​🚀 Build with AI × Vercel: Zero to Agent Kickoff

​Your idea. Your agent. Built in one day.

​This is it.

​Build with AI is teaming up with Vercel to bring their global Zero to Agent event to our community. Live, in-person, hands-on.

​Whether you've been building with AI for months or you've never deployed anything in your life, this is your entry point.

​We'll walk you through everything. You'll leave with something real.

​🔥 WHAT'S HAPPENING

​This is a build session.

​You'll get:

​✅ A guided tutorial across 3 tracks — so you can pick the one that clicks for you:

• ​v0 + MCPs — Build AI apps that connect to external tools and data

• ​Vercel Workflow (WDK) — Build long-running, durable AI agents that survive crashes and resume on their own

• ​ChatSDK Agents — Build bots that work across Slack, Discord, Teams, GitHub, and more

​✅ Hands-on build time — Bring your laptop. You're building on the day. Not watching. Building.

​✅ Setup support — Don't have a Vercel account yet? No idea what Node.js is? We'll get you sorted. Just bring your laptop.

​✅ Community energy — The thing that makes Build with AI different. You're not doing this alone.

​🏆 THE HACKATHON — ZERO TO AGENT

​This meetup is your launchpad into Vercel's global hackathon.

​Global Build Week: April 24 – May 3 Submissions close: May 3 Community voting: May 4 (24 hours, one vote per Vercel account) Winners announced: After May 5

​You submit individually. One submission per person. No teams.

​Prizes

​🥇 1st Place — $3,000 v0 credits + $200/mo Vercel Platform credits + Vercel Pro (6 months) 🥈 2nd Place — $2,000 v0 credits + $100/mo Vercel Platform credits + Vercel Pro (6 months) 🥉 3rd Place — $1,000 v0 credits + $50/mo Vercel Platform credits + Vercel Pro (6 months) 🌟 Community Favorite — Voted by the community, separate from judged prizes 🎬 Short-Form Content — Best TikTok/Reel of a real build gets featured on Vercel's socials

​Judging Rubric

• ​Agent usefulness / real-world applicability

• ​Technical execution (built with v0, deployed on Vercel)

• ​Creativity and originality

​🙋 WHO IS THIS FOR?

​Everyone.

• ​You've never coded before → Perfect. That's literally why we exist.

• ​You're AI-curious and want to see what the fuss is about → Come find out.

• ​You're a builder who wants to compete in a global hackathon → This is your headstart.

• ​You just want to hang out with people who are building cool stuff → We got you.

​You don't need to enter the hackathon to attend. But once you see what's possible... you'll probably want to.

​💻 WHAT TO BRING

• ​Your laptop (charged!)

• ​An idea you've been wanting to build (or come find one here)

• ​That's it. We'll handle the rest.

​🤝 PRESENTED BY

​Build with AI × Vercel

​Build with AI is a community that helps non-technical people turn ideas into real products using AI — together. No gatekeeping. No jargon. Just building.

​Vercel is the platform that makes it ridiculously easy to deploy what you build to the world.

​This is what happens when a builder community and a world-class platform come together.

​This is our most ambitious community initiative yet, and we're so grateful and excited to be building it with you.

​See you there. Bring your laptop. Bring your ideas.

​Let's build. 🔥