The 1-Hour AI Challenge (Sheffield) — In-Person
When: 5:30pm while 7:30pm on 9th November 2025
Where: Penine 5, 41 Silver Street Head, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2DY - Car park on site and on the road outside. more details can be found here
Capacity: 20
Cost: Free
Register: Click here to register
What this is
Test your problem-solving against real, bite-size challenges. Discover which AI tools actually help with day-to-day work. Build alongside others and show what you made.
Format (fast + friendly)
- 15 min: Intro, select a challenge
- 60 min: Build sprint
- 35 min: Share what you built, ask questions, learn from each other
- 10 min: Wrap-up & next steps
The challenge
AI agents are showing up in every roadmap, slide deck, and startup pitch. Instead of talking about them, we’re going to build a bunch of small ones, our tiny expiriments and then dissect what we’ve built.
There are so many different types of agents from voice agents, search agents, web browser agents, RAG agents, task-planners and multi-agent system and many more. We’re going to build a good selection of them so we can get a feel for what a agent is and isnt, break down what works, what doesnt and take away the mistery that you can apply and build your own agent.
If you build agents for your work, choose a different library or framework, if you work in web browser agents, build a RAG multi-agent system.
if your feel experimental, use a local model instead of a cloud API.
If you never built agent, fantastic, lets get your first agent working!
About us: Click here to see our main events page
Bring
- Laptop + charger (headphones recommended)
- Optional: a small, sanitised dataset (we’ll provide samples too)
- Water bottle
Housekeeping
- Wi-Fi & power: Provided
- Accessibility: Let us know any requirements—happy to help
- Photos/recording: We may take a few; tell us if you’d prefer not
- Code of Conduct: Be kind, be respectful, no harassment
Invite your AI-curious friends—you don’t want them saying, “I wish I’d known about this.”