Battle of the Personal Brains Hackathon 🧠

🧠 Cognee, AWS Strands Agent, Docker Sandbox, Bright Data $100 in Credits for everyone (Cogee + Bright Data)$4000 in Prizes for the winners. $1000 in cash prizes + $1000 in Cognee credits + $2000 in AWS credits. Join us for Battle of the Personal Brains, a 5 hour hands-on AI hackathon where you’ll build an intelligent personal agent powered by your own data, live information, and create an agentic workflow to take action, all under one roof at the Bright Data office in SOMA. Build the personal AI agent you’ve always wanted. In today’s world, it’s possible for an AI agent to know what you know - your emails, your documents, meetings, calendar, tasks, files, and other information that’s relevant to you - and then act on it. For this hackathon, the challenge is simple: Build a brain. Build an agent. Then make it do something. ​🗓️ Event Details When: 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Monday September 21, 2026Where: Bright Data office, San Francisco, CA 🧠 First, Build your Personal Brain Your agent is only as useful as the information it can understand. So you’ll create an AI-powered brain that can combine knowledge from multiple sources: Your laptop and local filesGoogle Drive and cloud documentsPersonal email and other data sourcesPublic information from across the webMeeting notes, receipts, photos, schedules, and more You'll use Cognee’s structured AI memory to create your Personal Brain, and Bright Data to discover and retrieve public web data. 🤖 Then, Build your Agent Once your agent can access the right knowledge, the real fun begins. Build an agent that can find information, reason across it, and take action. Your agent could: Manage your calendar - Find availability and schedule an appointment automatically.Take notes and remind you later - Capture information and send a reminder exactly when you need it.Turn meetings into action - Read meeting summaries, identify commitments and action items, and build your personal to-do schedule.Handle your expenses - Process receipts, extract the important information, organize them, and prepare expense reports.Organize and share your photos - Process photos, upload them to Google Photos, organize them, and share them with your WhatsApp group.Build your own personal assistant - Create an agent that understands your information, remembers what's important, and helps you get things done.Connect your digital life - Connect to apps and services you use every day, read through information, create notes, identify what matters, and remind you when action is required. Or build something completely different. Your brain. Your agent. Your idea. 🛠️ The Agentic Stack We'll provide technologies you can combine to build your agent: 🧠 Cognee — The Brain - Create long-term AI memory and a Personal Brain that your agent can search, understand, and reason over. Get $50 of Cognee Cloud Credits. 🌐 Bright Data — The Web - Give your agent access to fresh public information from across the web. Get $50 of Bright Data Credits. 📁 Your Data — The Personal Brain - Bring your own files and information from your laptop, Google Drive, and other sources. 🤖 AWS Strands Agents — The Agent Harness - Build and orchestrate the agent that reasons, uses tools, and decides what to do next. 🐳 Docker Sandboxes — The Sandbox - Give your agent a secure environment where it can run code and perform tasks. Together, these technologies give your agent something increasingly important: Data + Memory + Reasoning + Tools + Actions ⚔️ The Battle This isn't just about building another chatbot. We're looking for agents that can understand information and then accomplish something useful. At the end of the hackathon, each team will demonstrate what their agents can do. Will it remember better? Find better information? Reason across personal, company, and public data? Can it take useful actions? But most importantly: Can your brain beat the other brains? 👩‍💻 Who Should Attend? Developers, AI engineers, agent bu…