>_MADHACK × Orca — AI Agent Infrastructure Hackathon

AI Agents Hackathon — Build, Connect, Orchestrate Join us on 3-hour evening hackaton where we build AI agents on live APIs. If you are also curious about AI agents and want to try building your own and explore: How user interfaces are being replaced by conversations with AI agents?How integrations between services are shifted between APIs to AI agents?How agents interacts with each other?How I can optimize my workflow with AI, besides ChatGPT and Copilot? Then this hackathon is for you. What You Will Build? Teams get a boilerplate repo, API keys, and an SDK. Build two AI agents that communicate with each other and with the user.Choose a travel-related task for your agents.Use any of the preselected travel APIs to implement your idea.Deliver a working demo by the end of the event. In the end we will plug all the agents into Orca – agents orchestration layer and through it experiment with deployment, testing, and inter-agent communication. Powered by Orca We're partnering with Orca — the safe, plug-and-play interface for AI agents and gives you the tools to test, deploy, and present AI agents—without DevOps headaches. Who can join? Software engineers,AI/LLM developers,backend/infra builders,technical product engineers,advanced CS students. You can join solo or as a team. For everyone who is interested in the topic, would like to meet fellow tech people and collaborate on building AI agent! No prior experience building agents is required. You will receive guidance, a starter agent implementation, and direct support from the organizing team. Coming Solo? No problem. Teams of 3–5 participants will be formed on-site, balancing experience levels to ensure fair competition. What To Bring? Your laptopYour preferred dev tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) Boilerplate and API keys are provided. Personal subscriptions are not. What will be judged? → Functionality: Does it work? Rate the number of useful outputs (out of 10). → API Integration: Number and relevance of travel APIs used (weather, restaurants, flights, etc.). → Efficiency: Optimization of prompts (e.g., tokens used per request). Teams may choose which preselected travel APIs to integrate. Schedule 18:00–18:30 — Doors, networking 18:30–19:00 — Briefing: challenge reveal, rules, Orca walkthrough, team formation 19:00–21:00 — Build 21:00–21:30 — Demos (3–5 min per team) 21:30–22:00 — Judging, winners, drinks Prizes €200 in gift cards (winning team)Coaching sessions with Nomu LabsPodcast session about winning team/solutionExposure via partner communities & social media Organised by Pitchless Community – Founders Community in MadridNomu Labs – Product Development Studio in MadridTech Brunch — Tech Community in Madrid Partners Orca (formally Lexia) Frequently Asked Questions What exactly do we have to build?Each team will build two agents:One consumer agent that takes a user request (for example, plan a trip).One provider agent connected to a specific API (hotels, restaurants, events, or tours) with full CRUD logic, including booking and cancellation.At the final demo, consumer agents will connect to all provider agents through Orca orchestration.What tech stack can we use?You must use Python or JavaScript (Node.js), as these are supported by the Orca SDK.You are free to use frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, A2A, or similar. AI coding assistants like Copilot are encouraged.A boilerplate GitHub repo with Orca integration will be provided so you do not waste time on setup.Do we need to deploy anything?No DevOps headaches.You will develop locally during the sprint, and Orca will handle cloud orchestration and visibility for demos.Servers used for the hackathon will be deleted afterward unless needed for showcasing.How are teams structured and assigned challenges?Expect teams of 3–4 people.Each team will be assigned one API domain (hotels, events, restaurants, or tours) with similar complexity levels.All APIs will require real interaction logic, not just simple GET requests.Do we need prior experience with Orca?No. A boilerplate starter repo with Orca integration will be provided. Integration requires only a few lines of code.You focus on architecture and agent logic, not setup.Who owns the code and IP?You do. All code built during the hackathon remains yours. Nothing is retained by the organizers unless you explicitly choose to continue showcasing it. If you cannot find it Right next to Matadero 📍 New space at Mad Tech Campus.