Challenges

Think you've got the most creative AI automation workflow in you? Prove it.

Over the next 30 days, we’re challenging you to build the most creative and highest-quality workflow using Airops—whether it's automating tedious tasks, supercharging productivity, or creating something no one's thought of yet.

🧠 What we're looking for

Smart, usable, and imaginative use of Airops

Real-world utility or mind-blowing creativity

Clear explanations or demos of what you built

💰 Prizes

🥇 $500 for Most Creative Workflow

🏅 $100 each for 2 Honourable Mentions

Whether you're a first-time builder or a seasoned automation wizard, we want to see what you can ship in 30 days. Ready to make magic?

Two days. Build Anything. No experience required.

Scrapyard Sydney is a hackathon for high schoolers happening in Sydney, where you can make the cool project that solve global challenges! Anything, from to building an electromagnet to creating an app that reduces pesticide waste in agriculture! No matter your experience, Scrapyard Sydney needs you and your innovative ideas!

ElevenLabs and a16z are holding a worldwide hackathon focused on AI AGENTS. They will be hosting 7 massive hackathons!

​Build Club is organizing a IRL hack for participants in Sydney. All participants will enjoy 48 hours of free access to a coworking space, pizza + snacks.

Notable: ElevenLabs are throwing in some Airpods Max for each member of the Sydney winning team!

• Saturday 10am -> Coffee + breakfast + participants arrive, networking + team formation + introduction + filming + photos
• Saturday 12:30pm -> Lunch (pizza)

• Saturday 7:00pm -> Dinner (hot food!)
• Saturday 10pm -> Work from home / vacate building :)
• !! Sunday 8:00am !!-> Hackathon submission deadline + judging start time
• Sunday 10am -> Demos + judging for top 10 teams

Welcome to the AI by Students for Students Hackathon ⭐🚀.

​Hosted by Build Club and UNSW AI Society and Tutero, the AI By Students, For Students Hackathon invites University students to build innovatie tools they would use for their 'first year self' '🎉

​Proudly supported by our partners at Groq and Composio.

​Virtual Schedule to be announced soon (in person below)

​ ​​​🪄 How will it work

​Under the theme Build for the Students, participants will create solutions that tackle real challenges in student life—from academic aids 📚 to wellness resources 💆. Open to students from all universities, this hackathon is a chance to connect, collaborate 🤝, and innovate in a supportive space.

​Don’t miss a day filled with creativity, networking 🌐, and skill-building as you bring ideas to life for the student community! 🚀

​📅 Date: December 7, 2024

​⏰ Time: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

​📍 Location: Level 2, 477 Pitt St, Haymarket NSW 2000

​​​✨ The schedule

​​Team forming + kick off + hacking:

• ​Date: 7th December AEDT

• ​Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

• ​Venue: Level 2, 477 Pitt St, Haymarket NSW 2000 & Online

​​Hackathon Build:

• ​Date: 7th December AEDT

• ​Time: 11:30 AM - 4:30 PM

• ​Venue: Level 2, 477 Pitt St, Haymarket NSW 2000 & Online

​Judging and Winner Announcement: 

• ​​Date: 7th December AEDT

• ​​Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

• ​​Venue: Level 2, 477 Pitt St, Haymarket NSW 2000 & Online

​🏆 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

​​UNSW AI Society is a community dedicated to studying and applying artificial intelligence. Through engaging events, workshops, and projects, we aim to foster a network of AI enthusiasts and drive innovation in this rapidly evolving field.

​​Build Club is a platform for the World's most ambitious AI Engineers who are passionate building their dreams and learning

​Tutero's online platform offers parents, tutors and students to access a seamless way to manage personalised tutoring and excel at school.

​Composio is a platform for managing and integrating tools with LLMs & AI agents using Function Calling.

​Groq is the world's fastest platform for inference.

Welcome! Come build with some of the brightest minds in the world passionate about AI and healthcare 👩‍⚕️🌎 ✨.

​Note: you must apply to be accepted, this event is excusive capped due to demand (capped at 70 IRL).

​​​🪄How will it work

​​Team up or build alone to leverage one of the health topic areas and build an AI solution to it! Bonus points if you build with a sponsor.

​This event is both IRL in Sydney (Euc offices) and online virtual.

​​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) and tutorials:

• ​Eucalyptus - Grand prizes + bounties + merch

• ​Groq - $500 prize for best solution built using Groq, will be providing increased inference during the event

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

• ​Sahha AI - $1000 prize + best with Sahha prize

• ​Bland AI - Grand prizes + best in bland AI prize

​Eucalyptus's mission is to make good health last a lifetime. Our digital clinics are powered by technology built from the ground up to deliver high-touch, high-quality patient experience, globally. Join us to solve and build the preventative care experience for the future.

​Build Club is a platform for the World's most ambitious AI Engineers who are passionate building their dreams and learning

​​​Follow along at Build Club LinkedIn and Twitter

Spend 2 days training AI Chess bots on GPUs in SF or Sydney ✨🚀.

Mega Chess Hackathon Overview:

Get hands-on with rapid neural network training using Strong Compute’s Instant SuperComputer (ISC) in our Mega Chess Hackathon!

Compete over two days to build the best chess-playing AI with access to 48 GPU clusters and explore models, datasets, and hyperparameters.

Details:

• Prize: $10k-$100k compute grant for open-source AI research.

• Challenge: Train a deep neural network to evaluate chess moves based on game history and board states.

• Resources: StockFish-evaluated board states, historic game PGNs, and code examples.

• Compute: Dedicated GPU access via the ISC platform.

• Judging: Tournament-style model face-off.

Accepted participants will get the full task, dataset, and model specifics a week before. Register today to get a head start!

Participant Requirements:

• Experience with PyTorch and cluster training is preferred but not mandatory.

• Skills in large-scale clusters (64+ GPUs) are highly valued.

• Teams of 1 to 3 members are allowed. Include your team members’ names when registering. Approved participants will receive a link to our Discord competition channel.

Locations:

• San Francisco, USA: Venue details will be shared upon successful application. 🇺🇸

• Sydney, Australia: Register here 🇦🇺

🗓️ Event Schedule:

San Francisco:

Friday:

• 6:00 pm: Drinks, snacks + networking

• 6:30 pm: Set-up, onboarding, test training run + inference

• 7:30 pm: Competition begins 🎉

• 8:30 pm: Dinner

• Late: hacking

Saturday:

• 9:00 am: Day two start, breakfast

• 1:00 pm: Lunch

• 7:30 pm: Dinner

• 8:00 pm: Final submissions 📝

• 9:00 pm: Competition begins ♟️

• 11:00 pm: Winners announced 🏆

Strong Compute

Strong Compute provides infrastructure management capability for rapid artificial intelligence development.

P.S. We're hiring and this is a great way for us to get to know each other https://strongcompute.com/jobs

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

Join Build Club in a epic hackathon for both technical and non-technical builders to build real world AI applications to solve business problems - beginner friendly!

Judges

Ed Barker - Principal at Squarepeg Location: Sydney - Australia

Daniel Palmer - Co-founder at Relevance AI Location: Sydney - Australia

Annie Liao - Founder at Build Club Location: Sydney - Australia

Rita Arrigo - Strategic Engagement Manager at National AI Centre Location: Sydney - Australia

Harini Janakiraman - Founder at Build Ship Location: Sydney - Australia

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