​The VAST Builders Challenge is a three-city technical event series bringing together founders and engineers across New York, London, and San Francisco to build production-ready AI systems.

​Spend the day building agents to unlock the value of video. Because video is hard to search and analyze,  most of it stays in storage, unwatched and underused.

​Experiment with the latest AI infrastructure, collaborate with other ambitious builders, and turn your ideas into shippable prototypes - with access to expert guidance, compute, and the tools you need to ship.

​Hosted with VAST Data in collaboration with NVIDIA, SpaceXAI, CoreWeave and Weights & Biases.

​Note: Registration closes on Oct 6th.

​Prizes

• ​1st place: NVIDIA DGX Spark™

• ​HuggingFace Microduck

• ​Cursor Credits

• ​Cash Gift Cards

​The Builders Stack

​You don't have to worry about starting from scratch, we've set it up for you:

• ​Video understanding: reason over a video clip with NVIDIA Cosmos.

• ​Semantic search: find moments across hours of footage using natural language.

• ​Object detection: real-time detection and tracking across frames with YOLO.

• ​General-purpose LLMs: models from Weights & Biases to power your application logic (e.g. video agents).

​The VAST AI OS orchestrates the video ingestion and data layer, models are served on CoreWeave GPUs, and builders ship with Cursor.

​Build your own video agent or something no one’s thought of. We'll share the videos to get you started on building video agents.

​Judges

​Diego Garzon - Senior Solution Architect for AI/AV Simulation @ Nvidia

​Ravi Garg - Solutions Architect @ Nvidia

​Ram B. - Sr. Developer Advocate @ VAST Data

​Brian Verkley - Director, AI Data Platform @ VAST Data

​Prashanth Nalubandhu - Staff AI Solutions Architect @ CoreWeave

​Brandon Kates - Founding FDE @ CoreWeave

​Vera A - Senior Solutions Architect @ Weights & Biases

​Who should attend

​Developers, ML/AI engineers, agent builders, and data engineers, from startups to enterprise teams working with video or multimodal AI.

​While individuals are welcome, we encourage teams of up to four members and will prioritize team applications. You can form a team on the day of the event or arrive with one already assembled.

​Applications are required. Space is limited. Registration closes one week prior to the event.

​*Register with Personal Email*
We'll use this for event comms and to credit your Cursor account. Sign up for Cursor with this same personal email if you don't have an account.

​Agenda

​8:30am Doors Open + Breakfast
9:00am Opening Keynotes
9:30am Build Begins
12:30pm Lunch
4:30pm Demos
6:30pm Closing & Awards

​Note: This event will be photographed and filmed. By attending, you consent to appearing in photos and videos that may be used for social media and promotional materials.

​Sponsors

​VAST Data: A unified AI data platform that provides the foundation for managing, processing, and activating data for AI workloads

​CoreWeave: AI cloud infrastructure that delivers high-performance GPU compute for training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.

​SpaceXAI: AI-assisted software development tools that help developers move from idea to implementation faster

​NVIDIA: Accelerated computing and AI software that enables developers to build and deploy advanced AI applications

​Weights & Biases (A CoreWeave company): AI developer tools for experiment tracking, model evaluation, and collaborative ML development

​See what’s possible.

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