One-Day Video Agent Hackathon

​Create the best magic mirror with a video agent.

​​A video agent is a digital character that interacts with users in real-time video to answer questions by audio and perform tasks.

​​Task:

• ​​​Create the best video agent in 6 hours to solve a novel task

• ​​​Bring a team or create a new one (3 people max)

• ​​​Deliver a 1-min video demo & 3-min live demo

​​Scope:

• ​​Select any interactive conversational use case

• ​​Develop custom characters, voices, and personalities

• ​​Display all modalities across image, text, speech, video

​​Get started:

1. ​Decide on a problem for your video agent to solve

2. ​Create a new project with your favorite code editor

3. ​Clone a Vercel NextJS Boilerplate or Simli sample repo

4. ​​Create a face for your agent with Simli

5. ​Add functionality to your agent

​Optional resources:

• ​Code editors: Cursor, Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Windsurf

• ​Voice agent frameworks: Vapi, Pipecat, OpenAI

• ​Multi-agent frameworks: AG2

​​​Audience:

• ​​Come together to code with agent focused tech founders and software engineers at the best place in town.

• ​​Enjoy dinner and drinks

​​Winning:

• ​​Demos are reviewed by an expert jury

• ​Top 5 submissions are invited to present

• ​​Winner demo is helpful, entertaining, multi-modal

​​​Rewards:

• ​​​Meet a very special guest

• ​$1,000 cash and 10,000 credits from Simli

• ​​$10,000's of free compute credits from partners

​​How to win:

• ​Create the best magic mirror using a video agent

• ​Jury selects Top 5 to demo based on 1 min video​

• ​Jury selects Top 1 based on 3 min live demo

• ​Scored by real value, functionality, and fun-factor

​​Jury:

• ​Lars Vagnes, Founding CEO @ Simli

• ​Peter Grinde-Hollevik, Special Projects @ Midjourney

• ​Adi Sairam, Engineer @ Vapi

• ​Ariel Cai, AI GTM @ LMNT

• ​Brooke Hopkins, Founder @ Coval

• ​Leonie Engel, Product @ Pika

• ​Kamal Nahas, Founding CEO @ Pap! (YC S24)

• ​Vic Palčar, CTO @ Memorisely

​​​Agenda:

• ​4pm: ​Doors Open and Networking

• ​5pm: ​​Special Guest and Task

• ​6pm: ​​Dinner & Code

• ​​10pm: Demos

• ​​​11pm: Winners

• ​12pm: Doors Close

​​Enablers:

• ​​Simli is the API devs use to add faces to AI agents.

• ​Daily offers real-time voice, video, and AI for developers

• ​Vapi lets developers build, test and deploy voice agents

• ​Coval offer simulation & evals for voice and chat agents

• ​​LMNT offer natural-sounding speech synthesis by API

• ​​AI Mad Lab is the fastest growing community for AI in Norway.