Hack for Humanity: Build Day

Hack for Humanity — DC Chapter

Venue TBD, Description might change but please sign up and stay tuned.

Join us for a one-day civic tech build event bringing together technologists, designers, founders, students, and community members to build ideas that improve people’s lives.

Attendees will choose from four broad humanity-focused challenges, form teams of 3–5, and spend the day turning ideas into something tangible.

No polished product required. Your final submission can be a working prototype, clickable mockup, or well-developed concept. Volunteers will be available throughout the day to help teams brainstorm, design, and build.

How it works

10:00 AM — Check-in & coffee
10:45 AM — Kickoff & challenge introduction
11:00 AM — Choose a topic & form teams
11:45 AM — Build begins
12:15 PM — Lunch
1:00 PM — Volunteer team check-ins
1:45 PM — Submissions close
2:00 PM — Demos & community voting
3:30 PM — Awards & group photo

🏆 Awards will include categories such as Best Prototype, Most Useful, Boldest Idea, and People’s Choice.

Come with an idea—or just come ready to build. We’ll help you find a team.

As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!

Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!

The AI Collective is a global non-profit building the human layer for the AI era. We unite 200,000+ leaders, builders, and stakeholders across 100+ forums worldwide to democratize the frontier, build trust, and coordinate how society navigates the rapid acceleration of technological progress.

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