🚀 MIT AI Conference Hackathon 2025

Theme: Autonomous AI: Building the Future of Intelligent Agents

  • 📍 Phase 1: Sept 19–21 @ MIT
  • 📍Finals: Oct 18 @ MIT AI Conference, Mountain View, CA

💡 The Challenge

AI agents are transforming industries — automating workflows, making intelligent decisions, and collaborating seamlessly with humans.

This year, we’re challenging you to design, build, and deploy AI agents that can:

  • ✅ Operate independently
  • ✅ Adapt to real-time changes
  • ✅ Enhance and transform real-world processes

Examples:

  • Smarter customer support bots
  • Research assistants that think ahead
  • Workflow automation tools
  • Multi-agent simulations that coordinate autonomously

🔥 Why You Should Join

  • Build on the cutting edge of AI innovation
  • Get mentored by top engineers, founders, and MIT-affiliated investors
  • Win prizes + a funded trip to San Francisco
  • Pitch on stage at the MIT AI Conference to global AI leaders, VCs, and industry execs
  • Follow the legacy: Last year, students from 3 out of 6 finalist teams launched their own startups 🚀

📅 Timeline

Phase 1 – MIT Campus(Sept 19–21)

This year, we’re challenging you to design, build, and deploy AI agents that can:

  • ⚡ 48-hour hackathon @ MIT
  • ⚡ Sept 23 – Finalists announced
  • ⚡ Sept 24 – Pitch coaching session

3 Weeks to Refine

Polish your project & pitch with mentorship.

Phase 2 – MIT AI Conference, Mountain View, CA(Oct 18)

  • 🌟 6 finalist teams (2 members per team funded: flights + 2 nights hotel)
  • 🌟 Pitch LIVE on stage in front of investors & AI experts

👩💻 Who Can Participate?

  • MIT undergrads, grad students, and postdocs
  • Teams of 2–5 students (2 funded for SF travel)
  • All skill sets welcome — engineering, product, design, research

🎯 Prizes & Perks

  • Cash prizes
  • Mentorship from industry and investor networks
  • Visibility to global AI leaders & venture capital

📍 Mark Your Calendar

  • 🗓 Registration opens soon!
  • 📍 MIT Campus, Sept 19–21
  • San Francisco, Oct 17–19 (Finals on Oct 18)

👉 Be part of the next wave of AI innovation.

The future of AI is agentic — and it’s being built here, by you.

💥 Registration link coming soon — start building your dream team now.

🤝 Become a Sponsor

Want to connect with the next generation of AI innovators?By sponsoring the MIT AI Conference Hackathon, you’ll:

  • Engage directly with top MIT talent
  • Gain early access to emerging AI startups and research
  • Mentor and inspire future AI leaders
  • Showcase your brand to a global AI audience at the conference

📩 Contact: sponsors@mitaiconference.org to explore sponsorship opportunities.

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