NYC Build With AI Hackathon @ NYU Tandon Engineering School, part of NYC Open Data Week - Day II

NYU MakerSpace, 6 MetroTech Center, Kings County, 11201

GDG NYC

Day 2: March 28th 2026 | All Day AI Hackathon 🗓️ Hackathon Event ScheduleThe main event is here. Since environment setup...

Mar 28, 1:00 – 10:00 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

AIAI - GeminiAI - Vertex AIBuild with AIGoogle CloudHackathonUX / UI Design

About this event

Day 2:

March 28th 2026 | All Day AI Hackathon 

🗓️ Hackathon Event Schedule

The main event is here. Since environment setup was completed during the previous evening's labs, we are hitting the ground running with a day dedicated to pure building and innovation.

9:00 AM: 🚪 Doors Open

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM: 🎤 Opening Remarks & Gemini Live Demo

Kick off with a physical device demo using Gemini Live to inspire the builds.

10:15 AM: 💻 Start Hacking!

Attendees start coding immediately since Labs were completed the night before.

1:00 PM: 🥗 Working Lunch

Food served; hacking continues to keep the momentum.

2:30 PM: 📤 Project Submission Deadline

Final push to get code into the portal.

2:30 PM: 👩‍💻 Judging & Presentations

First Round Judging - every team which submitted a project get 5 mins to pitch

4:00 PM: 🏆 Finalist Presentations

5:00 PM: 🏆 Awards Ceremony

5:30 PM 🎤Closing Keynote by Prof. Kyunghyun Cho, Glen de Vries Professor at NYU, Co-Director of Global Frontier AI Lab (together with Prof. Yann LeCun)

6:00 PM: 🏁 Event Wrap-up

Step out of the traditional "text box" paradigm and build AI that truly connects. This hackathon challenges you to create immersive, multimodal AI agents using Google Cloud and Gemini.

Participants will leverage the speed of the Gemini Live API and the power of Google’s GenAI SDK/ Agent Development Kit to build solutions in one of two categories:

  1. The Live Agent: Build real-time, voice-and-vision enabled agents that can converse naturally and handle interruptions (e.g., real-time translators, vision-enabled tutors).

  2. The Creative Storyteller: Build agents that generate rich, interleaved outputs—seamlessly mixing text, audio, and visuals into a cohesive narrative flow.

The Mission: Don’t just build a chatbot. Build an experience that sees, hears, speaks, and creates.

Prizes: 

Up to 4 tickets to Google I/O on May 19-20 in Mountain View, CA


The winning team will receive an exclusive, private pitch session with the founders of Google’s AI Futures Fund

Register for Day 1

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When

When

Saturday, March 28, 2026
1:00 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC)

Speakers

  • Christina Lin

    Google

    Developer Relations Engineering Manager - Americas

  • Kartik Derasari

    Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud

Mentor

  • Kartik Derasari

    Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud

Facilitators

  • Poe Myint Swe

    Nyantrace.ai

    Founder & CEO | MS MOT NYU26

  • Xuying Yang

    Product Manager | MS MOT NYU26

  • Aatish Naidu Boddapati

Judges

  • Alix Jules

    Broadridge

    Head of AI Transformation

  • Annie Beckman

    New York Law School

  • Boyang Chen

    Meta

    Software Engineer

  • Deborah Navarro

    Barndoor AI

    AI Platform Strategy

  • Drake Ryans

    frog

    Senior Strategist

  • Jai Chandnani

    Cornell AI Innovation Hub

    AI Engineer Fellow

  • Kartik Derasari

    Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud

  • Kyunghyun Cho

    New York University

    Co-Director of Global Frontier AI Lab

  • Prahal Arora

    Instagram

    Machine Learning Engineer

  • Peta-Gay Clarke

    Women TechExchange Inc.

    Founder

  • Shizhu Liu

    NYU Tandon

    Industry Associate Professor | Deputy Director of the M.S. MOT Program

  • Shrutivandana Sharma

    NYU

    Industry Associate Professor

  • Shuaiyu Liang

    Bloomberg

    Senior Software Developer

  • Yifeng (Ethan) Fan

    NYDIG

    Software Engineer

  • Zin Tun Cho

    Financial Sector

    Senior Data Science Manager

  • Breno Velasco

    Basis

    Software Engineer

  • Nikoloz Kveitaia

    Tools for Humanity

    Field Operations Manager

  • Ankil Patel

    Stealth Startup

    Serial Entrepreneur

  • Cindy Morand

    Stealth Startup | Columbia Business School

    Founder & CEO | MBA Candidate

  • Akriti Agarwal

    Senior Product Manager

  • Shravan Chandrasekaran

    Marsh

    Global Product Lead - Benchmarking

  • Katie Scott

    The Notion Studios Workspace Consultant

  • Siddhant Patra

    Columbia Business School

    MBA Candidate

Partner

AI Futures Fund logo

AI Futures Fund

Organizers

  • Anna Nerezova

    GDG NYC Lead, Principal, Data & Analytics

  • Bhavik Chopra

    MTA NYCT

    Computer Science Graduate Student

  • Shivika Arora

    JP Morgan

    Executive Director, Product