Patch the Conference Hackathon by FalkorDB, TrueFoundry, Qodo and OpenAI. Find what's broken about conferences and ship the patch. Winners take away iPhone Duos and more.

Presented by Bright Data

Patch the Conference Hackathon

Right before GitHub Universe, find what's broken about conferences and ship the patch. From finding the right people to meet to working out which talk is worth your time, pick a track, build something that works, and show it off on stage at the end of the day.

Register on LumaSee the tracks
When
Saturday, October 24, 2026, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM PT
Where
Bright Data, 625 2nd St, San Francisco
Teams
Solo or up to 4 people
Entry
21+, government photo ID checked at the door

01 / Prizes

One prize per track

If you win and don't want the phone, you can take the cash prize instead.

iPhone Duos

Best use of FalkorDB

$1,500

Best use of Bright Data

TrueFoundryOpenAI

$1,000

Best use of TrueForge with OpenAI

Qodo

$500

Best use of Qodo

02 / Tracks

Pick a tool, patch a conference

Learn it in the morning workshops, build with it all day, demo it on stage at 5:30 PM.

Track 1

An open-source graph database built for AI agents: connected data to reason over, memory that survives sessions, and a path behind every answer.

  • Multi-hop queries
  • Memory across sessions
  • Shared state between agents
  • Cypher
  • Docker
  • Python, Node, Java, Rust, Go, PHP, C#

Track 2

Reliable access to live public web data. No fighting blocks, CAPTCHAs or JavaScript-heavy pages: call Bright Data, get clean data back.

  • Bright Data MCP
  • SERP API
  • Web Unlocker API
  • Browser API
  • Web Scraper APIs
TrueFoundryOpenAI

Track 3

TrueFoundry's open-source agent harness, running on OpenAI models with your free credits. It handles the agent loop so you handle the idea.

  • MCP tools
  • Sandbox
  • Skills
  • Human approvals
  • SDK
  • Chat UI
Qodo

Track 4

AI code review on every pull request. Install it on your repo, ship through PRs, fix what it catches. That's the whole track.

  • GitHub app
  • PR review
  • Bug and logic checks

03 / Ideas

Stuck on what to build?

Starting points from each sponsor. Bring your own if something about conferences has ever bugged you.

Ideas to start from

  • 01Conference conciergeWhich talks on agents are on after lunch, and who's speaking? With the graph path behind the answer.
  • 02Networking agentSuggests who to meet from shared topics, and remembers who you've already spoken to.
  • 03Schedule plannerSeveral agents share one graph to plan your day and sort out clashes.

04 / Judging

What the judges look for

Each track is judged on its own criteria, presented on stage at 5:30 PM.

Every track: a working demo that runs live on stage.

  • Graph at the core
  • Explainable answers
  • Solves a real conference problem
  • Live web data at the core
  • Data quality
  • Usefulness
TrueFoundryOpenAI
  • Built on TrueForge
  • Powered by OpenAI
  • Solves a real conference problem
Qodo
  • Qodo reviewing real PRs all day
  • Small, clear pull requests
  • Fixes you can show in the demo
  • A clean repo by the end

05 / The day

Ten hours, doors to demos

Saturday, October 24, Pacific Time. Lunch lands at 2:00 PM.

  1. Breakfast and setup9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
  2. Sponsor workshops10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  3. Build11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
  4. Lunch, hack, submit2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  5. Demos, judging, winners5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Full schedule

06 / Checklist

Bring four things. We cover the rest.

Credits are claimed on the day; how to do it is explained at the venue.

You get

Free

OpenAI credits

OpenAI models in your project

$50

Bright Data credits

Live data from the web

  • BreakfastFrom 9:00 AM
  • Pizza lunchAt 2:00 PM
  • SwagPlenty of it

You bring

  • Laptop
  • Charger
  • Government photo ID21+ only
  • Up to 3 teammatesOr come solo