Build the Future of Media Tech Before NAB 2026
Join the leading developers, solutions architects, and engineers from across the media industry for an intensive weekend of building production-ready video intelligence solutions. This isn't about creative demos—it's about solving the complex technical challenges that define modern media workflows: search, compliance, and automation at scale.
Why This Matters: The solutions you build this weekend will inform the conversations happening at NAB 2026 just weeks later. You're not just participating in a hackathon—you're shaping the next generation of media technology infrastructure.
The Challenge: Real Problems, Real Impact
Choose your track and build solutions that address actual production bottlenecks faced by studios, broadcasters, and media platforms:
🔍 Search Track (Challenge Overview)
Transform how media companies discover and monetize content:
Moment Discovery: Find specific scenes, dialogue, or visual elements in raw and finished content as it's created—no more manual scrubbing through hours of footage. IP Intelligence: Unlock the value of massive historical libraries by understanding content at a granular level, enabling better packaging and data reselling opportunities. Automated Metadata: Replace error-prone manual tagging with scalable, scene-level taxonomies that deliver actual depth instead of surface-level tags.
✂️ Segmentation Track (Challenge Overview)
Build intelligent systems that understand video structure:
Ad-Break Detection: Identify natural break points by evaluating visual, audio, and contextual signals—output timestamped boundaries ready for editorial validation. News Story Splitting: Detect story changes in news programming by analyzing speakers, topics, and visuals to create structured, timestamped segments. Content Structure Analysis: Automatically segment studio content by understanding temporal construction—identify openings, acts, transitions, credits, and editorial markers for post-production workflows.
✅ Compliance Track (Challenge Overview)
Automate the most time-consuming aspects of content review:
Rules-Based Compliance: Define custom compliance frameworks (alcohol, violence, brand safety, sensitive content) and automatically identify exact moments that may breach those rules—with explanations for human validation. Brand Guidelines Enforcement: Check video assets against specific brand guidelines, detecting visual cues, actions, and context that may violate standards—surface problematic moments with clear reasoning.
What You're Working With
TwelveLabs: The world's most powerful video intelligence platform, enabling machines to see, hear, and reason about video like humans do. AWS: Powers next-gen media workflows with its AI/ML capabilities. Baseten: The leading platform for production inference, enabling AI/ML teams to deploy models with best-in-class performance. LTX: An AI company developing production-ready creative infrastructure for enterprises. TrackIt: An AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner dedicated to transforming the Media & Entertainment landscape.
Prizes & Recognition
Total Prize Pool: $2,250 + API Credits
1st Place: $1,000 + Extended API Credits
2nd Place: $750 + Extended API Credits
3rd Place: $500 + Extended API Credits
Judging Panel: The difference between a hackathon demo and a production deployment is evaluation by people who have actually shipped these systems. Our judging panel includes business leaders and technical practitioners who evaluate solutions on production readiness.
Event Details
📅 When: March 28-29, 2026 (Full Weekend)
📍 Where: WeWork Playa Vista, Los Angeles
This is an application-based event—we're looking for technical practitioners who understand media workflows and want to build enterprise-grade solutions, not student projects. This is your opportunity to build the infrastructure that will power media production for the next decade.
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Quality Score
Quality Score
72/100
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Organiser16/20
Event Maturity14/20
Sponsors18/25
Participants12/20
Operations12/15
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