​AI for the Real World Hack.

​Hosted by Transition Ventures, NEA & Operators & Friends.

​Manifesto

​We’ve optimized the digital world to extreme levels.

​​Now it’s time to turn that same energy outward - into cities, factories, grids, and machines.

​​AI needs to move atoms, not just pixels.

​​This is the greatest moment in decades to build for the real world - and the builders who do will define the new world.

​Hack

​5-hour sprint to prototype AI and tech solutions for the real world - industry, energy, geospatial, health, logistics, robotics, and beyond.

• ​60 handpicked engineers, founders, and builders

• ​We provide the space, the credits, and the fuel.

• ​You bring the unreasonable ideas.

​Format

​10:00am-5:00pm @ Transition/NEA offices in Soho

• ​10:00am - Arrivals & coffee

• ​10:30am - Kick-off

• ​11:00am-4:00pm - Build (lunch & snacks provided)

• ​4:00pm-5:00pm - Demos, judging & celebration

• ​6:00pm - Doors close

​Powered by & judged by

​All participants will receive free credits from our partners - OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Encord & Google DeepMind

​Winners will get thousands £ in credit pool & opportunity for office hours with David Helgason (GP @ Transition Ventures & Co-founder @ Unity Technologies).

​Organisers

​Operators & Friends accelerates the next generation of builders emerging with access to talent, distribution, and funding. Now gathered thousands of company builders across Europe and US.

​Transition Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing founders building generational companies that replace legacy systems underpinning the real world with cleaner, better, and more efficient alternatives.

​NEA is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies.