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AI Tinkerers presents the Generative Media Hackathon, hosted in NYC with support from a ElevenLabs, and community partners to be announced soon. 🎬🧠📱

Generative content is becoming a real layer of the internet. Short-form loops, synthetic characters, remix chains, repost factories, five minute story generators. People are already consuming it at scale.

This hackathon is not about making a single viral clip.

It’s about building the systems behind generative content at scale. The tooling, pipelines, controls, labels, economics, and guardrails that decide what gets created, how it spreads, who gets credited, what gets consented, and what gets filtered out.

We’re bringing together builders who want to treat generative content like infrastructure. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Build engines, not content. Ship a working system that can generate, route, measure, attribute, or govern synthetic short-form media.

Space is limited and curated. RSVP required.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Content Infrastructure

If generative content is inevitable, what would make it more ethical, more economical, and more controllable?

This weekend is about:

  • Systems that can reliably generate short-form formats (not one-offs)
  • Pipelines that turn a seed into a full bundle: script, scenes, voice, captions, variants
  • Controls and constraints: knobs, style limits, continuity, safety checks, evals
  • Provenance and labeling that survives reposts and remixes
  • Consent and licensing rails for voices, faces, characters, styles
  • Cost accounting per minute of output, and ways to reduce waste
  • Routing and filters so users can opt out, tune down, or cap repetition
  • Measurement and detection: taxonomy, classification, lineage, repost graphs

We’re not doing ads.
No brand campaigns, no “make a viral TikTok for Company X,” no marketing content.

This is builder-first. Tooling-first. Infrastructure-first.

If you’ve ever looked at the generative media wave and thought “someone is going to build the operating system for this,” that’s the point.

🧱 What You Can Build

Pick a lane and go deep:

1) Content Engines
Pipelines that generate consistent short-form formats with continuity and variants.

2) Governance and Disclosure
Consent registries, provenance ledgers, disclosure layers, watermarking, “nutrition labels.”

3) Economics and Attribution
Compute and cost dashboards, licensing marketplaces, attribution and revenue splits for remixes.

4) Routing and Control
Feed simulators, risk scoring, user-level filters, throttles, and preference controls.

5) Measurement and Detection
Format and trope classifiers, synthetic provenance detection, repost lineage tracking.

Bring a demo that shows the system working end to end. Reliability wins.

🤖 Who Is This For?

This hackathon is for builders who want to shape the mechanics of generative content, not just the outputs:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Creative technologists
  • Video and audio pipeline builders
  • Tool builders and platform people
  • Product-minded founders
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird formats and real systems

You should be able to code. You do not need to be an ML wizard.

This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100 to 150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

For all participants: 1 month free of our Creator tier (normally $22/month)

1st $2.5k in sponsor credits

2nd $1.5k in sponsor credits

3rd $1k in sponsor credits

Bonus prizes for: best provenance layer, best cost reducer, best user-control tool.

when

Saturday
April 11, 2026
9:00 am

LoCATION

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

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Generative Media Hackathon with ElevenLabs

April 11, 2026
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AI Tinkerers presents the Generative Media Hackathon, hosted in NYC with support from a ElevenLabs, and community partners to be announced soon. 🎬🧠📱

Generative content is becoming a real layer of the internet. Short-form loops, synthetic characters, remix chains, repost factories, five minute story generators. People are already consuming it at scale.

This hackathon is not about making a single viral clip.

It’s about building the systems behind generative content at scale. The tooling, pipelines, controls, labels, economics, and guardrails that decide what gets created, how it spreads, who gets credited, what gets consented, and what gets filtered out.

We’re bringing together builders who want to treat generative content like infrastructure. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Build engines, not content. Ship a working system that can generate, route, measure, attribute, or govern synthetic short-form media.

Space is limited and curated. RSVP required.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Content Infrastructure

If generative content is inevitable, what would make it more ethical, more economical, and more controllable?

This weekend is about:

  • Systems that can reliably generate short-form formats (not one-offs)
  • Pipelines that turn a seed into a full bundle: script, scenes, voice, captions, variants
  • Controls and constraints: knobs, style limits, continuity, safety checks, evals
  • Provenance and labeling that survives reposts and remixes
  • Consent and licensing rails for voices, faces, characters, styles
  • Cost accounting per minute of output, and ways to reduce waste
  • Routing and filters so users can opt out, tune down, or cap repetition
  • Measurement and detection: taxonomy, classification, lineage, repost graphs

We’re not doing ads.
No brand campaigns, no “make a viral TikTok for Company X,” no marketing content.

This is builder-first. Tooling-first. Infrastructure-first.

If you’ve ever looked at the generative media wave and thought “someone is going to build the operating system for this,” that’s the point.

🧱 What You Can Build

Pick a lane and go deep:

1) Content Engines
Pipelines that generate consistent short-form formats with continuity and variants.

2) Governance and Disclosure
Consent registries, provenance ledgers, disclosure layers, watermarking, “nutrition labels.”

3) Economics and Attribution
Compute and cost dashboards, licensing marketplaces, attribution and revenue splits for remixes.

