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On June 6, 2026, join Forever 22, Google DeepMind, Pinecone, LangChain, and Betaworks for a full-day, hands-on hackathon focused on one idea: the interface layer for AI agents is expanding far beyond the command line.

We’re bringing together engineers, designers, and builders working across agents, LLMs, voice, generative media, developer tools, and real-time experiences to prototype the next generation of agent interfaces.

Whether you’re building voice-first agents, multimodal copilots, creative tools, workflow assistants, or new ways for people to interact with AI, this is a space to build something ambitious, useful, and demo-ready in a single day.

You’ll spend the day building alongside other top builders, with support from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Pinecone, Betaworks, and more. Expect speaker sessions, sponsor activations, an AMA, hacking time, demos, food, and prizes.

We’ll have up to five submission categories — and five winning teams.

Teams of up to 3 people. To keep things fair and fresh, all projects must be started from scratch on the day of the hackathon.

We’re accepting people on a rolling basis.

This event is part of #NYTechWeek— a week of events hosted by startups and VCs bringing together the tech ecosystem.

when

Saturday
June 6, 2026
10:00 am

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Doors open (check-in, coffee, and bagels; sponsor booths + popups)

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Introductions and sponsor presentations

11:00 AM: Building begins

12:00 PM: Lunch served

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: AMA with Plastic Labs CEO Vince Trost

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Demos

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Winners announced and doors close

Speakers

Yiliu Shen-Burke

Founder
Softspace
Biography

​Yiliu is an architecture school dropout who built one of the best spatial productivity apps for the Meta Quest. He's now working on a new desktop product that seeks to answer the question, "How should we create together with AI?"

Vince Trost

Co-Founder
Plastic Labs
Biography

Vince Trost is a co-founder of Plastic Labs: a research-driven product company working at the intersection of human and machine learning. The Plastic Labs team built Honcho, a tool that provides user context management for LLM apps. Vince is a machine learning engineer by trade and has been working in the AI space for over 5 years.

Kaya Jones

Founder
Forever22
Biography

Mari Zumbro

COO
Filament
Biography

Marc Mueller

Danger Testing
Biography

Tommy Taylor

Co-founder
ClawCon
Biography

Sponsors

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Multimodal Hacks: build the interface for agents

June 6, 2026
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On June 6, 2026, join Forever 22, Google DeepMind, Pinecone, LangChain, and Betaworks for a full-day, hands-on hackathon focused on one idea: the interface layer for AI agents is expanding far beyond the command line.

We’re bringing together engineers, designers, and builders working across agents, LLMs, voice, generative media, developer tools, and real-time experiences to prototype the next generation of agent interfaces.

Whether you’re building voice-first agents, multimodal copilots, creative tools, workflow assistants, or new ways for people to interact with AI, this is a space to build something ambitious, useful, and demo-ready in a single day.

You’ll spend the day building alongside other top builders, with support from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Pinecone, Betaworks, and more. Expect speaker sessions, sponsor activations, an AMA, hacking time, demos, food, and prizes.

We’ll have up to five submission categories — and five winning teams.

Teams of up to 3 people. To keep things fair and fresh, all projects must be started from scratch on the day of the hackathon.

We’re accepting people on a rolling basis.

This event is part of #NYTechWeek— a week of events hosted by startups and VCs bringing together the tech ecosystem.

When

June 6, 2026
10:00 am

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Agenda

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Doors open (check-in, coffee, and bagels; sponsor booths + popups)

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Introductions and sponsor presentations

11:00 AM: Building begins

12:00 PM: Lunch served

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: AMA with Plastic Labs CEO Vince Trost

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Demos

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Winners announced and doors close

Speakers

Yiliu Shen-Burke

Founder
Softspace
Biography

​Yiliu is an architecture school dropout who built one of the best spatial productivity apps for the Meta Quest. He's now working on a new desktop product that seeks to answer the question, "How should we create together with AI?"

Vince Trost

Co-Founder
Plastic Labs
Biography

Vince Trost is a co-founder of Plastic Labs: a research-driven product company working at the intersection of human and machine learning. The Plastic Labs team built Honcho, a tool that provides user context management for LLM apps. Vince is a machine learning engineer by trade and has been working in the AI space for over 5 years.

Kaya Jones

Founder
Forever22
Biography

Mari Zumbro

COO
Filament
Biography

Marc Mueller

Danger Testing
Biography

Tommy Taylor

Co-founder
ClawCon
Biography

Sponsors

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June

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Public Event

In Person

#NYTechWeek:

Multimodal Hacks: build the interface for agents

Register for Event
Register Now

On June 6, 2026, join Forever 22, Google DeepMind, Pinecone, LangChain, and Betaworks for a full-day, hands-on hackathon focused on one idea: the interface layer for AI agents is expanding far beyond the command line.

We’re bringing together engineers, designers, and builders working across agents, LLMs, voice, generative media, developer tools, and real-time experiences to prototype the next generation of agent interfaces.

Whether you’re building voice-first agents, multimodal copilots, creative tools, workflow assistants, or new ways for people to interact with AI, this is a space to build something ambitious, useful, and demo-ready in a single day.

You’ll spend the day building alongside other top builders, with support from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Pinecone, Betaworks, and more. Expect speaker sessions, sponsor activations, an AMA, hacking time, demos, food, and prizes.

