HACKTOBERFEST Georgia 2026 recap

Winners

Who took it home

1. 1st place

   Polyphonia

   Team Polyphonia

2. 2nd place

   NETA, AI repair guide in your camera

   Team Hamburger

3. 3rd place

   accolai

   Team accolai

4. JetBrains licenses

   JamScript

   Team Grok 'n' Roll

5. JetBrains licenses

   Ctrl+Voice

   Team TUFFS

6. Theneo prize

   Private Learn

   Team K.O.

Tracks

What teams built for

• 01 Make it better
• 02 Multiplayer
• 03 Mobile native
• 04 Desktop native
• Solana Ideathon (Superteam side-track)

Speakers

Five talks on Saturday

Session 0113:00

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Avtandil Ushikishvili

Lead Software Engineer and Co-Founder @ Dotnet Georgia

Session 0214:00

Keeping Up with AI - How AI Products evolve alongside the industry

Anastasia Kvinikadze

Director of Engineering @ Impel

Session 0316:30

The Agentic World: Why and How the Industry Should Learn to Speak MCP

Sophia Shinjikashvili

Head of Engineering @ Theneo, ex-AI Engineering Lead @ Microsoft

Session 0417:30

34,282 Calls Later: What We Learned Building an AI Sales Agent

Anri Kezeroti

AI Engineering Team Lead @ Edumentors

Session 0518:30

The Classifier Strikes Back: Jev as a Decision Layer

Giorgi Duchidze

AI Engineer @ Impel