# Enterprise MCP Hackathon

- **When:** Sep 13 at 9:00 AM – Sep 14 at 10:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** Location TBA
- **Hosts:** [Lois Zhao](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/lois), [Tobin South](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/tobin), [brian wang](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/beeznuts)
- **Format:** Hackathon
- **Registration:** Closed (the event has ended) — https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/mcp-hackathon
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/mcp-hackathon

Enterprise MCP Hackathon is the fastest gateway to understand **how to build and deploy secure MCP servers** with other sponsor tools with enterprise use case in mind. Let’s get together and hack cool things on 13th - 15th of September! 

​Different from every other hackathon - we want to make this event as friendly as possible for enterprises. If you are building for company internal tooling or features:

1. You don't have to make your repo public
2. You just need to take a screenshot of git diff or PR as prove "this work is done during the hackathon"
3. ​You can demo the tooling or company product during demo
4. ​Legitimate proof that this is a company project with NDA that this repository cannot be shared public (you are an employee of the company/work email/screenshot of git repository belong to the company)
5. ​Demo company internal tooling won't affect final judging score but it's preferably deployed

​We provide: food, drinks, space in WorkOS’s office, desk, expert judges to help with sponsor tools

You: bring your ideas and laptop!

Will you build a reactive system response to real world events? Send a squad team from your company to crunch an important feature? A prototype for your company yet pushed into production? An app with UI changes as users use them? A visual monitoring tool? This is the time to time box your build!

### **EXPECT**

- 20k+ USD prize pool
- ​Food, snacks and drinks
- ​Sponsors onsite to assist you build your idea - guarantee no fuzz and hour long presentation
- ​Expert judges to offer specific feedback during and after the hackathon

### **Sponsors **

- ​Google Lab
- ​Convex
- ​WorkOS
- ​Smithery
- ​Vapi
- ​LiquidMetal

**Schedules**

**Before event day: **find your team mate or we will help you find one on the spot!

- **13th Sept:**

  - **9:00 AM - 9:30 AM**: Registration and Welcome Speech, breakfast served 
  - **9:30 AM - 10:00 PM**: Speech from sponsors and tool usage 
  - **10:00 PM - 12:30 **Team formation and hacking
  - **12:30 PM - 1:30 PM**: Lunch Break
  - **1:30 PM - 6:00 PM**: Hacking
  - **6:30 PM**: Doors closed 
- **14th Sept: **

  - **9:00 AM - 9:30 AM**: Doors open, breakfast served 
  - **9:30 AM - 12:30 PM**: Hacking
  - **12:30 PM - 1:30 PM**: Lunch Break
  - **1:30 PM - 4:00 PM**: Hacking
  - ***4:00 PM -**** Submission*
  - **4:30 PM - 6:00 PM**: Judging, Project Demos and Presentations, Fireside Chat
  - **6:00 PM - 6:30 PM**: Judging and Awards Ceremony

### **Judges **

- ​Anirudh Kulkarni - AI Product Manager, Google Labs
- ​Tobin South - Head of AI Agent in WorkOS
- ​Lois Zhao - Founding Engineer in Toma, YC 2024
- ​Dan Goosewin - Lead of Developer Relationship and Partnership at [Vapi.ai](http://Vapi.ai), YC 2021
- Sriram Balasubramanian - Founding Engineer, [Vapi.ai](http://Vapi.ai) 
- ​Anirudth Kamath - Co-founder at Smithery, the fastest way to deploy your MCP servers
- ​Alessia Paccagnella, Elia Saquand - Founders from [VibeFlow.ai](http://VibeFlow.ai), YC 2025
- ​Thomas Dhome-Casanova - Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI
- ​Subramanya Nagabhushanaradhya - Founding Engineer in [Dylog.ai](http://Dylog.ai)
- ​Eric Jensen - Developer Relation in [LiquidMetal.ai](http://LiquidMetal.ai)
- Darius Emrani - CEO of [Scorecard](http://scorecard.io) evals for enterprise AI agents and MCP

​**Judging Criteria**:

- Impact Potential: Does the project address a significant real-world issue or pain point? - 25%
- Technical Demo: How is the demo? Is the project implemented technically well? Is it well-engineered and working? - 50%
- Creativity: How creative is the project? Have you seen this before? - 15%
- Presentation & Pitch: How well was the project presented and demonstrated? - 10%

**Submission requirements:**

- Link to Github or PR screenshot if internal
- Short demo video​ (2 min max)
- Deploy to production, no [localhost](http://localhost) is allowed

**Judging Process**

**|** Judging proceeds in two rounds:

- Science fair style judging; hackers will be seen by judges individually, ~5 minutes to pitch followed by 2-3 minutes of Q/A
- The top **six** teams in ranking will get to demo on stage to a panel of judges; ~3 minutes to pitch followed by 2-3 minutes for Q/A.

#### Awards 

- First place: 

  - 5k$ cash prize
  - WorkOS swag
- Second place: 1k$ cash prize + WorkOS swag
- Third place: 500$ cash prize + WorkOS swag
- Vapi special award: $1k credit + swag bag 
- Convex special award: 1,500$ cash prize + 3 months pro plan
- Google special award: 

  - 3 months of Google One Pro 
  - cash prize of 500$ 
- Liquid Metal special award: 1k$ cash prize + customised WWE wrestling belt 
- No special prize from WorkOS because the product is free

### **​Volunteers**

​We are looking for volunteers on 12th - 14th September! You can register at here:

​[https://forms.gle/LKDUo5z6dVZuNkNo6](https://forms.gle/LKDUo5z6dVZuNkNo6)

​Read more: [Terms and Conditions](https://normal-people.notion.site/Enterprise-MCP-Hackathon-Official-Terms-and-Conditions-2627d4da712880fca95ad92cdd690e7e)

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