Battle of the Personal Brains Hackathon 🧠
🧠 Cognee, Strands Agent, Docker Sandbox, Bright Data
Join us for Battle of the Personal Brains, a 5 hour hands-on AI hackathon where you’ll build an intelligent personal agent powered by your own data, live information, and create an agentic workflow to take action, all under one roof at the Web Data Loft in SOMA.
Build the personal AI agent you’ve always wanted.
In today’s world, it’s possible for an AI agent to know what you know - your emails, your documents, meetings, calendar, tasks, files, and other information that’s relevant to you - and then act on it.
For this hackathon, the challenge is simple: Build a brain. Build an agent. Make it do something.
🗓️ Event Details
When: 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Monday September 21, 2026
Where: Web Data Loft, San Francisco, CA
🧠 First, Build your Personal Brain
Your agent is only as useful as the information it can understand. So you’ll create an AI-powered brain that can combine knowledge from multiple sources:
Your laptop and local files
Google Drive and cloud documents
Personal email and other data sources
Public information from across the web
Meeting notes, receipts, photos, schedules, and more
You'll use Cognee’s structured AI memory to create your Personal Brain, and Bright Data to discover and retrieve public web data.
🤖 Then, Build your Agent
Once your agent can access the right knowledge, the real fun begins. Build an agent that can find information, reason across it, and take action.
Your agent could:
Manage your calendar - Find availability and schedule an appointment automatically.
Take notes and remind you later - Capture information and send a reminder exactly when you need it.
Turn meetings into action - Read meeting summaries, identify commitments and action items, and build your personal to-do schedule.
Handle your expenses - Process receipts, extract the important information, organize them, and prepare expense reports.
Organize and share your photos - Process photos, upload them to Google Photos, organize them, and share them with your WhatsApp group.
Build your own personal assistant - Create an agent that understands your information, remembers what's important, and helps you get things done.
Connect your digital life - Connect to apps and services you use every day, read through information, create notes, identify what matters, and remind you when action is required.
Or build something completely different.
Your brain. Your agent. Your idea.
🛠️ The Agentic Stack
We'll provide technologies you can combine to build your agent:
🧠 Cognee — The Brain - Create long-term AI memory and a Personal Brain that your agent can search, understand, and reason over.
🌐 Bright Data — The Web - Give your agent access to fresh public information from across the web.
📁 Your Data — The Personal Brain - Bring your own files and information from your laptop, Google Drive, and other sources.
🤖 AWS Strands Agents — The Agent Harness - Build and orchestrate the agent that reasons, uses tools, and decides what to do next.
🐳 Docker Sandboxes — The Sandbox - Give your agent a secure environment where it can run code and perform tasks.
Together, these technologies give your agent something increasingly important:
Data + Memory + Reasoning + Tools + Actions
⚔️ The Battle
This isn't just about building another chatbot. We're looking for agents that can understand information and then accomplish something useful.
At the end of the hackathon, each team will demonstrate what their agents can do. Will it remember better? Find better information? Reason across personal, company, and public data? Can it take useful actions?
But most importantly: Can your brain beat the other brains?
👩💻 Who Should Attend?
Developers, AI engineers, agent builders, hackers, founders, students, and anyone interested in building the next generation of personal AI agents. You don't need to arrive with a finished idea. Come with a laptop, some curiosity, and a problem you'd love an AI agent to solve. We'll help you build the rest.
👩💻 What to Expect?
Cloud Credits from Cognee
High-Energy Building Sessions: 6 hours to prototype cutting-edge data and agentic workflows
Data & AI Challenges: Solve real-world problems that you and others can benefit from
Expert Mentorship: On-site guidance from developer advocates from Cognee, AWS and Bright Data.
Swag, Catering & Networking: Fuel up with snacks and food while connecting with fellow builders and founders.
Prizes & Demos: Win prizes and pitch your build directly to industry leaders.
🚀 What You'll Leave With
By the end of the hackathon, you'll have gone beyond prompts and chatbots. You'll have built an agent with:
A brain that remembers.
Knowledge it can retrieve.
Tools it can use.
And the ability to take action.
Welcome to the Battle of the Personal Brains.
🧠 Build your brain. Build your agent. Enter the battle.
Event Terms & Consent
By registering, you agree to the event terms and conditions. Cognee reserves the right to refuse admission or remove attendees at its discretion to keep things safe and enjoyable for everyone.
Photography and video recording will take place throughout the evening and may be used by Cognee and Bright Data for future marketing, promotional, and community content. By registering, you also consent to receiving the Cognee newsletter and updates about future events at the email address you provide. You can unsubscribe anytime via the link in any email.
Spots are limited. Register now and build the future of Personal Brains.