Talks: Global kickoff with Google DeepMind & CopilotKit, followed by 5+ hours of focused building for Generative UI. View Challenge »

Generative UI Global Hackathon: Agentic Interfaces

A synchronized, heads-down build session happening across AI Tinkerers
cities worldwide - one global challenge, one submission platform, one day.

For three years, every “AI-powered” app has been a chatbot wearing a trench
coat. Text in, text out. On May 9, we take the training wheels off.

This is a build day for Generative UI - agents that don’t just return text,
they render complete, interactive interfaces on the fly. Forms, dashboards,
approval flows, entire applications - generated natively from agent output.

Presented by AI Tinkerers, Google DeepMind, and CopilotKit.

Local Logistics

• 📅 Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
• 🏢 Venue: EAFIT University Bloque 19, Salón 415.
• 📋 Local Time (COT): 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Food & Drinks Included: Thanks to the global support from Google DeepMind and CopilotKit, lunch and snacks will be provided to keep everyone fueled during the build session.

Enter The Hackathon

• No pitches
• No panels
• No chat-wrappers

Come build for six focused hours with engineers tackling the same frontier
problem at the same moment around the world.

Short global kickoff. Heads down. Show and tell at the end. Working code over
slides.

Format (COT - Medellín Local Time)

• 11:00 AM - Doors open (Check-in, food, initial networking, and team formation).
• 12:15 PM - AI Tinkerers Medellín local intro.
• 12:30 PM - Synchronized Global Kickoff Video: Generative UI, the stack, the tracks.
• 1:00 PM - BUILD. Starter kits and credits distributed. Intensive build session.
• 5:00 PM - Show and Tell. 2-3 minute local demos. Strictly working code.
• 6:00 PM - Submissions close. Projects submitted to the global hackathon platform and event ends.

The Challenge: Beyond the Chatbox

We are looking for functional prototypes that push the boundaries of how users interact with AI. Participants will compete to build systems that demonstrate:

• Dynamic Component Generation: UI that adapts its structure and state based on the underlying model’s reasoning.
• Agentic Feedback Loops: Interfaces that allow users to steer autonomous agents through interactive, real-time visual elements.
• Latency-Optimized Rendering: Utilizing techniques like KV cache optimization or local execution (via Gemma 4 or Muse Spark) to ensure fluid, zero-lag user experiences.
• Tool-Enabled Interfaces: UI that doesn’t just display data but provides the interactive hooks for agents to execute cross-app workflows.

Build with the protocols and frameworks defining generative UI in 2026:

• A2UI (Google) - Open protocol for agents to send interactive components. Apache 2.0.
• AG-UI (CopilotKit) - Protocol for connecting AI agents to frontend UIs.
• CopilotKit - Framework for embedding AI copilots into React apps.
• MCP Apps - Model Context Protocol applications rendered as interactive UI.

Registration & Contribution

This is not for generative UI enthusiasts. This is for tinkerers.

We are screening for engineers who write code and will ship something by 6 PM.

Space is limited.

Not for everyone. For the ones who build.

Global Sponsors

Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind is the AI research lab behind Gemini and many of the open protocols defining how agents talk to interfaces, including A2UI - the open-source protocol letting agents send fully interactive UI components instead of plain text. Credits for participants distributed via the starter kit on event day.

CopilotKit

CopilotKit is the open-source framework developers use to embed deeply integrated AI copilots into their React applications. It provides robust React components, an AG-UI transport layer, and an MCP-compatible client for building sophisticated generative UI experiences. The recent 1.5 release ships durable, long-running agents that feel native to your product. Starter templates, framework access, and full docs at docs.copilotkit.ai.

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Manufact

Manufact is the platform behind mcp-use, the fullstack open-source framework developers use to build MCP Apps for ChatGPT and Claude and MCP Servers for AI agents. The SDK ships in both TypeScript and Python with auto-discovery for interactive widgets, hot reload, and a built-in Inspector for testing. Manufact Cloud handles deployment, observability, and branch previews - push to GitHub and ship to production in under 60 seconds. Starter templates, the create-mcp-use-app scaffold, and full docs at github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use

More global sponsors to come soon. Final sponsor list, credits, and prizes will be confirmed closer to the event.

Langchain

LangChain is the leading framework for building production-ready LLM applications-powering everything from simple chains to complex, stateful agents.

From orchestration and tool-calling to retrieval and memory, LangChain provides the primitives teams use to move beyond demos and into real systems. If you’re working on agents, RAG pipelines, or multi-step reasoning workflows, you’ve likely touched LangChain somewhere in your stack.

Daytona

Daytona is building the infrastructure layer for running code dynamically-ephemeral environments that spin up instantly, execute reliably, and disappear when you’re done.

If you’re working with agents that write and run code, sandboxing untrusted execution, or scaling developer workflows beyond local machines, Daytona is the kind of primitive you end up needing.

Local Sponsors

EAFIT

Special thanks to EAFIT University for providing the space for this global hackathon.