WeaveHacks: Agent Protocols Hackathon (MCP, A2A) with Weights & Biases & Google Cloud
BUILD YOUR AGENTS
WeaveHacks is the agent protocols hackathon to watch. On July 12-13, come to the Weights & Biases SF office (no online component, sorry) to have the most fun building agents you'll have this year. This time, we're highlighting agent protocols (MCP, A2A, etc) and what they unlock.
We bring: A killer office with ultrawide monitors and standing desks, good food, expert judges, a robot dog that yells at you
You bring: Your ideas, a readiness to actually show up & crank out code, good vibes
Will you make a research agent? A personal productivity assistant? A library for other agents to leverage? What's the idea that's been on your mind? Whatever it is, no more excuses. This is your sign to build.
EXPECT:
🎁 $15k+ in prizes
🤖🐕: Win a Unitree g2 pro robot dog (like Boston Dynamics Spot). The dog will also help deliver drinks and snacks during the hackathon
Tons of food, snacks, drinks
A handful of excellent sponsors, who will have onsite assistance for integrating their tools. Only a few though - no hours-long presentations at the start. We're here to hack.
Expert judges who can offer specific feedback
Partner prizes to be announced
SCHEDULE:
SATURDAY JULY 12
9:00 AM: Doors open
9:30 AM: Kickoff & initial presentation
10:15 AM: Hacking starts!
12:30 PM: Lunch
12:45 PM: Optional lunch presentation
Hacking continues...
6:30 PM: Dinner
SUNDAY JULY 13
9:00 AM: Doors open, breakfast snacks
12:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Submissions due, judging begins
2:00 PM: Project presentations
2:45 PM: Finalist presentations
3:30 PM: Awards ceremony
JUDGES:
Lavanya Shukla, Director of AI @ Weights & Biases
Chitra Venkatesh, AI/ML PM @ Google Cloud
Lekan Adisa, Cloud Engineer @ Google Cloud
Shreyas Brahmasamudra, Principal Solutions Engineer @ Google Cloud
Effy Zhang, Founder @ Morph AI
Varun Singh, CPTO @ Daily (makers of PipeCat)
Alex Volkov, host @ ThursdAI podcast
Dexter Horthy, founder @ HumanLayer
Era Qian, founder @ Edge AGI & Open Source Campus
Shadi Saba, Senior Director Engineering, AI/ML Infrastructure @ CoreWeave
Syd Shields, Founding Engineer @ BrowserBase
Aastha Jhunjhunwala, Gen AI @ NVIDIA
More judges to be announced soon
SPONSORS
Your host: Weights & Biases! We build Weave, the smoothest LLM tracing & observability platform. 2 lines of code to instantly understand what your agent is doing. https://wandb.me/use-weave
Headline sponsor: Google Cloud. You know them, but you may not know how they can help you. Get fast inference, cutting-edge models, and solid agent-building tools in ADK and A2A. https://google.github.io/adk-docs/
BrowserBase. The best web automation tooling. Stagehand writes the code, Browserbase runs it. Together, Browserbase & Stagehand help you automate the web. https://www.stagehand.dev/
Exa. Web search for LLMs. One API to get any information from the web, built for AI products. A must-have for researcher agents. https://exa.ai/
Fly.io. Code execution sandboxes for AI. Boots in milliseconds, runs any Docker image, scales to zero when not needed. https://fly.io/
Crew AI. Top multi-agent platform. Use them to build and deploy multi-agent systems with any AI and cloud platform. https://www.crewai.com/
PRIZES
Grand Prize:
$4,200 cash prize + Unitree G2 Pro robot dog ($4k Value) + $15 Red Lobster gift card + Weave bomber jackets
Runner-up prize
$3,000 cash prize + Weave bomber jackets
Best use of protocols
$1,000 cash prize + Weave .. you guessed it .. bomber jackets
Best use of Weave
$2,000 cash prize + Weave bomber jackets
Best use of Google tools
$1,000 cash prize plus a surprise
Best use of BrowserBase / Stagehand
Each Team Member receives $500 to Doordash and Browserbase Swag! (Or Cash equivalent)
Best use of Fly.io
$5,000 in Fly deployment credits
Best use of Crew AI
$1500 cash + the coolest backpack you've ever seen
Best use of Exa
Meta Quest 3s plus $1k Exa credits per team member
APPLYING TO PARTICIPATE
Apply on Luma! Participants in our past hackathons get an instant acceptance. Beyond that, we prioritize hackers who have some kind of project they've built that they can point to (it doesn't need to be polished at all). Github or Devpost links are fine. No specific experience is required.
Note that we will likely hit max capacity on registrations before the event, so apply early, and mark yourself as going / not going as soon as you know (so you're not taking a slot from someone else).
Come ready to build agents 🙂