RAISE Summit 2025 is a premier event convening the brightest minds across industries to accelerate innovation and drive the future of entrepreneurship, AI, and technology.
Set against the backdrop of the iconic Le Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, RAISE brings together startups, global leaders, and pioneers to connect, collaborate, and chart the next wave of transformative solutions.
This hackathon is your launchpad to showcase your ideas in front of a world-class audience.
🚀 Challenge Requirements As part of the challenge, all teams — across all tracks — must meet the following technical criteria defined by our main partner, Groq:
🔹 Core Requirements (Required for All Tracks — except Qubic): • Groq API Integration – Every project must integrate the Groq API. • Llama Models – Each project must use at least one of the Llama models.
❗ Exception: The Qubic Track is exempt from these Groq requirements. Teams building for Qubic are not required to use Groq API or Llama models.
💡 Optional Technical Components(Encouraged)
Participants are encouraged to boost their projects by incorporating at least one of the following components: • MCP • Compound-beta • Groq Speech Models
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Participants of the RAISE YOUR HACK must form teams and, as a team, indicate their top 3 preferred Industry Tracks — each tied to a unique partner challenge. This is your opportunity to demonstrate creativity, technical excellence, and entrepreneurial spirit in the domain that excites your team most. 🚀
Track Selection Process:
🔹 Create Your Team Form your team as soon as possible. Track assignment will only be made for participants who are part of a team. If you haven’t found your teammates yet, head over to the lablab.ai Discord server to connect with others. We will also organize for you few rounds of the Team Match-Making (on Discord) to help you find the team mates — stay tuned via Discord announcements!
🔹 Submit Your Team’s Track Preferences Only team leaders are required to submit the Track Selection Form on behalf of their team. In the form, leaders will: • Select the team’s top 3 preferred Industry Tracks • List all team members • Optionally describe initial project ideas the team wants to pursue (highly encouraged!) Once submitted, each team will receive a confirmation of which track they have been assigned to.
Important: Only teams that submit the form will be assigned a track and considered for participation.
🔹 Name Your Team Accordingly Include your assigned track in your team name (e.g., RAISEHackers – Qualcomm Track). Only teams that do this will be considered officially entered into the hackathon.
🔹 Onsite eligibility Only participants and teams working on a challenge within their assigned Industry Track are eligible for onsite participation at the RAISE Summit on July 8th. (Onsite capacity is limited to 300 participants).
🤖 Design an Agent-Powered E-Commerce App
Create an e-commerce application that uses AI agents to let users perform one or more of the following tasks:
• Food ordering: Restaurant discovery, menu browsing, order placement • Travel Booking: Flight searches, hotel reservations, itinerary planning • Product Marketplace: New and second-hand item purchases
Your app should build a reusable user profile based on in-app conversations. This profile will help personalize experiences across different activities and should be stored as a knowledge graph.
Bonus Challenges: • Build a voice-first user interface • Support multimodal input for richer user interactions • Store the user profile as a knowledge graph
To Succeed in This Challenge: • Focus on core functionality – show live, working features (live demo, not just slides!) • Use pre-trained models and APIs to save time • Keep your code modular and simple for easier debugging
Judges Will Focus On: • Technical Execution – Does the MVP work reliably? • AI Integration – How creatively and effectively is AI used? • Originality & Impact – How novel is the idea, and does it solve a real-world problem? • Agentic Capabilities – How useful, stable, and advanced are the agent-powered features?
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