One of my favorite things about hackathons is seeing what happens when you give people new tools and let them just build.
We spent three days in London with
@OpenAI,
@NVIDIAHealth,
@WilbeLABS, and 75 scientists and engineers exploring ChatGPT, Rosalind Workbench, NVIDIA BioNeMo, and agentic AI.
The projects went in completely different directions—from systems to make agentic workflows reproducible, to screening herbicide-resistant plant proteins, to identifying chimeric RNAs as potential drug targets.
One of the biggest takeaways for me was seeing the boundary between scientific and engineering work start to blur. Scientists can use agents to turn ideas into working code much more directly. Engineers can use them to get closer to the domain knowledge behind the workflows they're building.
Both skillsets are critical for the future of discovery. Agents are helping bridge the gap to make it much easier for scientists and engineers to build together.
It's a pretty exciting glimpse of the future.