Cursor AdTech London Hackathon
Cursor AdTech London Hackathon
Building the infrastructure for AI-native advertising.
An evening hackathon for developers, founders, and AI builders exploring what advertising looks like inside conversational interfaces and autonomous systems.
Hosted at Halkin Offices in London, teams will build AI-powered AdTech tools using Cursor, Overmind, Tavily and Thrad - experimenting with conversational ads, agentic campaign management, attribution, targeting, and monetisation infrastructure.
Live demos. Fast shipping. Real-world use cases.
📅 Schedule
6:00 PM — Doors open
6:05 PM — Welcome, hackathon briefing & judging overview
6:15 PM — Hacking begins
7:00 PM — 🍕 Food
10:15 PM — Code freeze, submissions & initial scoring
10:45 PM — Live demos of Top 5 (2–3 mins each)
11:00 PM — Final judging & awards
11:30 PM — Close
🚀 What You’ll Build
Build AI-powered systems for the next generation of advertising infrastructure.
Example areas include:
Conversational advertising
Sponsored AI responses
Autonomous media buying agents
AI-native attribution systems
Prompt-aware ad ranking
Creative generation workflows
Agentic optimisation & reporting
Monetisation infrastructure for AI products
Work solo or in teams of up to 3.
💡 Why Participate?
Explore how advertising evolves in AI-native environments
Build and demo a working prototype in a single evening
Collaborate with top builders, founders, and AI operators in London
Experiment with Cursor, Overmind, Tavily and Thrad
Present your project live to judges (Founding engineers, GTM Leads, VC investors)
Compete for prizes, merch, and sponsor rewards
🧠 The Context
Advertising is moving into conversational interfaces.
AI agents are beginning to handle workflows traditionally managed by humans — targeting, bidding, reporting, optimisation, and creative generation — while publishers and platforms experiment with monetisation inside AI-native products.
This hackathon explores the infrastructure behind that shift:
What should agents automate?
What still requires human oversight?
And what does trustworthy AI-native advertising look like?
🤝 Partners & Sponsors
Co-hosts
Cursor
Thrad
Venue Partner
Halkin Offices
Judges
🏆 Demo Format
Every team submits a live demo at code freeze.
Top 5 scored will do a LIVE DEMO.
Then of the top 5, 3 shall place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
Projects will be judged on:
Technical execution
Product thinking
Agent autonomy
UX clarity
Real-world applicability
Safety & oversight design