Voice AI Hackathon Singapore 2026
Voice AI Hackathon Singapore 2026
✨ About the Event
🎙️ Building Real-Time Voice AI Systems used to feel complex. Now you can prototype faster with AI-assisted development workflows and real-time voice tools.
👥 Who should join
Students, developers, professionals, and tech enthusiasts with basic programming knowledge.
🛠️ What you will do
📘 Learn the basics fast including the core building blocks and a simple starter flow
🧑🏫 Build and iterate during the hackathon with mentor support and guided checkpoints
🤝 Collaborate in teams, test ideas quickly, and ship a working prototype demo
🌟 Why it matters
You will build innovative solutions using Agora, and connect with builders across Singapore 🇸🇬. You will also see other teams’ projects, exchange ideas 💡, and grow your network in the local developer ecosystem 🔗.
🏆 Prizes
💰 Prizes Worth SGD 4,200 (including Cash and Credits):
Grand Prize: S$ 1,000 Cash, and S$ 1280 worth of Credits
2nd Prize: S$500 Cash, and S$ 640 worth of Credits
3rd Prize: S$ 300 Cash, and S$ 385 worth of Credits
📍 Event Details
📅 Date: Friday, April 10, 2026
📍 Venue: Carousell Campus (Regional HQ)
👥 Format: In-person, single-day event
🧑💻 Tech Support: Guidance for vibe-coding and Voice AI models
🍽️ Food and drinks will be available. 🥤
Team Size: 2 to 4 members per team.
⏱️ Event Schedule
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM — Registration and Check-in, badge distribution, team confirmations, seating.
9:00 AM to 9:15 AM — Opening Ceremony, welcome remarks, event overview, partner introductions.
9:15 AM to 9:40 AM — Create Your Own Talking Avatar with Vibe Coding (Agora × TRAE × Akool)
9:40 AM to 10:00 AM — Introducing TRAE and What's New
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Hackathon Begins, Build Phase 1 🧑💻🚀, teams start building with the required tech stack.
12:00 PM to 12:30 PM — Working Lunch Break 🍽️, Lunch will be distributed.
12:30 PM to 3:30 PM — Build Phase 2, Deep Work 🔧💡, continue building and technical support.
3:30 PM to 4:15 PM — Build Phase 3, Final Sprint ⏱️🔥, polish solutions, prep submissions and demos.
4:15 PM to 4:25 PM — Submission Deadline 📩
4:15 PM to 5:30 PM — Dinner Break, Project Pitch Preparation.
5:00 PM to 5:30 PM — Judging Deliberation 🧑⚖️🗳️, judges review submissions, select Top 10.
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM — Top Team Presentations 🎤🏆, 5 min pitch, 2 min Q and A, selected teams present on stage (5 to 7 min each).
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM — Final Judging & Awards | Closing & Networking
Ready to join?
Please ensure that you bring an internet-facing laptop for this hands-on session.
Please register the Agora Developer account in advance.
https://console.agora.io/
Agora Community
• Join Agora Community (Official Communication Channel)
• Follow Agora on Linkedin, Twitter / X & Facebook
• Subscribe to the Agora YouTube Channel
• Subscribe to the Agora Convo AI World Podcast
• Join Agora Singapore Telegram Community
🎙️Host
Agora powers real-time voice, video, and interactive experiences at scale — trusted by thousands of developers worldwide to seamlessly embed communication into any application.
Agora Conversational AI helps you build real-time voice experiences faster, with the core components needed for speech-driven interactions in a single workflow. For hackathon teams, this makes it easier to prototype voice agents, assistants, and interactive AI applications with less setup and more focus on the product experience. To extend these projects further, you can also use TEN (Transformative Engagement Network) , the Transformative Engagement Network, an open-source framework that supports modular voice AI development.
Join us and build the future of voice!
🤝🏻 Organizer
AI.SEA is a builder-first initiative across Southeast Asia focused on hands-on experimentation with AI. It brings together builders, engineers, founders, and local communities to collaborate, prototype, and learn by doing through hackathons, co-build sessions, sprints, and shared build experiences.
For hackathon teams, AI.SEA helps create an environment where builders can test ideas quickly, work with others across the region, and turn early concepts into working prototypes with more momentum. Its focus is on practical AI development under real-world constraints, making it relevant for teams building useful, deployable AI products.
Join the AI.SEA Discord and build with Southeast Asia’s growing AI builder community.
🥂 Partners
Carousell is a leading multi-category secondhand marketplace in Greater Southeast Asia, helping people buy and sell pre-owned goods more easily across the region. Founded in 2012, the company’s mission is to make secondhand the first choice, serving tens of millions of monthly users across key markets through its recommerce platform and related brands. Its platform simplifies peer-to-peer selling, supports trusted transactions, and encourages reuse at scale, making it relevant for builders working on marketplace, community, and circular economy ideas.
Join Carousell in shaping the future of recommerce.
TRAE (The Real AI Engineer) is ByteDance’s AI-powered IDE designed to change the way you build software. With IDE Mode providing smart coding assistance and SOLO Mode enabling end-to-end automation, TRAE helps you turn natural language prompts into complete, working applications from scratch.
Our mission is clear: remove the friction between ideas and execution, so builders at any skill level can move faster and stay focused on what matters, creating standout products.
TRAE, where human creativity connects with AI intelligence.
Couchbase provides an enterprise data platform built for modern applications, helping teams unify data, vectors, and AI workloads in a secure, scalable system. The company positions its platform as a foundation for mission-critical apps across cloud, mobile, edge, and AI use cases.
Join Couchbase and build applications with a data platform designed for scale, performance, and AI-driven experiences.