August 2, 2025
Agents in
the Loop
Build Agentic Workflows
Design Beautiful Interfaces
Create Intelligent Automation
Choose Your Track
Three paths to reimagine automation. Pick your approach and build something extraordinary.
Agentic Workflows
Build autonomous agents that make decisions, adapt to context, and handle complex multi-step processes
LLM-Powered Workflows
Leverage language models to understand intent, generate content, and bridge human-AI collaboration
Wildcard Track
Design beautiful, intuitive interfaces that make workflow automation accessible to everyone
Can't decide? You can switch tracks during the hackathon or combine approaches.
Schedule
One day of building, learning, and innovation
All times are in Pacific Time (PT). Schedule subject to minor adjustments.
Partners
Supporting the next generation of workflows and automations
Judges & Mentors
Industry leaders guiding the next breakthrough
Pratik Satija
Founder, Solstis
Pratik is the founder of Solstis, a platform that lets users create AI agents in natural language to automate complex workflows. Originally a mechanical engineer, he transitioned into AI while at Carnegie Mellon, driven by a desire to build systems that think and act. He's focused on making agents practical, controllable, and actually useful in real-world operations.
Abhi CVK
Founder, Basic
Abhi is a 2x YC founder + PM with experiences across seed to series C startups. He previously built software to close $600M in property, and led teams at EY Parthenon to conduct $20B in product diligence. He also helped grow a startup from Series A to C ($750M) valuation in just one year.
Jai Relan
CEO, Relling (YC S25)
Jai Relan is a repeat founder and product leader specializing in AI-powered automation and intelligent agent systems. As a veteran of AI-forward startups including Clara Labs and Rollup and now Relling (YCS25) Jai has extensive experience building and scaling autonomous workflows across both enterprise and consumer environments. His deep technical and product expertise spans the full spectrum of agentic systems—from LLM-driven pipelines to complex multi-agent orchestrations. Having navigated the challenges of bringing intelligent automation from concept to scale, Jai brings invaluable perspective on what makes agentic workflows truly effective in real-world applications. His background positions him perfectly to evaluate the practical viability, technical sophistication, and market potential of hackathon projects focused on autonomous and intelligent systems.
Dylan Watkins
Community Manager, n8n
Dylan Watkins is the North America Community Manager for n8n, where he builds tech communities and champions automation and AI. He’s hosted dozens of high tech & n8n events, collaborated with top creators, and helped countless teams unlock the power of automation. Dylan is passionate about open-source tools and the future of AI agents, and he’s excited to see the creative solutions you’ll bring to this AI Agent hackathon!
Seema Phalke
Tech Lead, Nvidia
A seasoned technical leader with over 15 years of experience spanning AI, Automation, Observability, Full Stack Development, and Blockchain. They have led innovation teams, mentored early-stage startups, and delivered scalable enterprise software solutions. Passionate about transforming real-world challenges into impactful, tech-driven outcomes, they look forward to seeing how participants bring their ideas to life at the hackathon.
Manas Bum
Founder, Kairos
Manas is the founder of Kairos, where he’s building AI agents that learn by watching you work. He’s a senior at NUS on exchange at Stanford, and a James Dyson Award winner for an assistive tech project.
Nithya Subramaniam
Senior Product Designer, Klarity
Nithya Subramaniam is a Senior Product Designer at Klarity, reimagining how AI can transform unstructured processes into intelligent, self-improving systems. She’s focused on closing feedback loops and turning human-in-the-loop workflows into launchpads for continuous innovation.
Dhyey Mavani
Gen AI, LinkedIn
Dhyey Mavani is a Software Engineer on the Generative AI team at LinkedIn, where he develops scalable inference systems powering large-scale recommendation and generative models. His recent work includes building a GPU-accelerated inference engine in Rust and PyTorch, cutting P99 latency by over 2x and saving ~$1M in compute costs. He has also won and judged leading AI competitions, including HackMIT, and was selected for Y Combinator’s inaugural AI Startup School. Dhyey is passionate about building AI systems that are both technically efficient and thoughtfully aligned with human workflows.
Bhavin Modi
MTS, OpenAI
Bhavin Modi is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he builds core infrastructure that powers cutting-edge AI systems. Over the past decade, he has led engineering for some of the most ambitious tech initiatives—developing the Oculus VR operating system at Meta, launching Novi’s peer-to-peer stablecoin payments platform, and building crypto-native infrastructure at TaxBit. Bhavin is known for turning frontier ideas into real-world systems through deep technical rigor and first-principles thinking.
Nitish Surana
Senior Software Engineer, growth, Vapi
Nitish Surana is a Senior Software Engineer on the GTM Engineering team at Vapi, where he ships data‑driven experiments, onboarding flows, and integrations that accelerate user acquisition and revenue. With 7 years of experience—including 5 years specializing in Growth Engineering at BioRender, Outschool, and Course Hero—he blends strategy, experimentation, and scalable feature development to drive measurable business impact.
Dan Goosewin
Dev Rel Lead, Vapi
Dan Goosewin is the Developer Relations Lead at Vapi, where he helps drive community, content, and product strategy around AI-native voice interfaces. He leads DevRel initiatives, DX, partnerships, and ecosystem growth.
Rajashekar Vennavelli
AI Engineer, Fetch.ai
Rajashekar Vennavelli is an AI Engineer at Fetch.ai, working on agentic workflows and autonomous agents. He’s a passionate builder and hackathon enthusiast, having won at 20+ hackathons across diverse domains.
Amala Deshmukh
Research Scientist, Nvidia
Amala Sanjay Deshmukh is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA, where she focuses on training foundation models for vision-language and document intelligence tasks. She is a hackathon-enthusiast with a strong interest in building scalable, real-world AI systems.
Kritin Vongthongsri
Founder, Confident AI
I am the Co-founder at Confident AI. We are building the future of LLM Evals.
Luofei Chen
Founder, Oki AI
Luofei is the CEO and Co-founder of Oki AI, a YC W25 startup. Oki is like an AI team member that reads your company's code, slack threads, docs, and sends executives personalized updates on progress. Previously, Luofei built AI PCs - high end desktops that ran AI assistants locally. He also graduated from the M.E.T. program at UC Berkeley, holding dual degrees in both Engineering and Business.
Roman Shemet
Founder, Cactus (YC S25)
Roman is the founder of Cactus (YC S25) – an open-source framework for deploying AI on smartphones. Roman is a former quant and economist with a background in product and data engineering.
Jeffrey Ip
CEO, Confident AI
Jeffrey is the CEO and cofounder at Confident AI, and have founded the open-source project DeepEval (10k stars, 700k monthly downloads) that now delivers more than 20 million LLM evals everyday.
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