Best NVIDIA powered agent on GMI Cloud
Core track

Agents are having their moment. Models are cheap. Inference is fast. Agents can finally remember things.
The only question left: what will you build?
We're bringing together 50 engineers and technical founders in San Francisco for a full day of building and hands on workshops.
You have 8 hours to ship a working AI agent using the most complete agent stack available today.
Teams of 2-4 recommended. Everyone in the room is building.
Doors close once the room fills up.
🌟 Why Join
📅 Schedule
10:00 Doors open + team formation
10:30 Challenge reveal
11:00 Workshops
11:30 Build sprint begins
1:00 Lunch served
4:00 Hacking stops — submissions close
4:15 Community Partners
5:00 Demos & judging
6:00 Winners announced + prizes
⚙️ The Stack
⚡ GMI Cloud — 1 of 7 NVIDIA Cloud Partners globally, GPU infrastructure, optimized for real-time agentic workloads. Inference layer. 170+ models including Kimi K2.5
⚡Kimi (Moonshot) native multimodal agentic model
🔧 Dify — Orchestration layer. Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and observability.
🧠 HydraDB — Memory layer. Persistent memory across agent sessions.
☄️ Photon — Bring agents to the interfaces millions already use.
🔮 Bonus — secret surprise sponsor to be revealed. Register to find out who it is!
🏆Prizes
Teams may submit their project to multiple sponsor prize tracks. Projects will still be evaluated for top winners while also qualifying for any relevant sponsor category.
🥇 Grand Prize
🥈 2nd Place
🥉 3rd Place
🌟 Sponsor Prizes
➕ All participants receive:
Build cutting-edge AI agents with NVIDIA tech and the most complete stack at Total Agent Recall in SF on March 28th.
📢 Workshop Speakers
⚪️ Yuqi Hou - Developer Community at GMI Cloud
⚪️ Roan Weigert - Developer Relations at GMI Cloud
⚪️ Scarlett Mao - Ecosystem Product Manager at Dify
⚪️ Harnoor Singh - Developer Relations at HydraDB
⚪️ Ryan Zhu - Cofounder/CTO at Photon
⚖️ Judges
⚪️ Arjun Chakraborty - Evaluations Lead at Microsoft Security AI Research
⚪️ Julie Chen - Growth at Photon
⚪️ Kingsong Chen (YC16) - Founder/CEO of QuoteTurn
⚪️ Nishkarsh Srivastava - Founder/CEO at HydraDB
⚪️ Ryan Zhu - Cofounder/CTO at Photon
⚪️ Sachin Gupta - Staff Software Engineer at eBay
⚪️ Scarlett Mao - Ecosystem Product Manager at Dify
⚪️ Thiyagarajan Palaniyappan - Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
⚪️ Xiya Tang - AI Product Designer at Treebeard Labs
⚪️ Yijie Hong - Director of Engineering at GMI Cloud
🏡 Venue Sponsor
Sky9 Capital is a global VC with ~$2B AUM investing from early to growth stage in technically driven founders building category-defining companies. Sky9 has 35+ exits/IPOs with a strong focus on Al infrastructure, hardware, and deep tech.
Registered in Singapore with presence in the Middle East, North America and Asia, Sky9 has backed 150+ companies including TikTok, Moonshot Al, Rox Motors, and Webull, and acts as a long-term partner providing technical insight, global market access, and scaling support.
Sky9 Capital
577 2nd St
San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

👯♀️ Community Partners
Drop the name of who brought you here → grab a mug. Shoutout to our community partners who rallied their builders to come — this event wouldn't be the same without you.

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