Miami AI Hackathon: Mel + ElevenLabs

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Miami AI Hackathon: Build with Mel + ElevenLabs. Build and ship a working agentic product in one day. Hosted by Agentic Day at Miami Dade College.

📅 Saturday, September 19 ⏰ 12:30–8:30PM 👥 Build solo or in teams of up to five 💻 All experience levels are welcome

Community Partners: Miami Fintech Club and Miami Creative Hub.

Build Something Real. Choose a problem. Build an agentic solution. Test it and present a working demonstration. Developers, founders, students, designers and business professionals are welcome. You can arrive with an idea, join a team or choose a challenge at the event. No coding experience is required.

Choose Your Track: Agentic Commerce — Build shopping agents, customer experiences, product-intelligence tools, payment workflows, loyalty systems, inventory automation or retail operations. Agentic Finance — Build agents for financial analysis, reconciliation, risk, compliance, payments, treasury, trading or finance operations. Agentic Marketing — Build agents for audience research, campaign creation, personalization, content, customer intelligence, growth or performance optimization.

Build With Mel. Mel is an agentic development environment that helps anyone build, investigate, repair and verify software using natural language. It brings AI models, tools and workflows into one environment so builders can move from an idea to a working product faster. Participants receive complimentary Mel build credits and access to multiple AI models and developer tools during the hackathon.

Build With ElevenLabs. Use ElevenLabs to add conversational AI, speech, transcription, voice, music, sound or multilingual experiences to your product. Every participant who attends and builds receives one month of ElevenLabs Creator, including 131,000 credits — a $22 value.

🏆 Up to $12,910 in Winner Awards. Overall Grand Prize — Up to $2,485: $1,000 cash from Mel, three months of ElevenLabs Pro for each team member, 600,000 ElevenLabs credits per month, three months of Mel Pro for each team member. Best Use of ElevenLabs — Up to $4,485: three months of ElevenLabs Scale for each team member, 1.8 million ElevenLabs credits per month, $897 value per team member. SSOJet Enterprise-Ready Awards — $5,940: Five selected winners will each receive one production-ready SSOJet Business license, Enterprise SSO and MCP authentication support, $1,188 first-year value per license. Track Winners: Winning teams across Agentic Commerce, Agentic Finance and Agentic Marketing receive three months of Mel Pro for each team member.

Every Participant Receives: Complimentary Mel build credits, one month of ElevenLabs Creator, 131,000 ElevenLabs credits. More cash prizes, technology credits and partner awards will be announced.

Judging Criteria. Projects will be evaluated based on: Importance of the problem, Agentic workflow and tool use, Quality of execution, Verification and responsible human oversight, Creativity and originality, Real-world usefulness, Quality of the live demonstration.

What to Bring: Laptop and charger, an idea, skill or problem you want to explore, any APIs, datasets or tools you want to use, a willingness to build and collaborate. Technical resources and submission instructions will be shared with registered participants.

Partner With Us. We welcome organizations and individuals interested in supporting Miami's agentic AI builder ecosystem. Opportunities include: sponsorship and technology partnerships, cash prizes, APIs and builder credits, speakers, judges and mentors, community and media partnerships, event volunteers, hosting a future Agentic Day hackathon. Contact: pr@helloagentic.ai. Hosted by Agentic Day. Community Partners: Miami Fintech Club and Miami Creative Hub. Build with Mel: openmel.dev.

Prize values assume the maximum team size where applicable. Eligibility, credits and sponsor awards are subject to attendance, project submission, event rules and sponsor terms.

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