Reply AI Agent Challenge 2026 - Lyon

Are you based in Lyon? Are you a university student @INSA Lyon with a passion for LLMs and AI?

Join the Reply AI Agent Challenge 2026, an online, free, team-based competition about Agents open to students and professional aged 16 or older, next April 16th.

Here's how to join:

• To compete you have to form a team on challenges.reply.com of 2 up to 4 friends
• On April 16th from 15:00 CEST you can join the INSA Lyon University with your friends and follow the warm up live streaming to get ready for the challenge with a team of friends
• At 15:30 CEST Reply will publish the problem statement, the data sets and all the instructions to upload your solution on your challenge page and you can start playing
• At 21:00 CEST the leaderboard will be frozen and you can follow the final live streaming commenting the leaderboard
• At 21:30 CEST the challenge ends and you have to submit your final solutions on the platform.

Fun and Reply goodies will be waiting for you, also with some pizza!

Some more information about the competition

The winning team will win up to 10.000€ (2.500€ each member). The second-placed team win up to 6.000€ (1500€ each member) and the third 4000€ (1000€ each member). The Reply AI Avengers’ judgement is final when enforcing competition rules and awarding prizes. We’ll send the winners details of how to claim their prize.

By playing, you can win a prize for your university, too. The final score that your team will get during the Ai Agent Challenge will be added to the University Leaderboard to win a cool Reply branded football table for the communal areas in your university or a financial donation to support an educational or research project.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

TD B Room, Telecommunications Building, Bâtiment Claude Chappe, Bâtiment Claude Chappe - INSA Lyon - 6 avenue des arts, Villeurbanne, France

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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