AICON'26 is SEECS, NUST's AI hackathon — three ways to compete: Pitchfest, Competitive Speed Programming, and Build with AI. It runs October 9–11, 2026 at SEECS, NUST, Islamabad, in collaboration with GDGoC, ACM, NEC & NHC. See the modules for the full breakdown of each.
NUST — the National University of Sciences and Technology — is one of Pakistan's leading science and engineering universities. AICON'26 is hosted at its School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS).
Once your ambassador application is approved, you get a unique referral code. Share it with the teams you bring in — there's a field for it on the payment step of registration, so every team that enters it counts toward your tier automatically.
Every team you bring to register counts toward your tier, regardless of size — a solo Competitive Speed Programming entry counts the same as a full 5-person Pitchfest or Build with AI team.