Applied Intelligence Hackathon
This is not just another hackathon. It is a high energy, one day sprint where builders, designers, and thinkers come together to create AI agents that solve real world problems across industries.
🌟 What You’ll Build
Participants will create AI powered agents across a range of tracks:
🏥 Healthcare
⚖️ Law
💰 Finance
📣 Marketing
🎬 Entertainment
💻 AI & Tech
🎨 Art and Creativity
🔬 Research & Science
🧠 Education
🛒 E-Commerce & Retail
🛡️ Cybersecurity
🧬 Other
🧠 Theme: “Agents That Act”
This hackathon focuses on building autonomous, decision making AI agents, not just chatbots but systems that can:
Take action based on context
Chain reasoning and tools together
Solve real problems end to end
Think beyond prompts. Build intelligence that does.
🏷️ Sponsors
NEAR AI
NEAR is a high-performance, sharded layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to support AI-native and user-owned Web3 applications at internet scale.
NEAR is the unified commerce layer for assets and agents, and NEAR AI offers confidential, verifiable AI infrastructure.
For Hackers: this run-kit was created as a reference for how any project can leverage NEAR infrastructure.
[Applied Intelligence Hackathon <> NEAR AI]
Tigris Data
Globally distributed S3-compatible object storage service that provides low latency anywhere in the world, enabling developers to store and access any amount of data for a wide range of use cases.
Opsera
AI-powered Unified DevOps platform with native MCP (Model Context Protocol) support. Opsera provides specialized DevSecOps Agents that give your AI agents real superpowers — autonomous security scanning, compliance auditing, architecture review, and code hardening directly in the IDE. Perfect for building production-grade, trustworthy agents that can act safely and intelligently in the real world.
Opsera MCP Track Prizes
1st Place: $500
2nd Place: $300
3rd Place: $200
Insforge
Backend platform designed for AI agents. It provides everything agents need to go from prompt to production—databases, authentication, functions, storage, and deployment—in one unified system. Built around how agents think and operate, it removes the friction of adapting traditional backend tools.
Apify
The world’s largest marketplace of tools for web scraping, data extraction, and automation, enabling developers and businesses to collect structured data from websites at scale, build and deploy custom scraping workflows, and integrate powerful data pipelines into their applications with ease.
Lightsprint.ai
A collaborative product development platform for AI-native teams that acts as a dedicated software factory, enabling developers, PMs, designers, and stakeholders to plan together while AI coding agents execute in parallel to turn requirements into shipped code in hours instead of weeks.
Nebius
AI Cloud brings powerful full-stack infrastructure for AI developers and practitioners across startups, enterprises and science institutes to build and deploy generative AI applications and rapidly deliver scientific breakthroughs by training and running ML models within a secure, high-performance, and cost-optimized cloud environment.
Daytona
Secure platform for running AI-generated code in fully isolated, instantly created environments. With powerful APIs and native Git/LSP support, it gives developers fast, safe, and controlled execution for modern AI workflows.
Kalibr
Unified orchestration layer that plugs into any agent, enabling seamless integration of machine learning models across modalities while automatically detecting and recovering from failures in real time.
Brain2
A second brain designed to help humans free up their first, enabling smarter thinking, seamless idea capture, and more efficient communication through AI-powered assistance.
Rtrvr.ai
Retrieve, research, and automate the web with an AI agent that completes workflows, gathers data, and connects to APIs—all from simple prompts in your browser. Run it via browser extension, web chat, API, or even WhatsApp. Start locally, then scale automations using distributed devices or cloud browsers.
Render
Modern cloud platform used to build, deploy, and scale web applications easily. It supports services like web apps, APIs, databases, background workers, and cron jobs with features such as autoscaling, Docker support, and zero-downtime deployments.
Judges & Mentors
JJ Caffey - Angel Investor & Co-Founder @Venture Foragers
Anna Zakowska - Managing Partner @Dragons and Angels Fund
Merve Isler - Ecosystem Builder and Host @AI Insiders
Prithvi Bharadwaj - Head of Engineering @Roam
Rebecca Burd - Chief of Staff @Tigris Data
Petros Hong - Dev Community Manager @Apify
Ben Ong - Co-Founder @Lightspring.ai
Tony Chang - Co-Founder & CTO @InsForge
Devon Kelley - Founder @Kalibr
Marijan Cipcic - Principal Event Manager @Daytona
Colin Lowenberg - AI Developer Advocate @Nebius
Tejal Rangdal - Co-Founder @Brain2
Arjun Chintapalli - Founder @Rtrvr.ai
Bhavani Kalisetty - Co-Founder @Rtrvr.ai
Saurabh Khire - AI Engineer @CSU
Abhi Vasanth - Sr Data Engineer @Pg&e
Micheal Herrier - Manager @Lynkable
Rahul Padwani - AI/ML Engineer @William Signal -
Abby Guo - Founder @Chipchop
🤖 AI Matching and Problem Statements
An AI powered system will match participants with teammates based on skills and interests, while generating tailored problem statements aligned with each team’s strengths so every group starts with a clear and relevant direction.
Solo participants are welcome and team of maximum 4 people can be formed on own
⏰ Schedule
9:00 to 10:00 AM
Welcome, rules, and sponsor introductions
10:00 to 11:00 AM
Team formation and idea matchmaking
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Build time
5:00 to 6:00 PM
Judging
6:00 to 7:00 PM
Winners announced and demos
7:00 to 8:00 PM
Open demo session and networking
🏆 Prizes and Judging
Winners will be selected across sponsor specific tracks.
Projects will be evaluated based on:
Creativity and originality
Real world impact
Technical execution
Effective use of sponsor tools and APIs
Details on sponsors and problem statements will be announced soon.
🌍 Participation
In person participation is preferred for prize eligibility
Online participation is available
Remote teams are welcome, but priority for awards will be given to in person participants.
🤝 Who Should Join
Developers, designers, and product thinkers
AI enthusiasts and beginners alike
Anyone excited about building with emerging technology
This event is hosted at the Frontier Tower:
We are transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village—a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, makerspace, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.
Apply here for founding citizenship: https://frontiertower.io/apply
Why should I become a citizen?
Be part of creating the first self-governed vertical village
Connect with the most creative people in the city
Get access to all floors, free event space & movement floor
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