Luotea Hackathon 2026

Predictive Maintenance & Smarter Building Operations

Luotea Hackathon 2026 brings together curious minds, real building data, and practical challenges from the real-estate industry. Over one intensive weekend, participants will explore how AI, analytics, and data-driven thinking can be used to make buildings smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Join the Luotea Hackathon to solve real-life challenges, demonstrate your skills, and share your ideas with us. Through this hackathon, we want to get to know the next generation of talent: students, startups, and emerging experts who are ready to shape the future of the built environment and who may one day find their place at Luotea.

📍 Maria 01, Helsinki
🗓 5–7 June 2026
🌍 Hybrid event (on-site recommended)
🗣 Language: English

Kickoff event recording

See the recording of the kickoff event to find out about the Hackathon challenge and other practicalities related the official event.

About the challenge

At the heart of the hackathon is a real-world challenge: how can predictive maintenance and smarter building operations improve performance, usability, and long-term value of properties?

Participants will work with real operational and building-related data to develop solutions that may address topics such as proactive maintenance, optimized building operations, improved indoor conditions, better space utilization, or enhanced rentability. The challenge is intentionally open-ended. Not all data will be provided upfront, and teams are expected to explore, question, and design their own approaches — whether that results in a prototype, analysis, concept, or business model.

Who can participate?

The hackathon is open to students, early-stage startups, independent innovators, and multidisciplinary teams. Participants may come from backgrounds such as technology, data science, engineering, design, business, sustainability, or real estate — but no specific profile is required.

What matters most is curiosity and interest in solving real problems with data. Diverse teams and perspectives are strongly encouraged.

Why join?

By joining the Luotea Hackathon, participants gain hands-on experience working with real industry data and concrete challenges from the built environment. Throughout the weekend, teams will be supported by expert mentors and industry specialists who provide sparring on technical, business, and conceptual questions.

The event is also an opportunity to learn new skills, test ideas in practice, and build meaningful connections with companies, researchers, and fellow innovators. The best solutions will be rewarded with a cash prize, with details announced closer to the event.

Support and mentoring

Participants are not expected to work alone. Expert mentors will be available both on-site and remotely throughout the hackathon. Teams will also receive pre-event materials and datasets to help them prepare and hit the ground running once the event begins.

Practical information

📍 Maria 01, Helsinki
🗓 5–7 June 2026
🌍 Hybrid event
🗣 Language: English

Organizers and partners

The hackathon is organized by Luotea Oyj in collaboration with KIRAHub, Tampere University, and a major commercial real-estate industry partner, which will be announced at a later stage.