--- title: Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon: Meet the Jury, and What You... description: The Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon has published its jury and prizes. Judges include MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, MCP lead maintainer Den Delimarsky, Hugging... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/symfony-ai-mcp-hackathon-meet-the-jury-and-what-you-can-win-symfony-blog--d6b48uxrs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon: Meet the Jury, and What You Can Win (Symfony Blog) | daily.dev og:description: The Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon has published its jury and prizes. 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Judges include MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, MCP lead maintainer Den Delimarsky, Hugging Face ML engineer Nico Martin, and PHP Foundation board member Brent Roose. Top prizes include a Robot Dog Bittle, a SymfonyCon 2027 VIP ticket or certification voucher, a LEGO Retro Radio set, and a Smart Pixel Clock. The top three teams also get a one-year JetBrains All Products Pack license, and every participant can claim $20 of Hugging Face Inference Providers credits. Submissions require a public repository and a 90-second video, due 22 November 2026 at 18:00 CET, with winners announced at SymfonyCon Warsaw on 26-27 November. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When is the deadline for the Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon submissions? Submissions close on 22 November 2026 at 18:00 CET. Entrants must submit a public repository that can be cloned and run, plus a 90-second video demonstrating the project, and can keep editing until the deadline. Winners are announced on stage at SymfonyCon Warsaw on 26-27 November. _Developers tracking PHP and MCP tooling events can follow hackathon news like this on daily.dev._ ### Who is judging the Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon? The jury includes David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky, MCP's co-creator and lead maintainer and Members of Technical Staff at Anthropic, Nico Martin, a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face and Google Developer Expert, and Brent Roose, a board member at The PHP Foundation and Developer Advocate for PHP at JetBrains. Judges will clone and run submitted repositories, not just watch demo videos. _Anyone weighing whether to enter an AI or PHP hackathon can keep up with judge lineups like this on daily.dev._ ### What prizes can you win in the Symfony AI & MCP Hackathon? The top four teams win a Robot Dog Bittle programmable robot pet, a SymfonyCon 2027 VIP ticket or Symfony certification voucher, a LEGO Icons Retro Radio set (#10334), and a Smart Pixel Clock with a Sulu hoodie and backpack. The top three teams each also receive a one-year JetBrains All Products Pack license, and every participant gets $20 of Hugging Face Inference Providers credits. _Developers deciding whether a hackathon prize pool is worth the time can compare details like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Symfony AI 1.0.0-BETA1 \+ AI & MCP Hackathon \(Symfony Blog\)](https://daily.dev/posts/symfony-ai-1-0-0-beta1-ai-mcp-hackathon-symfony-blog--ol1ahvb6e) · Symfony · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026: Developing the developer: Journaling with AI \(Symfony Blog\)](https://daily.dev/posts/symfonycon-warsaw-2026-developing-the-developer-journaling-with-ai-symfony-blog--alahbio0s) · Symfony · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine\! $2,850 in Prizes Across 21 Winners.](https://daily.dev/posts/join-the-hacktoberfest-open-source-ai-challenge-ghost-in-the-machine-2-850-in-prizes-across-21-wi-otpm3pwig) · DEV · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [SymfonyOnline June 2026: Symfony Mate: Real Runtime Context for AI Coding Assistants \(Symfony Blog\)](https://daily.dev/posts/symfonyonline-june-2026-symfony-mate-real-runtime-context-for-ai-coding-assistants-symfony-blog--8lte7be51) · Symfony · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#symfony](https://daily.dev/tags/symfony), [#hackathon](https://daily.dev/tags/hackathon) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/symfony-ai-mcp-hackathon-meet-the-jury-and-what-you-can-win-symfony-blog--d6b48uxrs) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Symfony AI \u0026 MCP Hackathon: Meet the Jury, and What You Can Win (Symfony Blog)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/symfony-ai-mcp-hackathon-meet-the-jury-and-what-you-can-win-symfony-blog--d6b48uxrs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/symfony-ai-mcp-hackathon-meet-the-jury-and-what-you-can-win-symfony-blog--d6b48uxrs"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T10:38:12.811Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T10:38:41.187Z","description":"The Symfony AI \u0026 MCP Hackathon has published its jury and prizes. 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