Infor Community Hackathon 2026: The ideas are in. Now it’s time to build.

 

The third annual Infor Community Hackathon is officially in full swing. Finalist teams have been selected, the build phase is underway, and customers, partners, and employees across the Infor™ ecosystem are turning proposals into working solutions.

What started as an experiment in community-driven innovation has become one of the most anticipated events in the Infor calendar. This year's registration numbers make that momentum clear, with over 100 teams and 300 individuals registering for the event, spanning the globe and representing a wide range of industries, organizations, and perspectives.

A growing tradition of real-world innovation

The Infor Community Hackathon brings together some of the best minds across the Infor ecosystem for a multi-month, fully virtual competition. Teams have the opportunity to build working solutions with access to Infor tools, free training, and dedicated mentor support throughout the process.

More than a competition, the Hackathon has become a place where ideas that might otherwise remain in a backlog are built, tested, and presented to judges evaluating real business impact.

What teams are building

The 2026 Hackathon expands the challenge scope, giving teams more room to pursue the problems they care most about. This year's categories include:

1. Industry AI and agentic workflows
   
2. Decision intelligence and planning
   
3. Compliance, risk, and sustainable operations
   
4. Customer, employee, and service experience
   
5. Integration and process orchestration
   
6. Internal productivity and delivery acceleration
   
7. Bring your own challenge (BYOC)

BYOC reflects a philosophy at the core of how Infor approaches innovation: If it doesn't exist, we can build it.

Teams aren't limited to predefined problem statements. If your organization faces a real, high-value challenge—even one that hasn't been formally defined or addressed before—that's a valid starting point for innovation with Infor solutions.

What happens during the build phase

Finalist teams now have access to Infor tenants, dedicated mentor support, and hands-on training resources as they work toward their final submissions.

Key dates:

• August 14: Final project submissions due
• October 6: Winners announced at Infor Velocity Week 2026 in Orlando

Each team has been assigned a mentor to provide guidance, answer technical questions, and help keep projects on track. The structure is intentional because the Hackathon isn't just a competition, it's a supported environment designed to help ideas cross the finish line.

Expanded prizes this year

Winners in the customer, partner, and employee tracks will receive trophies, community badges, gift cards, and complimentary passes to Infor Velocity Week.

The 2026 Hackathon also introduces track-specific incentives designed to carry winning ideas beyond the competition:

• Customer track finalists will be awarded a complimentary Value Engagement delivered by Infor experts.
• Customer track winners will gain access to an Innovation Fund to support the further development and showcase of their solution.
  
• Partner track winners will receive an Infor Marketplace fee waiver and dedicated support to publish their solution.
  
• Infor Employee track winners will attend Infor Velocity Week with event passes and travel expenses covered.

Standing on strong shoulders

Last year's winners show what's possible when real problems meet the right platform. Across three tracks, teams built solutions that tackled operational pain points.

• Partner track winner 2025: Team Mashfrog Pink tackled one of the most common sources of customer frustration in distribution: manual returns processing. Their end-to-end automation, built on Infor Velocity Suite, eliminated the email-and-data-entry cycle that slows returns down, while a generative AI (GenAI) agent surfaced insights on return reasons and costs to support better decision-making.
  
• Customer track winner 2025: Team Benco Dental solved a compliance bottleneck that regulatory teams know well. Their Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license validation automation, using Infor Robotic Process Automation (RPA), intelligent document processing (IDP), and GenAI, turned a nearly 30-minute manual verification process into one that runs in seconds, reducing workload by over 25% and saving approximately $25,000 US annually.
  
• Infor employee track winner 2025: Team TrueBenefitAI attacked the monthly grind of benefits reconciliation. Their solution automatically loads provider invoices, matches them against payroll deductions, and uses an agentic AI framework to help administrators quickly identify and resolve discrepancies, reducing hours of manual work to a fraction of the time previously required.

See all 2025 finalists and project demos

Let the building begin

To the competing teams: Your proposals earned your spot. Now it's time to build.

Whether you're automating a complex workflow, designing a smarter user experience, or tackling a compliance challenge with AI, the build phase is where the real work, and the real innovation, happens.

We'll be following the progress closely, and we can't wait to see your solutions unveiled at Infor Velocity Week in October.

Visit the Hackathon Community page to follow along as these ideas come to life.