We’ll have up to five submission categories — and five winning teams.

Teams of up to 3 people. To keep things fair and fresh, all projects must be started from scratch on the day of the hackathon.

We’re accepting people on a rolling basis.

This event is part of #NYTechWeek— a week of events hosted by startups and VCs bringing together the tech ecosystem.

when

Saturday
June 6, 2026
10:00 am

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Doors open (check-in, coffee, and bagels; sponsor booths + popups)

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Introductions and sponsor presentations

11:00 AM: Building begins

12:00 PM: Lunch served

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: AMA with Plastic Labs CEO Vince Trost

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Demos

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Winners announced and doors close

Speakers

Yiliu Shen-Burke

Founder
Softspace

Biography

​Yiliu is an architecture school dropout who built one of the best spatial productivity apps for the Meta Quest. He's now working on a new desktop product that seeks to answer the question, "How should we create together with AI?"

Vince Trost

Co-Founder
Plastic Labs

Biography

Vince Trost is a co-founder of Plastic Labs: a research-driven product company working at the intersection of human and machine learning. The Plastic Labs team built Honcho, a tool that provides user context management for LLM apps. Vince is a machine learning engineer by trade and has been working in the AI space for over 5 years.

Kaya Jones

Founder
Forever22

Biography

Mari Zumbro

COO
Filament

Biography

Marc Mueller

Danger Testing

Biography

Tommy Taylor

Co-founder
ClawCon

Biography

Sponsors

6/6/2026

Betaworks

Multimodal Hacks: build the interface for agents

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On June 6, 2026, join Forever 22, Google DeepMind, Pinecone, LangChain, and Betaworks for a full-day, hands-on hackathon focused on one idea: the interface layer for AI agents is expanding far beyond the command line.

We’re bringing together engineers, designers, and builders working across agents, LLMs, voice, generative media, developer tools, and real-time experiences to prototype the next generation of agent interfaces.

Whether you’re building voice-first agents, multimodal copilots, creative tools, workflow assistants, or new ways for people to interact with AI, this is a space to build something ambitious, useful, and demo-ready in a single day.

You’ll spend the day building alongside other top builders, with support from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Pinecone, Betaworks, and more. Expect speaker sessions, sponsor activations, an AMA, hacking time, demos, food, and prizes.

We’ll have up to five submission categories — and five winning teams.

Teams of up to 3 people. To keep things fair and fresh, all projects must be started from scratch on the day of the hackathon.

We’re accepting people on a rolling basis.

This event is part of #NYTechWeek— a week of events hosted by startups and VCs bringing together the tech ecosystem.

speakers

Yiliu Shen-Burke

Founder
Softspace
Biography

​Yiliu is an architecture school dropout who built one of the best spatial productivity apps for the Meta Quest. He's now working on a new desktop product that seeks to answer the question, "How should we create together with AI?"

Vince Trost

Co-Founder
Plastic Labs
Biography

Vince Trost is a co-founder of Plastic Labs: a research-driven product company working at the intersection of human and machine learning. The Plastic Labs team built Honcho, a tool that provides user context management for LLM apps. Vince is a machine learning engineer by trade and has been working in the AI space for over 5 years.

Kaya Jones

Founder
Forever22
Biography

Mari Zumbro

COO
Filament
Biography

Marc Mueller

Danger Testing
Biography

Tommy Taylor

Co-founder
ClawCon
Biography

Schedule

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WHEN

Saturday, June 6, 2026
10:00 am

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

Agenda

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Doors open (check-in, coffee, and bagels; sponsor booths + popups)

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Introductions and sponsor presentations

11:00 AM: Building begins

12:00 PM: Lunch served

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: AMA with Plastic Labs CEO Vince Trost

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Demos

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Winners announced and doors close

Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

June 6, 2026
10:00 am

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
or livestream
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

On June 6, 2026, join Forever 22, Google DeepMind, Pinecone, LangChain, and Betaworks for a full-day, hands-on hackathon focused on one idea: the interface layer for AI agents is expanding far beyond the command line.

We’re bringing together engineers, designers, and builders working across agents, LLMs, voice, generative media, developer tools, and real-time experiences to prototype the next generation of agent interfaces.

Whether you’re building voice-first agents, multimodal copilots, creative tools, workflow assistants, or new ways for people to interact with AI, this is a space to build something ambitious, useful, and demo-ready in a single day.

You’ll spend the day building alongside other top builders, with support from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Pinecone, Betaworks, and more. Expect speaker sessions, sponsor activations, an AMA, hacking time, demos, food, and prizes.

We’ll have up to five submission categories — and five winning teams.

Teams of up to 3 people. To keep things fair and fresh, all projects must be started from scratch on the day of the hackathon.

We’re accepting people on a rolling basis.

This event is part of #NYTechWeek— a week of events hosted by startups and VCs bringing together the tech ecosystem.

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold

Yiliu

Shen-Burke

Founder
Softspace
@softspaceninja

Vince

Trost

Co-Founder
Plastic Labs

Kaya

Jones

Founder
Forever22
@kayacancode

Mari

Zumbro

COO
Filament

Marc

Mueller

Danger Testing
marcgmbh

Tommy

Taylor

Co-founder
ClawCon
@0xtotaylor

Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
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