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Hosted at Berlinhouse | In collaboration with Google Developer Group, n-aible, and Aparavi
Ready to build real-world B2B tools without touching thousands of lines of code?
Join us for a 4-day innovation sprint where developers, designers, AI enthusiasts, and creators team up to build enterprise-grade prototypes that reimagine how vertical communities like Berlinhouse operate and thrive.
Using powerful MCP, low-code/no-code platforms, you’ll rapidly assemble workflows, rethink collaboration, and tackle real challenges with scalable, AI-powered solutions.
📅 Main Event: Saturday, May 24th, 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
📍 Location: Berlinhouse, 995 Market St, San Francisco, CA
🎟 Open to: Tech, AI, design, and business innovators, anyone with big ideas!
👥 Teams: 2–4 participants
🎯 What You'll Build
Design and prototype AI-powered solutions that enhance the way vertical communities like Berlinhouse live, work, and collaborate. You’ll explore challenges across key operational and experiential areas in order to create tools that benefit the building, its members, and the overall community ecosystem.
Some areas you might explore:
Facility Management: Smarter room usage, resource tracking, and ESG-friendly operations
Community Governance: Tools for member input, space access, and transparent decision-making
B2B Services: Internal marketplaces for skills, services, and collaboration
AI Concierge: Personalized assistance for residents—recommendations, events, scheduling
Data Insights: Unstructured data pipelines that surface trends, behaviors, and improvements
Your team is free to mix, combine, or go beyond these areas as long as it makes life in a vertical city smarter and more connected.
🛠️ Development Platforms
Build using tools from our official sponsors and tech partners:
Aparavi: Unstructured data automation
Google: Cloud and AI APIs
3 more TBD
🗓️ Event Flow
Wed, May 21 (6–8 PM): Supervised Prehack → Meet mentors, test ideas, form teams
Thu, May 22 (6–8 PM): Unsupervised Prehack → Freestyle experiments + tool exploration
Fri, May 23 (6–8 PM): Happy Hour → Networking, drinks, and early project teasers
Sat, May 24 (11 AM–10 PM): Hackathon Day → Build, ship, and pitch your MVP
🏆 Why Join?
🍕 Free meals, drinks, and swag
🧠 Hands-on mentorship from platform experts
🎤 Pitch to VCs, tech execs, and designers
🎁 Prizes for Top 3 teams (cash, tech gear — details coming soon)
✅ Success Criteria:
Integrate at least two sponsor tools and any AI-related tool/technology announced during Google I/O 2025
Deliver a working prototype live
Align with Berlinhouse’s vertical village model
Quantify real-world impact
Build with low-code/no-code at the core
Bring your laptop, charger, a notebook, and your best vibes.
Ready to prototype the future without drowning in code? Sign up now!
Agenda
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Hosted By
Riya Dashoriya, GDG Organizer
Sako M, Platform engineer
Sako M is a seasoned professional with 10+ years of experience in the field of technology. He has worked with more than ten companies in six countries, and he holds three master's degrees in different countries. He is currently based in San Francisco, California, and he is focused on AI, DevOps, Security, Open Source and building SaaS products.
Sako's passion for technology is evident in his work, and he is dedicated to using his skills and knowledge to generate value for all creatures in the world. He believes that as long as we give more than we take, the best is yet to come.
Sako has founded two open source projects called JobHax and GOUP. Currently he works at company called Gladly, where he is a Sr. Software Engineer. Before his current role at Gladly, he worked as a DevOps | Infrastructure Security Lead at OpenGov Inc., where he managed highly available software as a service and built infrastructure for continuous integration, automated software releases, and infrastructure automation. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at NGINX, Inc., and as an Industrial Cyber Security Researcher at Fraunhofer IOSB-INA.
Throughout his career, Sako has honed his skills in areas such as security, reliability, scalability, performance, cost optimization, operational excellence, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and Linux-based servers. At Huawei Technologies, he worked as a service project manager, responsible for 24x7 of five service providers' network engineering teams' management, and as a system and network support team leader, where he worked on Customer Experience Management platform Operation&Maintenance Linux based servers and storage. He has also worked as a Core Network Planning Team Leader at Bakcell, where he led the Core Network Planning team.
Anu Mittal,
Akshama ., Senior Software Engineer
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