Humans-in-the-Loop Agents Hackathon

John Alioto is a tech industry veteran with over 25 years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, Architect, and Senior Technical Leader. With a proven track record of success, including three startup exits in eCommerce, Security, and ML/AI/Voice, John has consistently demonstrated his ability to drive innovation and deliver results. As a Startup Ecosystem Evangelist, John partners with technical founders to help drive their success on Google Cloud.

Google Cloud

Strategic planning on how Google can help technical founders be successful.

Co-Founder & CEO of CopilotKit🪁 - open-source infra for building fully customized AI Copilots into any product (thousands of weekly installs, 8k+ GitHub stars). Leading & building dev infra my entire career (CopilotKit, Meta, Doximity). Past life: 2 physics degrees @UPenn.

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Atai Barkai is currently leading the development of CopilotKit, an open-source infrastructure designed for integrating fully customized AI copilots into various products. The project has gained significant traction, with thousands of weekly installs and over 8,000 stars on GitHub. His work involves building developer infrastructure and enhancing AI solutions, leveraging his expertise in software development and media SDKs. Specific technologies and frameworks used in these projects have not been

Founder of CopilotKit. Open-source infrastructure for in-app AI agents.

Looking to hire developers with AI experience & experienced DevRels. Interested in GenAI, agents & design patterns that extract maximum utility from LLMs.

Full time on CopilotKit

James Cham is a Partner at Bloomberg Beta. He's invested in companies like Streamlit, Weights & Biases, Chroma, Twilio, and LinkedIn. Based in Palo Alto and looking for the next big thing.

AI, data sectors, early-stage companies, venture capital, investment analysis, entrepreneurship, technology evaluation, strategic planning, design, theology.

fiddling with an automated vc

Founder, AI Tinkerers. Prior: Crowd Cow (>$50M ARR), MediaPiston (acq. Upwork), Snapvine (acq. Whitepages). Former co-founder/President, Madrona Venture Labs. UW CSE, MIT Sloan. Building the global AI Tinkerers community and platform.

Early-stage AI builders, agentic dev tools, applied LLM products, and technical founding teams. Open to intros for seed-stage teams and exceptional builders.

Building AI Tinkerers: events + platform (talks, hackathons, matchmaking, job board). Also advising a small set of seed-stage teams on hiring, distribution, and fundraising.

Leading Appwrite's product and visual design teams. At Appwrite, we're building user-friendly tools for developers, that make building software less complex. Our open-source backend product allows frontend developers to create fully functioning apps, without writing a line of backend code. We empower our users to focus on solving the problems that they are passionate about, by reducing the complexity, stress and costs of creating software. We do this together with our active community of 500+ open-source contributors.

User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction, AI, Product, Developer Experience

Articles on Developer Experience, UX, Product and more. And https://appwrite.io/

I'm a code creator, angel investor, and problem solver based out of San Francisco. I've spent my career building developer tools for companies like Twilio and Mux. My passion is startups, and after selling my first venture backed company to Mux, I'm back again building Browserbase.

I'm interested in agents! Specifically web agents but agents of all kind. I also spend a lot of time on web retrieval workflows, such as scraping and web loading.

https://browserbase.com/

The AI says: as the CEO and co-founder of Daily, a company specializing in SDKs and infrastructure for video, this individual is at the forefront of shaping the future of digital experiences. With a background in large-scale networked systems and real-time video from their time at the MIT Media Lab, they have a deep understanding of the importance of video in today's internet landscape. Prior to Daily, they played a key role in founding Oblong Industries, where they developed innovative operating systems for collaborative computing. Their experience at AllAfrica also showcases their commitment to advocating for the use of Free and Open Source Software in web development, particularly within public and civil-sector organizations.

Real-time voice and multimodal AI: https://www.daily.co/blog/how-to-talk-to-an-llm-with-your-voice/

Open source framework for real-time voice and multimodal AI: https://git.new/ai

AI Engineer @ Replit working on building the next generation of software agents.

Building software agents, evaluations, search over context and trajectories,

Software Agents at Replit

Hiring - Engineers (DevOps, Frontend and Fullstack) - Growth Marketing and BizOps - Product Designers

Investing: Pika Labs, Perplexity, Browserbase, Roboflow, Chroma, Curio, Friend.com, Supermaven, Cosine.sh + few others

Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.

Alex Volkov is an experienced AI Evangelist with over 15 years in the tech industry, currently employed at Weights & Biases. With a background in web technologies and management, Alex is known for his passion for user experience and innovation. He excels in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and various frameworks like AngularJS and Django. An active member of tech communities, Alex presents at conferences and maintains personal and community blogs. His expertise in Agile, Scrum, and CI/CD methodologies, along with his leadership roles at companies like Fundbox, showcase his ability to build products, scale teams, and deliver on time. Passionate about technology, Alex is a problem solver and manager dedicated to driving progress in the field of AI.

Web technologies, user experience, interface design, interaction design, new and exciting technology, communities, presentations at conferences, Agile methodology, Scrum methodology, Rapid Prototyping, Iterative development, CI/CD, recruitment, retention.

Currently, Alex Volkov, AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases, is leading projects focused on implementing AI and machine learning solutions using technologies such as Python, Django, and Flask. He is actively involved in developing innovative AI models and enhancing user experience through rapid prototyping and iterative development. Additionally, Alex is spearheading initiatives to streamline CI/CD processes and optimize team performance in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Rotem Weiss is a tech entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Tavily, a cutting-edge real-time search engine focused on enhancing the contextual capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, Rotem has experience as a Data Scientist and Software Developer at Talenya, and he co-founded The Bulletin, an app for campus happenings. He is actively involved in advancing research in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and memory mechanisms of LLMs, and has contributed to open-source initiatives like GPT-Researcher and GPT-Newspaper, showcasing his expertise in AI research and software development.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), memory mechanisms of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI research, open-source initiatives, multi-agent LLM architectures, LLM-based web research methodologies, data science, software development.

Currently, Rotem Weiss is focused on advancing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) through his work on Tavily AI, a real-time search engine that enhances contextual understanding. He is also actively developing open-source initiatives like GPT-Researcher, which introduces novel multi-agent LLM architectures, and GPT-Newspaper, pioneering LLM-based web research methodologies. His research emphasizes Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and memory mechanisms, utilizing technologies in

Maria is the CEO and co-founder of Proactive AI. Maria was previously a VP Engineering at Google, and the VP\GM of Meta’s AI for Products team. Prior to that she was CTO of Tinder, after a stint at Yahoo (who acquired her startup in 2013.)

Computer Science. Building great teams. Running.

A platform for businesses to create custom Agent that is their brand persona, an AI agent that can make your customers fall in love with your brand.