Sprints
Run a sprint with us.
Short, high-intensity build sessions where founders, builders, and operators meet a real problem and ship something useful, fast.
A Sprint is a time-boxed build, anywhere from a few hours to a few days. People form teams, pick a real problem, build a working prototype, and demo what they shipped. Working beats pretty. Shipping beats slides.
Upcoming sprints
Build Day: Belfast Sprint
A day-long build sprint at Ormeau Labs. Partners include Young Social Innovators, Patch, Illuminate, Barclays Eagle Labs and Techstars Belfast.
Register nowQUest x Techstars: Customer Discovery Sprint
A two-day customer-discovery sprint (16–17 September 2026) run by Queen's inQUBate with Techstars Belfast, Venture Folk, Ormeau Labs and the AI Collaboration Centre. Teams move from idea to customer insight: identify customers, test assumptions, prototype and pitch. Ten finalist teams progress to an eight-week Phase 2. For Queen's graduates and postgraduates with a business idea gaining traction.
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Sprints we've run or supported
FUND PARTNER SVV Build Sprint
A focused build session with the SVV team and their portfolio: founders, operators, and investors in the same room shipping working prototypes against real challenges.
REGIONAL AI Build Day, Derry
A day-long AI build event: morning intro to models and tooling, two-hour afternoon build sprint on workflows, websites, agents or products, ending in a show-and-tell.
COMMUNITY HackBelfast 2026
Community partner for Northern Ireland's largest student-led hackathon. 175+ students, 24 hours, real-world challenges across Builder, Non-Builder, and Finance tracks.