Decentralized AI Hackathon
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Hosted by Flower, this one-day event brings together builders, researchers, and the open-source Flower community to explore what's possible with decentralized AI. Through hands-on building, lightning talks, and demo/poster sessions, you'll connect with others advancing decentralized intelligence.
Preliminary Agenda
🥞 Check-in and Breakfast
Collect your badge, swag and get ready! Please arrive at least 15 mins the event begins.
👋🏻 Welcome and Keynote
👷🏽 Decentralized AI Build Time Begins!
8 hours of continuous build time for those individuals and teams participating.
🎙️ Morning Lightning Talks
For those presenting existing projects, there are three sessions where brief talks, demos and posters to be shared with interested attendees. The first of these starts with a session of short talks.
🌮 Networking Lunch
🎙️ Afternoon Lightning Talks
🪧 Posters and Demos
🍕 Networking Dinner
👩🏽⚖️ Demo and Judging
🏆 Awards and Closing Remarks
We’ll announce the winning projects, and the builders will share quick demos of what they created.
How to Participate?
🎟️ Step 1: Choose your Ticket
Pick the ticket that matches your goal for the event:
- 🛠️ Builder Ticket: Looking to build something innovative in decentralized AI? Whether it's a new system, app, or experiment — this is your chance to collaborate and create. You can build solo, or form a team of up to 4 people. If you have your team already, provide their details when you register. But don't worry teams details can be provided as late as the morning of the event.
- 🗣️ Presenter Ticket: Have you worked on something you're proud of? Want to share your research, demo a project, or showcase a poster? This ticket is for you. Just be sure to specify your format (talk, demo, or poster) and include project details when you register. Spots for presenters will be tight.
- 👀 Attendee Ticket: If you're here to learn, get inspired, and connect with others — no pressure to build or present. Just grab this ticket and skip the project and hackathon-related questions.
📝 Step 2: Confirming your ticket
📍 Step 3: Join us in-person at Stanford
This is an in-person event. To participate you will need to travel to Stanford on September 26. Further details and updates will be shared via email and in the Flower Slack channel #hackathon_stanford_2025.
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Prizes
For ideas that push boundaries.
$2,500+ in prizes
Prize details coming soon.
Frequently asked questions
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