Worldwide AI Hackathon is a flagship event co-hosted by Wow AI and Transatlantic AI eXchange on behalf of the WowDAO (the 1st decentralized autonomous organization for the AI community) in which talented teams of students from top universities, developers, AI enthusiasts from global corporations as well as early-stage AI startups to compete in challenges designed by top AI thought-leaders who are AI executives from more than 30 tech giants and large corporations, including Google, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Mastercard, Samsung, Oxford Brookes, Stanford, Deloitte, Accenture, Apple, Siemens, AstraZeneca, Meta and many others. Our mission is to empower AI talents by challenging them to solve the toughest problems and motivate them to turn their ideas into complete products and commercialize them.

This hackathon is the 1st step to kick off the WowDAO (now in early development). WowDAO is a blockchain-based ecosystem that supports the entire process of AI inventions, from innovation to funding to commercialization as digital ownership certificates, known as IP-NFTs, for intellectual property. With WowDAO, anyone can easily innovate, protect, and share their AI inventions in a secure and transparent manner.

WowDAO’s mission is to democratize AI. WowDAO doesn’t belong to any single centralized entity, it belongs to the whole AI community. Everyone has a voice in shaping the future of the DAO ecosystem and receive profits sharing.

Top winners from the hackathon can raise funds from the DAO to improve their outputs and get access to all of other benefits from the whole DAO ecosystem.