Host a local experience
Run a lab, table or meetup in your space, shaped with the local Circle.
ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS_
BUILD DEEP_
Not sponsorship.
Partnership means bringing something the community can use — and getting the same back.
PROBLEMSEXPERTISEACCESSSUPPORT
Partners bring INDUSTRY_, TECHNOLOGY_, RESEARCH_, ACADEMIC_, GOVERNMENT_, COMMUNITY_, MEDIA_. Through HATCON they create RESEARCH_, TALENT_, CHALLENGES_, INNOVATION_, KNOWLEDGE_. The four things a partner brings are PROBLEMS_, EXPERTISE_, ACCESS_, SUPPORT_.
PARTNERS BRING
- INDUSTRY_
- TECHNOLOGY_
- RESEARCH_
- ACADEMIC_
- GOVERNMENT_
- COMMUNITY_
- MEDIA_
CREATE TOGETHER
- RESEARCH_
- TALENT_
- CHALLENGES_
- INNOVATION_
- KNOWLEDGE_
WHAT PARTNERSHIP DOES
NOT VISIBILITY.PARTICIPATION._
A HATCon partnership should create something useful for both the community and the partner.
IF NOTHING USEFUL ENTERS THE ECOSYSTEM, IT ISN'T A HATCON PARTNERSHIP.
A problem worth solving
Put a real problem in front of builders, researchers and specialists.
Expertise worth sharing
Contribute research, expertise, practical learning or case studies.
Technology worth using
Give teams tools or technical resources that help them actually build.
A community worth strengthening
Support a Circle, local chapter or year-round community capability.
OUTCOMES
FIVE THINGSIT ACTUALLY CHANGES_
Each one starts with something you bring, and ends with something you can point to.
Research
Connect research with expertise.
- Question
- Expertise
- Research
- Knowledge
Talent
Meet DeepTech talent in every role.
- Community
- Skills
- Mentorship
- Opportunity
Challenges
Turn real problems into solutions.
- Problem
- Challenge
- Team + Arena
- Outcome
Innovation
Validate ideas and speed up pilots.
- Idea
- Prototype
- Pilot
- Validation
Knowledge
Share research and insights openly.
- Expertise
- Talk / research
- Insight
- HATCon brain
PARTNER CATEGORIES
SEVEN WAYS
TO COME IN_
Most partners fit one of these. If yours doesn't, say so and we'll work out what it looks like.
INDUSTRY_
Industry partners
Companies with hard, real problems.
- ROLE_
- Bring real problems, domain knowledge and pathways to implementation.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Problems, pilot access, domain expertise.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Prototypes and pilots
- Research collaborations
TECHNOLOGY_
Technology partners
Platforms, infrastructure and tooling teams.
- ROLE_
- Put tools, platforms and technical resources in the hands of people who build with them.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Credits, APIs, engineers, hardware.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Working prototypes built on real tools
- Feedback from practitioners
RESEARCH_
Research partners
Labs, institutes and independent researchers.
- ROLE_
- Connect open questions and early results with people who can test, review and extend them.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Open questions, early results, review.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Collaborators and reviewers
- Shared methods and data
ACADEMIC_
Academic partners
Universities, departments and student bodies.
- ROLE_
- Link students, faculty and institutions to real problems and a working community.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Students, faculty, venues, curriculum.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Projects and internships
- Mentorship for students
GOVERNMENT_
Government partners
Agencies and public bodies.
- ROLE_
- Bring policy questions and public programmes into contact with the people who build the technology.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Policy questions, programmes, public data.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Technical input on policy questions
- Roundtable discussion
COMMUNITY_
Community partners
Meetups, guilds and open-source groups.
- ROLE_
- Join your members and your calendar to a year-round DeepTech community.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Your members and your calendar.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Shared sessions and meetups
- Stronger local Circles
MEDIA_
Media partners
Publications, newsletters and creators.
- ROLE_
- Tell the story of the work as it happens, with first-hand access to it.
- WHAT YOU MIGHT BRING_
- Coverage and distribution.
- POSSIBLE OUTCOMES_
- Stories from sessions and speakers
- Interviews and features
CONTRIBUTION
BRING SOMETHINGTHE ECOSYSTEM CAN USE_
Partners do not need to contribute in the same way. The right contribution depends on what you have, what the community needs and what both sides are trying to create.
ECOSYSTEM
PARTNERSHIP LIVES INSIDE THE PRODUCT_
Partnership is not a separate sponsor layer. It connects directly into the same HATCon experiences the community already uses.
CIRCLES_
Support an ongoing specialist or city community.
RESEARCH_
Advance a question or collaborate with experts.
TALENT_
Create pathways for people.
KNOWLEDGE_
Share what the ecosystem learns.
CHALLENGES_
Bring a real problem to solve.
ARENA_
Work with teams in structured build-and-prove sessions.
EVENTS_
Feed or contribute to an experience.
SHOWCASE_
Make useful work visible.
CIRCLES_
Support an ongoing specialist or city community.
RESEARCH_
Advance a question or collaborate with experts.
TALENT_
Create pathways for people.
KNOWLEDGE_
Share what the ecosystem learns.
CHALLENGES_
Bring a real problem to solve.
ARENA_
Work with teams in structured build-and-prove sessions.
EVENTS_
Feed or contribute to an experience.
SHOWCASE_
Make useful work visible.
