CURSORCairo Build-a-thon

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Saturday, July 11, 2026 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM Kamelizer, District 5 - Cairo

Your Hosts

Cursor x Same Room.

Khalid Abdelaty

Regional Lead · Cursor · NA & ME

Malak Abdelghaffar

Co-founder · Same Room

Mohamed Eltabakh

Co-founder · Same Room

The Mentors

Meet your mentors.

Abdelrahman Soliman

Founder · Perceptr

Samuel Toma

Head of Engineering & Data

Icebreaker · Meet the Room

Build-a-thon Bingo

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One conversation per squareNo repeating the same person30 minutes on the clock

The run of show

Five hours. One working thing at the end.

Slot

Duration

FromTo

Intros + Build-a-thon Bingo

30 min

1:001:30

Cursor Workshop

30 min

1:302:00

Problems + Deliverables

10 min

2:002:10

Build time!Coffee break + continue building at 3:30

2h 45 min

2:104:55

Demo Hour

1 hr

5:006:00

Cursor Workshop

Choose your case

Your Missions.

We have 4 real cases. Pick the one you want to solve — then build a Cursor-powered solution for it.

01

Hana

The tutor

02

Sayed

The driver

03

Yara

The receptionist

04

Tarek

The volunteer

Problem 01

Hana · 32

Private maths tutor · Nasr City

Build for them

The tutor

Hana is 32 and tutors maths privately in Nasr City. 40 students across a handful of WhatsApp groups. Schedules, payments, missed sessions, parent updates — all of it lives in her head and a paper notebook.

She loses 2–3 sessions a week to double-bookings and forgotten reschedules. Half her evenings go to chasing late payments. Parents text at all hours and she replies one by one.

What it costs her

Hours every night doing admin instead of teaching — or resting.

The risk

She caps at 40 students forever because she can't manage one more.

Problem 02

Sayed · 47

Microbus driver · Giza

Build for them

The microbus driver

Sayed is 47. He drives a fixed microbus route in Giza, six days a week. Fares shift with fuel, traffic, the time of day, and what passengers will actually pay this morning.

At the end of every day, money goes into one pocket. Diesel, repairs, and payments to the owner come out of another. He has no record of what he actually earns — just a feeling for whether the week was good.

What's invisible

Daily income vs. cost. He can't tell a good week from a lucky one.

The cost

He works harder every year and has no way to prove it's working.

Problem 03

Yara · 26

Clinic receptionist · Dokki

Build for them

The receptionist

Yara is 26 and runs the front desk at a dental clinic in Dokki. Patients book by phone. Walk-ins jump the queue. No-shows aren't tracked. The doctor's schedule is a printed sheet that's wrong by noon.

By 5pm she's apologizing to three patients, rewriting tomorrow's sheet by hand, and the doctor still doesn't know who's actually coming in.

What's broken

No source of truth. Every day starts from a paper schedule and ends in chaos.

The cost

Empty chairs, angry patients, and a clinic that can't grow past one location.

Tarek, Mosque committee volunteer · Shubra

Problem 04

Tarek · 38

Mosque committee volunteer · Shubra

Build for them

The community organizer

Tarek is 38 and helps run a neighborhood mosque committee in Shubra. Donations come in, Ramadan meals go out, volunteers show up — or don't. Everything runs on paper and trust.

Every year the same chaos: lists of families to feed, ledgers of cash, handwritten volunteer rotas. Nothing carries over. No one new can step in without sitting next to Tarek for a month.

What's lost

Institutional memory dies every year. The next volunteer starts from zero.

The cost

Good work that helps real families stays small because it can't be handed off.

What you ship

Three deliverables.

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Build sprint

3:00:00

Build-a-thon Guide