We are pleased to announce the INFOSYS Cambridge AI Centre hackathon, that will take place at West Hub on 12th May 2025!
The hackathon will be centred around the very exciting concept of Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCPs are a new tool for helping you to get the best out of Large Language Models, and can help you build agents to automate key tasks. (you can think of them as prompt engineering on steroids). They are a key tool for connecting external data, or tools, to AI models so they can use them effectively.
The goal of the hackathon it to allow you to familiarise yourselves with these cutting-edge tools and what they can be used for.
No previous experience with MCPs is required! You only need to be familiar with python and have an interest in machine learning, this hackathon is designed to be a learning experience rather than a competition. We will provide a quick introduction to MCPs and agents on the day, and our expert team will be in the room to answer any questions you have about them. If you want to learn more about MCPs before the day, please follow the following link here for a video which helps explain them in more detail.
On the day you will compete in teams of 3-5 people to try to build an innovative Model Context Protocol (MCP) for a tool or application your team is interested in. You can either come as a team, or sign up as an individual and we will organise teams for you. We will also provide free credits to frontier LLMs to help you prototype and test your ideas.
Projects will be evaluated by our judges, including a guest judge from our partner Infosys, and the winning team will share a prize.
There is NO registration fee, the whole event is free! Food, coffee and tea will be provided throughout the day free of charge
This exciting event will contribute to building a community of people working in Data Science and AI around Cambridge and foster the sharing of practices between the different related research fields, as well as supporting real-world applications of research.
| Monday 12th May | ||
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| 09:00 | Registration - Coffee, tea and biscuits | |
| 09:30 | Forming teams, and hackathon kickoff | |
| 10:00 | Teamwork - Coffee, tea and biscuits | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Teamwork - Coffee, tea and biscuits | |
| 17:00 | Team's project presentation | |
| 17:45 | Award and closing remarks | |
| No Registration fee |
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My main interest is in constraining models of the early universe via non-Gaussian correlations either in the cosmic microwave background (I am a member of the Planck satellite experiment) or the large scale structure of galaxies. As these correlations typically involve multi dimensional oscillatory integrals expensive data operations I also have an interest in high performance parallel computing
Dr. Boris Bolliet is a specialist of the phenomenology of quantum cosmology, modified gravity and astrophysics. In his current research, Boris works on the application of Artificial Intelligence to Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure data analysis using deep learning and agentic approaches. Boris is part of several international collaborations, including the Simons Observatory, where he plays a leading role on research related to the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect.
My research interests lie at the intersection of economics and machine learning. My work aims to understand and model the mechanisms underlying choice and decision-making processes, combining aspects of economic theory with modern computational methods. This is applicable to a range of environments, including choice under uncertainty, inter-temporal decision-making and multi-agent interactions. To this end, I combine and develop tools and techniques in a variety of areas such as microeconomic theory, dynamic programming (reinforcement learning) and machine learning.
One of the hackathon's judge will come from our industrial partner Infosys
Jamillah Knowles & Reset.Tech Australia / Detail from Connected People / © https://au.reset.tech/
