Global event production for the AI-native era.
Odyssean Academy builds hackathons, builder workshops, and curated dinners that put your product into the hands of the people who will actually use it. Run with us once, or run with us every month.
Events that move adoption.
Online docs and beta signups generate awareness. Live events generate adoption: builders encounter real constraints, form muscle memory with your product, and leave as your earliest power users. Odyssean Academy runs focused activations that give AI and developer-tool companies direct signal on how their product lands with the people who matter most.
- Hands-on hackathons and builder workshops targeting the right audience
- Every participant builds with your product — real projects, real feedback
- Pre-launch community seeding across our 2,000+ builder network
- Content and social amplification at every activation
- End-to-end execution from recruitment to post-event reporting
How we bring people together.
Every engagement is scoped to your goal — developer adoption, community seeding, enterprise training, or senior leader access. We run three core formats and blend them as needed.
Hackathons
Half-day to weekend sprints. Builders ship working projects on your product. Best for pre-launch signal and power-user seeding.
Workshops
Build Nights and bootcamps. Hands-on training for developers, founders, or enterprise teams. 3 to 8 hours, cohort sizes 12 to 100+.
Curated Dinners
Intimate founder dinners, investor nights, and leadership gatherings. 10 to 30 guests. Narrative-driven programming.
End-to-end execution.
Participant Recruitment
Targeted outreach through our 2,000+ builder network, university CS/AI communities, founder groups, and partner channels.
Content & Challenge Design
Co-designed with your team to showcase your product's core capabilities and create the exact build experience you want participants to have.
Venue, Catering & Logistics
Full event production — venue sourcing, A/V setup, catering, swag, and day-of staffing. Zero operational load on your team.
Marketing & Social Content
Event branding, registration pages, social media campaign, and post-event content packages you can re-use for launches and fundraising.
Post-Event Report
Attendance metrics, project summaries, participant feedback, and product usage data you can turn into case studies or investor updates.
Community Handoff
Participant contact data and community onboarding into your channels for sustained engagement after the event wraps.
Flexible ways to work with us.
Start with a single event to see what happens, or run with us at a steady cadence. We scope and price based on your goal — every engagement below is a starting point, not a fixed menu.
Single Event
One hackathon, workshop, or dinner end-to-end. Perfect for product launches, campus activations, or a focused sprint around a specific goal.
Monthly Activation
Three events per month across regions of your choice (US, London, Asia). Ongoing activation partner for scaling products and sustained community growth.
Co-Host / Referral
Partner orgs bring audience or intros, Odyssean runs execution. Flexible revenue-share structures for co-hosted events and warm introductions that close.
Companies we've worked with.
TinyFishFeatured engagements.

Stanford Founder Programs
Demo day with 90 startups, 1,500+ attendees, and 300 investors.

Stanford AI + Learning Differences
200 participants in an AI hackathon exploring assistive technology with Stanford GSE.

GoodNotes Hackathon
73 participants from 15+ countries producing 21 projects on the GoodNotes platform.

Johns Hopkins ITGL
40+ participants, 8 teams, with 75% continuing their projects beyond the event.
Fresh from the field.
The person behind 450+ events.

Chinat Yu
Founder & Strategy
Johns Hopkins & Stanford alum. MLH Top 50 honoree. Built AI tools with GoodNotes, Okta, and Chanel. 450+ events produced across 17+ cities.
Let's put your product in front of the right builders.
Tell us what you're shipping, who you want in the room, and what a good outcome looks like. We'll come back with a scoped proposal within a week.
Ready to run something?
Shoot us a note with your product, your goal, and your timeline. We'll scope the right format and come back with numbers.
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