From signals to understanding — a 3-hour sprint to make complex brain imaging data accessible, interpretable, and actionable.
Neurological and mental health conditions are among the most widespread and least solved problems in medicine. As populations age and daily life grows more cognitively demanding, the burden on patients, families, healthcare systems, and economies continues to grow.
CNS drug development has one of the highest failure rates in medicine. It is not for lack of data. Brain research generates vast volumes of imaging, spatial, and molecular information. The problem is that most of it stays locked in specialist pipelines, inaccessible to the people who could act on it. The science is ready. The tooling isn't.
Brain health is moving up the political and economic agenda across Europe. The first European Brain Economy Summit convenes in Brussels on 5 May, bringing together policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders around a shared premise: that cognitive capacity is infrastructure, and that investing in it is a strategic, not just a medical, choice.
Progress on these problems requires people from very different fields to actually work together, not just talk past each other at conferences. AI tools like Claude Code are lowering the barrier to building functional prototypes fast. This hackathon brings STEM professionals together around a shared problem and a few hours to explore it.
Simple by design. Vibraint presents a real challenge with real data. Teams form across disciplines and build for 90 minutes. Then every team demos a working prototype. No slides, just what you made.
| 16:00 | Doors open, settle in |
| 16:05 | Welcome: Jacob & Diana |
| 16:10 | Challenges presented: Johanna & Alicia |
| 16:25 | Teams form and build, 90 minutes |
| 17:55 | Demos, 3 min per team |
| 18:20 | Judging and wrap-up |
| 18:40 | Networking |
| 19:00 | Close |
This event brings together people who rarely work in the same room: biologists, data scientists, software engineers, and product people. The challenge is real, the data is real, and the teams are deliberately cross-functional.
Runs the Claude Code Community Copenhagen and Applied Futures. Brings community framing and product strategy to the event.
Co-host from the Claude Code Community and Danish Data Science Community, connecting the data science and AI builder communities in Copenhagen.
Co-founder and CTO of Vibraint, responsible for the technical foundation of the platform. Guides the vision of the challenges, bringing deep expertise in whole-brain imaging and computational neuroscience.
Staff Scientist in AI and computational imaging at the Danish Cancer Institute. Frames the challenge from a data science and AI perspective and supports teams during the build.
Open to all. No neuroscience background required. You bring biology, mathematics, engineering, data science, software, or product thinking, there is a role for all of it.
Workbar, Community Stage · Mesh Matrikel1 · Copenhagen
Wednesday May 20th, 2026 · Doors 16:00 · Close 19:00
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