--- title: "London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups" url: https://daily.dev/posts/london-s-first-defense-tech-hackathon-brings-ukraine-war-closer-to-the-city-s-startups-sftubd5n8 source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/londons-first-defense-tech-hackathon-brings-ukraine-war-closer-to-the-citys-startups/ type: article source: "TechCrunch" published: 2024-04-28T10:48:42.840Z updated: 2025-09-06T02:43:14.068Z tags: ["defense-tech", "hackathon"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary London's first defense tech hackathon brought together civilian programmers, the military, and tech investors to foster innovation in defense technology, with a focus on drones and electronic warfare. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#defense-tech](https://daily.dev/tags/defense-tech), [#hackathon](https://daily.dev/tags/hackathon) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/london-s-first-defense-tech-hackathon-brings-ukraine-war-closer-to-the-city-s-startups-sftubd5n8)