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Miami AI Hackathon: Build with Mel + ElevenLabs — Win $1,000 Cash + Prizes

Name: Miami AI Hackathon: Build with Mel + ElevenLabs — Win $1,000 Cash + Prizes
Start: 2026-09-19T12:30:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-09-19T20:30:00.000-04:00
Location: Miami Dade College

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Miami Dade College

Miami, FL

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About Event

Build and ship a working AI agent—and compete for $1,000 cash plus prizes from ElevenLabs, Mel and SSOJet.

🏆 Total prize value: up to $12,910
🎟️ Free to attend · No coding experience required · Limited to 120 participants

What Is Mel?

Mel is an agentic terminal that helps you turn ideas into working AI agents, applications and automated workflows.

Explore Mel: openmel.dev

Hosted by Agentic Day at Miami Dade College

🗓️ Event Schedule

Friday — 12:00 PM ET
Online hackathon begins. Mel access, invite code, starter kit and hackathon credits arrive.

Friday — 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Live onboarding and setup session for anyone who needs help getting started.

Saturday — 12:30 PM ET
The hackathon continues in person at Miami Dade College:

Continue building your project
Get live mentor feedback
Ask technical and submission questions
Test and improve your demonstration
Prepare your final submission

Saturday — 6:00 PM ET
Final submission deadline.

Saturday — 6:00–8:30 PM ET
Live demonstrations, judging and awards.

Saturday, September 19

⏰ 12:30–8:30 PM
☕ Lunch, coffee, beverages and snacks provided
👥 Build solo or in teams of up to five
💻 All experience levels are welcome
🌱 First-time hackers receive live onboarding and mentor support
🎥 All sessions may be recorded

⚠️ All participants must check in at 12:30 PM, remain through the end and complete the final build session on-site for their project to be accepted.

Community Partners: Miami Fintech Club and Miami Creative Hub, The AI collectives, Barry University AI center and the AI Builders.

Build Something Real

Choose a problem. Build an agentic solution. Test it and present a working demonstration.

Developers, founders, students, designers and business professionals are welcome. You can arrive with an idea, join a team or choose a challenge at the event.

No coding experience is required.

Choose Your Track

Agentic Commerce

Build shopping agents, customer experiences, product-intelligence tools, payment workflows, loyalty systems, inventory automation or retail operations.

Agentic Finance

Build agents for financial analysis, reconciliation, risk, compliance, payments, treasury, trading or finance operations.

Agentic Marketing

Build agents for audience research, campaign creation, personalization, content, customer intelligence, growth or performance optimization.

Build With Mel

Mel is an agentic development environment that helps anyone build, investigate, repair and verify software using natural language. It brings AI models, tools and workflows into one environment so builders can move from an idea to a working product faster.

Participants receive complimentary Mel build credits and access to multiple AI models and developer tools during the hackathon.

Learn more and download Mel

Build With ElevenLabs

Use ElevenLabs to add conversational AI, speech, transcription, voice, music, sound or multilingual experiences to your product.

Every participant who attends and builds receives one month of ElevenLabs Creator, including 131,000 credits—a $22 value.

🏆 Up to $12,910 in Winner Awards

Overall Grand Prize — Up to $2,485

$1,000 cash from Mel
Three months of ElevenLabs Pro for each team member
600,000 ElevenLabs credits per month
Three months of Mel Pro for each team member

Best Use of ElevenLabs — Up to $4,485

Three months of ElevenLabs Scale for each team member
1.8 million ElevenLabs credits per month
$897 value per team member

SSOJet Enterprise-Ready Awards — $5,940

Five selected winners will each receive:

One production-ready SSOJet Business license
Enterprise SSO and MCP authentication support
$1,188 first-year value per license

Track Winners

Winning teams across Agentic Commerce, Agentic Finance and Agentic Marketing receive three months of Mel Pro for each team member.

Every Participant Receives

Complimentary Mel build credits
One month of ElevenLabs Creator
131,000 ElevenLabs credits

More cash prizes, technology credits and partner awards will be announced.

Judging Criteria

Projects will be evaluated based on:

Importance of the problem
Agentic workflow and tool use
Quality of execution
Verification and responsible human oversight
Creativity and originality
Real-world usefulness
Quality of the live demonstration

What to Bring

Laptop and charger
An idea, skill or problem you want to explore
Any APIs, datasets or tools you want to use
A willingness to build and collaborate

Technical resources and submission instructions will be shared with registered participants.

Partner With Us

We welcome organizations and individuals interested in supporting Miami’s agentic AI builder ecosystem.

Opportunities include:

Sponsorship and technology partnerships
Cash prizes, APIs and builder credits
Speakers, judges and mentors
Community and media partnerships
Event volunteers
Hosting a future Agentic Day hackathon

Contact: lalla@helloagentic.ai

Hosted by Agentic Day

Community Partners: Miami Fintech Club, Miami Creative Hub, The AI Collective and AI builders.

Media Partners: Yellow.com is an independent news site covering crypto, AI and digital finance. Five journalists, daily original reporting in 20 languages, read by over 500,000 people a month

Build with Mel: openmel.dev

Register now and build what comes next.

Prize values assume the maximum team size where applicable. Eligibility, credits and sponsor awards are subject to attendance, project submission, event rules and sponsor terms.

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