alt Hacker NewsAnd only if you are a US or Canadian citizen/team and doubly so only if you use a permissive license like MIT, Apache-2.0 or BSD-2/3. Having even a moderate degree of control over your project is too much to ask for. But you do get a dinner, which might make it all worth it.
Tone deaf to the nth degree.
You get a dinner, but not even an all-inclusive travel package while you're there.
This is basically aimed at AI startups who are in SF anyways and need a platform for marketing. So no shortage of contestants.