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November
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09:30–20:00 2026 · San Francisco time
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🤖 Nace AI Hackathon: Lead the Cambrian Explosion of AI Agents in partnership with Adobe EDU
540 million years ago, life went from blobs to everything, all at once. Agents are having that moment right now. The question is which ones will survive.
On November 14, we’re spending a day in San Francisco evolving agents that don’t just chat, they decide.
Your evolutionary advantages
🧠 Drex, the brain. #1 decision model on performance and latency. Any decisions in miliseconds.
👁️ NDI, the eyes. Data intelligence that parses, classifies, extracts, splits, and grounds. It turns the primordial soup of PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, and emails into data your agent can actually use.
The missionForm a team of 1-2 builders. Feed your agent messy real-world files. Watch it evolve into something that makes grounded, explainable decisions. Natural selection happens on the main stage, judged live.
Focus Tracks:1) 🦖 Apex Predator: Drex vs. the Giants
Take a task normally handled by a frontier LLM, hand the decisions to Drex, and prove it can be faster, cheaper, or more accurate. Teams are judged on measured results and the size of the improvement.
Build systems where multiple agents coordinate, compete, or negotiate, with Drex making every agent’s calls. Think traders in a simulated market, NPCs that think for themselves, or a team of agents dividing up a research task.
The most creative, surprising, or delightful use of Drex wins. Art, music, games, or something gloriously absurd are all fair game.
All tracks: teams that also use NDI to bring real-world documents into their build earn bonus points!
🎨 Bonus prize from Adobe EDU: use Adobe tools like Firefly, Adobe Express or Photoshop in your project or demo to compete for the “Best Use of Adobe” prize, open to every team in any track.
📅 Schedule
9:30 AM Check-in & Breakfast10:00 AM Welcome & Kickoff10:15 – 11:15 AM Product demos from Nace AI and co-hosts11:15 AM Rules, judges & team formation11:30 AM 🛠️ Build begins12:30 PM Lunch2:30 PM Afternoon snacks4:30 PM ⏰ Hard submission deadline4:45 – 5:30 PM Finalist demos (5 min limit) 5:45 PM 🏆 Award ceremony6:00 – 8:00 PM Networking
🏆 Prizes
1st Mac Mini M6 | 2nd Credits | 3rd Credits
What’s includedBreakfast, lunch, snacks, soft drinks all day, API credits to build with, and prizes for the teams that come out on top of the food chain.
Who should comeDevelopers, AI engineers, founders, and builders of every stage of evolution.
Bring: laptop, charger, and your most ambitious mutations.
Spots are limited. Don’t go extinct, register now. 🦕
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