4) Routing and Control
Feed simulators, risk scoring, user-level filters, throttles, and preference controls.

5) Measurement and Detection
Format and trope classifiers, synthetic provenance detection, repost lineage tracking.

Bring a demo that shows the system working end to end. Reliability wins.

🤖 Who Is This For?

This hackathon is for builders who want to shape the mechanics of generative content, not just the outputs:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Creative technologists
  • Video and audio pipeline builders
  • Tool builders and platform people
  • Product-minded founders
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird formats and real systems

You should be able to code. You do not need to be an ML wizard.

This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100 to 150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

For all participants: 1 month free of our Creator tier (normally $22/month)

1st $2.5k in sponsor credits

2nd $1.5k in sponsor credits

3rd $1k in sponsor credits

Bonus prizes for: best provenance layer, best cost reducer, best user-control tool.

When

April 11, 2026
9:00 am

Where

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

Agenda

Speakers

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Sponsors

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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

April

11

Public Event

In Person

AI Tinkerers:

Generative Media Hackathon with ElevenLabs

Register for Event
Register Now

AI Tinkerers presents the Generative Media Hackathon, hosted in NYC with support from a ElevenLabs, and community partners to be announced soon. 🎬🧠📱

Generative content is becoming a real layer of the internet. Short-form loops, synthetic characters, remix chains, repost factories, five minute story generators. People are already consuming it at scale.

This hackathon is not about making a single viral clip.

It’s about building the systems behind generative content at scale. The tooling, pipelines, controls, labels, economics, and guardrails that decide what gets created, how it spreads, who gets credited, what gets consented, and what gets filtered out.

We’re bringing together builders who want to treat generative content like infrastructure. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Build engines, not content. Ship a working system that can generate, route, measure, attribute, or govern synthetic short-form media.

Space is limited and curated. RSVP required.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Content Infrastructure

If generative content is inevitable, what would make it more ethical, more economical, and more controllable?

This weekend is about:

  • Systems that can reliably generate short-form formats (not one-offs)
  • Pipelines that turn a seed into a full bundle: script, scenes, voice, captions, variants
  • Controls and constraints: knobs, style limits, continuity, safety checks, evals
  • Provenance and labeling that survives reposts and remixes
  • Consent and licensing rails for voices, faces, characters, styles
  • Cost accounting per minute of output, and ways to reduce waste
  • Routing and filters so users can opt out, tune down, or cap repetition
  • Measurement and detection: taxonomy, classification, lineage, repost graphs

We’re not doing ads.
No brand campaigns, no “make a viral TikTok for Company X,” no marketing content.

This is builder-first. Tooling-first. Infrastructure-first.

If you’ve ever looked at the generative media wave and thought “someone is going to build the operating system for this,” that’s the point.

🧱 What You Can Build

Pick a lane and go deep:

1) Content Engines
Pipelines that generate consistent short-form formats with continuity and variants.

2) Governance and Disclosure
Consent registries, provenance ledgers, disclosure layers, watermarking, “nutrition labels.”

3) Economics and Attribution
Compute and cost dashboards, licensing marketplaces, attribution and revenue splits for remixes.

4) Routing and Control
Feed simulators, risk scoring, user-level filters, throttles, and preference controls.

5) Measurement and Detection
Format and trope classifiers, synthetic provenance detection, repost lineage tracking.

Bring a demo that shows the system working end to end. Reliability wins.

🤖 Who Is This For?

This hackathon is for builders who want to shape the mechanics of generative content, not just the outputs:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Creative technologists
  • Video and audio pipeline builders
  • Tool builders and platform people
  • Product-minded founders
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird formats and real systems

You should be able to code. You do not need to be an ML wizard.

This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100 to 150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

For all participants: 1 month free of our Creator tier (normally $22/month)

1st $2.5k in sponsor credits

2nd $1.5k in sponsor credits

3rd $1k in sponsor credits

Bonus prizes for: best provenance layer, best cost reducer, best user-control tool.

when

Saturday
April 11, 2026
9:00 am

LoCATION

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

agenda

Speakers

No items found.

Sponsors

4/11/2026

Betaworks

Generative Media Hackathon with ElevenLabs

Presented by

AI Tinkerers presents the Generative Media Hackathon, hosted in NYC with support from a ElevenLabs, and community partners to be announced soon. 🎬🧠📱

Generative content is becoming a real layer of the internet. Short-form loops, synthetic characters, remix chains, repost factories, five minute story generators. People are already consuming it at scale.

This hackathon is not about making a single viral clip.

It’s about building the systems behind generative content at scale. The tooling, pipelines, controls, labels, economics, and guardrails that decide what gets created, how it spreads, who gets credited, what gets consented, and what gets filtered out.

We’re bringing together builders who want to treat generative content like infrastructure. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Build engines, not content. Ship a working system that can generate, route, measure, attribute, or govern synthetic short-form media.

Space is limited and curated. RSVP required.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Content Infrastructure

If generative content is inevitable, what would make it more ethical, more economical, and more controllable?

