Important: Waitlist Registration Only
All applicants are initially placed on a waitlist. Our team will review applications and send email confirmations with tickets to approved participants.
Attendance Requirement: You must commit to participating in both days to be eligible for approval.
Note on Day 1: Day 1 is hybrid, allowing for flexible travel to Yale SOM for Saturday’s in-person hackathon from NYC, Boston and beyond.
If you are local to Yale/New Haven, you are expected to join us at Yale SOM in-person on both days.
Day 1 - April 10 - Hackathon Kick Off
🎤 Keynote & Labs Evening Session
Get ready to build! This evening session is designed to provide the technical foundation and inspiration needed for a successful hackathon. Attendees will receive direct guidance on Google Cloud tools and Gemini APIs.
Agenda:
7:00 PM – 7:15 PM: 👋 Check-in & Refreshments Networking music, high energy.
7:15 PM – 7:45 PM: 🎤 Keynote: The Multimodal Frontier Intro to Gemini Live API & Agent Development Kit. The "Anti-Project" Brief: Explicitly show the slide of what NOT to build (No basic RAG, No Medical/Mental Health bots). Introduction of Judges and Mentors.
7:45 PM – 8:00 PM: 🛠️ Environment Setup & API Access Distribution of Google Cloud Credits. Verification of API access (ensure every laptop is ready for Saturday morning).
8:00 PM – 8:45 PM: 💻 Introduction to Gemini Live Agents and Gemini CLI Technical deep-dive: "From 0 to Hello World" with Live API. Technical deep-dive: How to master Gemini CLI for your coding projects.
8:45 PM – 9:00 PM: 🤝 Speed Networking & Team Formation The Rule: Teams of 3–4 preferred. Activity: "Pitch your skill" (e.g., "I'm a backend dev looking for a creative storyteller"). Solo hackers are grouped or encouraged to join existing ideas to maximize credit usage and project quality.
Workshop Guidelines:
Level 0 Instructions
Level 1 Instructions
Level 3 Instructions
Level 4 Instructions
The Mission:
Step out of the traditional "text box" paradigm and build AI that truly connects. This hackathon challenges you to create immersive, multimodal AI agents using Google Cloud and Gemini.
Participants will leverage the speed of the Gemini Live API and the power of Google’s GenAI SDK/ Agent Development Kit to build solutions in one of two categories:
The Live Agent: Build real-time, voice-and-vision enabled agents that can converse naturally and handle interruptions (e.g., real-time translators, vision-enabled tutors).
The Creative Storyteller: Build agents that generate rich, interleaved outputs—seamlessly mixing text, audio, and visuals into a cohesive narrative flow.
Don’t just build a chatbot. Build an experience that sees, hears, speaks, and creates.
Prizes:
Up to 4 tickets to Google I/O on May 19-20 in Mountain View, CA.
The winning team will receive an exclusive, private pitch session with the founders of Google’s AI Futures Fund.
Important: Waitlist Registration Only All applicants are initially placed on a waitlist. Our team will review applications and send email confirmations with tickets to approved participants.
Attendance Requirement: You must commit to participating in both days to be eligible for approval.
Note on Day 1: Day 1 is hybrid, allowing for flexible travel to Yale SOM for Saturday’s in-person session from NYC, Boston, and beyond.
Register for Day 2: Yale Build with AI Hackathon - Day II
Join the Slack
This is a hybrid event. Join the event virtually at https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-nyc-presents-yale-build-with-ai-hackathon-x-google-cloud-labs-day-i/
or in person at
Yale School of Management - 165 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
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Agenda
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Speakers
Christina Lin - Google (Developer Relations Engineering Manager - Americas)
Christina Lin is a Developer Relations Engineering Manager at Google, leading advocacy and community programs across the Americas. With over two decades of experience spanning Google, Redpanda Data, and Red Hat, Christina has built a career at the intersection of developer relations, open source, and enterprise architecture. Recognized for driving technical ed…
Kartik Derasari
Judges
Annie Beckman - New York Law School
Jai Chandnani - Cornell AI Innovation Hub (AI Engineer Fellow)
Jai Chandnani is the Inaugural AI Engineer Fellow at the Cornell AI Innovation Hub. Within Cornell University’s AI Program, he leads projects focused on building and deploying generative AI solutions to streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and scale high-impact services. He also advances AI literacy and fluency across campus through introductory workshops and hands-on training sessio…
Kartik Derasari
Shizhu Liu - NYU Tandon (Industry Associate Professor | Deputy Director of the M.S. MOT Program)
Shizhu Liu is an Industry Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of the Management of Technology (MoT) master’s program at NYU Tandon. Her academic roots at NYU run deep; she earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2018 under the mentorship of Erwin Lutwak, Gaoyong Zhang, and Deane Yang. It was during this time that she discovered a profound passion for pedagogy while serving …
Nikoloz Kveitaia - Tools for Humanity (Field Operations Manager)
Building Community at World (world.org) Investor and part-time team member at two different startups Proud Georgian-American 🇬🇪🇺🇸
Cindy Morand - Stealth Startup | Columbia Business School (Founder & CEO | MBA Candidate)
Cindy Morand is a founder on a mission to help Millennials and Gen Z use smart financing and leverage. She is an expert in money engineering and interest rates with 14 years of experience. Formerly, she was a VP & sovereign banker at Citi, where she advised Ministers of Finance and helped countries optimize over $100B in debt, saving hundreds of millions in annual interest costs, including…
Breno Velasco - Basis (Software Engineer)
Breno Velasco is a software engineer specializing in product engineering, UI architecture, and AI-enabled web applications. He has over eight years of experience building and modernizing software platforms.
