This is where the builders show up.

The AI for Social Good Hackathon is the flagship Day 1 activation of Open Atlas Summit 2026, bringing together builders using AI to tackle problems that matter across immigration, healthcare, education, financial inclusion, newcomer settlement, and more.

Over the past two months, teams have been building and shipping real solutions. On Friday, August 21, finalist teams will come together in Milpitas to demo live in front of judges from across the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

All hackathon participants and community members are welcome to attend Demo Day, meet the builders, and watch the finalist pitches. Winners will be announced the same day.

Tools and Technologies

You can build with whatever stack you want. The following tools are particularly well-suited to the AI for Social Good challenge and many come with free credits for registered hackers.

AI Models & APIs

  • OpenAI - GPT-5, o-series reasoning models, Whisper (speech), DALL-E (image)
  • Anthropic - Claude Opus 4.7, Sonnet, Haiku
  • Google - Gemini, MedGemma (healthcare-specific)
  • Meta - Llama (open weights, run anywhere)
  • Mistral, Cohere, xAI - Alternative foundation models
Cloud Infrastructure

  • AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure - Compute, storage, managed AI services
  • Cloudflare Workers AI - Edge inference, no cold starts
  • Vercel, Netlify - Instant deployment with shareable URLs
  • Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, Supabase - Data + vector storage
Agent & Orchestration Frameworks

  • LangChain, LlamaIndex - RAG and agent orchestration
  • CrewAI, Composio, AutoGen - Multi-agent systems
  • Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma - Vector databases for retrieval
UI & Prototyping

  • Lovable, v0, Cursor, Windsurf - AI-assisted UI generation
  • Next.js, React, Vue - Web frameworks
  • Streamlit, Gradio - Fast ML demo UIs
  • Expo, React Native - Mobile
Speech, Vision & Multimodal

  • ElevenLabs - Speech synthesis
  • Deepgram, AssemblyAI - Speech-to-text
  • Tone, Replicate - Audio/video model hosting
Dev Tools

  • GitHub Copilot, Claude Code - AI coding assistants
  • Daytona - Cloud dev environments
  • Sentry, PostHog - Observability and analytics

 

Sponsor credit distribution: After registering, check the #sponsor-credits channel in the Open Atlas Slack for active credit codes. New sponsors are added throughout the submission window.

Inspiration

Looking for ideas? Here are real projects from similar AI-for-social-good hackathons that demonstrate the kind of work that wins.

CliniCall (Out-of-Pocket Healthcare AI Hackathon, 2025)

An AI agent that takes your insurance, ZIP code, and symptoms — then calls in-network doctors in parallel until it finds one available. Especially useful for immigrants and others unfamiliar with the US healthcare system.

Bild AI / Comply.ai (Hack for Social Impact, 2024)

An AI-powered tool that automates architectural plan review for building code compliance, lowering the cost of building affordable housing. Won 2nd place and was accepted into Y Combinator immediately after.

Trauma-Informed Intake (Hack for Social Impact, 2025)

A conversational AI tool for the California Homeless Youth Project that lets young people share their story once, with empathy and consistency, instead of repeating it across multiple intake forms.

CityLens (BRIDGEGOOD AI for Social Good, 2025)

A computer-vision tool that helps city planners identify ADA accessibility barriers from street-view imagery — pointed at Oakland to start.

GaIA (OdiseIA4Good Hackathon, 2025)

An app and hardware system that helps families support elderly relatives with cognitive decline, combining a caregiver app with simple voice-first hardware.

The pattern across winners: specific population, specific painful workflow, AI doing real work end-to-end, and a demo that makes the impact immediately obvious. Aim for that.

Contact Us & Support Channels

During the Submission Window (June 20 – August 20)

Open Atlas Slack — Primary channel for everything

  • #general — Announcements
  • #team-formation — Find teammates
  • #sponsor-credits — API credit codes
  • #help — Stuck on something technical

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    Devpost Page

    For questions about the hackathon rules, eligibility, or submission process, post in the Discussion tab on this page. Per Devpost guidance, responses are posted publicly so all participants benefit equally.

    Email

    For private or sensitive questions: [email protected]

    On-site at Demo Day (August 21, Milpitas)
    • Registration desk — Check in, get your badge
    • Mentor table — Look for orange "Mentor" lanyards
    • Organizers — Look for orange "Organizer" lanyards
    Organizing Team

    Sakshi Gupta & Anushk — Hackathon co-leads Open Atlas (Open Venture) — [email protected] Website: openatlas.events