Ai Developer Camp—featuring Bill Tai, Legendary Investor
September 12, 2025
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September 14, 2025
Frontier Tower
Event Schedule
Friday, September 12th
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Open Doors |
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| 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Welcome - Dom Sagolla |
| 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Keynote - Ben Vigoda |
| 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | Matchmaking |
| 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | Night Hacks |
Saturday, September 13th
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Open Doors |
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| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Technical Q&A - Genius Team |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Design Thinking Session - Dom Sagolla |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch & Learn - Ben Vigoda |
| 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Afternoon Hacks |
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Foodstuffs |
| 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Night Hacks |
Sunday, September 14th
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Open Doors |
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| 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Brunch Hacks |
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Group Photo |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Demo Submission Deadline |
| 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Hackathon Demonstrations |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Judging Session - Organizers & Investors |
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Award Ceremony |
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Winners Circle |
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Doors Close |
Organizers
Dom Sagolla
Dom is CEO and cofounder of Gray Whale, cofounder of the cybersecurity firm Archipelo & founder of Developer Camp. He has produced dozens of events, advising many hackathon winners in their journey of success.
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Judges
Bill Tai
Amanda Terry
Joining Bill on the judging panel will be Amanda Terry (cofounder with Bill at ACTAI Ventures). She is cofounder and Chief Operating Officer of Metagood, a pioneering Web3 company that launched historic NFT collection OnChainMonkey and ordinals marketplace Osura.com.
Dave Andre
Brian J. Baumann
Brian is Director of Capital Markets for the New York Stock Exchange. He leads technology initiatives for their global capital markets business, with expertise in futures, low latency, and big data. His goal is to advance the technology strategy and vision of the NYSE, and to contribute to its growth and leadership in the capital markets space.
Ben Vigoda
Kristopher Floyd
Lisa Yu
About Event
Build Ai for Good
At Ai Developer Camp, hundreds of engineers, designers and entrepreneurs will gather to explore the new Ai stack with the Gray Whale platform. During our 48-hour idea competition, attendees will learn about the latest advancements in machine learning from the world’s foremost experts in the field.
Ai Developer Camp follows the tradition of past events, highlighting inclusion, diversity and empowerment in the developer community. Attendees are encouraged to develop native and web applications during this exciting, cooperative, hackathon-style event.
We are thrilled to announce that Gray Whale, DeepInvent, Pledge, BestSign, NYSE and Frontier Tower will sponsor us in-person and online, to connect developers around the world.
Now is the time to register if you plan to attend. Space online is not capped this year but only those who have registered in advance will be able to attend.
Gray Whale Platform
Unique to our event is early access to the Gray Whale Platform. It is foundational Ai that preserves user privacy, provides transparency to the user, and operates at scroll speed. It is unique — and years ahead of the market.
The Gray Whale Platform forces an underlying LLM to become more scientific, more iterative, faster, more compute efficient, and more reliable. This makes it possible to use an LLM to power all sorts of real-time UI/UX interactions and makes it possible to have an LLM learn from large-scale statistical data derived from scientific experiments that it performs and iterates.
One major way to use the platform is that many developers are already using the Gray Whale Platform to make Instagram-like “learning feeds” for all kinds of different types of items and communities. Ideas for new Gray Whale feeds include:
- Product marketplaces
- Person to person matchmaking
- Commercial real-estate property recommendations
- Hotel room and tourist activity booking
- Video, news or other content recommendations
- Social media post feeds
- Music recommendations for listening or practice
- Artwork or craft recommendations
- Stock recommendations
- Job candidate suggestions or jobs listings
- Startup company ideas
- Work task suggestions or summaries
- Robotics and biotech experiments
Event schedule will include educational sessions on topics such as:
- Ai / ML
- Software Engineering
- Product Design
- Security Engineering
- Open Source Toolchains
- Design Thinking
- Apple Intelligence
- Google Gemini
Our event is open to developers and entrepreneurs with a range of experience and skills. We hope you will join us for this revolutionary experience.
Currently in its 18th year, Developer Camp is an open source community that operates on the principles of inclusion, diversity, and empowerment. Ai Developer Camp is a new experience, with a special format to shortcut the path to success.
Community Partners
OffChain Global
OffChain is a global community with over 70 chapters around the world for Web3 professionals, tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. We welcome like-minded people to build and connect. Each chapter/city aims to have a base of regular casual social gatherings or speaking events so we can bridge and connect.
About the Venue
Frontier Tower
Sixteen floors in the heart of San Francisco filled with people advancing deep tech and frontier technologies — all within a relaxed and inspiring environment.