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NVIDIA Spark Hack: Seattle
NVIDIA brings its Spark Hack Series to Seattle for a weekend hackathon built around vision AI, agentic workflows and open models running on local high-performance compute. Every team gets an Acer Veriton GN100, powered by NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, to use for the duration.
Seattle pre-seed firm Ascend is co-hosting.
Teams choose one of three tracks:
- See — AI that understands the physical world, using NVIDIA’s Video Search and Summarization tooling to build perception-first applications
- Do — autonomous systems that plan and act, with multi-step reasoning, tool use and long-running agentic workflows
- Spark — no constraints on modality or approach
Teams can use any public data; organizers point to the City of Seattle open data portal as a starting point. Prizes include an Acer Veriton GN100, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, cloud credits and investor meetings.
Capped at 35 teams of three to five people. Applications are reviewed, and the venue address is released to registrants.
