Grok Bot Community Engineering London Hackathon
Grok Bot Community Engineering London Hackathon
Build community infrastructure, 20x better.
An evening hackathon for community engineers, DevRels, organisers and builders, where Grok Bot and Cursor are the builders.
Grok Bot holds the context and Cursor ships the code. Point them at a real community problem and build tooling that's 10x–20x better than what exists today.
Build a bot that knows every channel you're in.
Build a collab engine between communities.
Build the event stack.
Build something we haven't seen before.
Live demos. Ship fast. Real communities. 🤌
📅 Schedule
18:00 — Doors open & setup
18:05 — Kickoff & tracks
18:10 — Hacking begins
18:15 — Dinner
21:15 — Code freeze, submissions & initial judging
21:45 — Live demos of Top 5, 3 minutes each
22:10 — Final judging & awards
23:00 — Close
📍 Venue: Expedite London HQ, 7 Lyric Square, London
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 October 2026
🚀 What You'll Build
Tooling that helps communities find members, collab, run events and stay active. Some ideas...
Acquisition tooling
A collab engine between communities
The event stack
Activation from what members actually say and do
An event from idea to live page
OR something outside the usual categories: anything only possible when bots that know your whole community write the code.
Work solo or in teams of up to 5.
🤝 Partners & Sponsors
Venue Partner
Expedite, made possible by William Schulz
Technology Partners
Supabase, connection: Isabelle Roser
Cognee, connection: Veljko Kovac
Zero, connection: Mariia Nedelkina
SpaceXAI (Grok Bot), connection: Francisco Terpolilli, EU Ambassador
Cursor, connection: Francisco Terpolilli, EU Ambassador
Community Partners
Unicorn Mafia, leads: Fergus McKenzie-Wilson & Charlie Cheesman
basedcollective, lead: Fatema Al Khalifa
Kickstart Global, lead: Ilya Vencjuns
Hackradar, lead: Keanu Czirjak
AI Agents Lab, leads: May Yu & Minghan Xiao
Corgi Community, lead: Claudia Maggi
Night Office, leads: Oli Kingshott & Shreyas Raghu
The Hack Collective, lead: Louis Le
Outpost, leads: Andy Tyler & Oscar Falemara
AI Pilled, leads: Nuan Zhang & Yiran Qin
Judges
TBA, from our partner communities and sponsors
🏆 Tracks
Tracks are revealed on the night. Expect themes around growing communities, bringing them together, running great events and keeping members engaged, plus room for the weird stuff.
More tracks and sponsor prize buckets to be announced.
🏆 Demo Format
Every team submits a working demo at code freeze.
The Top 5 teams present live, 3 minutes each.
Judges will award:
🥇 1st Place: 3 months Cursor Ultra per person + Supabase credits
🥈 2nd Place: 2 months Cursor Ultra per person + Supabase credits
🥉 3rd Place: 1 month Cursor Ultra per person + Supabase credits
Judging Criteria:
Technical execution
How much Grok Bot and Cursor architected it
Use of community context
10x–20x improvement over today's tooling
Real-world usefulness
Demo quality