September in Warsaw, Poland. The event will bring together engineers, technology executives, infrastructure specialists, and product teams to discuss AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and digital product development.
The programme already includes speakers and contributors from Google, AWS, Oracle, Cloudflare, Fastly, Gcore, ScyllaDB, and others, with Andrey Doronichev – former Google executive and founder of AI startup Optic – confirmed as the first keynote speaker. The organisers expect around 1,000 attendees from across the technology and business sectors.
