Generative UI is moving fast enough that the best way to understand what it can do is to build something with it in a single day. Interfaces that compose themselves at runtime ask for new mental models around state, layout, and testing, and those models get a lot clearer once you have shipped a working flow. That is the idea behind the Flutter GenUI hackathon we are co-organizing in San Francisco with the Flutter San Francisco community.
We picked three industries to anchor the event, and we picked them on purpose. Automotive, quick-service restaurants, and financial services are exactly the kind of high-stakes, multi-surface domains where Flutter’s reach and GenUI’s runtime adaptability earn their keep. More on each one below.
What is GenUI?
GenUI, short for generative UI, is an approach where an AI model assembles the interface at runtime instead of a team hand-building every screen in advance. You give the model a set of Flutter widgets and the context it needs, and it composes a layout that fits the moment: the user’s intent, their history, and whatever data just arrived. We have built this in production already, including generative UI in a real booking experience and covered the broader momentum in what we saw at Google I/O 2026.
If you want to go deeper on the tooling, start with our guide to generative UI with Google’s GenUI SDK for Flutter and the GenUI SDK for Flutter documentation.
Three verticals where GenUI fits
Automotive
Vehicle interfaces have to shift constantly: driving versus parked, day versus night, one driver’s preferences versus another’s. GenUI is a strong match for generative heads-up displays (HUDs), adaptive dashboards, and voice-to-UI flows that reshape the screen based on what the driver is doing. Fleet operations and EV interfaces add another layer, where the same app surface has to serve very different roles. A dashboard that composes itself around context rather than cycling through fixed screens is a buildable Flutter app today.
QSR (quick-service restaurants)
Quick-service restaurants live and die on speed and personalization, and GenUI touches both. A kiosk that adapts its flow based on order history is no longer a research prototype. It is something you can build in a day. Kitchen display systems, loyalty UX, and voice ordering all benefit when the interface assembles itself around the order in front of it instead of forcing every customer down the same path. This is a space we know well, including scalable Flutter solutions for QSR across theme parks, restaurants, and entertainment venues.
Financial services
Financial services carry real regulatory weight, which is exactly why adaptive, AI-composed interfaces are interesting here. Think AI-composed wealth dashboards that surface what matters to a given investor, adaptive Know Your Customer (KYC) flows that adjust to the documentation a user actually has, and conversational payments. Each one is a place where generative UI can reduce friction without cutting corners on compliance, and where Flutter’s multi-platform reach keeps fintech app development on a single codebase.
VGV and the Flutter SF community
We are co-organzing this hackathon alongside the Flutter San Francisco community. We are Flutter practitioners, and VGV engineers will be on site to mentor teams through the GenUI SDK during the event and to judge the final projects. The community brings the people and the energy. We bring hands-on experience shipping generative UI in production. The goal is a day where people actually build, not just talk about what GenUI might someday do.
Event details and registration
- Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
- Time: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM
- Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person)
- Who should come: Designers, engineers, and product thinkers. No prior GenUI experience required.
Bring a laptop with Flutter set up and an idea, or come find a team when you arrive.
Register on Luma to reserve your spot.
Come build with us
If you are working in one of these spaces, or you just want to see what GenUI looks like when it ships, this is the room to be in. We will be watching what the community builds across all three verticals, and we can’t wait to see what you ship! Register on Luma and we will see you there.
Curious about how these ideas go from a one-day build to production? See our Flutter app development work.
