Video Agents Hackathon @ Daily.co ft. Simli

​​Create a magic mirror with video agents.

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

​​Task:

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

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

• ​​​Deliver a 2-min live demo & 1-min Loom demo

​​Scope:

• ​​Select any interactive conversational use case

• ​​Develop custom characters, voices, and personalities

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

​​Get started:

• ​Set up a new project with Pipecat and Daily

• ​​Generate a character with FLUX or your favorite image model

• ​​Add a personality in 340ms with Google Gemini Flash

• ​​Connect a custom voice in 95ms with Cartesia's Sonic API

• ​​Bring your avatar to life in 300ms with Simli's avatar API

​​​Audience:

• ​​Come together to code with 50+ tech founders, software engineers and ML researchers at the best place in town.

• ​​Enjoy lunch and dinner and drinks

​​Winning:

• ​​The demos are scored across criteria. Highest score wins.

• ​​Real problem, clear solution, multiple modalities, entertaining

​​​Rewards:

• ​​​Meet a very special guest

• ​​Free compute credits from partners

• ​​​Get your winning demo shared to 1500 developers in AI

​​​Agenda:

​​​10:00 - Doors open

​​​10:15 - 11:00 - Task & Special Guest

​​​11:00 - 12:00 - Get Ready & Lunch

​​​12:00 - 17:00 - Code

​​​17:00 - 18:00 - Dinner and Demos

​​​18:00 - 19:00 - Winners & Network

​​​19:00 - Doors Close

​​Enablers:

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

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

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

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