Magic Mirrors: AI Agent Hackathon @ Startuplab

​Create your first AI agent interaction!

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

• ​​Apply every modality, including image, text, speech, video

​​​Audience:

• ​​​​Meet a very special guest

• ​Code with tech founders and software engineers

• ​Make friends over lunch, dinner and drinks

​Get started:

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

2. ​Go to app.simli.com to create an avatar

3. ​Clone the Create Simli Agent repo and start building

4. ​Add functionality to your solution

5. ​Record a demo (less than 1m30s long)

6. ​Upload it to YouTube (or skip this step if you used Loom)

7. ​Submit it!

​Optional resources:

• ​AI code editors: Cursor, Replit, Bolt, Lovable, Windsurf

• ​Voice agent frameworks: Pipecat, LiveKit, Vapi

• ​Multi-agent frameworks: AG2, CrewAI

• ​Modular agent builder: PySpur, Zapier

• ​Voice providers: Cartesia, ElevenLabs

• ​Integrations: Composio

​Rewards:

• ​20,000 credits from Simli ($1000)

• ​Credits from Partners

• ​​​Demo shared with 1500 developers in AI

​​How to win:

• ​Create the best magic mirror using a video agent

• ​Criteria: do you solve a real problem, does the demo work, and do you provide a novel experience

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

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

​Jury:

1. ​Xiaopeng Li, AI GTM @ Google

2. ​Nissik Juell, COO @ Startuplab

3. ​Lars Vågnes, CEO @ Simli

​Agenda:

• ​10am: Doors open

• ​10.30am: Introduction and Task

• ​10:45am: Find a team or coding partner

• ​11:00am: Coding begins!

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• ​12:15pm: ​Lunch

• ​5pm: Deadline! and demos

• ​5:15pm Dinner

• ​6pm: ​Winners Announced & Mingling

• ​7pm: Doors Close

​​Practicals

• ​The doors are closed during weekend and the team will manually let you in. Please call Ymir @ 473 77 073 if late/outside closed doors

• ​Use Guest Wifi. No password required, just use an email for one month free access

• ​Please leave the rooms clean like you found them

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​Enablers:

• ​Startuplab is an incubator and early-stage investor

• ​Google Cloud offers up to $350,000 USD for AI startups

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

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

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

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

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