Proud to announce the first civictech hackathon in a coffeehouse:
Expected to involve exclusively European technology partners and the best European universities (TUM & LMU) and ambitious participants from France, Poland and Germany!
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the coffeehouse wasn’t just a place to drink coffee—it was a civic technology: a physical interface where strangers became citizens, ideas were stress-tested in public, and new forms of the public sphere emerged.
Agora Hacks brings that spirit into the present: we’re hosting the first civictech hackathon in a coffeehouse to prove that democratic infrastructure doesn’t have to live only in parliaments, platforms, or policy papers—it can be prototyped where people actually meet.
For 48 hours, builders, researchers, designers, and practitioners will turn real tensions in public discourse into working demos—tools that make disagreement more productive, listening more visible, and participation more scalable.
Register for the event here
