World's Largest Hermes Buildathon | SF 🇺🇸

Join the SF edition of theWorld’s Largest Hermes Buildathon. Backed by OpenAI, Convex, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, Linkup, Dodo Payments, Hissa Fund & Wispr Flow. Proudly presented by GrowthX. Hermes is the fastest-growing AI agent in 2026 (Open Source). Millions of developers are obsessed with it, and so are we. Who is this for?AI-first engineersFoundersProduct leadsGrowth engineersForward-deployed engineersGTM and growth operators For Attendees:All builders who are approved and attend the event will receive access to all our partner credits. This code you'll receive ONLY at the event, in person.Here's what you'll get: These credits are exclusively available to builders who are approved and attend the event in person. Meet Our Partners OpenAI is the AI Partner for The World's Largest Hermes Buildathon, giving thousands of builders across 10 cities free API credits to prototype and ship AI agents on GPT-5.5. After India's first OpenClaw Buildathon together, we're building again at global scale. Convex is the Database Partner, giving builders real-time sync, backend functions, workflows, and vector search so they skip backend plumbing and ship faster. GrowthX's own community platform is built on Convex, so this is a product we deeply believe in. Wispr Flow is the Dictation Partner, letting builders dictate prompts, PRDs, docs, and implementation plans far faster than typing, with support for technical language and codebase context. 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. After the production-grade use cases from our Voice AI Buildathon, we can't wait to see what builders ship with Hermes. Cloudflare is the Hosting Partner, taking products from laptop to live in minutes with global deployment, AI Gateway observability, and usage tracking. For an 8-hour buildathon, that's the speed and visibility teams need to reach productionLinkup 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. Instead of relying on outdated model knowledge, builders can fetch fresh, cited information from across the web to power research assistants, AI copilots, and autonomous agents. Dodo Payments is the Payments Partner for The World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon, helping builders start accepting payments in under 5 minutes. With one integration, builders can accept payments across countries, support subscriptions and one-time purchases. Meet your hosts Udayan WalvekarUdayan Walvekar is the Founder & CEO of GrowthX one of the most active AI builder communities (200K members) in the world. Before GrowthX, he was the first growth hire at Razorpay and worked across product growth, onboarding, adoption, lifecycle, and retention during one of India’s most defining fintech scale-up phases. Saloni AggarwalSaloni Aggarwal leads Founding Growth at Tandem AI, helping enterprises adopt AI agents at scale. Before Tandem AI, she led product marketing at InMobi and launched AI-native products through Antler. She brings the GTM edge that turns agent demos into real products with real pull.Kishan RaoKishan Rao is the Sr.Engineering Manager at Okta, where he leads work across AI security, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes delivery at scale. Before Okta, he built across engineering teams where reliability, infrastructure, and security had to work together in production. He brings deep judgment on security, reliability, and how agentic systems behave once they leave the laptop.