WHERE YOU PLUG IN
SIX FORMATS, EACH WITH ITS OWN PAGE_
A partnership attaches to one format or several. Start where your contribution is most useful.
STAGE_
Propose a session with something real to say, or support the stage that hears it. Speaking slots are curated on substance, never bought.
LAB_
Teach a workshop, bring a tool, or give builders something to try and break.
ARENA_
Turn a problem you actually have into a challenge, and get teams — and evidence — back.
TABLE_
A smaller room, a sharper question, and the right people around it.
SHOWCASE_
Demo a product or prototype. Curated inclusion isn't purchased; paid exhibition exists separately and is labelled.
CONNECT_
Meet members whose work matches yours — matched on what people are building, exploring and looking for.
REAL PROBLEMS
BRING THE PROBLEM. LET THECOMMUNITY WORK ON IT._
Some partnerships begin with a specific problem that needs people, research, experimentation or a working solution.
- 01
DEFINE_
Clarify the problem, context and constraints.
- 02
CONNECT_
Identify the right Circles, researchers, builders and mentors.
- 03
OPEN_
Turn the problem into a HATCon Challenge.
- 04
BUILD_
Teams research, prototype and test.
- 05
ARENA_
Bring the work into a structured build-and-prove environment.
- 06
CONTINUE_
Take useful outcomes into Showcase, research, pilot or further collaboration.
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS DESERVEMORE THAN EXPOSURE_
A research partnership can connect a question with people, evidence, infrastructure and a community that can help move it forward.
FROM QUESTION_
- Research question
- Dataset
- Technical problem
- Method
- Hypothesis
TO ECOSYSTEM_
- Researchers
- Domain experts
- Review
- Discussion
- Insights
PEOPLE
THE ECOSYSTEM ISPEOPLE BEFORE LOGOS_
Strong partnerships create access in both directions: the community meets organisations, experts and opportunities; partners meet people already building, researching and contributing.
COMMUNITY GAINS_
Mentorship
Access
Learning
Projects
Roles
Domain expertise
PARTNER GAINS_
Relevant talent
Practitioner perspectives
Researchers
Builders
Community relationships
Insight into emerging skills
Mentorship
Access
Learning
Projects
Roles
Domain expertise
Relevant talent
Practitioner perspectives
Researchers
Builders
Community relationships
Insight into emerging skills
THE ROOM YOU'D BE IN
WHO YOU'D BE
BUILDING WITH_
HATCon is a year-round DeepTech community, not a one-weekend audience. A partnership puts you next to the people already doing the work.
- FOUNDERS
- RESEARCHERS
- STUDENTS
- INVESTORS
- POLICY
AI_
Systems that reason, act and build alongside us.
CYBER_
Defending the systems the world now runs on.
BLOCKCHAIN_
Trust, identity and value as programmable primitives.
FRONTIER_
The physics and hardware of the next decade.
PLACE
HELP A COMMUNITYBECOME READY_
HATCon city communities exist before the event. Partners can help strengthen the local ecosystem before, during and after a HATCon experience.
WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE
Provide venue & infra
Open a room, a stage or compute so the community has a place to meet.
Connect local experts
Introduce practitioners and researchers you know to local builders.
Support participation
Fund passes, travel or access so the right people can be in the room.
Contribute a Challenge
Bring a real problem your team has and let local builders work on it.
Strengthen the local Circle
Mentor, speak or show up between editions so the Circle keeps moving.
HOW IT WORKS
FROM CONVERSATIONTO COLLABORATION_
CONVERSATION_
UNDERSTAND_
What do you want to bring, solve or enable?
CONNECT_
Which people, Circles or formats are relevant here?
DESIGN_
Shape the collaboration instead of a fixed package.
ACTIVATE_
Launch the Challenge, research effort or event.
CONTINUE_
Review what happened and decide what continues.
COLLABORATION_
HOW WE WORK
USEFUL FIRST_
Five principles every partnership is held to, whatever form it takes.
COMMUNITY VALUE_
The partnership must create something genuinely useful for participants.
CLEAR ROLE_
Everyone should understand what the partner is contributing.
SHARED OUTCOME_
The collaboration should have a meaningful result beyond visibility.
TRANSPARENCY_
Sponsored or partner-supported activity should be clearly identified.
CONTINUITY_
Where valuable, the work should have somewhere to continue after the event.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
THE FIRST COHORT IS FORMING_
We're building the first group of partners alongside the people who join it — helping shape the formats they'll be part of, and named here when they're ready. If you'd rather help set the standard than follow it, this is the moment.
Scoped with you, not to a template.
Attributed openly, in the label the line above describes.
Reviewed with you afterwards — what worked, what to change.
HOW IT STARTS
A CONVERSATION,NOT A RATE CARD_
There is no tiered pricing sheet to hand you. Partnerships are scoped around what you want to contribute and what you need back, so the first step is telling us which of those you have in mind.
Which category above fits you best
What you'd want to bring — problems, people, tools, venue, funding
Which cities you care about
Whether you're aiming at a specific edition or the year-round program
READY WHEN YOU ARE
TELL US WHAT YOU'D BRING_
One conversation is enough to find out whether this fits. Start with what you have — the rest we'll scope together.
YOUR MOVE
BRING SOMETHING USEFUL_
A problem. Expertise. Technology. A community.
If it helps people build or connect, it belongs here.