{"id":15737,"date":"2024-05-22T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=15737"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:36:55","slug":"beeloud-and-build-hackathon-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/beeloud-and-build-hackathon-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Real-world AI Applications at the Beeloud and Build 2024 AI Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Couchbase recently sponsored the <\/span>Beeloud and Build 2024 AI Hackathon<\/em><\/span><\/a>. BeeLoud\u2019s (the event\u2019s organizer) goal was to put the Vancouver tech scene on the map and explore the AI world alongside impactful and high-profile builders, mentors, and investor judges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beeloud looks to empower humans to bring their ideas to life and become creators of tools, content, and solutions within an engaged, borderless, and tech-savvy community to shape the next 100 years of life on Earth and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this event, 200+ people gathered in Vancouver, London, and virtually around the world – including developers, architects, designers, product managers, and product marketers. 30 teams were formed and these teams created and submitted over 15 different products\/companies. The projects were taken from the idea stage, to a minimum viable product, to supporting active users – in the span of a 54 hour sprint!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Most of the projects leveraged a NoSQL database, including a majority that were built on Couchbase. All of the teams were creative in their use, and in the end <\/span>KindSettle<\/span><\/a> brought home the prize for their use of Capella for their application designed to help separating parents workout the child support process with the aid of a retrieval-augmented generative (RAG) application. <\/span>MedAI<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>MergenAI<\/span><\/a> rounded out the top three finishers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The energy, drive, curiosity, and entrepreneurial spirit was contagious at this event. Participants were curious about how to leverage Couchbase\u2019s NoSQL database plus AI to build their projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of building a product and finding a team, we built a team and are rapid prototyping the idea. So many sparked moments, especially with Couchbase. Couchbase you have a massive fan, I’m definitely sold on your platform,\u201d said Katie Hong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Couchbase was excited to be a part of this event and is already looking forward to next year! <\/span>Thank you Beeloud for the successful event, and thank you to all the attendees! Watch the live recording or scroll down to get the GitHub repo links from the projects.<\/span><\/p>\n