Grok Bot Community Engineering London Hackathon

Build community infrastructure, 20x better.

An evening hackathon for community engineers, DevRels, organisers and builders, where Grok Bot and Cursor are the builders.

Grok Bot holds the context and Cursor ships the code. Point them at a real community problem and build tooling that's 10x–20x better than what exists today.

Build a bot that knows every channel you're in.Build a collab engine between communities.Build the event stack.Build something we haven't seen before.

Live demos. Ship fast. Real communities 🤌

📅 Schedule

18:00 — Doors open & setup18:05 — Kickoff & tracks18:10 — Hacking begins18:15 — Dinner21:15 — Code freeze, submissions & initial judging21:45 — Live demos of Top 5, 3 minutes each22:10 — Final judging & awards23:00 — Close

📍 Venue: Expedite London HQ, 7 Lyric Square, London📅 Date: Thursday, 22 October 2026

🚀 What You'll Build

Tooling that helps communities find members, collab, run events and stay active. Some ideas...

  • Acquisition tooling

  • A collab engine between communities

  • The event stack

  • Activation from what members actually say and do

  • An event from idea to live page

OR something outside the usual categories: anything only possible when bots that know your whole community write the code.

Work solo or in teams of up to 5.

🤝 Partners & Sponsors

Venue Partner

  • Expedite, made possible by William Schulz

Technology Partners

  • Supabase, connection: Isabelle Roser

  • Cognee, connection: Veljko Kovac

  • Zero, connection: Mariia Nedelkina

  • SpaceXAI (Grok Bot), connection: Francisco Terpolilli, EU Ambassador

  • Cursor, connection: Francisco Terpolilli, EU Ambassador

Community Partners

  • Unicorn Mafia, lead: Charlie Cheesman

  • basedcollective, lead: Fatema Al Khalifa

  • Kickstart Global, lead: Ilya Vencjuns

  • Hackradar, lead: Keanu Czirjak

  • AI Agents Lab, leads: May Yu & Minghan Xiao

  • Corgi Community, lead: Claudia Maggi

  • Night Office, leads: Oli Kingshott & Shreyas Raghu

  • The Hack Collective, lead: Louis Le

  • United Italian Societies, lead: Umberto Belluzzo

  • Outpost, leads: Andy Tyler & Oscar Falemara

  • AI Pilled, leads: Nuan Zhang & Yiran Qin

  • Other leads: Zakee Abdi, Fergus McKenzie-Wilson

Judges

  • TBA, from our partner communities and sponsors

🏆 Tracks

Tracks are revealed on the night. Expect themes around growing communities, bringing them together, running great events and keeping members engaged, plus room for the weird stuff.

More tracks and sponsor prize buckets to be announced.

🏆 Demo Format

Every team submits a working demo at code freeze.

The Top 5 teams present live, 3 minutes each.

Judges will award:

🥇 1st Place: 3 months Cursor Ultra per person + Supabase credits🥈 2nd Place: 2 months Cursor Ultra per person + Supabase credits🥉 3rd Place: 1 month Cursor Ultra per person + Supabase credits

Judging Criteria:

  • Technical execution

  • How much Grok Bot and Cursor architected it

  • Use of community context

  • 10x–20x improvement over today's tooling

  • Real-world usefulness

  • Demo quality