about this event
🤖 Nace AI Hackathon: Lead the Cambrian Explosion of AI Agents. 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 7, 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 milliseconds. 👁️ 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 mission: Form 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. 2) 🧬 Swarm Intelligence: multi-agent systems — 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. 3) 🎨 Wildcard: weirdest use of Drex — 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!
📅 Schedule: 9:30 AM Check-in & Breakfast; 10:00 AM Welcome & Kickoff; 10:15 – 11:15 AM Product demos from Nace AI and co-hosts; 11:15 AM Rules, judges & team formation; 11:30 AM 🛠️ Build begins; 12:30 PM Lunch; 2:30 PM Afternoon snacks; 4:30 PM ⏰ Hard submission deadline; 4:45 – 5:30 PM Finalist demos (5 min limit); 🍻 Bar opens 5:45 PM 🏆 Award ceremony; 6:00 – 8:00 PM Happy hour & networking.
🏆 Prizes: 1st Mac Mini M6 | 2nd Credits | 3rd Credits.
What's included: Breakfast, lunch, snacks, soft drinks all day, beer and wine at happy hour, API credits to build with, and prizes for the teams that come out on top of the food chain.
Who should come: Developers, 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. 🦕
tracks
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.
Swarm Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems
Build systems where multiple agents coordinate, compete, or negotiate, with Drex making every agent's calls — for example traders in a simulated market, NPCs that think for themselves, or a team of agents dividing up a research task.
Wildcard: Weirdest Use of Drex
The most creative, surprising, or delightful use of Drex wins. Art, music, games, or something gloriously absurd are all fair game.
when
Drexathon: Nace AI's Hackathon
Check-in and breakfast at 9:30 AM, kickoff at 10:00 AM, building from 11:30 AM, hard submission deadline at 4:30 PM, finalist demos 4:45–5:30 PM, award ceremony at 5:45 PM, happy hour and networking 6:00–8:00 PM.
◍ TBAtickets
| tickets | price | Fee | Status | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Registration | Free | TBA | Available | Free entry; includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, soft drinks all day, beer and wine at happy hour, and API credits to build with. Spots are limited. |
prizes
| # | PRIZE | price |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Mac Mini M6 | TBA |
| 2nd | Credits | TBA |
| 3rd | Credits | TBA |