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Build Matcha & Code

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Build Matcha & Code

Overview

Touch grass 🌱 → drink matcha 🍵 → ship agents 🚀

GMI Cloud mugs given to first 30 builders that come to the build session 😊

This isn’t just hacking. It’s:

  • sipping matcha while prompting agents
  • building weird, beautiful things with video + memory
  • early morning energy, music, and spontaneous demos

Schedule

9:00 Doors open + team formation
9:30 Challenge + prize reveal
9:40 Workshops (quick, high-signal)
10:00 Build sprint begins
12:00 Lunch served (rolling, keep building)
1:00 Continue Hacking
3:00 Hacking stops
4:30 Demos (top 5)
4:45 Winners announced + prizes
5:00 Wrap

Prize tracks

  • Best Project: MacBook Air
  • Win up to $1000 (credits + cash)
  • Best Matcha Art
  • Best Agent using video models & memory

The stack powering the day

☁️ GMI Cloud — AI-native inference cloud. 1 of 7 NVIDIA Cloud Partners globally, GPU infrastructure, optimized for real-time agentic workloads. 170+ models including PixVerse.
🖼️ PixVerse — Video generation models
🧠 HydraDB — The context layer for ai
​**☄️** Photon — iMessage/RCS/SMS API for Agents


📢 Workshop Speakers

⚪️ Yuqi Hou - Developer Community at GMI Cloud
⚪️ Yuexiang Wang - Head of Global Enterprise at PixVerse
⚪️ Julie Chen - Head of Marketing at Photon
⚪️ Harnoor Singh - Developer Relations at HydraDB


​**⚖️ Judges**

⚪️ Julie Chen - Head of Marketing at Photon
⚪️ Kingsong Chen (YC16) - Founder/CEO of QuoteTurn
⚪️ Harnoor Singh - DevRel at HydraDB
⚪️ Aryender Singh - MTS at Salesforce
⚪️ Madhav - ex Tesla Celestral Founder
⚪️ Akylai Founder/CTO at HumanDelta
⚪️ Arlan Founding Engineer at HumanDelta
⚪️ Patrick Ruan - COS at Photon
⚪️ Timothy Cheng - Founder in AI AEC
⚪️ Yuqi Hou - Developer Community at GMI Cloud

🏡 Venue Sponsor

​Human Delta

Human Delta is the knowledge infrastructure layer for the agentic enterprise. Enterprise knowledge today is fragmented, inconsistent, and not reliable enough for AI systems to operate on. Human Delta works with large enterprises to surface, structure, and validate institutional knowledge, turning scattered documentation and tribal knowledge into a continuously maintained source of truth that AI systems and agents can actually rely on.

We partner with Fortune 50 companies like Disney and Paramount, supporting teams as they move from AI pilots to real deployment.

Location: 435 Brannan, Suit 209


👯‍♀️ Community Partners

Shoutout to our community partners who rallied their builders to come — this event wouldn't be the same without you.

​​**AI Valley** is a community rooted in supporting exceptional first-generation builders, founders, and creators. We curate environments where ambitious people meet collaborators, mentors, and opportunities through hackathons, workshops, and intimate gatherings across AI, tech, and the arts. If you care about who you build with as much as what you build, this is your place.

Tracks

GMI Cloud

Core track

HydraDB

Core track

Photon

Core track

PixVerse

Core track

Judges

Timothy Cheng

Timothy Cheng

Judge

Kingsong Chen

Kingsong Chen

Judge

Victor Su-Ortiz

Victor Su-Ortiz

Founder at AI Valley

Arlan Marat

Arlan Marat

Judge

Akylai Kasymkulova

Akylai Kasymkulova

Judge

Madhav Goenka

Madhav Goenka

Founder at Celestral AI

Amber Shen

Amber Shen

Product Marketing at TRAE

AS

Aryender Singh

Engineer at Salesforce

Julie Chen

Julie Chen

Judge

Sicheng Ruan

Sicheng Ruan

Photon

Yuqi Hou

Yuqi Hou

Developer Community at GMI Cloud

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