Cursor Colombo
24 Hour Buildathon

May 16–17, 2026

Royal-MAS Arena, Colombo

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The schedule

Twenty-four hours.
Four moments that matter.

Registration opens, the clock starts, you ship, you pitch. Everything else is optional — including sleep.

Registration Begins

Sign in, form your team, claim your kit. The clock hasn't started — but the energy has.

7:00 AM · MAY 16

Registration Begins

Sign in, form your team, claim your kit. The clock hasn't started — but the energy has.

10:00 AM · MAY 16

Buildathon Begins

24 hours of building starts now. Cursor is loaded, the brief is live, and the lawn can wait.

10:00 AM · MAY 16

Buildathon Begins

24 hours of building starts now. Cursor is loaded, the brief is live, and the lawn can wait.

Submission Deadline

Lock in your final commit. Polish the README, record the demo, push.

10:00 AM · MAY 17

Submission Deadline

Lock in your final commit. Polish the README, record the demo, push.

12:15 PM · MAY 17

Final Presentation

Pitch the build. Judges decide. Then we all go touch grass — for real this time.

12:15 PM · MAY 17

Final Presentation

Pitch the build. Judges decide. Then we all go touch grass — for real this time.

The Build Stack

Competition Tracks

10 partner tracks powering your build — from voice AI to fintech infrastructure.

ElevenLabs

Valsea

Gemini

Beyond Presence

MiniMax

FAL

Convex

n8n

Netlify

Seylan

All Tracks

ElevenLabs

The voice layer — clone, generate, and deploy speech that sounds alive.

Valsea

Speech recognition built for how this region actually talks — accented, code-switched, messy, real.

Gemini

Google’s multimodal reasoning engine — images, code, and language in one model.

Beyond Presence

Digital humans that hold a room — avatars, presence, and embodied AI with realtime pipelines so synthetic presenters feel credible, not uncanny.

MiniMax

Foundation models for voice, video, text, and music — studio-grade APIs for multimodal storytelling, pacing, and generative media pipelines.

FAL

Serverless GPUs for generative media — image, video, and 3D at inference speed.

Convex

A reactive backend where data syncs itself — no websocket wiring, no polling hacks.

n8n

Fair-code workflow automation — connect anything to anything.

Netlify

Edge deployment and the composable web — previews, rollbacks, edge functions, and CI woven into every commit so shipping stays boring in the best way.

Seylan

Sri Lanka’s fintech track — inclusive flows, cards, and payments UX grounded in local regulation and how people actually bank here.

Judges

30 judges
one rubric.

Engineers, founders, and operators scoring submissions on clarity, craft, and respect for builders.

// from NVIDIA · Adobe · BlackRock · LinkedIn · Oracle · Amazon · DoorDash · eBay · Equifax · PNC · Fujitsu · Sampath Bank · Kapruka · nVentures — and more

Backed by the Best

Powering the
entire build stack.

— 17 partners, one mission: keep the builders unblocked for 24 hours straight.

↳ Partner 01 / 17

Gemini

Google's flagship multimodal model — text, vision, audio, and code reasoning under one API. Builders ground agents in a long context window and native tool use.

// multimodal · long-context · tools

Specialty Partners

AI Enabling Partner