AI Engineer NYC 2026

It’s time to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

• Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
  
• Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
  
• Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
  

Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

Every project submitted to AI Engineer NYC 2026 is judged for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

• Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.
  

• Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.
  

• Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.
  

• 90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.
  

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

Great ideas need great data. Whether you’re building an AI research assistant or helping students find the best deals, Nimble connects your project to the most accurate web context through APIs for search, crawling, and structured data extraction.

Why build with Nimble this weekend?

• Search the Live Web: Give your app/agent access to current information to power useful answers and discoveries.
• Turn Websites into Data: Extract structured data from public websites for your app to analyze, compare, and display.
• Give Your AI More Context: Bring relevant web content into chatbots and AI agents to help them answer questions with up-to-date information.

Build a scholarship finder, a price comparison tool, or a research assistant that explores a topic across multiple sources—the possibilities are yours to explore. The teams that demonstrate the most creative and impactful use of Nimble to turn live web context into something useful will take home the prizes!

Get started with Nimble’s free trial.

Shipping an AI app in a weekend means things can break, and when an agent is involved it’s not always obvious why. Sentry shows you exactly what went wrong (errors, slow requests, and what your agent actually did) so you can fix it before demo time instead of during it.

Ways to bring Sentry into your build this weekend

• Sentry MCP Server: Connect Sentry to your coding agent and let it pull issues, stack traces, and root-cause context straight into your editor.
• AI Agent Monitoring: Trace your agent’s LLM calls, tool calls, and token usage so you can see where it slows down or goes off the rails.
• Error Monitoring & Tracing: Drop in the SDK and catch crashes and performance bottlenecks across your frontend and backend.
• Seer: Let Sentry’s AI debugger find the root cause of an issue and suggest a fix.

Sign up for Sentry’s free 14-day trial (no credit card required) and check out the Sentry Cookbook for quick recipes to get started.

Anyone who uses Sentry will also be entered into a raffle for $50 Amazon Gitft Cards. Don’t forget to opt-in to the Sentry prize category when you submit!

Bring your data to life with Snowflake. Move beyond basic queries and build intelligent apps, autonomous agentic workflows, or interactive full-stack data tools, powered by industry-leading LLMs running natively where your data lives.

What You Can Build:

• Context-Aware AI & Agents: Build RAG systems, multimodal document parsers, or conversational agents using Snowflake Cortex AI (serverless LLMs, vector search, and semantic models, with zero GPU setup required). Getting Started with Cortex Agents
• Full-Stack AI Apps in Minutes: Rapidly turn your Python and ML scripts into slick, interactive web frontends using Streamlit in Snowflake. Build AI Apps with Streamlit and Snowflake Cortex
• Smart Backend Integrations: Connect Snowflake to your mobile app, Discord bot, or external web service via the Snowflake REST APIs or native Python/Node.js SDKs. Call the Cortex Agents API from Streamlit

Want an unfair advantage? Accelerate your build with CoCo, Snowflake’s AI coding agent that understands your schemas and auto-generates pipelines, SQL, and app logic. Use CoCo directly in Snowflake or from your terminal/IDE.

Sign up for a free trial to get started, no credit card required.