[tractusx-dev] First Eclipse Tractus-X Hackathon 17 Feb 2026 - Bilbao (S

[Mathias Brunkow Moser <mathias.moser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone 👋, 

Let’s have the first international Open Source Hackathon of Eclipse Tractus-X ever! 🌍🚀 And in Spain! 🇪🇸

💸 For FREE 🆓 

📅 Date: 17th of February 2026

📍 Location: 🇪🇸 Bilbao/Zamudio (near the airport) - Spain,

Parque Tecnológico de Euskadi. Campus Zamudio/Derio

The final address will be available at the Agenda & Newsletter

⏰ Full Day Event - Agenda in preparation (Challenges Described Below ⬇️)

🔗 HERE IS THE REGISTRATION LINK: 📋✍🏻

https://forms.office.com/e/LkYbasfXJA

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Please reserve this date if you’re willing to come! 🗓️ And already look for hotels (hotel suggestions can be found after the challenges description)!

This is the calendar blocker — it will be a full-day event. 

Please keep in mind it is a “WORKING/DEVELOPING” hands-on event. So send this to your developers.

 It is meant to be technical and we will be solving two challenges together.  Is NOT a “business oriented" event.

SO BRING YOUR LAPTOPS! 💻 And lots of motivation to code and learn!

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An official agenda and formal communication will be shared soon via:

📧 Our Tractus-X Mailing list: https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/tractusx-dev

🔗 Eclipse Foundation LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/company/eclipse-foundation

📰 Our news blog at the TX Website: https://eclipse-tractusx.github.io/blog

Keep tuned on the latest updates!

I will also redistribute the information again to this mailing  list once I have it.

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🧩 Hackathon Challenges

We will be offering challenges to support our community goals for the next Tractus-X release in March (26.03).

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Main Challenge: Tractus-X Identity Hub Wallet

Further develop the Tractus-X Identity Hub Wallet and integrate it into the TX Umbrella.

This will allow us to:

✅ Eliminate the need for a mocked wallet in the umbrella (by having a real open-source wallet)

🔄 Offer an end-to-end exchange scenario for developing better applications

🌐 Enhance decentralization within the Tractus-X open-source dataspace technologies

🔗 Repository:

Identity Hub: https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractusx-identityhub 

Umbrella: https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/tractus-x-umbrella

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Secondary Challenge (if time or many participants): Industry Core Hub Add-On

Integrate the PCF use case (or another add-on) into the Industry Core Hub.

🎯 Goal:

Enable another add-on in the Industry Core Hub and learn:

• How the IC-Hub can serve as a base for multiple use cases

• How to develop your own add-on module

🔗 Repository:

https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/industry-core-hub 

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🏨 Hotel Suggestions

The location is next to the airport, near Bilbao at a “Technological Center”. Depending if you want to visit Bilbao or not you can stay in different hotels which we recommend.

Next to the event Area (relative near to the airport):

• Hotel Aretxarte: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bWenpcMTfDZQNAfD9

In Bilbao:

• Recommended: NH Collection Villa de Bilbaohttps://maps.app.goo.gl/w4tiZVnzGZCfSCoj9  (some of us will be accommodated there and we could organize to go together from there to the event area)
• There are many other good hotels in Bilbao (it will depend on your budget): Hotel Meliá Bilbao , Hotel Catalonia Gran Via de Bilbao, Hotel ILUNION Bilbao, etc.

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🤝 Hosting & Support

Our new Project Lead Mikel Garcia (from LKS Next) has volunteered to host the event at their offices in the Bilbao area 🏢 .

We at the Catena-X Association are very happy to see the Eclipse Tractus-X community growing worldwide 🌎 and will be there to support these technical challenges.

And also we as project leads are happy to support and bring our community forwardglobally! As our main Goal for 2026 as announced at our last community days in December!

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📢 Stay tuned on our communication channels and here for the latest updates!

Let’s build dataspaces! 🚀

Your Project Leads,

Mikel Garcia

Stephan Bauer

Bjoern Roy

Mathias Moser

Get more information about us in: https://eclipse-tractusx.github.io/ or in https://tractus-x.com (same page but with a shorter link)

Eclipse Tractus-X™ - Where we build dataspaces! Is a collaborative, open-source project under the Eclipse Foundation aimed at driving the digital transformation of the various industries, including automotive, manufacturing, chemical, semiconductor and contruction. Our mission is to enable secure, self-sovereign and efficient data exchange, powered by seamless collaboration across the supply chain and built on trusted open standards. See more at our project description: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.tractusx