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Ongoing programme
Connects real problems in Czech oncology with AI specialists, tech companies and startups through six steps: challenge, match, build, incubate, validate, scale. Rakathon was its national hackathon. Next comes a CancerTech Track at the Caelestinus incubator in 2027.
Upcoming · 26 Nov 2026
“Ještě než začneme hackovat”: before we start hacking. A strategy is only the start; now it has to reach patients. The Minister of Health presents the new strategy for AI in Czech healthcare, and the conference asks what has to follow for it to become better-run hospitals, better research and real benefit for patients.
Upcoming · 27–29 Nov 2026
A national health hackathon with challenges set by hospitals, mentors from medicine and software, and free entry. After two editions at Masaryk University, the 2026 edition runs at St. Anne’s University Hospital (FN u sv. Anny).
Past · 16–18 Oct 2026
Launched in April 2025 with FN Motol and the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University as the first Czech hackathon devoted entirely to oncology. In October 2026 it ran in three cities at once, with 24 challenges, VZP ČR as main partner and WHO patronage.
Visit rakathon.czNext batch · Mar 2027
A free, fully virtual three-month incubator for digital health and FHIR interoperability startups, powered by InterSystems, with IKEM among its partners. “Build a startup for hearts to beat longer.”
Visit caelestinus.tech“Hackathons for problems worth solving.” More than 30 international events on four continents, starting with the International Smart Mobility Hackathon in Prague in 2017, hosted with Škoda Auto at its DigiLab.
Visit ceehacks.comCan a robot write a theatre play? “AI: When a Robot Writes a Play” premiered online on 26 February 2021, a century after Čapek’s R.U.R. gave the world the word robot, and went on to the stage of Švandovo divadlo. Led by Charles University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
Visit theaitre.comA satirical play by the independent ensemble Ductus Deferens about a city that slides into fear and control after a power outage. A stress test of the infrastructure we take for granted. Premiered on 7 March 2026.
Visit blackout-prague.czVěda o selhání: an interdisciplinary look at human mistakes and setbacks by Tomáš Studeník and Josef Hynek. Books, lectures, workshops and mentoring, taught in the USA, Switzerland and, since 2021, the Czech Republic.
Visit vedaoselhani.czEvery format starts with a real problem and the people who own it. We bring the builders, the data, the mentors and the partners. We judge by what can live on after the event.
30+ events · 4 continents
A real problem, the people who own it and a weekend to build. We write the challenges, open the data, bring the mentors and judge for what can survive Monday.
Proof: CEE Hacks, Rakathon, Hack jak Brno
Goal: 10 startups in 10 years
When one weekend is not enough, the hackathon becomes a pipeline that runs for years.
Proof: CNCR.tech
Free · virtual · 3 months
Built around one sector and one standard, with a corporate partner who knows it from the inside: digital health and FHIR with InterSystems.
Proof: Caelestinus
Švandovo divadlo · Peškovka
Technology on stage, where a society rehearses its future before it has to live it. From the first AI-written play to a city without electricity.
Proof: THEaiTRE, Blackout Prague
Books · lectures · mentoring
Failure treated as a discipline: case studies from careers, business, art and sport, for individuals and organisations that want to learn faster than they break.
Proof: Science of Failure
Curated press, radio, TV and podcasts
Partners across our projects.
Does your organisation have one? Big or small, let us know. We’ll gather the people, data and partners to restart it as a hackathon, a programme, an incubator or something more insane.
