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Upcoming eventSF BAY AREA · DECEMBER 2026VIBE CODE FOR THE PLANET

Vibe Code for the Planet.

Sponsor the next generation building Agents for the environment. A one-day hackathon: Vibe Code for the Planet.

Applications openSaturday · 9:00 AM – 5:00 PMVenue TBA, SF Bay Area1 day · In-person
Sponsors
Expedia logoSnowflake logoTwilio logoMore coming

A day where students, sponsors, and Bay Area community partners ship real environmental software together.

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By the numbers

A day, sized to the Bay Area.

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students
from Bay Area colleges and community programs.
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agencies & partners
connecting real datasets and public-interest workflows.
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day
of building, mentorship, and demos at a venue in the SF Bay Area.
2026 Sponsorship Prospectus · Code for the Planet

Put your platform
in the hands of
builders.

ProgramEarth turns APIs, AI tools, cloud credits, and open-source frameworks into environmental use cases that builders ship, agencies evaluate, and your teams reuse. Sponsor one event or a multi-market series across Oakland, New York City, and Washington, DC.

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0+ students served across 0 countries and 0+ participating organizations.

How it works

Sponsors define. Students build. Agencies keep it running.

Sponsors define the challenge

You choose the environmental use case. We provide the context.

  • Provide APIs, AI tools, cloud credits, or environmental workflows.
  • We connect your technology to real public datasets and agency needs.
  • Your platform is used by future engineers building solutions for the SF Bay Area.

Recruit future talent. Demonstrate impact. Drive innovation in the public good.

Students build AI agents & systems

Students from local colleges and community organizations build prototypes using your tools.

  • AI agents for environmental risk management and decision support.
  • Water quality and watershed monitoring.
  • Large environmental database pipelines.
  • Geospatial, sensor, and remote-sensing workflows.
  • Public-sector reporting and decision-support systems.

Real datasets. Real workflows. Real impact.

Projects continue with agency partners

Top projects don't end on demo day. They continue in the real world.

  • Agency partners evaluate and adopt useful tools.
  • Open-source code, models, and workflows are retained by agencies.
  • Tools support environmental monitoring, compliance, and community resilience.
  • Students gain mentorship and pathways for future collaborations.

Tools built by students. Deployed for our communities. Built to last.

Project focus areas

Four tracks, one day.

Environmental GIS

  • Map, analyze, and protect land, water, and community resources.

AI Agents

  • Build agents for environmental workflows, monitoring, and decision support.

Secure Open-Source Infrastructure

  • Create secure, scalable public-interest tools and deployment systems.

CI/CD, APIs & Data Pipelines

  • Connect tools, automate workflows, and move data into action.
What students will build

Working tools by 5pm, not slide decks.

Teams ship a functioning, agent-powered tool against a real environmental workflow in a single day, built on your APIs, SDKs, and datasets.

OpenNature Map, a student-built dashboard showing tribal consultation alerts for water basins, wildfire zones and transport corridors across a California map
Example buildOpenNature Map surfaces new consultation alerts, highway expansions, reservoir plans, fuel breaks, wind farms, against water basins, wildfire zones and transport corridors, then routes each one into a coordinated response for tribal and agency reviewers.

  • A demoable repo, same day

    Every team ships a working prototype and a public repository, not a concept deck. You leave with something you can run.

  • Built on your stack

    Sponsors define the challenge. Your API, SDK, or dataset becomes the reference implementation students learn on and keep using.

  • Validated by real users

    Agency and community partners sit with the teams, so the workflows are pressure-tested by the people who actually run them.

  • Output that keeps circulating

    Repos, demos, and badges travel with students to LinkedIn and their next roles, extending your reach well past the event.

Tier 3 sponsors get to issue custom badges.

Each custom badge links students back to your repository, helping more builders discover your tools, understand what you offer, and start building with them.

OpenEarth Hacks Copilot for Sustainability badge
Students earn a LinkedIn-worthy badge on your tools
Past badge example
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Hackathon agenda

December 2026.

9–9:30 AMCheck-in + breakfast
9:30–10 AMWelcome + challenge overview
10–10:30 AMAgency and environmental dataset presentations
10:30–11 AMProject tracks walkthrough
11–11:30 AMTechnical onboarding
11:30 AM–12 PMTeam formation
12–3 PMBuild session
3–4 PMMentor support + project refinement
4–5 PMProject demos
In partnership with

Universities and Community Organizations.

University Partners
Mills College logoLaney College logo
Community Organization Partners
AISES logoCode Tenderloin logoYouth Center of SF logo

December 2026. SF Bay Area.

Whether you're bringing a team, a budget, or a challenge, get in touch and we'll route you to the right side of the room.

Part of Vibe Code for the Planet 2026

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Building AI agents for the environment · Bay Area talent · Public good

Sponsorship

Three ways to support Vibe Code for the Planet.

Tier 1

Community Partner

$1,500 – $2,500

Live product demo, post-event lead list, and event photo content. Pricing is based on demo length.

  • Live product demo: showcase your product, workflow, or tool during the event.
  • Lead list: post-event access to the participant and talent list.
  • Event photo content: branded event photos from your sponsor presence and live demo.
  • Logo on website and event materials.
  • LinkedIn mentions and event recap posts.
  • Sponsor listing and mentor participation opportunities.
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Tier 2

Builder Partner

$4,500

Everything in Community Partner, plus co-branded swag, a branded recap video, and a sponsor reference architecture.

  • Everything in Community Partner (Tier 1).
  • Co-branded swag: small sponsor logo placement on shirts or swag.
  • Branded recap video: 1 minute sponsor-branded segment within the hackathon recap.
  • Reference architecture: your use case is built as a sponsor reference repository for community adoption.
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Tier 3

Strategic Partner

$6,500+

Everything in Tiers 1 and 2, plus a customer video interview, co-branded case study, and a maintained advanced reference architecture.

  • Everything in Community Partner and Builder Partner (Tiers 1 and 2).
  • Co-branded swag: large sponsor logo placement on shirts or swag.
  • Customer video interview: 1 minute interview with a state agency or public-sector partner about your tool.
  • Co-branded case study highlighting productivity or efficiency gains with your tool, plus event outcomes.
  • Advanced reference architecture, maintained by ProgramEarth for 6 months after the event.
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  • Community Partner pricing is based on demo length.
  • Advanced reference architecture includes 6 months of support, then $500 per additional 6 months.
  • Sponsor content and activations require ProgramEarth approval.