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HackAI Morocco 2026

🤝 Contributions Welcome!

We welcome contributions from the community! Whether it's fixing bugs, adding new notebooks, or improving documentation, every contribution helps make this project better.

About

HackAI Morocco is a 4-day AI hackathon that brings together students from across Morocco for an unforgettable experience filled with innovation, challenges, and learning. This unique event combines technical excellence with creative problem-solving in the field of artificial intelligence.

Event Details

  • Date: May 14-17, 2026
  • Location: Morocco
  • Duration: 4 Days
  • Format: In-person hackathon

Key Highlights

  • AI Conference with industry experts
  • Hands-on hacking sessions
  • Networking opportunities
  • Mentorship from AI professionals
  • Roadmap covering the most in-demand GenAI skills

Prizes

🥇 1st Place — ~3K USD Prize Value

  • 1,000 USD Cash Prize
  • 1,000 USD in Adaption Credits
  • 10,000 MAD

🥈 2nd Place — ~2.5K USD Prize Value

  • 750 USD Cash Prize
  • 750 USD in Adaption Credits
  • 10,000 MAD

🥉 3rd Place — ~2K USD Prize Value

  • 500 USD Cash Prize
  • 500 USD in Adaption Credits
  • 10,000 MAD

Sponsors

Sponsor Description
1337 Coding School Our host, our home. Part of the global 42 Network, 1337 is building a generation of highly autonomous engineers and contributors to global tech ecosystems.
Adaption Adaptive AI systems firm that evolves alongside changing real-world conditions. Making AI systems more resilient, efficient, and scalable.
NORMA Autonomous AI agents firm capable of handling voice calls, bookings, and customer support interactions with remarkable efficiency.
ai71 Enterprise-grade AI products and strategic advisory solutions firm creating measurable real-world impact for governments and businesses.
Talentys A global center of excellence for OpenMetadata and Cloudera technologies, transforming data into a strategic asset for innovation and decision-making.
ElevenLabs One of the leading AI audio research and deployment companies in the world, transforming human-computer interaction through advanced voice AI technologies.
Hugging Face The world's most influential AI communities and open-source AI companies.
UM6P College of Computing A leading institution in CS research in Africa with cutting-edge research, advanced computational infrastructure, and strong industry collaboration.
4hacks An AI-powered infrastructure layer designed to streamline the lifecycle behind large-scale hackathons and tech events.

Hackathon Challenges

Available Notebooks

The roadmap covers the following challenges. Each notebook is self-contained and ready to run.

Category Challenge Description Notebook
📊 Data Processing & Analysis Data Curation Clean and process Moroccan Arabic (Darija) tweet datasets Open In Colab
Web Scraping Create efficient data collection pipelines using BeautifulSoup4 Open In Colab
Synthetic Data Generation Generate synthetic data with prompt engineering techniques Open In Colab
Language Identification Build Darija language identification systems using FastText Open In Colab
🏋️ LLM Training Continued Pretraining Continue pretraining an LLM to adapt it to Darija Open In Colab
SFT LoRA/QLoRA Fine-tune models using LoRA and QLoRA Open In Colab
Transfer Learning Apply transfer learning for bot detection from mouse movement data Open In Colab
Transformer Basics Build a transformer from scratch trained on Arabic poetry Open In Colab
Federated Learning Implement federated learning for privacy-preserving training Open In Colab
🚀 Deployment & Inference Model Quantization Quantize models using AWQ, GPTQ, and GGUF Open In Colab
vLLM / Modal Deploy models using vLLM on Modal Open In Colab
🤖 AI Agents LLM Agents Build LLM agents with tools, memory, and function calling Open In Colab
MCP Build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from scratch Open In Colab
🔄 Alignment DPO / PPO / ORPO Align language models using preference optimization Open In Colab
🧠 Reasoning GRPO for Math Train reasoning models using GRPO with verifiable rewards on Darija math Open In Colab
🎤 Speech Recognition ASR Usage Automatic speech recognition with Wav2Vec2 and Whisper Open In Colab
ASR Fine-tuning Fine-tune Qwen3-ASR for Moroccan Darija Open In Colab
Forced Alignment Word-level forced alignment for audio-transcript synchronization Open In Colab
🗣️ Text-to-Speech TTS Text-to-speech implementation Open In Colab
📊 Embedding & RAG Embedding Fine-tuning Fine-tune embedding models for Darija Open In Colab
MLM Pretraining Pretrain BERT using Masked Language Modeling Open In Colab
RAG Pipeline Build a full retrieval-augmented generation pipeline Open In Colab
👁️ Vision Language Models VLM Usage Use vision language models for image understanding Open In Colab
VLM Fine-tuning Fine-tune Qwen2.5-VL for Darija visual question answering Open In Colab
🛡️ Evaluation & Safety Eval & Red-Teaming Evaluate LLM safety through red-teaming and benchmarking Open In Colab
Dataset Evaluation Evaluate synthetic data quality using Adaption Labs Open In Colab

Speakers

  1. "The Future Is Intelligent; But Is It Wise?" — a 1h Workshop by Hiba Asri. Pr. Asri, an Associate Professor at University Cadi Ayyad and a recognized expert in AI, will lead an interactive workshop where she challenges future engineers to reflect on ethical innovation and human-centric design in an increasingly automated world.

  2. "The AI Space Hidden Reality" — a 30 min Keynote by Abderrahman Jaize. Abderrahman Jaize, CTO at Regulaitor.ai, will pull back the curtain on the unseen forces shaping the AI landscape. His keynote will delve into the world of AI agents and the invisible human workforce that powers this technological revolution.

  3. "The Ontology of Life" — a 15 min Reflection by Mustapha Fonsau. Mustapha Fonsau, CIO at Talentys and a leader in Data Strategy and Governance, will share profound recommendations based on his extensive AI experience.

Mentors

Our team of experienced mentors includes professionals from:

  • Google
  • Hugging Face
  • Sigma Nova
  • Impactera
  • ToumAI Analytics
  • DFKI
  • MP DATA
  • CRSA
  • AI Exploration LAB
  • ATLASIA
  • Clear Global
  • And more...

Organizers

The event is organized by a dedicated team of students and professionals from 1337AI and friends

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the sponsors and partners who made this event possible, and the mentors who spent days iterating on the notebooks to make them fun and engaging for the participants:

Contact

For any inquiries, please reach out to us through LinkedIn or email us at contact@1337ai.org

With ❤️ from 1337AI and friends