COP-PILOT Horizon is co-organizing the Code the Continuum Hackathon together with Eclipse Foundation, CEI-Sphere, and O-CEI Horizon. The event will take place on 30 June – 1 July 2026 at the University of Cagliari, Italy.
The two-day event will bring together students, developers, researchers, innovators, open-source communities, and technology providers to collaborate on practical challenges across the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. Through hands-on experimentation and teamwork, participants will explore how interoperable digital infrastructures, edge computing, orchestration platforms, and open-source technologies can support the next generation of European digital ecosystems.
The hackathon will feature three dedicated challenge tracks focused on real-world use cases and emerging technologies. One of the challenges, proposed within the COP-PILOT ecosystem, is “From Code to Continuum: Orchestrating Distributed Applications with OpenSlice.”
This challenge will focus on the orchestration of distributed applications across edge and cloud environments using OpenSlice and Kubernetes. Participants will work on a small energy-focused distributed application composed of containerised services simulating an energy monitoring pipeline, covering data generation, optimisation, visualisation, and reporting. Teams will explore how services can be onboarded, deployed, orchestrated, and dynamically managed across distributed infrastructures, highlighting the importance of workload placement, lifecycle management, and interoperability within the European computing continuum.
In addition to the COP-PILOT challenge, participants will also have the opportunity to work on challenges related to Eclipse Zenoh and AI-driven application development, further exploring interoperable communication protocols, energy-aware edge-cloud deployments, and modern AI engineering approaches.
The event represents an important opportunity to strengthen collaboration between research, industry, and open-source communities while encouraging experimentation with scalable, reusable, and interoperable digital technologies. It also contributes to the broader objectives of COP-PILOT in advancing secure and collaborative platforms across heterogeneous Cloud-Edge-IoT environments.
Whether you are interested in edge computing, orchestration, AI, interoperability, or open-source innovation, the hackathon offers a unique space to learn, collaborate, and test ideas in realistic pilot-oriented scenarios.
