SPRINTS

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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

Community Event

Build Day: Belfast Sprint

24 July 2026 · 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM · Ormeau Labs, Belfast

A day-long build sprint at Ormeau Labs. Partners include Young Social Innovators, Patch, Illuminate, Barclays Eagle Labs and Techstars Belfast.

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Sprint

QUest x Techstars: Customer Discovery Sprint

16 September 2026 · Two-day sprint · Queen's University Belfast

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

With Sure Valley Ventures · Belfast

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

With The AMP × Invest NI · The AMP Growth Incubator, 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

With Queen's University Belfast · Queen's University Belfast

Community partner for Northern Ireland's largest student-led hackathon. 175+ students, 24 hours, real-world challenges across Builder, Non-Builder, and Finance tracks.

OPEN TO RUNNING THESE WITH ANYONE

If you've got a real challenge and people willing to build against it, we can help shape a Sprint around it.

  • Universities and research groups
  • Funds and investors
  • Corporates and partners
  • Public sector and government
  • Community groups and meetups

WANT TO RUN ONE?

Tell us what you have in mind and we'll set it up.

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