Founder in a Daythe All-Day Hackathon.
A full day that turns participants into founders: learn how agentic AI compresses idea → launch, then build and pitch a real product — mentors on the floor, judged demos, and a room that doubles as a talent and community engine.
Two steps to compete.
Step 1 — tell us about you and your idea below. Step 2 — once you've submitted the form, lock in your seat with the $30 registration.
Complete the questionnaire
Required before registration — tells us who you are, your idea, and your team status.
Register & pay $30
After submitting the questionnaire, click below to complete your $30 hackathon registration — separate from your Summit pass.
Register for Hackathon — $30.00Founders for a day — and what winning looks like.
Participants learn how agentic AI compresses idea → launch, then build and pitch a real product in front of judges. It doubles as a talent and community engine — surfacing builders, and modeling what an AI-native startup looks like from day one.
The day, hour by hour.
Draft agenda — subject to change.
| Time | Segment | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Doors, check-in, breakfast | Pre-assigned tables; credits issued at the door |
| 9:00 | Opening remarks & welcome | Amr Mohsen · Tanveer · Alaa Youssef |
| 9:15 | Framing the day — Alaa | The arc of the day, rules, how they're judged |
| 9:25 | Team formation | Pre-seeded teams; lightning board for free agents |
| 9:50 | Ahmed Reza — running a business on agents | Inspire: agents as the org chart |
| 10:10 | Umar Sear — Idea to Launch workshop | Enable: research → design → build → ship |
| 10:40 | Fireside + kickoff — Alaa with both speakers | Then instructions & evaluation criteria |
| 11:00 | Build block begins | Mentors on the floor; Dhuhr / Asr breaks |
| 4:30 PM | Submissions close · demos · judging | Hard deadline, then 2-min demos to judges |
| 5:30 PM | Awards & close — Alaa | Recognize builds; next-step pointers |
The morning: three sessions, then build.
Ahmed Reza
Running Your Business with AI Agents. Agents as the org chart — the founder designs the organization and makes the human-judgment calls.
Umar Sear
Idea to Launch. Research → design → build → ship with agentic tools, using a repo as the single source of truth.
Alaa Youssef, PhD
Chat, then the rules. Facilitates a fireside with both speakers, then presents the hackathon instructions and criteria.
How teams are judged.
| Criterion | Weight | What a strong entry shows |
|---|---|---|
| Research & validation | 15% | Clear proposition, sized market, named competitors, a real moat |
| Product & build quality | 20% | A working build that follows from the research — coherent, usable |
| Shipped & real | 15% | Deployed and accessible — a real URL, not localhost |
| Agentic orchestration | 20% | AI doing the heavy lifting — agents that coordinate and escalate |
| Cost & model strategy | 20% | Deliberate model choice, open where it suffices, routing, a credible cost story |
| Pitch & demo | 10% | Idea, evidence, and leverage — communicated clearly |
The day is designed as a participant journey.
Every format choice maps to a stage — team formation to Belong, the two workshops to Learn, the submission gate to Ship.
Building the hackathon and the Summit, together.
The hackathon runs alongside the main stage and expo floor as its own program — a separate $30 registration is required to build, independent of your Summit pass.