Build Matcha & Code
Touch grass 🌱 → drink matcha 🍵 → ship agents 🚀
GMI Cloud mugs given to first 30 builders that come to the build session 😊
This isn’t just hacking. It’s:
sipping matcha while prompting agents
building weird, beautiful things with video + memory
early morning energy, music, and spontaneous demos
Schedule
9:00 Doors open + team formation
9:30 Challenge + prize reveal
9:40 Workshops (quick, high-signal)
10:00 Build sprint begins
12:00 Lunch served (rolling, keep building)
1:00 Judges arrive
1:30 Hacking stops
2:30 Demos (top 5)
2:45 Winners announced + prizes
3:00 Wrap
Prize tracks
Best Project: MacBook Air
Win up to $1000 (credits + cash)
Best Matcha Art
Best Agent using video models & memory
The stack powering the day
☁️ GMI Cloud — AI-native inference cloud. 1 of 7 NVIDIA Cloud Partners globally, GPU infrastructure, optimized for real-time agentic workloads. 170+ models including PixVerse.
🖼️ PixVerse — Video generation models
🧠 HydraDB — The context layer for ai
☄️ Photon — iMessage/RCS/SMS API for Agents
📢 Workshop Speakers
⚪️ Yuqi Hou - Developer Community at GMI Cloud
⚪️ Yuexiang Wang - Head of Global Enterprise at PixVerse
⚪️ Ryan Zhu - Cofounder/CTO at Photon
⚪️ Harnoor Singh - Developer Relations at HydraDB
⚖️ Judges
⚪️ Julie Chen - Growth at Photon
⚪️ Kingsong Chen (YC16) - Founder/CEO of QuoteTurn
⚪️ Nishkarsh Srivastava - Founder/CEO at HydraDB
⚪️ Ryan Zhu - Cofounder/CTO at Photon
⚪️ Timothy Cheng - Founder in AI AEC
⚪️ Yuqi Hou - Developer Community at GMI Cloud
🏡 Venue Sponsor
Sky9 Capital is a global VC with ~$2B AUM investing from early to growth stage in technically driven founders building category-defining companies. Sky9 has 35+ exits/IPOs with a strong focus on Al infrastructure, hardware, and deep tech.
Registered in Singapore with presence in the Middle East, North America and Asia, Sky9 has backed 150+ companies including TikTok, Moonshot Al, Rox Motors, and Webull, and acts as a long-term partner providing technical insight, global market access, and scaling support.
Sky9 Capital
577 2nd St
San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
👯♀️ Community Partners
Shoutout to our community partners who rallied their builders to come — this event wouldn't be the same without you.
AI Valley is a community rooted in supporting exceptional first-generation builders, founders, and creators. We curate environments where ambitious people meet collaborators, mentors, and opportunities through hackathons, workshops, and intimate gatherings across AI, tech, and the arts. If you care about who you build with as much as what you build, this is your place.