Shafna Jasnin@shafnajasnin

Finora is an Android expense tracking application that helps users record, organize, and monitor their daily expenses, manage spending, and keep track of their personal finances.

EchoSync represents the next generation of ambient computing, built entirely on a foundation of data privacy. It is an intelligent, background-operating AI assistant engineered to streamline smart-home management, information retrieval, and daily productivity scheduling.Traditional AI assistants rely heavily on cloud-based processing, which exposes sensitive user data to external networks and introduces latency. EchoSync solves this vulnerability by utilizing advanced local machine learning models. It actively listens and processes commands entirely on the user's edge hardware.The system operates dynamically in the background, serving as a low-friction interface that surfaces contextual suggestions and handles complex smart-home automation pathways only when initiated. By shifting the architecture from the cloud to a localized environment, EchoSync delivers an ultra-secure, highly responsive, and completely private user experience.

TradeGuard AI is an autonomous AI trading assistant designed to make options paper trading safer and more systematic. It analyzes market and trade information, proposes an options strategy, evaluates potential risks, and challenges its own decision before executing a paper trade through Alpaca. The system follows the complete trade lifecycle—from analyzing an opportunity and selecting a strategy to placing, monitoring, and reviewing trades. Its self-checking approach helps reduce impulsive decisions by making the agent question its own assumptions before taking action. TradeGuard AI demonstrates how AI agents can work together with financial APIs to automate trading workflows while keeping the project focused on risk awareness, transparency, and paper trading rather than real-money execution.

🌎 Online Hackathon | 💻 Online Build: Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2026 A virtual, global hackathon. Build from anywhere in the world. Dark Factory is the official hackathon of WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, presented by BAND, but you don't need to be in San Jose to take part. For one week, you build a software factory in BAND Desktop: a band of coding agents that plans work, implements it and checks its own results. 🎟️ Bonus for sign-ups: you are eligible for a free ticket to WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose (Sep 23–25). If you do go, stop by the BAND booth: a surprise is waiting for you.

💻 Online Hackathon | ⏳ Build: 48 hours | 📅 September 25–27, 2026 The official IBM Bob 2.0 hackathon. Build what's next in AI-assisted development, alongside the developers and experts shaping it. ⭐ Get help from experts throughout the event 🤝 Join a team or build solo 💰 Prize pool: $12,000 🧑🏻‍💻 Register before the Kick-Off Stream to start building with Bob

🌎 Hybrid Hackathon | 💻 Online Build: September 10–16, 2026 | 📍 On-site: September 15–17, 2026 The official hackathon of AI Infra Summit — co-organized by Kisaco Research and lablab.ai. Build production-grade AI applications on the modern AI infrastructure stack, alongside 8,000+ attendees, researchers, founders, and infra leaders. 📍 On-site Venue (September 15–17): Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 📍 On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered.