Nashville AI Builders Event: Hackathon II @ Vanderbilt University

​Nashville AI Builders — Hackathon II @ Vanderbilt (Build → Ship → Demo)

​Hackathon II is where we turn momentum into outcomes.

​This event is the second stop in the Nashville AI Builders Competition—a series for people who want to ship AI products in public, with real feedback, real constraints, and real demos.

​Hosted at Vanderbilt University’s Engineering & Science Building.

​The vibe

​Pure building energy. You’ll show up, pick a track, build hard, get mentored, and demo what you made. The goal is simple: leave with something real.

​What’s different in Hackathon II

• ​Stronger focus on productization (UX, reliability, evaluation, packaging)

• ​Mentor support for agents, tool-calling, RAG, and deployment

• ​A demo flow built for clarity + wow (show the problem, show the product, show results)

​Suggested tracks (choose one)

• ​AI Agents in the Wild: workflows that actually complete tasks

• ​LLM Apps that Don’t Break: evals, guardrails, reliability

• ​Vertical AI: healthcare, real estate, music, logistics, etc.

• ​Local-first / edge: privacy-friendly builds, on-device, low-latency

​Series links (cross-link all 3)

​If this is your first event, start here—or jump into the full series:

• ​Hackalachia (Kickoff) - February 20th-22nd: https://luma.com/m7qmf7ci

• ​Hackathon III - April 17th-19th: https://luma.com/gcx27wyf

​More details + future events: https://tnhackathons.com/

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