Fight! San Francisco vs Sydney Chess ML Hackathon

The two tech hubs of San Francisco and Sydney are set to square off in a high-stakes chess machine learning hackathon. After successful inaugural events in each city, the best AI developers will now compete head-to-head to develop the most innovative and powerful chess engines using the latest advancements in machine learning.

If you think you have what it takes, join Sydney Machine Learning and Strong Compute for a hard core weekend to make the best Chess playing AI.

Event Highlights:

• Hands-on experience with rapid iteration cluster training
• Access to 48 GPU clusters
• $10k-$100k compute grant for the winning team

What’s in it for you?

• Experiment with models, datasets, and hyperparameters
• Compete in teams of 1-3 to develop the best chess AI
• Showcase your skills in front of top AI engineers
• Win a compute grant!

​Location: ​Artarmon, NSW, specific details to be provided to successful applicants.

Event Schedule:

​Saturday, 31 August:

• ​11:00 am: Coffee, breakfast + networking
• ​11:30 am: Set-up, onboarding, test training run + inference
• ​12:30 pm: Competition begins
• ​2:30 pm: Lunch
• ​6:00 pm: Dinner
• ​Late: hacking

​Sunday, 1 September:

• ​9:00 am: Day two start, breakfast
• ​12:30 pm: Lunch
• ​1:00 pm: Final submissions
• ​2:00 pm: Competition begins
• ​4:00 pm: Winner announced

Strong Compute:
​Strong Compute provides infrastructure management capability for rapid artificial intelligence development.
​P.S. We're hiring and this is a great way for us to get to know each other