Yale Build with AI Hackathon x Google Cloud Labs - Day II

Yale School of Management, 165 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, 06511

GDG NYC

Important: Waitlist Registration Only All applicants are initially placed on a waitlist. Our team will review applicatio...

Apr 11, 1:00 – 10:00 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

AIAI - GeminiAI - Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformBuild with AIGoogle CloudHackathonUX / UI Design

About this event

Important: Waitlist Registration Only
All applicants are initially placed on a waitlist. Our team will review applications and send email confirmations with tickets to approved participants.

Attendance Requirement: You must commit to participating in both days to be eligible for approval.
Day 2:

April 11 2026 | All Day AI Hackathon - in-person only

🗓️ 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 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.

3:00 PM: 👩‍💻 Judging & Presentations

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

4:30 PM: 👩🏻‍💻 Finalist Presentations

5:30 PM: 🏆 Awards Ceremony

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 Deal Team of Google’s AI Futures Fund
$800 at the Google Store in NYC

Register for Day 1: Yale Build with AI Hackathon - Day I

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When

When

Saturday, April 11, 2026
1:00 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC)

Where

Where

Yale School of Management
165 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Speakers

  • Christina Lin

    Google

    Developer Relations Engineering Manager - Americas

  • Kartik Derasari

    Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud

  • Roya Kandalan

    Google Developer Expert

    Generative AI Research Scientist

Mentors

  • Kartik Derasari

    Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud

  • Roya Kandalan

    Google Developer Expert

    Generative AI Research Scientist

Facilitators

  • Stella Wang

    Yale School of Management

    MBA Candidate

  • Melanie Berman

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Russell Horton

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Larissa Colares Maia

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Seline Sun

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Aditi Jain

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Nick Giamalis

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Kshitija Patel

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

  • Smriti Pradhan

    Zero Point Meditation Center, USA

    Marketing Analyst

  • Poom Wongwaisayawan

    Yale School of Management

    MBA

Judges

  • Kartik Derasari

    Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud

  • Nikoloz Kveitaia

    Tools for Humanity

    Field Operations Manager

  • Cindy Morand

    Stealth Startup | Columbia Business School

    Founder & CEO | MBA Candidate

  • Akriti Agarwal

    Senior Product Manager

  • Shravan Chandrasekaran

    Marsh

    Global Product Lead - Benchmarking

  • Elizabeth Mezias

    Outside, Inc.

    Android Engineer

  • Jay Jay Q

    Microsoft AI

    Member of Technical Staff

  • Sarena Wu

    Meta

    AI Researcher

  • Anita Sharif-Hyder

    Yale School of Management

    Associate Dean

  • Tauhid Zaman

    Yale School of Management

    Professor

  • Jack Zhang

    Mckinsey & Company

    Consultant & SOM Alumni

  • Xiuye (Sue) Chen Chen

    Yale University

    CS Professor

  • Shane Frederick

    Yale School of Management

    Professor

  • Fan Zhang

    Yale University

    CS Professor

  • Alyssa Lee

    DataHub

    Chief of Staff

  • Charles Barnett

    Yale University

    Director, Continuous Improvement and Transformation

  • Alex Amari

    Yale University

    Teaching and Research Fellow

  • Chong Lam Cheong

    Google DeepMind

    AI Safety Product Manager

  • Anand Ranganathan

    Yale School of Management & Bridgewater Associates

    Engineering Manager & Lecturer at SOM

  • Christina Lin

    Google

    Developer Relations Engineering Manager - Americas

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