MACHINA SummitSunday 4 July 2027By invitation

MACHINA FACTORY

Technical. Trusted. Top of the Stack.

MACHINA FACTORY is a one-day, invite-only Physical AI engineering event where the most serious builders ship real products against real infrastructure challenges, in front of the investors, and enterprises that will fund and deploy them.

About MACHINA FACTORY

This is the venue where technical credibility is built and talent pipelines start.

MACHINA FACTORY brings together the highest-calibre Physical AI engineers and tech builders for one intensive day of building. No tutorials. No pitch competitions. Pure product: built live, judged by practitioners, and seen by the people who matter.

Partner brands don’t sponsor the room. They own a track inside it: setting the challenge, running the workshop, judging the outputs, and walking away with a direct relationship with the builders who solved their hardest problems.

RAISE Summit Hackathon 2026

At RAISE last year, this is what we delivered

RAISE Summit Hackathon 2026: the data speaks for itself.

Total MVPs shipped: 144
Total participants & applications: 1,900+
Active founders in the room: 40%
Core engineering / ML / research roles: 71.79%
Big Tech backgrounds: 2.94%
Top-tier academic institutions (Stanford, Harvard, Oxford): 42
Premier technical universities (MIT, Berkeley): 19
Average participant age: 25.69 years

Where they work

Startups37.28%
Enterprise19.40%
School / university18.77%
Big Tech3.20%
Academia4.63%

Top skills (self-declared + code-analysed)

NLP168
REST API design162
Async programming155
Data visualisation126
Prompt engineering79
RAG51

Dominant tooling across codebases

React566
Next.js350
FastAPI350
Pandas257
NumPy240
PyTorchOutpacing TensorFlow 5x128

AI API integrations

OpenAI API117
Anthropic Claude API38
Google Gemini API31

These are not hobbyist builders. They are the engineers your customers will hire next year.

Partner packages

Three ways to put your product at the centre of the build.

Headliner

Technical. Trusted. Top of the Stack.

One Headliner Partner per MACHINA FACTORY. Your brand puts its product in front of up to 200 developers, opens the day with your keynote, runs your own workshop and judges the final presentations, with your name on every badge, lanyard and wall.

Digital & pre-event

Title branding: “MACHINA FACTORY powered by [Your brand]”
4-month online presence through MACHINA socials
Dedicated MACHINA FACTORY web page powered by your brand
10-minute opening keynote at MACHINA FACTORY
Cocktail hour at close of event with engineers and partners

On-site format

Up to 200 developers building on your track
Online pre-event workshop
30-minute on-site workshop
40-minute panel slot at MACHINA FACTORY
40-minute panel slot at MACHINA on the MACHINA FACTORY
Full Jury panel by your team

Branding on-site

Co-branded badge, lanyard and bracelet
Co-branded sponsor wall, roll-up and mentor station
Co-branded registration desk

Track

Direct. Developer-Led. Defined.

Own a track at MACHINA FACTORY. Your brand puts its product in front of up to 50 developers, opens with your keynote, runs your own workshop and judges the final presentations, with your name on the track page and across all on-site spaces.

Digital & pre-event

Title branding: “MACHINA FACTORY track powered by [Your brand]”
4-month online presence through MACHINA socials
Your track on the MACHINA FACTORY web page
10-minute opening keynote at MACHINA FACTORY

On-site format

Up to 50 developers building on your track
Online pre-event workshop
30-minute on-site workshop
Place on the full jury panel for final presentations
40-minute panel slot at MACHINA FACTORY

Branding on-site

Co-branded sponsor wall and roll-up
Co-branded registration desk
Co-branded mentor station

Bonus Prize Partner

Rewarding. Visible. Hands-On.

Put your name on a prize at MACHINA FACTORY. Your brand backs a bonus prize, offers its tech stack to developers on-site and runs a 20-minute workshop, with a presence on the MACHINA FACTORY page and across all on-site spaces.

Digital & pre-event

Bonus prize sponsored by your brand
1-month online presence through MACHINA socials
Your bonus prize on the MACHINA FACTORY web page

On-site format

Tech stack offered to developers on-site (non-exclusive)
20-minute on-site workshop

Branding on-site

Co-branded sponsor wall and roll-up
Co-branded mentor station

Why partner with MACHINA FACTORY

MACHINA FACTORY is not a demo day or a pitch competition.

It is a working engineering environment, and partnering means your product is the infrastructure the room is building on.

Elite developer access
As proven at RAISE: 71.79% of participants work in core engineering, ML or research. 40% are active founders or co-founders. These are the people who evaluate tools, choose tech stacks, and influence enterprise purchasing decisions.
Founders in the room
40% of the cohort are active founders or co-founders. MACHINA FACTORY puts your brand directly in front of the next wave of AI companies at the exact moment they are making their first infrastructure choices.
Academic and institutional depth
Attendees from Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, MIT and Berkeley, paired with participants averaging under 26 years of age and 37.81% holding or pursuing a postgraduate degree. The talent density is extraordinary.
You own the track
Your challenge. Your workshop. Your jury seat. The Headliner and Track packages give you end-to-end creative control over how your product is presented, tested and remembered.
Proof of delivery
At RAISE 2026: 1,900+ participants & applications, 144 MVPs shipped, PyTorch dominant by 5x, Anthropic Claude API integrated in dozens of projects. The cohort arrives ready to build and leaves having shipped.

All figures are from RAISE Summit Hackathon 2026.

Partner with MACHINA FACTORY

Ready to put your product at the centre of the build?

MACHINA FACTORY has one Headliner slot. Track and Bonus Prize positions are limited. Contact the team to discuss the right package for your objectives and reserve your place.

Get on the list

Be considered

Places aren’t applied for, they’re offered. Get on the list and we’ll be in touch when selection begins.

MACHINA FACTORY

This is the venue where technical credibility is built and talent pipelines start.

At RAISE last year, this is what we delivered

Where they work

Top skills (self-declared + code-analysed)

Dominant tooling across codebases

AI API integrations

Three ways to put your product at the centre of the build.

Headliner

Digital & pre-event

On-site format

Branding on-site

Track

Digital & pre-event

On-site format

Branding on-site

Bonus Prize Partner

Digital & pre-event

On-site format

Branding on-site

MACHINA FACTORY is not a demo day or a pitch competition.

Elite developer access

Founders in the room

Academic and institutional depth

You own the track

Proof of delivery

Ready to put your product at the centre of the build?

Be considered

Be part of the conversation