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SXSW Sydney AI Hackathon | Hosted by National AI Centre and Build Club

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Come build with top AI engineers and founders at the Official SXSW Sydney AI Hackathon 🌎 ✨.


​​🏗 How will it work

​Team up or build alone to leverage one of the SXSW Sydney topic areas (TBA on Thursday night following brainstorming here).

​✨ The schedule

Team forming + kick off:

  • Date: Thursday, October 17th

  • Time: 6-8pm

  • Venue: Virtual - Gathertown

Hackathon Build: 

  • Date: Friday, October 18th

  • Time: 9-5pm, 6pm - 00ams

  • Venue: Hosted in Gallery Area, ICC, then Stone and Chalk into the evening

Judging and Winner Announcement (optional): 

  • Date: Saturday, October 19th, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 

  • Location: Discovery Stage at the Tech Expo. 

Attendees: Open audience (50-100)​​

​NOTE: this event is IRL in Sydney, we are also holding a virtual stream on Gathertown and Slack. Virtual submissions are due at 12pm PT and will be assessed separately offline (still eligible for bounty prizes).


​​ 🏆 Why you should join

  • ​​Win: prize money + merch + mentoring

  • Learning: Credits + private workshops with sponsors

  • ​​Networking: Mentors, workshops, connections

  • ​​Fun: Meet other hardcore builders + make friends for life


​​🤝 Who is this for

​​This is for technical builders (software engineers, ai engineers and researchers) and ai learners (no need to know how to code)


🏆 Prizes ($ bounty challenges), workshops, sponsors and co-branding opportunities, investors announced soon but include:

  • Groq - $500 prize for best solution built using Groq

  • Relevance AI - credits + $500 prize for best solution built using Relevance

  • Buildship - credits + $500 prize for best solution built using Buildship


Build Club is a platform for Australia's most ambitious AI Engineers who are passionate building and learning A

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The SXSW AI Hackathon is funded by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources through the National AI Centre.

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