Agent Forge AI Hackathon: Tokyo Creativity
The era of simple chatbots is over. Real AI applications need to access live data, write their own code, autonomously manage their own state, and run reliably in the cloud.
Agent Forge AI Hackathon: Tokyo Creativity gives builders the ultimate stack to ship production-ready AI agents in one day. This edition encourages teams to build with the cultures, craft traditions, creative communities, and local everyday life of Tokyo and Japan as the starting point. Build, test, and deploy a working AI agent solution that feels rooted in place, not just a generic demo.
The Challenge
Build an AI agent or a swarm of agents that solves a real-world problem through the lens of Tokyo and Japanese creativity - from traditional craft, design, food, fashion, music, tourism, retail, and local maker culture to the workflows that power modern Japanese businesses.
Your Agent Forge agent should be able to gather intelligence, autonomously process information, build with professional-grade tooling and live on the web. You're free to come up with your own idea. The only requirement: your project must be built on the partner stacks below and deployed live by demo time.
The Stack (Your Arsenal)
You will have access to premium credits and tools from our innovation partners to build your Agent Forge solution:
Bright Data: Give your assistant the ability to browse the web. Build custom web-scraping "skills" into your agents to fetch real-time data, monitor trends, or aggregate research automatically using reliable, large-scale infrastructure.
- Claim Bright Data Credits using this link: https://get.brightdata.com/aibuilders10
Nosana: Supercharge your compute with Nosana's decentralized GPUs to run specialized AI models. Use them to run tasks, process heavy data workloads, or host custom local models for your assistant affordably.
- Claim Nosana Credits using this link: https://www.theaibuilders.dev/nosanacredits
Qwen Cloud: The official platform for the Qwen model family. Access state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary models optimized for deep reasoning and agentic coding. Empower your agents to process multimodal information and seamlessly execute complex real-world workflows.
- Claim Qwen Cloud Credits using this link:
https://tinyurl.com/qwencloudcredits
Qoder: The agentic coding platform built for real-world software development. Move from simple assistance to true autonomy using features like Expert Panel Mode to assemble a specialized AI engineering team, and Repo Wiki to instantly surface implicit codebase knowledge.
- Claim Qoder Credits using this link:
https://tinyurl.com/qodercredits
Team Format
Form a team of 1–6 people. Teams can blend different skill sets — developers, designers, business minds — to tackle bigger, more ambitious projects.
Judging Criteria
Completeness: Whether the team finished at least a minimum viable product.
Innovation: Is the product idea innovative?
Real-Life Problem Solving: Is the project solving a real-life problem, or is there a real pain in the market?
Sponsored Product Usage: Did the team use sponsored products?
Prizes
All winning teams will earn a share of exclusive hackathon prizes, including partner credits to keep building and scaling their projects.
Agenda
10:00 AM — Check-in & Networking
10:30 AM — Hackathon Introduction
10:45 AM — Tech Stack Workshops
11:30 AM — Team Formation & Project Setup
12:30 PM — Lunch
4:00 PM — Submission Deadline / Live Demos
5:30 PM — Winners Announced + Networking
6:00 PM — Close
Who Should Come?
You want to build AI agents that access the real internet, not just static datasets. You want to deploy something live, not just run it on localhost. You want to connect with Tokyo's AI, creative technology, and maker community while building inside the AI Builders network.
Whether you're a developer, a designer, or a business builder — if you want to ship a real AI project in a day with a team, this is your event.
Co-hosted By
AI Builders: A premier community of AI builders, developers, and innovators in Singapore, Tokyo, and San Francisco Bay Area. Prototype real products with fellow builders, ship features weekly, and trade production-tested playbooks.
MeltingHack: A Tokyo-based international hackathon community connecting builders from Japan and abroad. Run immersive prototyping events, hands-on workshops, and creative challenges that help participants gain practical skills and ship ideas.
Mercari: A Tokyo-based technology company operating marketplace and fintech services across Japan and beyond. Build trusted platforms where people exchange value, discover unique goods, and create new circular-economy experiences.
Limited spots available. Register now.