An update on the recent judging opportunity I shared
I just spoke to MindStudio and I asked them waive the $400 fee. They are open to waiving the fee for all accepted judges.
We will be working together to most likely host multiple hackathons.
Their CEO is Dmitry Shapiro, who will be directly involved with organizing the hackathons. He is the former CTO of Myspace, created Veoh, and has led social product initiatives for Google. Prior to Veoh, he founded Akonix Systems, Inc., an enterprise cybersecurity company, which raised $34 million in venture capital and was acquired by Quest Software.
Over 150k AI Agents have already been deployed with MindStudio by individuals, SMBs, enterprises, and government agencies.
His Majesty's Revenue & Customers (British tax authority) uses MindStudio to automate / scale recruiting.
ServiceNow leverages MindStudio Agents to help close multi-million dollar deals.
Advance Local (large publishing company) uses MindStudio to automate critical newsroom operations.
MindStudio is taught at Harvard Business School, Brigham Young University, and Stanford University extension.
They are currently looking for 10-15 judges for their virtual hackathons. Judging will be virtual.
The application process to be a judge is selective and only experienced professionals with some experience in AI will be considered.
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