Data & AI Hackathon: Real job. Real AI. Real scale.
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🎉 Data & AI Hackathon: 8-Hour Innovation Sprint at AWS Builder Loft, SF 🎉
Join us for the Data & AI Hackathon, an electrifying 8-hour sprint bringing together the brightest minds in data engineering, machine learning, and AI, all under one roof at the iconic AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco!
🚀 Whether you're an AI researcher, data scientist, backend engineer, or prompt designer, this is your chance to build next-generation intelligent systems, explore real-time data pipelines, and connect with the most passionate builders in the Bay Area.
🗓️ Event Details
When: 09:30 AM – 6:00 PM, September 11, 2026
Where: AWS Builder Loft, San Francisco, CA
Theme: Data & AI Infrastructure, Agentic Workflows & Foundation Models
💡 What to Expect:
High-Energy Building Sessions: 8 hours to prototype cutting-edge Data & AI solutions.
Data & AI Challenges: Solve real-world problems around intelligent automation, real-time analytics, vector search, and LLM orchestration.
Expert Mentorship: On-site guidance from veteran AI researchers and infrastructure engineers.
Swag, Catering & Networking: Fuel up with snacks and lunch while connecting with fellow builders and founders.
Prizes & Demos: Win exciting prizes and pitch your build directly to AI investors and industry leaders.
📋 Agenda:
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Check-in & Breakfast ☕
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Keynote, Theme Briefing & API Workshops
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Hacking Starts & Team Formation
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: Lunch Break 🍕🍽️
01:00 PM – 03:30 PM: Deep Hacking & Mentor Office Hours
03:30 PM: Project Submission Deadline
04:00 PM – 04:40 PM: Top 5 Live Demos & Presentations
04:40 PM – 05:00 PM: Awards & Closing Ceremony
05:00 PM – 06:00 PM: Networking & Happy Hour
🤝 About Our Partners
RocketRide
RocketRide is an open-source, developer-native AI meta-harness. Build, debug, and deploy production AI workflows right inside your IDE. And with RocketRide Cloud, teams can offload the complexity of AI infrastructure and focus on building solutions, with cost-efficient execution through our proprietary model server, shared pipelines for collaboration, higher performance, and seamless scalability.
🎁 Free credits: We're giving away free credits for RocketRide Cloud, 100% off your first purchase with a promo code. Join the Discord to grab yours.
📖 Step-by-step guide: Setup, demos, and how to build on RocketRide (Cloud + open-source): click here
🚀 Submit your project: Post it in the #showcase channel on Discord. Make sure to include your project’s GitHub link and all your .pipe files (import them from RocketRide Cloud). Need help? Just ask our bot in #support, whether it’s about your project or the tools.
Let's build something awesome together. 💻✨
RocketRide Rewards:
🚀 Best Use of RocketRide: Build your project on RocketRide Cloud and deploy an AI pipeline without managing any infrastructure. Our hackathon app will track which team uses RocketRide the most, and the winning team takes home Apple AirPods Pro 3 worth $1,000! 🔥
New to RocketRide? Cloud is live: cloud.rocketride.ai 🚀
Hotdata
Hotdata is instant data infrastructure for AI agents. Let every agent spin up on-demand low latency databases to search, query, and analyze data concurrently.
Built in Rust on Apache DataFusion and DuckLake, Hotdata lets developers spin up isolated databases on demand without provisioning or managing database infrastructure.
⚡ Instant databases: Spin up a database for every agent, user, branch, or task.
🤖 Built for agents: Query structured data, run full-text and vector search, and perform analytics from one data layer.
🚀 Built for concurrency: Run thousands of agents against data in parallel while maintaining low query latency.
📖 Get started: Follow the Hotdata docs to start building.
At the hackathon, try giving every RocketRide agent its own Hotdata database and see what you can build when agents can work with data independently and in parallel.
Hotdata Rewards:
🚀 Best Use of Hotdata: Build an application where multiple agents or users need to search, query, or analyze data concurrently. We’re especially excited to see projects that would be difficult to build with a single shared database.
🏆 Prize: The winning team takes home an Apple AirPods Max 🔥
Let’s see what happens when databases become as easy to spin up as agents.
🎁 Free credits: New to Hotdata? Sign up here and get 100% off for first-time users.
💬 Build with us: Join our Discord to share what you’re building, get help, and connect with the Hotdata team.
Cognee.ai
Cognee is an open-source memory engine for AI agents. It helps developers turn unstructured data into structured, searchable knowledge that agents can remember, reason over, and retrieve when needed.
🧠 AI memory: Build persistent memory and context for your AI agents.
🔗 Knowledge graphs: Transform documents and data into connected knowledge that agents can reason over.
⚡ Built for developers: Easily integrate memory into your existing AI applications and agent workflows.
📖 Get started: Explore the Cognee docs and start building.
At the hackathon, try using Cognee to give your agents long-term memory and contextual understanding—so they can go beyond simple retrieval and actually build knowledge over time.
Snyk
Snyk is a developer-first cybersecurity platform that helps teams build fast without compromising on security. As developers rely heavily on AI to write code at unprecedented speeds, Snyk continuously scans and secures application code, open-source dependencies, containers, and cloud environments right within the developer’s workflow. For an AI hackathon, it matters because shipping code quickly with AI generators or autonomous agents also means shipping security risks at machine speed. Snyk acts as an intelligent security layer, catching vulnerabilities and automatically applying verified fixes in real time—allowing builders to ship ambitious AI projects safely and with complete confidence.
At this event you will learn:
1) Sign-up for free (no credit card required), how to import your code, and configure your AI coding tool
2) Free AI Security Engineer Foundations Certificate
Event Terms & Consent
By registering, you agree to the event terms and conditions. RocketRide reserves the right to refuse admission or remove attendees at its discretion to keep things safe and enjoyable for everyone.
Photography and video recording will take place throughout the evening and may be used by RocketRide for future marketing, promotional, and community content. By registering, you also consent to receiving the RocketRide newsletter and updates about future events at the email address you provide. You can unsubscribe anytime via the link in any email.
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