We are excited to share the SharePoint Hackathon is back in 2026 and will be running from 2nd of March until 16th of March! This hackathon is open to everyone! Whether you are an end user, designer, architect, or developer, there is a place for you. The SharePoint Hackathon will highlight the diverse possibilities within the SharePoint ecosystem.
We enjoyed this event in 2025 and are looking forward to collaborating with you all again in 2026 🙏🤩
✨ Design, Create and Share! ✨
We are excited to invite you to a hackathon dedicated to crafting engaging experiences using AI and the latest SharePoint features! 💡
SharePoint is the knowledge platform for Copilot and agents. It brings together powerful new features for building visually rich, engaging experiences while infusing sites and content with the latest AI‑powered capabilities. As the knowledge platform for Microsoft 365, SharePoint provides the structured, governed fabric that Copilot agents rely on to access and reason over organizational content.
SharePoint’s extensibility platform spans low‑code customization, the full‑code SharePoint Framework (SPFx), and SharePoint Embedded, providing customers and partners with flexible ways to tailor experiences, adapt UI behavior, build custom solutions, and extend AI‑driven scenarios to meet unique business needs.
👋 This hackathon is open to everyone! Whether you are an end user, designer, architect, or developer, there is a place for you. The SharePoint Hackathon will highlight the diverse possibilities within the SharePoint.
Submission categories include:
- Best organized library using Knowledge Agent
- Best use of agents with SharePoint
- Designs utilizing out-of-the-box features
- UX extensible experiences with SPFx
- Integration scenarios with SharePoint Embedded
- and more...
If you have created a SharePoint site and tailored it to meet your business needs, you're all set to participate! The possibilities are endless for what you can create... plus, you can submit your hack (in video format) for a chance to win exciting prizes! 🥳
SharePoint Hackathon runs from March 2nd to March 16th. Hack submissions are due Monday March 16th, 2026, 11:59 PM PST. Join us! 🧑🤝🧑
We do not require you to pre-register on the hackathon as such. You can subscribe for reminders on the upcoming live streams and star this repository for updates.
Introduce yourself and get familiar with other attendees on GitHub Discussions in this repository 🙋♀️🙋♂️
Read the official rules 📃
Live streams will be hosted at the Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel. There is a live stream for each of the submission categories to highlight the latest features which you can take advantage of on your submission.
| Day/Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3/2, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | SharePoint 25 Anniversary celebration - Kickstart for SharePoint Hackathon 2026 |
| 3/3, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Best Design for SharePoint Site: Showcasing the Most Beautiful & Intelligent Portals |
| 3/4, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Pocket-Perfect Productivity: AI-First SharePoint Experiences on Mobile |
| Day/Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3/9, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | From Content Chaos to Clarity: AI-Organized Libraries with Knowledge Agents |
| 3/10, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Agents + SharePoint: The Next Generation of Knowledge Experiences |
| 3/11, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Reinventing SharePoint with SPFx, Copilot, and AI |
| 3/12, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Beyond the Site: Building Intelligent Apps with SharePoint Embedded |
| Day/Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3/25, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Celebrating Creativity: SharePoint Hackathon 2026 Awards Ceremony |
We will be setting up a special Sharing is Caring session(s) focused on the hackathon submission guidance on the SharePoint Hackathon with Luise Freese and David Warner.
If you have any questions or need support - please use the discussions in this GitHub repository. Our team is following closely on the discussions there.
Submissions are due Monday March 16th, 2026, 11:59 PM PST. Submission should be in video format with potential additional pictures, showing the design or implementation, you have created. Your work does not have to be open-source or shared with others for reuse.
Submit your project here in GitHub Issues when it's ready🚀 🚀 Project Submission Form
Check out this video for step by step project submission guidance: Project Submission Video
Hackathon has seven distinct categories - one submission can be suitable for multiple categories. The winner is announced for all these seven categories.
- Best design for SharePoint Site - Recognizes a SharePoint site with outstanding visual design, branding, layout, and usability that delivers a polished and engaging user experience.
- Best mobile experience design for SharePoint - Awards a solution that delivers an intuitive, responsive, and high-quality SharePoint experience optimized specifically for mobile devices through Microsoft Teams mobile experiences.
- Best organized library using Knowledge agent - Celebrates a document library that leverages a Knowledge agent to improve content organization, discoverability, metadata enrichment, and user understanding.
