Agents, Everywhere: Global Hackathon with OpenAI • CopilotKit • openrouter
Agents, Everywhere: Bots, Channels, & More — Global Hackathon
A global hackathon with OpenAI, CopilotKit, and openrouter
On Saturday, September 12, AI Tinkerers cities around the world are joining one shared build day.
Build an agent for a place people already work, talk, and live, then make it meaningfully more useful because of that context.
AI Tinkerers page: https://sf.aitinkerers.org/p/agents-everywhere-bots-channels-more-global-hackathon
Event details
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2026
Time: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. local time
Location: Shared upon acceptance
Format: Focused local build day, connected to one global challenge
Food and drinks: Provided
The challenge
Most agents still wait inside a separate chat window. This build day starts from a different premise: the most useful agents will show up inside the tools, channels, devices, and environments where people already have work to do.
Build a working agent that belongs somewhere new.
Your project might live:
At work: Slack, Teams, email, documents, calendars, tickets, support, or live collaboration
In your pocket: messaging, mobile, notifications, and short asynchronous moments
On the web: browsers and software where an agent can research, navigate, transact, or take action
In the room: voice, vision, wearables, robotics, and other physical-world interfaces
These are examples, not separate tracks. Every team around the world enters the same global submission pool.
The day
10:00 Doors, food, check-in, & meeting potential teammates
10:30 Shared global opening and starter-kit walkthrough
11:00 Team formation
11:15 Build session
15:30 Local show-and-tell
16:30–17:00 Submit and wrap
Local demos are for sharing work and learning from the room. There is no formal local judging.
Your build stack
OpenAI and the event partners will provide shared starter materials, technical resources, and builder credits/offers where available. We will share the final starter repo and access details ahead of the event.
You do not need to use every tool in the stack. Choose the resources that make your idea better and make the technical choices that fit the project.
More starter materials, technical resources, sponsor offers, and event details will be added to this page as they are finalized.
What every team submits
Before the event ends, every team submits:
Title — a clear name for the project
Written description — what you built, who it is for, and why the context matters
Public GitHub repository — working code that can be reviewed and learned from
Two-minute video — a concise demo of the project in action
Social post — a public post about the project that tags the event sponsors
Build something that can be shown. A sharp, working demo beats a broad concept.
Global review and prizes
Every eligible project from every participating city goes into one global review process. The final judging rubric, prize categories, and award details will be shared with builders before the event.
Who should come
This is a builders-only AI Tinkerers event, and attendance is by application only. It is for engineers, technical founders, researchers, and designers who build and are ready to spend the day shipping a working prototype.
Come with a team, come solo, or find collaborators at the event. Apply to join us. Space is limited in each city.
Global Sponsors
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Its work spans frontier research and products that turn advanced AI capabilities into tools people and organizations can use. OpenAI is focused on making advanced intelligence safe, useful, accessible, and broadly beneficial—supporting greater productivity, creativity, scientific progress, and economic opportunity.
CopilotKit is the Agentic Application Platform, an open-source framework and cloud platform for building and operating production-grade agentic applications. Its stack connects AI agents to user-facing products through in-app actions, generative UI, real-time context awareness, and support for protocols including AG-UI, MCP, and A2A.
OpenRouter is an AI gateway and model marketplace offering a unified interface for hundreds of models across multiple providers. It is designed to reduce vendor lock-in while improving availability, pricing flexibility, and control over model routing.
Many more global partners will be joining the event and added to this page soon.
Developer Infrastructure Partners
Exa
Exa builds search infrastructure for AI applications. Its search engine and APIs help developers and agents find, retrieve, and synthesize high-quality web content through natural-language queries.
Trigger.dev is an open-source background jobs framework for building reliable workflows in plain async code. It provides infrastructure for long-running tasks and AI workloads, including queuing, retries, elastic scaling, and real-time monitoring.
Auth0 is an identity platform for developers, providing authentication and authorization infrastructure for web, mobile, and AI applications. Its SDKs and APIs help teams add secure login, access control, and identity workflows without building them from scratch.
Mozilla.ai builds open-source AI tools and infrastructure designed to make it easier for developers to create trustworthy, transparent, and controllable AI applications.