UWU Hackathon 2026
A 24-hour build sprint hosted by the Computer Society: form a team, ship a prototype, pitch to judges.
- DATE
- 24 OCT
- TIME
- 09:00 · 24 HOURS
- VENUE
- In personFaculty of Applied Sciences
- HOSTED BY
- Computer Society
- REGISTRATION
- Register as ParticipantJoin Organising Committee
Collaboration
SLASSCOM
External organisationSri Lanka's ICT industry association, connecting student builders with mentors, showcase opportunities and the wider technology sector.
Sponsored by
Gallery
Illustrative frames standing in until the event's own photographs arrive.
Feedback
What attendees said after earlier sessions.
“We arrived with an idea on paper and left with a prototype the judges actually used. The format is intense, but the mentors kept us honest about scope.”
“Forming a team on the spot turned out to be the best part — we shipped with people we had never met before.”
Speaker
Who is on the platform, and what they bring to it.
Eng. Kasun Perera
Software architect and IEEE volunteer
Kasun has spent a decade shipping distributed systems and mentoring student teams through their first hackathons. He opens the sprint with a walk-through of scoping a build a team can actually finish in twenty-four hours.
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