Geospatial Video Intelligence Hackathon

Build production-grade video intelligence for the problems that matter — mapping, energy, national security, and industrial operations.

The Geospatial Video Intelligence Hackathon brings together 50+ developers, ML engineers, and geospatial practitioners for 24 hours at the T-Rex Innovation Center in St. Louis. Teams build real systems on TwelveLabs' video foundation models — Marengo for multimodal embeddings and Pegasus for video reasoning — available through Amazon Bedrock with sponsored credits for every participant.

This is not a toy-demo hackathon. St. Louis is the global headquarters of geospatial intelligence — home to NGA West, a dense ecosystem of defense and GEOINT contractors, and an active open-data community. You're building alongside the people who will actually use what you ship.

What makes it different

• Four real challenge tracks, each with operational rubrics and sponsor-supplied datasets. Pick one and go deep — scope beats breadth in 24 hours.
• Sponsored compute. AWS is covering Bedrock credits so you can focus on the problem, not the invoice.
• Workshops that teach, not pitch. Four concurrent technical workshops Saturday afternoon from AWS, Overture Maps, Assured Consulting, and TwelveLabs.
• Mentors on the floor all weekend. TwelveLabs engineers and AWS solutions architects are there to unblock you, not to give talks.
• Cash prizes + partnership opportunities for winning teams across all four tracks.

Full track briefs with datasets, sub-challenges, and scoring rubrics are in the Resources tab.

Schedule

Saturday, April 25

• 9:00 AM — Doors open, check-in, coffee
• 10:00 AM — Opening keynote, sponsor remarks, track walkthrough
• 10:45 AM — Team formation
• 11:00 AM — Hacking begins
• 2:00–4:00 PM — Concurrent technical workshops (AWS Bedrock · Overture Maps · Assured Consulting · TwelveLabs)
• 6:00 PM — Venue closes; hacking continues remotely overnight

Sunday, April 26

• 9:00 AM — Venue reopens
• 1:00 PM — Hard deadline: submissions due on DevPost
• 2:00 PM — Team presentations (7 min demo + 3 min Q&A)
• 4:15 PM — Judges deliberate
• 5:00 PM — Awards ceremony
• 5:30 PM — Closing reception

Who should participate

Individual developers and teams of 2–4 with complementary skills. Ideal mixes combine ML/CV, geospatial data (GeoJSON, GERS, MGRS), and full-stack or backend engineering. Solo hackers welcome — we run a team formation session Saturday morning. No prior video AI experience required. No security clearance required. All work product is owned by the teams that build it.

Why now

Video foundation models have crossed the threshold from research to production. TwelveLabs' Marengo and Pegasus are used by defense, media, and enterprise customers to replace tasks that previously required days of manual analysis. This weekend, you're among the first developers to stress-test them on the hardest problems in geospatial, energy, and industrial operations — and whatever you build is yours to keep.

Come ship something that matters.