About LIVE AI

✰ LIVE AI is the premier accelerator-backed, hackathon-driven talent identification program.

Welcome to LIVE AI Lone Star 2025, this year's Texas Multi-Campus Hybrid Hackathon.

✰ 2025 June 6 - June 8
✰ Google Austin
✰ BankSocial (Dallas)
✰ Rice University (Houston)

Our competition technologies are AI / ML, blockchain, and fintech.

Both host campuses will provide parallel onsite hackathons, and our Discord channel will offer a unique global experience that connects both communities with our online community for a truly hybrid event. Our participants will be eligible for the usual hackathon prize package, as well as offers for internships and jobs, opportunities to sell their IP, and consideration for joining the fintech-focused Converge Accelerator.

Check out our latest Duke-Harvard event: LIVE AI Ivy Plus 2025 (https://liveai-ivyplus-2025.devpost.com)

 

[1] Before Coding

✰ Submit your resume and apply to LIVE AI Lone Star 2025 to be eligible for prizes.
✰ Join our Discord and check out our Participants Handbook for more event information.
✰ Receive your application decisions and confirm where you will participate in Lone Star 2025.

[2] During Coding

✰ Start coding on June 6 (Friday) at 8:00 pm CDT and follow our event schedule to participate.
✰ Start submitting your solutions at our submission checkpoint on June 7 (Saturday) at 8:00 pm CDT.
✰ Finish submitting your solutions before our submission deadline on June 8 (Sunday) at 12:00 pm CDT.

[3] After Coding

✰ Present your products at our host campuses on June 8 (Sunday) to be eligible for onsite prizes.
✰ Our judges will evaluate all submitted pitch videos and code bases from June 8 until June 21.
✰ Join the Global Awards Ceremony on June 28 (Saturday) at 8:00 pm CDT to celebrate!

 

For more details, you can check out our Rules page and our Participants Handbook, as well as contact us on our Discord channel.

 

Other Events

✰ LIVE AI Ivy Plus 2024 (2024 March 23 - 24)
@ Duke + Harvard

✰ LIVE AI Ivy Plus 2025 (2025 February 21 - 23)
@ Duke + Harvard

✰ LIVE AI Best Coast 2025 (2025 November 7 - 9)
@ Stanford + Berkeley + UCLA + UCSD

✰ LIVE AI Ivy Plus 2026 (2026 February 20 - 22)
@ Columbia + Duke + Harvard + MIT

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Prizes

$40,000 in prizes
LIVE AI Lone Star 2025 Prize Package
$15,000 in cash
1 winner

We've listed our best prizes on this page. You can see our full prize package at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZIeFoucbDbnRB3OqtJSb48IXvb2v-DVwGfCmyaLTB4

[BANKSOCIAL] Converge Accelerator Consideration
$25,000 in cash
1 winner

✰ Round 1 is up to $25,000 pre-seed per team/company with follow-on seed rounds available for those who progress through the accelerator.

✰ This comes with access to financial institution customers to growth hack your customer and revenue pipeline.

✰ Mentor relationship with John Wingate (https://linkedin.com/in/johnwingate)
✰ Founder & CEO @ BankSocial (https://banksocial.io)
✰ LIVE AI Ivy Plus 2025 Harvard Welcoming Ceremony Keynote Speaker
✰ LIVE AI Ivy Plus 2025 Harvard Entrepreneurs Fireside Chat (https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hz62ZFvyVOk)

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