This weekend is about:

  • Systems that can reliably generate short-form formats (not one-offs)
  • Pipelines that turn a seed into a full bundle: script, scenes, voice, captions, variants
  • Controls and constraints: knobs, style limits, continuity, safety checks, evals
  • Provenance and labeling that survives reposts and remixes
  • Consent and licensing rails for voices, faces, characters, styles
  • Cost accounting per minute of output, and ways to reduce waste
  • Routing and filters so users can opt out, tune down, or cap repetition
  • Measurement and detection: taxonomy, classification, lineage, repost graphs

We’re not doing ads.
No brand campaigns, no “make a viral TikTok for Company X,” no marketing content.

This is builder-first. Tooling-first. Infrastructure-first.

If you’ve ever looked at the generative media wave and thought “someone is going to build the operating system for this,” that’s the point.

🧱 What You Can Build

Pick a lane and go deep:

1) Content Engines
Pipelines that generate consistent short-form formats with continuity and variants.

2) Governance and Disclosure
Consent registries, provenance ledgers, disclosure layers, watermarking, “nutrition labels.”

3) Economics and Attribution
Compute and cost dashboards, licensing marketplaces, attribution and revenue splits for remixes.

4) Routing and Control
Feed simulators, risk scoring, user-level filters, throttles, and preference controls.

5) Measurement and Detection
Format and trope classifiers, synthetic provenance detection, repost lineage tracking.

Bring a demo that shows the system working end to end. Reliability wins.

🤖 Who Is This For?

This hackathon is for builders who want to shape the mechanics of generative content, not just the outputs:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Creative technologists
  • Video and audio pipeline builders
  • Tool builders and platform people
  • Product-minded founders
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird formats and real systems

You should be able to code. You do not need to be an ML wizard.

This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100 to 150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

For all participants: 1 month free of our Creator tier (normally $22/month)

1st $2.5k in sponsor credits

2nd $1.5k in sponsor credits

3rd $1k in sponsor credits

Bonus prizes for: best provenance layer, best cost reducer, best user-control tool.

speakers

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Schedule

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WHEN

Saturday, April 11, 2026
9:00 am

WHERE

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

Agenda

Tools
For
Thinking

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

When

April 11, 2026
9:00 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

AI Tinkerers presents the Generative Media Hackathon, hosted in NYC with support from a ElevenLabs, and community partners to be announced soon. 🎬🧠📱

Generative content is becoming a real layer of the internet. Short-form loops, synthetic characters, remix chains, repost factories, five minute story generators. People are already consuming it at scale.

This hackathon is not about making a single viral clip.

It’s about building the systems behind generative content at scale. The tooling, pipelines, controls, labels, economics, and guardrails that decide what gets created, how it spreads, who gets credited, what gets consented, and what gets filtered out.

We’re bringing together builders who want to treat generative content like infrastructure. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Build engines, not content. Ship a working system that can generate, route, measure, attribute, or govern synthetic short-form media.

Space is limited and curated. RSVP required.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Content Infrastructure

If generative content is inevitable, what would make it more ethical, more economical, and more controllable?

This weekend is about:

  • Systems that can reliably generate short-form formats (not one-offs)
  • Pipelines that turn a seed into a full bundle: script, scenes, voice, captions, variants
  • Controls and constraints: knobs, style limits, continuity, safety checks, evals
  • Provenance and labeling that survives reposts and remixes
  • Consent and licensing rails for voices, faces, characters, styles
  • Cost accounting per minute of output, and ways to reduce waste
  • Routing and filters so users can opt out, tune down, or cap repetition
  • Measurement and detection: taxonomy, classification, lineage, repost graphs

We’re not doing ads.
No brand campaigns, no “make a viral TikTok for Company X,” no marketing content.

This is builder-first. Tooling-first. Infrastructure-first.

If you’ve ever looked at the generative media wave and thought “someone is going to build the operating system for this,” that’s the point.

🧱 What You Can Build

Pick a lane and go deep:

1) Content Engines
Pipelines that generate consistent short-form formats with continuity and variants.

2) Governance and Disclosure
Consent registries, provenance ledgers, disclosure layers, watermarking, “nutrition labels.”

3) Economics and Attribution
Compute and cost dashboards, licensing marketplaces, attribution and revenue splits for remixes.

4) Routing and Control
Feed simulators, risk scoring, user-level filters, throttles, and preference controls.

5) Measurement and Detection
Format and trope classifiers, synthetic provenance detection, repost lineage tracking.

Bring a demo that shows the system working end to end. Reliability wins.

🤖 Who Is This For?

This hackathon is for builders who want to shape the mechanics of generative content, not just the outputs:

  • Full-stack engineers
  • Creative technologists
  • Video and audio pipeline builders
  • Tool builders and platform people
  • Product-minded founders
  • AI Tinkerers who like weird formats and real systems

You should be able to code. You do not need to be an ML wizard.

This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100 to 150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

For all participants: 1 month free of our Creator tier (normally $22/month)

1st $2.5k in sponsor credits

2nd $1.5k in sponsor credits

3rd $1k in sponsor credits

Bonus prizes for: best provenance layer, best cost reducer, best user-control tool.

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold
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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

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  • 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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