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OpenLab @ The Vessel
Visit our open lab in AI & Robotics, build your own project or help us with our engineering initiatives.
Monday, June 22
OpenAI Codex Community Meetup
Belgium's first OpenAI Codex Community Meetup at Wintercircus Ghent: Codex updates, live demos, an agents session, and an on-site OpenAI engineer AMA.
Saturday, July 18
Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon: Brussels Hub
With WAT.BXL, North Star brings Hack-Nation's Global AI Hackathon to Brussels. 50 seats alongside teams from MIT, Stanford, Munich, London, Zurich and beyond. $35K+ in prizes and $200K in API credits.
Where we’ve been
May 2026
TechXperience: OpenClaw Workshop
May 2026
Benelux Robotics Meetup
Dec 2025
ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon (Community Edition)
Nov 2025
Agentic Payments Hackathon with Stripe
Nov 2025
Tectonic
Oct 2025
Future In Bloom Pt. I
Oct 2025
Kids AI Vibecoding Hackathon
Aug 2025
AI Hackathon III
Aug 2025
SIGNAL II
Jun 2025
Robotics Hackathon I
Jun 2025
SIGNAL I
May 2025
AI Hackathon II
Mar 2025
AI Hackathon I
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