about this event
Make your own frontier. November 2 | San Francisco. Fireworks, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are handing you one challenge: take open models and make your own frontier, on a task you define. Train a specialized model, build a smarter harness, route across models, whatever gets you there. Best result wins $10,000!
The challenge: Pick a task you care about and deploy a model that serves it in production. Build an eval using your own data, synthetic data, or a public set. Then measure the tradeoffs your deployment makes: quality vs. efficiency, accuracy vs. latency, pass rate vs. cost. Tune at least one dimension against your baseline, show the business value, and show how far you pushed it. Think you can make it? Let's see it!
Top prizes + additional: 1st place: $10,000; 2nd place: $5,000; 3rd place: $3,000, plus NVIDIA DGX Spark, and others!
Agenda (subject to change): 9:00 AM doors open; 10:30 AM build begins; 4:30 PM submissions close, judging begins, reception & networking; 7:00 PM demos and awards. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks served throughout.
Early bird gets the worm! Must have an approved registration and once we are at max capacity the doors will be closed. Teams must have 2-5 members — single person teams will not be accepted. Every participant must register.
For Microsoft's Data Privacy Notice please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/data-privacy-notice#mainoverview. All registrations from this event will be shared with our co-hosts Microsoft and NVIDIA.
when
Fireworks: Deploy Buildathon with Microsoft & NVIDIA
9:00 AM doors open; 10:30 AM build begins; 4:30 PM submissions close, judging begins, reception & networking; 7:00 PM demos and awards. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks served throughout.
◍ TBAtickets
| tickets | price | Fee | Status | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Admission | Free | TBA | Available | Free registration; approved registration required and capacity is limited. Every participant must register and teams must have 2-5 members. |
prizes
| # | PRIZE | price |
|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Cash prize | $10,000 |
| 2nd place | Cash prize | $5,000 |
| 3rd place | Cash prize, plus NVIDIA DGX Spark and others | $3,000 |