Checkout - The Travel & Hospitality Hackathon | Powered by ElevenLabs
Event Description
Come build the future of travel and hospitality in a single day. Checkout is NYC's first travel-themed hackathon. Founders, engineers, and designers team up in the morning, build all afternoon, and demo real products to founder-judges by evening.
Problem Statement
Travel and hospitality is one of the biggest industries in the world and one of the most underbuilt in software. From clunky booking flows to hotels running on decades-old systems, there's enormous room to build. Your challenge: ship something real that makes travel or hospitality better — in one day.
The Tracks
AI trip planning — agents and copilots for booking, itineraries, and personalized travel
Hotel & hospitality ops — front desk, guest experience, revenue management, back-of-house
Local & experiences — discovery, tours, restaurants, events, the on-the-ground trip
Sustainability & the future of travel — green travel, accessibility, how people move and stay
What to Expect
A full day of high-energy building - morning to evening
Solo or small teams (your choice)
Sponsor tools, APIs, and mentors on hand
Evening demos, judging, and prizes
Prizes
Each team member of the winning team receives 3 months of ElevenLabs Pro tier ($297 value/team member, 600k credits/mo)
Best Project Built with ElevenLabs: Each team member receives 3 months of our Scale tier ($897 value/team member, 1.8M credits/mo)
Judges
Kevin Faisal - Founding Engineer at Rove, a travel rewards platform helping travelers earn and redeem airline miles across everyday purchases and bookings.
Shir Ibgui - Founder of Globe Thrivers, building social commerce infrastructure for the travel creator economy.
Riccardo Vittoria - Co-founder and CEO of Acai Travel, using AI to modernize travel operations and customer support.
Jared Lerner - Founder and ZzZEO of Nappr, a hospitality marketplace helping travelers book flexible daytime spaces for rest and recovery.
Shiv Jethi - Product at Cursor
Prince Rumi - Excelsior Edge Ventures, Partner | AI Researcher
Who Should Attend
Founders and aspiring founders in travel, hospitality, and consumer.
Engineers.
Designers.
Operators.
You don't need a finished idea - just show up ready to build.
Sponsors
Rove
Hosts
Somya Gupta - The face of the NYC startup ecosystem.
George - Founder, WanderWorth.
Madeline & Co. is the first Strategy and execution platform powered by Madeline-s1.
Credit Sponsors
Elevenlabs - Powering the best enterprises, creators, and developers. From ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content creation, to the leading AI voice generator.
Lovable - Your AI website builder.
Tavily: Connect your AI agents to the web.