Agents Hackathon by Lightning AI, Validia, & Sentience - #NYTechWeek

Saturday, Jun 6

9:30am – 6:30pm

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What happens when Lightning AI's frontier training infrastructure meets Validia's agent expertise? A hackathon where you build smarter, ship faster, and deploy agents securely. We're excited to host our second hackathon in Manhattan, where we'll challenge you and your team to build autonomous agents that work the way you work — faster than ever before. What You'll Build With You'll have full access to two powerful resources working in tandem: Lightning AI Studios gives you the infrastructure to build, train, and deploy AI agents with the same tools used for frontier model development — serious compute, seamless workflows, and OpenClaw, the framework for building personalized autonomous agents that understand your unique context. GraphN, Lightning AI's platform for building and deploying agent workflows, is the layer between the model and a working product. It handles orchestration, model routing, tool execution (in sandboxed micro-VMs), knowledge base search, guardrails, and the compute to run it all. You bring the idea and the data; GraphN gives you the scaffolding to make it work end to end. Starter templates will have you going from sign-in to a running agent in about five minutes — whether you're building a healthcare assistant, a multi-step research pipeline, a code analysis tool, or something we haven't thought of yet. The Challenge Build a personalized autonomous agent using OpenClaw or GraphN that adapts to how you and your team actually work — and does it safely. Your agent should solve a real problem and show what's possible when cutting-edge AI infrastructure meets security built in from the ground up, not bolted on after the fact. Think agents that learn from your work patterns, automate domain-specific workflows, and orchestrate complex tasks — all while staying resilient against the threats that make real-world AI deployment risky. Can your agent handle adversarial inputs without breaking? Does it know when it's being manipulated or probed? Can it maintain context about how you operate without leaking sensitive information or being distilled by a bad actor? The best submissions won't just be the most capable agents. They'll be the ones that are hardest to break. This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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