Open Source AI Hackathon #2 - AI Agent Apps
Come ready to learn how to build AI Agents AND work with a team to build an AI Agent App! We'll start with a hands-on tutorial, so come ready to code! Bring your laptop!
You will need to have:
A recent version of Python (I use 3.12)
A vague idea of what an LLM is
An enjoyment of building things with code
You will get:
A hands-on, practical training to learn how to build AI
Pizza, the classic lunch fuel for hackathons
A snack in the afternoon that may or may not be bubble tea
You will have roughly 6 hours to make:
A public GitHub repo containing your project code
A presentation that you will get to give in front of the whole class (I mean group of hackers) and some Venture Capital judges
New friends :)
Here's the itinerary. Please arrive by 9:15am!
9:00am - Arrive and Welcome
9:15am - Tutorial
9:45am - Team Formation
10:00am - Hack!
12:00pm - Lunch Break
3:59pm - Submit your projects
4:00pm - Pitching and Snacks
5:00pm - Judging - this time joined by Sophia Lu, VP at Tola Capital, and Don Sheu, co-founder at Apertu Capital.
5:30pm - Award Ceremony
6:00pm - Bye bye!
Sponsored by Microsoft, Zilliz, and LlamaIndex
About the Sponsors
Zilliz is the company behind the highly scalable, popular, and flexible vector database Milvus. The focus of Milvus is to provide developers a robust, purpose-built database to handle unstructured data. There is an estimated 4x as much unstructured data than structured data. This fact, along with a customer request for 5T vectors in 2021, led us to tackle the hard problem of scale. Zilliz was founded in 2017 and most recently raised a $113M series B.
LlamaIndex is an open source project that provides libraries to connect LLMs to your data, in Python and TypeScript. Use one of hundreds of data loaders to connect to any data source you can think of, store in any of dozens of vector stores, and query over dozens of possible LLMs including multi-modal and local models.
About the Judges
Don Sheu is co-founder of Apertu Capital. Apertu Capital is an early stage venture capital fund investing in founders of deeptech companies. The investment focus is on devtools, products for AI, cloud, solutions that enhance productivity of developers and data professionals. Apertu Capital invested in Anaconda, the OS for AI with over 40M users. Don is a Python Software Foundation Fellow as of 2017.
Sophia Lu is a Vice President at Tola Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise software and AI. Before joining Tola, she played a critical role in driving the strategy and direction of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI businesses and led digital transformation efforts at McKinsey.
Tola Capital partners with innovative and forward-looking founders reshaping the enterprise software landscape, some of our investment focuses include AI/ML Tooling, AI-native SaaS Applications, AI Compliance and Governance, AI Security tools, and Computer Vision. We have been investing globally since 2010 and are currently investing out of our $230M Fund III.