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AI-Memory Hackathon
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| With Vasilije Markovic (Founder/CEO, Cognee), Elizabeth Siegle (Dev Advocate, DigitalOcean), Daniel Scott (Principal AI Researcher, Cognee), Thierry Damiba (Dev Advocate, Qdrant). |
| Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco |
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Mar 07 (Sat) , 2026 @ 09:00 AM
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AI-Memory Hackathon #1
This hackathon is for developers who want to build AI with real memory & context awareness.
$4,500+ Prize Pool
Main Prizes
Prize: $1,200 cash
Prize: $900 cash
Prize: $500 cash
Special Prize
Best use of Distil labs: $1,000 SLM training credits
Best use of Qdrant: $1,000 cash
Build Something Awesome
You'll work with a local model + a prebuilt knowledge graph over realistic finance & operations data (vendors, invoices, payments, discounts). The core challenge: turn question-answering into useful agents, tools, or workflows that solve concrete problems. Think:
Finance or ops agents that reason over transactions
Auditing, anomaly detection, vendor analysis, or internal QA tools
Interfaces or automations powered by structured + free-text answers
Systems that combine memory, retrieval, & inference locally
Show us what you got
You'll have 3 minutes to stand out:
Present your powerful ideas & strategy using any tools you like
Run a live-demo that show-cases your disruptive application
Schedule
9:00 AM - Doors open + breakfast & coffee
10:00 AM - Opening remarks + partner demos
10:30 AM - Hacking begins
1:00 PM - Lunch
4:00 PM - Project Submission Deadline - finalists selection
5:00 PM - Finalist presentation & judging
5:30 PM - Awards ceremony
6:00 PM - Event wrap-up & doors close
Technology & Venture Partners
distil labs
Qdrant
Pebblebed Ventures
Vermillion Ventures
Judges
Vasilije Markovic - CEO & Founder of Cognee
Daniel Scott - Principal AI Researcher @Cognee & Brown University
Thierry Damiba - Developer Advocate @Qdrant
Elizabeth Siegle - Developer Advocate @DigitalOcean
About Cognee
Cognee is an open-source AI memory engine that transforms unstructured data into a persistent, queryable knowledge graph. It allows AI agents to store, retrieve, & reason over information across time. Rather than one-off RAG, Cognee provides a unified memory layer for building reliable, stateful AI systems.
About Pebblebed
Pebblebed is a technical early stage VC founded by Pam Vagata (cofounder of OpenAI, ran AI for Stripe, inventor of FBLearner Flow); Keith Adams (founded Facebook AI Research, was chief architect at Slack, 20th engineer at VMWare) & Tammie Siew (former Sequoia Southeast Asia investor, former Sequoia & Notable Capital backed founder)
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