The 2026 IMC Hackathon

You can be a hero - use Internet measurement data to solve real-world challenges!

Internet measurement groups: Measurement Lab, Internet Society, UNICEF Giga, IIJ Research Laboratory, Internet Intelligence Lab; IODA, Cloudflare Radar, Sorbonne University, Internet History Initiative, and OONI will hold a hackathon to examine critical challenges in connectivity and Internet measurement at scale.

Each Internet measurement group will provide a list of challenges as well as a list of open-ended questions to participants to help solve Internet measurement challenges on a global platform.

Date: October 12, 2026
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Tentative time: 9:00 - 17:00
Venue to be confirmed

Registration link: ++https://forms.gle/4SAKTMMKndyqu8nc7++

Names and affiliations of organizers

Pavlos Sermpezis, Director, Technical Lead, Measurement Lab
Melissa Newcomb, Director, Programs & Partnerships, Measurement Lab
Maria Antonia Bravo, Technology Programme Manager, UNICEF Giga
Loqman Salamatian, Post-doc, Columbia University
Amreesh Phokeer, Internet Measurement and Data Expert, ISOC
Romain Fontugne, Deputy Director, IIJ Research Laboratory
Zachary Bischof, Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology (Internet Intelligence Lab; IODA)
Lai Yi, Head of Cloudflare Radar, Cloudflare
Jim Cowie, Founder, Internet History Initiative
Arturo Filastò, Chief Technology Officer, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

More details and agenda coming soon!

Questions or want to participate?