NAFEST 2025 Hackathon
    NAFEST 2025 Hackathon
    Competition & Award

    NAFEST 2025 Hackathon

    Apply by Nov 24, 2025

    About

    The NAFEST 2025 Hackathon is a high-level digital innovation competition aimed at developers and entrepreneurs in Nigeria's creative economy, focusing on innovative digital solutions and industry scaling, offering substantial cash prizes and technical acceleration support, making it ideal for early-stage and growing creative industry startups and projects.

    Benefits

    • Champion prize of 4 million Naira, along with Amazon AWS suite, exposure opportunities, and acceleration support from ISN Hubs and Startup South
    • Second prize of 2 million Naira
    • Third prize of 1 million Naira
    • Fourth prize of 500,000 Naira
    • Fifth prize of 250,000 Naira
    • Consolation prizes for sixth to tenth place include AWS suite and exposure opportunities

    Eligibility Criteria

    • Open to developers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative entrepreneurs willing to build and disrupt Nigeria's growing creative economy
    • Participants must submit scalable digital solutions for creative businesses to enhance monetization and explore new market opportunities

    Target Region

    Nigeria

    Target Sector

    Creative Economy

    National Council for Arts and Culture, Council for Creative Technology Futures

    Apply