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Oct 05 - Oct 11

SF Tech Week
Oct 05 - Oct 11
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With Diego Garzon (Senior Solution Architect for AI/AV Simulation, Nvidia), Ravi Garg (Solutions Architect, Nvidia), Ram B (Sr. Developer Advocate, VAST Data), Brian Verkley (Director, AI Data Platform, VAST Data), Prashanth Nalubandhu (Staff AI Solutions Architect, CoreWeave), Brandon Kates (Founding FDE, CoreWeave), Vera A (Senior Solutions Architect, Weights Biases).
Oct 09 (Fri) @ 08:30 AM       FREE
Venue, To Be Announced

 
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The VAST Builders Challenge is a three-city technical event series bringing together founders & engineers across New York, London, & San Francisco to build production-ready AI systems.

Spend the day building agents to unlock the value of video. Because video is hard to search & analyze, most of it stays in storage, unwatched & underused.

Experiment with the latest AI infrastructure, collaborate with other ambitious builders, & turn your ideas into shippable prototypes - with access to expert guidance, compute, & the tools you need to ship.

Hosted with VAST Data in collaboration with NVIDIA, SpaceXAI, CoreWeave & Weights & Biases.

Note: Registration closes on Oct 6th.

Prizes
1st place: NVIDIA DGX Spark

HuggingFace Microduck

Cursor Credits

Cash Gift Cards

The Builders Stack
You don't have to worry about starting from scratch, we've set it up for you:

Video understanding: reason over a video clip with NVIDIA Cosmos.

Semantic search: find moments across hours of footage using natural language.

Object detection: real-time detection & tracking across frames with YOLO.

General-purpose LLMs: models from Weights & Biases to power your application logic (e.g. video agents).

The VAST AI OS orchestrates the video ingestion & data layer, models are served on CoreWeave GPUs, & builders ship with Cursor.

Build your own video agent or something no one's thought of. We'll share the videos to get you started on building video agents.

Judges
Diego Garzon - Senior Solution Architect for AI/AV Simulation @ Nvidia

Ravi Garg - Solutions Architect @ Nvidia

Ram B. - Sr. Developer Advocate @ VAST Data

Brian Verkley - Director, AI Data Platform @ VAST Data

Prashanth Nalubandhu - Staff AI Solutions Architect @ CoreWeave

Brandon Kates - Founding FDE @ CoreWeave

Vera A - Senior Solutions Architect @ Weights & Biases

Who should attend
Developers, ML/AI engineers, agent builders, & data engineers, from startups to enterprise teams working with video or multimodal AI.

While individuals are welcome, we encourage teams of up to four members & will prioritize team applications. You can form a team on the day of the event or arrive with one already assembled.

Applications are required. Space is limited. Registration closes one week prior to the event.

*Register with Personal Email*
We'll use this for event comms & to credit your Cursor account. Sign up for Cursor with this same personal email if you don't have an account.

Agenda
8:30am Doors Open + Breakfast
9:00am Opening Keynotes
9:30am Build Begins
12:30pm Lunch
4:30pm Demos
6:30pm Closing & Awards

Note: This event will be photographed & filmed. By attending, you consent to appearing in photos & videos that may be used for social media & promotional materials.

Sponsors
VAST Data: A unified AI data platform that provides the foundation for managing, processing, & activating data for AI workloads

CoreWeave: AI cloud infrastructure that delivers high-performance GPU compute for training, fine-tuning, & inference workloads.

SpaceXAI: AI-assisted software development tools that help developers move from idea to implementation faster

NVIDIA: Accelerated computing & AI software that enables developers to build & deploy advanced AI applications

Weights & Biases (A CoreWeave company): AI developer tools for experiment tracking, model evaluation, & collaborative ML development
 
 
 
 
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