Algorand Foundation's 'event listing' page is a request form, not a calendar
A Form Disguised as a Calendar
A community group organizing a hackathon on Algorand has a natural first destination: info.algorand.foundation/event-listing, the page the Foundation titles 'Algorand Event listing.' What organizers land on is not a calendar but a single 'Event Listing Request' form — and nothing else. The page carries no upcoming events, no past archive, no schedule in any form: its only content is an intake form for proposing events to the Foundation.
What the Form Asks
The form collects what any event submission would need: an email address, the event's scheduled date and name, a description of the event and its overall vision, a short abstract, promotional creatives, a registration link, and room for additional information and collaterals. Submitters must tick a consent box to receive 'other communications/updates from Algorand Foundation and Algorand Inc.,' and the accompanying privacy notice explains how the personal data will be stored and processed. The page runs on HubSpot's EU forms infrastructure — the network hosts it talks to are dominated by HubSpot's form domains — and small details such as an unchanged 2022 copyright line and an empty XML sitemap mark it as a lightly maintained utility rather than a living public board.
The Category Dropdown Is a Triage Map
The most revealing field is 'Event category owner,' a dropdown that mirrors how the Foundation organizes its event work internally.
| Category | Real-World Implication |
|---|---|
| Developer Outreach | Technical workshops and hackathons aimed at onboarding builders |
| University Programs | Campus clubs, student competitions and academic collaborations |
| Community (internal lead) / Community (external lead) | Distinguishes Foundation-driven events from ones organized by outside communities |
| Vertical Lead: Web3 / Impact / DeFi | Routes proposals to the teams responsible for Web3, social-impact and DeFi programming |
| Partner | Co-branded events run with ecosystem partners |
| Marketing | Proposals tied to promotional and awareness campaigns |
| Algorand Ventures | Events connected to the Foundation's venture investment arm |
| Others | Everything that doesn't fit the above |
The range of owners — from named vertical leads to the investment arm — makes the form a triage desk: every proposal names the internal team that will handle it.
The Real Calendar Lives on the Main Site
Where approved events actually appear is the Foundation's main events page, algorand.co/events, which at the time of writing lists events running through October 2026.
| Event | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| BrainWave 2026 — student-led 24-hour hackathon | August 22 | New Delhi |
| [x402](/glossary/x402-machine-payments-protocol "An emerging standard for enabling autonomous, real-time payments over HTTP, often used for pay-per-use APIs or microtransactions. It allows machines o") Global Challenge PreHack — 12-hour hackathon | August 23 | Bengaluru |
| Chris Peikert — talks at three cryptography conferences | August 16–26 | Santa Barbara / Ottawa |
| API World — talks by Brian Whippo and Jorrin Bruns | September 2–3 | North America |
| NFT.NYC — talk by Joseph Cecala | September 3 | North America |
| Multichain Day at TOKEN2049 Singapore | October 6 | Singapore |
The Bengaluru PreHack is the warm-up to the wider Global x402 Challenge, a competition with a prize pool of over $100,000 built around x402 — an emerging payment standard that lets machines and software agents pay for individual API calls in real time over HTTP, with no human settling the transaction. The main events page also carries its own door into the same pipeline: an 'Are you hosting an event and don't see it listed?' prompt with a 'Submit the info' button that opens a HubSpot-hosted form on the same forms infrastructure that powers the info portal. The two pages are two ends of one process: the subdomain takes the pitch, the main site shows the outcome.
What This Means for an Organizer
For a community group or university club, the practical path is to complete the form on the info portal, choose the category that best matches the audience, and attach everything the Foundation would need to evaluate the event. What happens after submission is undocumented — the page states no acceptance criteria, no review timeline, and no guarantee that a proposal will be published. The evidence that the pipeline works is its output: a main-site calendar full of student hackathons, protocol-focused build sessions and Foundation speaking slots through the autumn. The event-listing page is the door, not the board — and for anyone trying to get an Algorand event noticed, that is where the process starts.