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October 09, 2026
•Jesse LandryJesse Landry

Cyberdefense Hackathon Turns AI's Expanding Attack Surface Into a Builder Problem

AI is changing the economics of attacking a system before most organizations have changed the economics of defending one. Vulnerabilities can be discovered faster, techniques can be automated, and a capable system can reach beyond the environment where its creators expected it to remain.

The Cyberdefense Hackathon is bringing developers, security engineers, machine-learning and AI engineers, infrastructure specialists, and agent builders together for a full day in San Francisco's Financial District. Tokens& is the listed host. The work is organized around threat discovery, attack intelligence, autonomous remediation, and continuous defense.

Those categories form a connected loop. Discovery without context produces another queue. Intelligence without response leaves the organization watching the attack form. Automated remediation without verification can create a second failure while attempting to correct the first. Continuous defense has to connect the pieces without making human accountability vanish inside the speed of the system.

A hackathon cannot resolve the security model for increasingly capable AI. It can expose which defensive tasks builders now believe machines can carry, which ones still need a person in the loop, and where the next attack path is already forcing the architecture to change.

Event details

  • Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
  • Time: 09:30-19:30 PT
  • Location: FiDi (SF), San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  • Format: Hackathon
  • Host: tokens&
  • Registration: Official SF Tech Week event page

Registration status, capacity, meeting details, and program information can change. Use the official event page for the latest organizer updates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is hosting the Cyberdefense Hackathon?

Tokens& is the host listed by the official Tech Week calendar.

Who should participate?

The organizer invites developers, security engineers, ML and AI engineers, infrastructure engineers, and agent builders.

What are the challenge areas?

The listing identifies threat discovery, attack intelligence, autonomous remediation, and continuous defense.

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