Creative Tech Buildathon: Converge

​Cash prizes + tickets to III Points

​A night for artists, designers, musicians, engineers, technologists, and curious creators to build at the intersection of software, hardware, art, music, and culture.

​The premise is simple: build like your inner child. Follow the strange idea. Make the thing you wish existed. Don’t worry about whether it becomes a startup.

​Come with an idea, find collaborators in the room, or just show up ready to experiment.

​What to expect

​We’ll kick off the night together, introduce the buildathon, get everyone oriented, and help people find teams and ideas.

​From there, the room opens up for several hours of building — with programming happening throughout the evening for anyone who wants to jump in.

​Expect:

​🤖 Build with Devin
Cognition engineers will walk through how to use Devin as a collaborator while you build, from turning an idea into a prototype to having agents take on pieces of the work.

​🔥 Fireside conversations
Short conversations with builders and creative technologists exploring what becomes possible as AI changes who can make software — and what “building” even means.

​🛠 Open build time
The majority of the night is yours. Build solo or with a team, bounce between software and hardware, ask for help, test weird ideas, and make something real.

​🎤 Demos + prizes
We’ll close with rapid-fire demos from the room and award cash prizes + III Points tickets to some of our favorite projects.

​What can you build?

​Almost anything.

​Interactive installations. Instruments. Games. Interfaces. Performances. Robots. Physical objects. Visual experiments. AI characters. Weird internet tools. Things that don’t fit neatly into a category yet.

​Use AI, code, hardware, APIs, sensors, creative software, or whatever else helps bring the idea to life.

​You do not need to arrive with a fully formed idea or team.

​Rough schedule

​4:00 PM — Doors + kickoff
Meet everyone, hear the challenge, find collaborators, start forming ideas.

​4:30 PM — Building begins
Teams get moving. Cognition engineers and other builders will be around throughout the night to help.

​Throughout the evening — Devin sessions + fireside chats
Short programming breaks for anyone who wants inspiration, technical help, or a look at how other people are building.

​8:30 PM — Final push
Get the thing working. Or at least working enough to show us what you were trying to do.

​9:00 PM — Demos
Show the room what you made.

​9:45 PM — Prizes + wrap

​The goal isn’t polish.

​It’s to leave having made something you probably wouldn’t have made anywhere else.