World's Largest Hermes Buildathon | SF

Luma Event Link Join the SF edition of the World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon. Backed by OpenAI, Convex, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, Linkup, Dodo Payments, & Wispr Flow. Proudly presented by GrowthX. This is not a regular buildathon. You will build, launch, get users, and chase revenue in 8 hours. Who is this for? • AI-first engineers • Founders • Product leads • Growth engineers • Forward-deployed engineers • GTM and growth operators Meet Our Partners OpenAI is the AI Partner for The World's Largest Hermes Buildathon, empowering builders with access to OpenAI's latest models and platform capabilities to build, test, and deploy real-world AI applications. Thousands of builders across 10 cities and 5 countries will use OpenAI to prototype AI agents on Hermes. Convex is the Database Partner, giving builders real-time sync, backend functions, workflows, and vector search so they skip backend plumbing and ship faster. Wispr Flow is the Dictation Partner, letting builders dictate prompts, PRDs, docs, and implementation plans far faster than typing. In an 8-hour buildathon, teams move at the speed of thought. ElevenLabs is the Voice Partner, giving agents a voice, personality, and real conversational ability through voice cloning, low-latency responses, and multilingual support. Cloudflare is the Hosting Partner, taking products from laptop to live in minutes with global deployment, AI Gateway observability, and usage tracking. Linkup is the Web Search Partner for The World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon, giving builders real-time web search for AI agents through a single API. Dodo Payments is the Payments Partner for The World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon, helping builders start accepting payments in under 5 minutes. Meet your hosts Udayan Walvekar Udayan Walvekar is the Founder & CEO of GrowthX one of the most active AI builder communities (200K members) in the world. Saloni Aggarwal Saloni Aggarwal leads Founding Growth at Tandem AI, helping enterprises adopt AI agents at scale. Kishan Rao Kishan Rao is the Sr.Engineering Manager at Okta, where he leads work across AI security, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes delivery at scale. Meet your Judges Abhishek Kankani is the Head of Emerging Technology at Cloudflare Aritra B is the principal PM at Intuit (TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp) Prev led Product teams at LinkedIn and Oracle. Tosh Rayadhurgam is the Head of Advanced AI at Stripe. Beofre that he was an Engineering Leader for AI at Meta, Lyft and AWS. Wayne Sutton is the head of Community and Startup Programs at Convex (Backed by a16z) Meet your mentors Akshay Potnis is a Director of Product Design at Adobe, previously held senior design leadership roles at Slack and Google. Sarang Bhutada is the Product Lead for Gusto where he's building AI-powered payments. Previous at Capital One Nehal Agrawal is a GTM Engineer at Invigilo AI, and a community builder for the AI Engineer (AIE) conferences. Gautam Bagal the Product lead @ Stanley Black & Decker. and brings a decade of experience scaling B2B products. Ishita Jindal is a Co-Founder of Memory Store (YC P26) after leading products at Lenskart and Jar. ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do Do not edit this event! changes will be overwritten