​AI Agents Hackathon — Build, Connect, Orchestrate

​Join us on 3-hour evening hackaton where we build AI agents on live APIs.

​If you are also curious about AI agents and want to try building your own and explore:

• ​How user interfaces are being replaced by conversations with AI agents?

• ​How integrations between services are shifted between APIs to AI agents?

• ​How agents interacts with each other?

• ​How I can optimize my workflow with AI, besides ChatGPT and Copilot?

​Then this hackathon is for you.

​What You Will Build?

​Teams get a boilerplate repo, API keys, and an SDK.

• ​Build two AI agents that communicate with each other and with the user.

• ​Choose a travel-related task for your agents.

• ​Use any of the preselected travel APIs to implement your idea.

• ​Deliver a working demo by the end of the event.

​In the end we will plug all the agents into Orca – agents orchestration layer and through it experiment with deployment, testing, and inter-agent communication.

​Powered by Orca

​We're partnering with Orca — the safe, plug-and-play interface for AI agents and gives you the tools to test, deploy, and present AI agents—without DevOps headaches.

​Who can join?

• ​Software engineers,

• ​AI/LLM developers,

• ​backend/infra builders,

• ​technical product engineers,

• ​advanced CS students.

​You can join solo or as a team.

​For everyone who is interested in the topic, would like to meet fellow tech people and collaborate on building AI agent!

​No prior experience building agents is required. You will receive guidance, a starter agent implementation, and direct support from the organizing team.

​Coming Solo? No problem. Teams of 3–5 participants will be formed on-site, balancing experience levels to ensure fair competition.

​What To Bring?

• ​Your laptop

• ​Your preferred dev tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.)

​Boilerplate and API keys are provided. Personal subscriptions are not.

​What will be judged?

​→ Functionality: Does it work? Rate the number of useful outputs (out of 10).

​→ API Integration: Number and relevance of travel APIs used (weather, restaurants, flights, etc.).

​→ Efficiency: Optimization of prompts (e.g., tokens used per request).

​Teams may choose which preselected travel APIs to integrate.

​Schedule

​18:00–18:30 — Doors, networking

​18:30–19:00 — Briefing: challenge reveal, rules, Orca walkthrough, team formation

​19:00–21:00 — Build

​21:00–21:30 — Demos (3–5 min per team)

​21:30–22:00 — Judging, winners, drinks

​Prizes

• ​€200 in gift cards (winning team)

• ​Coaching sessions with Nomu Labs

• ​Podcast session about winning team/solution

• ​Exposure via partner communities & social media

​Organised by

• ​Pitchless Community – Founders Community in Madrid

• ​Nomu Labs – Product Development Studio in Madrid

• ​Tech Brunch — Tech Community in Madrid

​Partners

• ​Orca (formally Lexia)

​Frequently Asked Questions

• ​What exactly do we have to build?

  • ​Each team will build two agents:

    • ​One consumer agent that takes a user request (for example, plan a trip).

    • ​One provider agent connected to a specific API (hotels, restaurants, events, or tours) with full CRUD logic, including booking and cancellation.

  • ​At the final demo, consumer agents will connect to all provider agents through Orca orchestration.

• ​What tech stack can we use?

  • ​You must use Python or JavaScript (Node.js), as these are supported by the Orca SDK.

  • ​You are free to use frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, A2A, or similar. AI coding assistants like Copilot are encouraged.

  • ​A boilerplate GitHub repo with Orca integration will be provided so you do not waste time on setup.

• ​Do we need to deploy anything?

  • ​No DevOps headaches.

  • ​You will develop locally during the sprint, and Orca will handle cloud orchestration and visibility for demos.

  • ​Servers used for the hackathon will be deleted afterward unless needed for showcasing.

• ​How are teams structured and assigned challenges?

  • ​Expect teams of 3–4 people.

  • ​Each team will be assigned one API domain (hotels, events, restaurants, or tours) with similar complexity levels.

  • ​All APIs will require real interaction logic, not just simple GET requests.

• ​Do we need prior experience with Orca?

  • ​No. A boilerplate starter repo with Orca integration will be provided. Integration requires only a few lines of code.

  • ​You focus on architecture and agent logic, not setup.

• ​Who owns the code and IP?

  • ​You do. All code built during the hackathon remains yours. Nothing is retained by the organizers unless you explicitly choose to continue showcasing it.

​If you cannot find it

​Right next to Matadero 📍 New space at Mad Tech Campus.