Building for the Real World Hackathon

Building for the Real World Hosted by Operators & Friends, Build and Pebblebed. Manifesto We’ve optimized the digital world to death. Now it’s time to turn that same energy outward - into cities, factories, grids, and machines. AI can finally move atoms, not just pixels. This is the greatest moment in decades to build for the real world - and the builders who do will define the new world. Hack 6-hour sprint to prototype AI and tech solutions for the physical world - geospatial, robotics, construction, hardware, infrastructure, logistics, and beyond. 100 handpicked engineers, founders, and builders We provide the space, the credits, and the fuel. You bring the unreasonable ideas. Format 4PM-10PM @ Pebblebed Warehouse, SF 4:00 - Arrivals4:30 - Kick-off4:30-9:00 - Build9:00-10:00 - Demos, judging & celebration Judges from our friends at OpenAI, Pebblebed and more! Powered by Daytona, fal, Lovable, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Vidoc Security Lab & Datalab. All participants will receive free credits from our partners. The Space Everything happens inside Pebblebed, a warehouse-turned-playground for builders - with projection walls, open concrete floors, and enough power, snacks, and caffeine to keep ideas alive. Prizes - >$30,000 in credit pool 🥇 ElevenLabs Overall winners - 3 months Pro tierBest Build with ElevenLabs - 6 months Scale tier ($1980) Daytona Overall winners - $5000, $3000, and $1000 in Daytona creditsBest Use of Daytona - $5000 in credits for the fal Overall winners - $5000 credit prize Lovable Overall winners - 6 & 3 months free Pro tier OpenAI Overall winners - $3000, $2000, and $1000 in OpenAI credits ​About Build At Build, our mission is to accelerate and amplify the world's most important built projects - we have invented a better way to build through a collaboration between human experts and agentic AI.We believe in a future where the world's buildings are driven from concept to completion, autonomously. Without delays, cost, and complexity. Enabling people to deliver a magnitude more deals. To make decisions, build relationships and create.To start, we're partnering with the world's biggest built world institutions to push the frontier of what's possible through automating mission-critical workflows. ​About Operators & Friends ​​​Operators & Friends accelerates the next generation of builders emerging with access to talent, distribution, and funding. ​​​We've gathered +6,000 company builders and backed 18 teams alongside a16z, Index, Google Ventures and Lightspeed and many more - our portfolio. About Pebblebed Pebblebed is an early stage technical VC for builders, by builders. The founding partners are Pam Vagata, founding engineer at OpenAI; Keith Adams, founder of FAIR; and Tammie Siew, former Sequoia & GGV-backed founder.