Judging at Google I/O Kickoff: Pre-World Cup Hack

Served as a judge for the Google I/O Kickoff: Pre-World Cup Hack in San Francisco on 23 May 2026, a one-day sprint organized by GMI Cloud and RocketRide. Roughly 550 builders formed teams to ship AI-powered agentic apps on the technologies just announced at Google I/O. I was one of ten judges, reviewing alongside representatives from NVIDIA, eBay, Meta, and Netflix, scoring the teams' projects and helping select the winners.