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Check-In Begins
Hacker check-in begins at 2:30 pm. We encourage you to check-in before opening ceremony & the Cal Band performance, but check-in will still continue past opening ceremony. Please have your Government ID (w/ DOB) and hacker QR code ready to help streamline the process.
starts 9:30 PM @ Registration Desk
Hacker check-in begins at 2:30 pm. We encourage you to check-in before opening ceremony & the Cal Band performance, but check-in will still continue past opening ceremony. Please have your Government ID (w/ DOB) and hacker QR code ready to help streamline the process.
Kick the weekend off with an energetic performance featuring Cal Band & Oski!
Kick off the event and hear from opening speaker (Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks) and sponsors
Intro to Claude Code: Boost Your Coding Workflow
We'll cover React and more!
Build API Workflows and Automations
Raavi's Biryani
Options include: Chicken Biryani, Vegetarian Biryani
Roast My Life: Build an AI That Comments on Your Camera Roll
Learn how to to build an iOS app using Swift and SwiftUI! Please come with Xcode installed via the Mac App Store. You must have a Mac. GitHub Starter Repo Link: https://github.com/cubstart/DiceDuelStarter GitHub Finished Repo Link: https://github.com/cubstart/DiceDuel Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ok-A-XlLyLUfg6r6Ig9rzMZ1tq3nYK-/view?usp=sharing
Getting Started with Lava: Build and Monetize Your First AI Chatbot
How to Build AI Agents with the Fetch.ai Tech Stack
Build Apps and Write Code in Flow With Windsurf!
Getting Started with Lava: Build and Monetize Your First AI Chatbot
Best dressed wins an inflatable shark costume 👗🦈
Product Building with Vibe Coding
Hometown Creamery
The Missing Link in AI: Supercharge Your Agents with Real-Time Public Web Access!
Build Your First Stateful AI Agent with Letta Cloud
Learn to use GitHub Copilot, your ultimate AI sidekick: an AI-powered pair programmer that supercharges your ability to write, debug, and explain code like never before. We'll demonstrate Copilot's one-click MCP capabilities by using the GitHub and MLH MCP servers to instantly create an interactive, up-to-date, customized GitHub profile README page! This workshop is beginner-friendly (if you asked, "what's MCP?", this is the place for you), and we'll be giving away some exclusive swag!
Go for a midnight run along the coast.
In this beginner-friendly workshop, we'll speedrun through a whole range of some of the incredible AI features offered by Google AI Studio that you can use at CalHacks or anywhere! Google AI Studio is the fastest way to start building with the Gemini family of multimodal generative AI models. From grabbing an API key in seconds, to live-streaming audio/video to Gemini, to building out a raffle wheel-spinner for some cool freebies, you won't want to miss this! And yes, we did say 'cool freebie raffle' ;)
Plunge into the Pacific Ocean and get your adrenaline going!.
Decompress and get ready to rest with some meditation lead by Cal Hack's Diya.
Noah's Bagels 🥯
Hack Your Own AI APIs on CREAO: Build, Connect, Go!
How to Create Voice Agents: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Walk along Crissy Field and up to the Golden Gate Bridge. A classic SF walk!
Build and Deploy Scalable Voice Agents in Python
Tiny-Infra: A Discussion on Quick and Simple Infra for Shipping Ideas Very Quickly.
Starting with a short presentation from the Crater team, join us for an audience discussion on the tooling and infrastructure you use to ship better, more, and more performant code. Whether you're an indie hacker or another startup sponsor, drop by to talk with others about or give flash talks on the developer tools and infrastructure you can't live without.
Mid-Training & RL: Fine-Tuning Open Models on a Budget
Complete challenges in and around the PFA and SF. The first team to 200 points gets prizes! Meet at 12 PM for further instructions!
Puzzle Challenge Workshop: Win an iPhone, AirPods, or $1000 Cash
Ike's Sandwiches 🥪
"Universal Embeddings" — Examining the Platonic Representation Hypothesis
Hear from leading robotics researchers as they share insights on the frontier of embodied AI and robot learning — from large-scale data collection to real-world deployment. The session also includes a presentation from BitRobot on building a distributed platform for open robotics R&D.
Schedule:
Ride Lyft bikes through the Presido and to Land's End.
Join Cal Hacks for a fun game of Capture the Flag at Crissy Field! Boba and swag from MLH provided. Beginners, transfer students, underrepresented minorities welcome!
Sajj Mediterranean 🥙
MLH's spin on the classic code-in-the-dark challenge.
Be the first ever Cal Hacks x Clash Royale Champion!
Get free doodles of you drawn by Cal Hacks Design!
Tournament style no buy-in. RSVP here.
Jam out with hackers under the famous Rotunda!
Pineapple Buns
Submit on DevPost, edits can still be made
Breakfast Tacos!
Celebrate the weekend at Wordware's office. Register at https://luma.com/lub4wj08.
Celebrate the weekend at YC's Dogpatch office. Register at https://events.ycombinator.com/calhacks-afterparty.