At Basis, he was an early contributor and has helped shape the company's product development, supporting initiatives focused on improving the reliability and scalability of key accoun…
Ankil Patel - Stealth Startup (Serial Entrepreneur)
Ankil Patel is a serial entrepreneur whose startups have been acquired, with pending patents in antifragile systems, neurotech, and biotech. His work spans the full stack - from GPU kernel optimization and low-level systems to applied AI and large-scale distributed infrastructure. He has conducted reinforcement learning research and won competitions in game theory and programming. He writes ab…
Akriti Agarwal
I build consumer and platform products at scale—bringing clarity, speed, and responsible AI to teams shipping to millions. Ex‑Google, Amazon, PayPal; I lead SDKs, ML personalization, and growth programs with measurable outcomes. Recent highlights: Google: Took the Meet Add‑ons SDK from alpha to global GA across Web/Android/iOS on a 100M+ DAU surface; launched with productivity, entertainment, …
Shravan Chandrasekaran - Marsh (Global Product Lead - Benchmarking)
Mission-driven customer-focused product leader with a technical background, driving global adoption of a market-leading enterprise SaaS platform. Proven success in orchestrating product development and adoption leading to protecting product incumbency and penetrating new markets. Experience leading globally distributed and cross-functional teams.
Hosted By
Anna Nerezova, GDG Organizer
Anna Nerezova is a Digital Marketing and Cloud Transformation Consultant with 15 years of experience in data, analytics and optimization.
She has built innovative solutions using Google Cloud to solve problems in the media and entertainment, tech, health and non-profit industries
Anna is a Google Cloud Engineer Scholar, and is on the 100 Women in Analytics list by Google Analytics. She is also a Google Developer Group NYC lead and a mentor for the Northeast, and a proud Women Techmakers Ambassador.
Anna is passionate about using the latest AI/ML technologies to provide solutions and bring growth and better experience for all users. She is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, and is committed to helping underrepresented groups become entrepreneurs and financially independent.
Bhavik Chopra, Computer Science Graduate Student
Hi, I’m Bhavik — a Data Scientist at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and an Organizer for Google Developer Group (GDG) NYC, where I foster a thriving tech community through events like GDG NYC DevFest and Cloud Study Jams on Google Cloud and Terraform.
My passion for technology started in childhood, surrounded by computers, software, and games. Although I initially pursued Science-Maths in high school, my true calling emerged when I discovered software development. Since then, I’ve been building projects and exploring cutting-edge technologies.
I hold a Master’s in Computer Science from Pace University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Silver Oak University, where I actively contributed to the tech community through DSC Silver Oak (Google Developers) and various IEEE leadership roles.
Today, I merge my technical expertise with my love for community building—whether through data science innovations at MTA, improving NYC transit for 6M+ daily riders, or empowering developers through GDG NYC events.
Let’s connect and create something impactful together! 🚀
Shivika Arora, Executive Director, Product
I am currently responsible for driving modernization, innovation and engineer experience agenda in four strategic tech location for JP Morgan - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Silicon Valley and Seattle. Prior to this role, I was the Product and Solutions Lead for Trusts and Estates under Asset Wealth Management, where I was responsible for executing both brokerage op models as well lending framework for the ultra-high net worth clients.
Outside of work, I am Google’s WomenTechmaker Ambassador for NYC as well as GDG NYC Organizer; Champion Coach for JPM’s Women On The Move Network' and Fast Forward Small Business Mentor.
On a personal front, I love to read, dance to any good music and go on food tours around various cities.
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Partner
AI Futures Fund (https://dub.sh/AI-Futures-Fund)
Working with startups to build what’s next in AI
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