Welcome to LIVE AI Lone Star 2025!
Schedule
[2025 June 6 - June 8] LIVE AI Lone Star 2025 Hackathon (all)
[2025 June 8] Onsite Judging and Awards Ceremony (LIVE AI Austin / LIVE AI Dallas)
[2025 June 8 - June 21] Online Judging (LIVE AI Global)
[2025 June 28] Online Awards Ceremony (LIVE AI Global)
✰ For more details, check out our event schedule and join our Discord channel.
Eligibility
If you are an aspiring creative, developer, or entrepreneur who is 13 years or older, then you are eligible to apply to participate online for free!
If you want to join us onsite, you must be 18 years or older. We are unable to reimburse travel expenses, but we will provide all meals listed on our event schedule, and we do not charge for attendance.
✰ To participate, everyone needs to apply and submit a resume.
Preparations
We will notify each applicant of their acceptance status. As much as we want to host everyone as onsite participants, some of our venues will have limited capacities. Each applicant will be asked to confirm their specific attendance status and location, similar to a college applicant confirming their enrollment. This confirmation will help us prepare everyone's desired dietary requests and swag preferences.
We will do our best to secure venues that allow participants to stay overnight, but that is not always a guarantee due to various circumstances, so we will provide information on a range of transportation and hotel options in our Participants Handbook.
Bring your friends, laptops, phones, chargers, games, snacks, sleeping bags, preferred toiletries, and any other hackathon materials and supplies you may want. Also, always remember to bring a lot of energy for a fun weekend!
We will also provide workshops before the hackathon, as well as lots of mentors (on-campus and on our Discord channel) to help you design, develop, and demo real-world solutions involving artificial intelligence, blockchain / web3, or financial technology.
Our sponsors, such as Google, will also provide resources to help you navigate various technologies, such as Cloud and Gemini. If you need additional support, we recommend asking questions to each other and our mentors (on-campus and on our Discord channel), as well as searching online, especially Stack Overflow.
Submissions
Each submission may have a maximum of four teammates. Although we encourage teamwork, no one is required to work with anyone. Each team must design, develop, and demo products that incorporate at least one of the following technologies:
✰ AI / ML
✰ Blockchain
✰ Fintech
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.
After submitting your solution, you can continue editing and updating your submission until the submission deadline, so submit early and often. Since we always have participants joining us from many different countries, we will not be able to extend the deadline!!!
For more inspiration and ideas, check out our prize package. Our participants will be eligible for the usual hackathon prizes, as well as offers for internships and jobs, opportunities to sell their IP, and consideration for joining the fintech-focused Converge Accelerator.
Prizes
To be eligible for onsite prizes, you must present your product in Austin at Antler or Dallas at BankSocial on June 8 (Sunday) in the afternoon. Onsite teams may also be eligible for global prizes.
To be eligible for global prizes, submit a pitch video (2-3 minutes) and the code base (GitHub repo URL) on June 8 (Sunday) before 12:00 pm CDT. Submissions may include supporting documents, files, images, etc.
✰ From June 8 until June 21, our global judges will use these evaluation guidelines to score pitch videos and code bases, then we will announce our winners at a Global Awards Ceremony on June 28 (Saturday) at 8:00 pm CDT.
Intellectual Property
❌⚠️ WARNING ⚠️❌ DO NOT include your project code's GitHub repo link on your submission page. We want to protect your intellectual property!!!
When you submit your product, you will send your GitHub repo link to the event administrators through a submission form. We will require all mentors and judges to agree to robust non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, and then we will allow them to access your project code for evaluation purposes. Of course, your code will need to remain publicly available during the evaluations phase, so when all evaluations are complete, we will remind everyone to set all repos to private.
Additional Information
For more details, you can check out our Participants Handbook, as well as contact us on our Discord channel.