- Best use of SharePoint in AI agents - Build intelligent agents that use SharePoint as their grounding layer — from agents in SharePoint, declarative agentsm, and Copilot Studio agents to fully custom AI engines. Show how your solution turns organizational knowledge in SharePoint into dynamic, interactive experiences through smart retrieval, reasoning, and storytelling.
- Most innovative SharePoint experience with SPFx - Recognizes advanced SPFx solutions that integrate Copilot and AI scenarios - Focus on custom web parts, extensions, or experiences that go beyond out-of-the-box capabilities and providing additional AI powered scenarios for end users for example using Copilot APIs with custom SPFx solutions.
- Most innovative solution with SharePoint Embedded - Awards groundbreaking solutions that embed SharePoint content or services into external applications, enabling seamless content management and collaboration experiences.
All hackathon participants who submit a video on their experiences will receive a digital badge (look and feel might change by the time of the actual Hackathon). To receive the digital badge, all participants must submit this form: Badge Submission Form by March 16th, 11:59PM PST. The GitHub handle must match the handle submitted in the Project Submission Form.
Projects will be evaluated by a panel of judges, including Microsoft engineers, product managers, and developer advocates. Judging criteria will include innovation, impact, technical usability, and alignment with corresponding hackathon category. One submission can be submitted to multiple categories.
Prizes for the winners include the following:
- Each person in winning team (1-4 people) within each category will be awarded a Surface Laptop (Copilot+ PC). We will be shipping this to you anywhere in the world ✨🤩
- The top three submissions in each category will be also published in Microsoft credited blog post at the SharePoint blog and will be called out in the award ceremony on 25th of March 🗒️📺
We will be also acknowledging few special categories from the submitted videos - with a special callout in the award celebration blog post and live stream. These special categories are following:
- Most Creative Video Presentation ✨
- Best Video Presenter Voice 🎤
- Most Enthusiastic Presenter ⚡
- Most Innovative SharePoint Hack 👩💻
- Most Artistic SharePoint Visualization 🎨
These are great additional opportunities to get acknowledged on your submission 💡
Do I need to be a developer for this hackathon?
No. Anyone can create beautiful looking pages in SharePoint or use the SharePoint agents to increase their productivity. Anyone can submit their work for the competition, and everyone is awarded with a badge to do so.
We have a product built for/with SharePoint - can we submit?
Yes. Anyone can submit to this hackathon. If you are a partner who has created an intranet-in-a-box offering, you can also submit your design or agent scenarios for this hackathon. Any submission which contains SPFx customizations would fall on that specific category, and we'll take the submission background also into account in the judging.
Notice that we are looking into engaging with our SharePoint partner ecosystem more closely also with specific partner showcase blog posts and interviews. See example story and volunteer for a story by submitting this form.
Do I need to create something new or can I submit video of what we already have?
You are NOT expected specifically to create any new designs or code during this hackathon, so if you already have a beautiful intranet or are for example using SharePoint powered agents in an interesting scenario, those stories are also welcome.
We want everyone to be able to submit their beautiful UX designs, SharePoint powered agents stories or SPFx experiences for the competition to showcase the art of possible within SharePoint.
What will be expected from the submissions?
There is only two things to do for each submissions:
- Create a video which highlights what you have created - maximum lenght of the video should be 8 minutes
- Submit an issue with link to the video which demonstrates your submission - https://aka.ms/SharePoint/hackathon/submission
We have a cool SharePoint design on our intranet; can I submit that?
Yes, as long as you have permission from your company or the service owner to do that. We are excited to see what kind of use cases you have with Copilot, agents and what kind of designs our customers and partners have created with SharePoint.
How should I create the video for submission?
There are multiple ways to do this. Key is to highlight the design and features you have in your deployment. You can use whatever software you like for recording and then submit the entry to us in a location which can be accessed. This could mean attaching video on the submission entry, video in YouTube (can be unlisted if link works) or by sharing a video with file sharing services, like with OneDrive.
How many people can be in a team which is building a submission?
One submission can be from 1-4 people. You can submit as an individual person, or you can join with other community members to build a team with maximum 4 people in the team.
Can one submission be for multiple categories?
Yes. When you are submitting the details, you can select the categories which are relevant for your submission. One submission can belong to multiple categories. One submission can also win multiple categories, but in that case, only one set of awards are provided for the winning team.
Got other questions? - Please use the Discussions section in the repository. We are here to help and answer all your questions.
