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My first Hackathon!
I’m at a two-day hackathon in London right now, mentoring the HR team at a beauty company. And this is not a normal technical hackathon, but is sooo cool!
I'm mentoring a lovely group of people that is just one of 26 groups, all from the same company. Each group has an assigned AI mentor/coach and they are using this hackathon to come up with business solutions and actually create them in just two days.
These are not programmers, these are non-techie people that are totally up for the task and I can't wait to see what they all build today. As a business they are focusing on the Google suite and building complex automation, agents, apps and API connections, it's pretty crazy.
In my group we’re building a simulation app to help people to improve their communication skills. This is to address one of the companies values on 'fearless conversations'.
The app will have a short quiz to determine which simulation to run. So depending on whether you’re a manager or an employee, you’ll answer a few questions about what you’re preparing for, maybe a review, an interview, a pitch, a tricky team conversation, and then the AI runs a simulation.
We’re building it in Google Gems and then once each simulation is tested, migrate the instructions and knowledge files over to Google AI Studio, and connect it to ElevenLabs so it can run as a live conversation.
Honestly we’re just seeing how far we can take it today. We've got a solid plan and as of last night the team was super excited to dive in today so fingers crossed we can get it built! There are prizes for the winning team so I'm hoping I can help my team stand out. We might try things that don’t work, we might have to adjust things on the fly, but every time something breaks or doesn’t behave the way we expect, we will learn something and move it forward.
A few years ago this would have required a dev team and days if not weeks of work. Now we can prototype something like this in a day, which is kind of wild.
And I think that’s the bigger point. If you’re sitting there thinking you’re not technical enough or you don’t know enough yet, just be curious. Open the tools, try something small, see what you’re actually interested in, and see what happens. You don’t have to get it perfect. You just need to start building your confidence and know that you can figure things out.
I think I am going to learn so much today, so I'm ready to absorb as much as I can and help my team produce something amazing for their business.
Wish my team luck!
Architect Anna
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