Build Fast. Launch Loud. Prompt Driven Hackathon
Prompt Driven Development (PDD) Hackathon
Build Fast. Launch Loud.
The PDD Hackathon is a one-day, high-intensity build event focused on creating real, working AI-powered products — fast.
Registration is required here: Prompt Driven Development Hackathon Registration
This event is centered around a new way of building software. Instead of relying on traditional development workflows, participants will use Prompt Driven Development (PDD) to direct AI agents that handle core logic, testing, and iteration. The goal is not just to prototype, but to ship something meaningful within hours.
Participants will move quickly from idea to implementation, using prompts as the primary interface for building, refining, and deploying AI-powered applications. By the end of the day, teams will have live, functional products ready to demo.
Top teams will have the opportunity to pitch their projects to investors and industry leaders, with the potential to take their ideas beyond the hackathon.
Sponsors
VentureDock is a founder-first hub for early-stage startups, bold builders, and fast-moving teams. With locations in Palo Alto and Milpitas, VentureDock brings together founders, investors, operators, and corporate innovators through curated workspace, events, programming, and community.
For the PDD Hackathon, VentureDock is supporting the event as our venue sponsor, providing the Palo Alto space and startup-centered environment that make this one-day build experience possible.
Band
Band is an enterprise-grade communication infrastructure for AI agents that enables agents and humans to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate in real time. Rather than replacing existing agent frameworks, Band provides a shared collaboration layer that lets agents built with LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other frameworks discover each other, exchange context, delegate work, and operate under centralized governance and audit controls.
MiniMax develops frontier AI models for coding, agentic workflows, and multimodal applications. Its latest M3 model combines advanced reasoning and tool use with native multimodality and a context window of up to one million tokens.
Nexla is an AI-powered data integration platform that transforms data from any source into governed, production-ready data products for AI and agents.
As the data layer for enterprise AI, Nexla gives AI applications and agents the connectivity, context, and governance needed to operate across 700+ enterprise systems in real time. The platform helps teams connect to data sources, enrich data with business context, and deliver it through tools such as MCP Studio, Agentic RAG, and Agent SDK.
mem0
mem0 is an open-source memory layer for AI applications and agents, helping AI systems remember past interactions and deliver more personalized, contextual experiences over time.
By giving AI applications persistent memory across sessions, mem0 helps builders create agents that feel more intelligent, adaptive, and useful in real-world workflows.
RocketRide
RocketRide is an open-source, developer-native AI meta-harness. Build, debug, and deploy production AI workflows right inside your IDE. And with RocketRide Cloud, the same runtime is managed for you: it runs your AI workflows at a fraction of the cost on our proprietary model server, scales without any infra hassle, and lets your whole team build on shared pipelines together.
Free credits: We're giving away free credits for RocketRide Cloud, 100% off your first purchase with a promo code. Join the Discord to grab yours.
Step-by-step guide: Setup, demos, and how to build on RocketRide (Cloud + open-source): click here
Submit your project: Head to the Discord and type
/submitin any channel. Need help? Just ask our bot in #support, whether it's about your project or the tools.
Let's build something awesome together.
RocketRide Rewards:
Two ways to win with RocketRide at Build Fast. Launch Loud.
Best Use of RocketRide: Build your project on RocketRide Cloud and deploy an AI pipeline without managing any infrastructure. The team that builds the most with RocketRide takes the prize.
Social Track: A few simple steps, one winner. Post your project and tag RocketRide on LinkedIn, follow us on Instagram, and join our Discord during the event. Show off what you built with us and we'll pick one winner on the day!
New to RocketRide? Cloud is live: cloud.rocketride.ai
Event Terms & Consent
By registering, you agree to the event terms and conditions(https://hackathon.rocketride.org/terms-conditions.pdf?utm_source=luma). RocketRide reserves the right to refuse admission or remove attendees at its discretion, to keep things safe and enjoyable for everyone.
Photography and video recording will take place throughout the evening and may be used by RocketRide for future marketing, promotional, and community content. By registering, you also consent to receiving the RocketRide newsletter and updates about future events at the email you provide. You can unsubscribe anytime via the link in any email.
Respan is an AI infrastructure platform that helps teams run reliable AI applications in production. Our AI Gateway gives teams a single place to manage model access, routing, reliability, and costs, while our observability platform helps them monitor performance, debug failures, and improve quality over time. Together, they help companies ship and operate AI products with more speed and confidence.
Retriever AI is an AI web agent platform that lets users scrape datasets, automate tasks, and monitor websites using prompts.
Unlike traditional scrapers or screenshot-based agents, Rtrvr.ai uses DOM-native intelligence to understand and interact with websites, helping AI agents navigate the web, extract data, and automate workflows more reliably.
EdgeOne Makers is a Web and Agent development and deployment platform built on the Tencent EdgeOne infrastructure. It provides a one-stop development and deployment service covering frontend pages, dynamic APIs, and Agents. By leveraging the global acceleration of the edge network, it ensures applications achieve fast and stable access experiences.
Startup Island TAIWAN: Silicon Valley Hub
Startup Island TAIWAN: Silicon Valley Hub is a national initiative supporting Taiwanese startups as they expand globally. Located in Silicon Valley, the Hub connects founders with investors, corporate partners, and innovation ecosystems, serving as a bridge between Taiwan and the global startup community.
The Hub regularly hosts events, delegation visits, founder programs, and ecosystem gatherings that strengthen collaboration between Taiwan’s technology ecosystem and Silicon Valley.
Render is a modern cloud platform that helps developers build, deploy, and scale applications quickly.
Render provides infrastructure for web services, static sites, background workers, databases, cron jobs, and more, making it easier for teams to take projects from idea to production without managing complex DevOps workflows.
ElevenLabs is a leading voice AI platform powering developers, creators, and enterprises.
Its AI voice models and products support everything from low-latency conversational agents to advanced voice generation for voiceovers, audiobooks, dubbing, and other scalable voice experiences.