CrewAI x AI Tinkerers - Practical Agents Hackathon - Seattle

Get ready for an electrifying weekend of coding, collaboration, and AI innovation at the CrewAI x AI Tinkerers Hackathon, hosted at Foundations in Seattle! We’re thrilled to announce CrewAI as our marquee sponsor, with their visionary founder João (Joe) Moura on-site to kick things off, mentor teams, and help you build practical AI agents that get stuff done - joined by the founders of Neon, CopilotKit, OpenPipe and more.

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What to Expect 🚀

This isn’t your average hackathon—it’s a hands-on crash course in building AI agents that work. Whether you’re new to agents or a seasoned pro, this is your shot to level up. CrewAI’s João Moura will be there in person to deliver a quick-start session, answer your questions, and guide teams throughout the weekend. Expect a room buzzing with energy, killer ideas, and the tools to make them real.

• Newbies: Never built an agent before? By the end, you’ll be a pro—walking away with a working agent you built from scratch.
• Veterans: Already an agent ace? Sprinkle in reasoning agents, fine-tune models, experiment with the latest multimodal tricks, or slap on a voice interface. Take it to the next level.

Note: our events are popular, and we are screening attendance. While you don’t necessarily have to have experience with agents per se, you should be able to produce running code and be a builder.

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The Challenge: Build Practical AI Agents That Deliver

The theme is simple: build agents that solve real problems. AI agents get a bad rap for being overhyped and clunky—and let’s be real, it’s often deserved. But this weekends we set to prove the skeptics (and ourselves) wrong! You’ll create autonomous, collaborative AI teams that tackle tasks head-on. Think customer support bots that actually help, research agents that dig up gold, or workflow automators that save hours. João will be on hand to share insider tips on CrewAI’s platform and help you push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Judging Criteria

Your projects will be judged on:

• Practicality: Does your agent solve a real-world problem with style?
• Technical Mastery: Is your code clean, clever, and functional? Fully autonomous? Breaks new ground?
• Wow Factor: How far did you push the limits—did you add reasoning, multimodality, or a slick voice UI? Did you pull off things that haven’t been seen before? What % of the room’s jaw’s dropped?

This is an AI Tinkerers event, so bring your A-game—We produce running code at our hackathons, not hand-waves and slide decks.

Key Details

• Dates: May 17th and 18th, 2025
• Location: Seattle
• Theme: Building Practical AI Agents with CrewAI
• Special Guest: João Moura, CEO of CrewAI, live and in-person!

⬆️ Space is tight for this hands-on session. Register now! ⬆️

Prizes & Sponsors 🔥

We’ve already lined up some exciting sponsors (see below) and a pile of juicy prizes to reward the best builds. Good lore is brewing—expect swag, bragging rights, and maybe a little something extra for the teams that blow us away.

Who’s This For? 🤖

This hackathon is crafted for:

• AI engineers itching to build something useful with agents.
• Startup founders ready to prototype game-changing ideas.
• Tech pros with a passion for AI and a hunger to tinker.

If you live for code, love AI, and want to connect with a crew of builders as obsessed as you are, this is your spot. Attendance will be screened—serious tinkerers only!

🗓️ Schedule

May 17, 2025 (Saturday)

May 18, 2025 (Sunday)

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About CrewAI

CrewAI is the leading multi-agent platform that streamlines workflows across industries with powerful AI agents, enabling automated workflows using any LLM and cloud platform. With over 29,400 GitHub stars and adoption in 150+ countries—including by 60% of Fortune 500 companies—CrewAI offers comprehensive solutions for building, deploying, tracking, and perfecting multi-agent systems. The platform works in any environment, integrates with all apps, features a simple management UI, and provides complete visibility into agent performance, making it ideal for applications ranging from strategic planning to healthcare data enrichment and supply chain optimization.

Community Sponsors

We’ve got a stellar lineup of community sponsors joining CrewAI to fuel your weekend.

Neon delivers serverless Postgres that scales to zero when idle. Their platform offers instant provisioning, database branching for development environments, and powerful autoscaling capabilities. Perfect for hackathon projects that need reliable, scalable database infrastructure without the overhead.

OpenPipe enables teams to fine-tune higher-quality, faster models that continuously improve. Their platform allows you to train custom models and agents that consistently outperform GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost. Ideal for hackathon teams looking to enhance their agent performance while reducing costs. Their open source library for training agents with RL will be released soon!

CopilotKit helps developers build AI copilots for their products quickly and with easy customization. Their toolkit enables you to create “virtual colleagues” that fully understand your application and users through simple React components. A perfect solution for hackathon teams building user-facing agent applications.

[MORE COMING SOON] - along with our prizes, judging and other announcement! Stay tuned!

Venue Sponsor

Foundations is Seattle’s elite invite-only hub for tech founders, blending focused work with organic collaboration. Nestled in Capitol Hill, this curated space is where innovation thrives—perfect for a weekend of agent-building madness.

RSVP Now!

With João Moura mentoring, CrewAI powering the tech, and a packed house of tinkerers, this event will hit capacity fast. Submit your application ASAP—only the most dedicated builders will snag a spot.

📊 AI Tinkerers Seattle Stats

• Attendees: This exclusive community of 5,360 technical professionals comprises approximately 43% senior software engineers, 32% AI/ML scientists, and 25% technical founders. Members possess deep expertise in agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. Notably, the group bridges elite enterprise talent from Microsoft and Amazon with venture-backed startups, driving rapid, open-source AI integration and local-first hardware-software innovations.
• Companies Represented: Featuring industry giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Apple, alongside leading AI innovators such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Together.ai, and rising startups like CopilotKit, OpenPipe, Fixie.ai, and Moondream, and more