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How fintech provider Candescent turned one hackathon into a quarterly AI program

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Build a Full-Stack AI App with Vercel + AWS Aurora | H0 Hackathon Build Session Q&A

Learn how to build and deploy a full-stack AI application using Vercel and AWS databases — no infrastructure headaches.
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Unblock Your Build: Qwen Cloud Q&A with the Alibaba Team

Join Alibaba for a live session to answer your most pressing FAQs and share insider tips on mastering Qwen and Qwen Cloud.
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Building AI Agents with CockroachDB & AWS: Persistent Memory Build Session

Learn to build resilient AI agents with persistent memory using CockroachDB and AWS. Dive into MCP servers, vector indexing, and live Q&A.
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Build with Gemini XPRIZE | Team Building Workshop

A Team Building workshop for those looking for a teammate for the XPRIZE hackathon.
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Build with Gemini XPRIZE | Business Viability Workshop

Business Viability Workshop: build a startup-ready pitch for the $2M Build with Gemini XPRIZE. Learn how to validate your idea, size the market, and frame your submission for judges who care about real-world traction — not just working code.
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Build Session | From Zero to a Working DataHub Agent in 30 Minutes

From Zero to a Working DataHub Agent in 30 Minutes. A live, hands-on build session for the DataHub Agent Hackathon — watch an agent get built from scratch and walk away with the pattern to build your own.
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Build Faster with IBM Bob: AI-Assisted Coding for Hackathon Teams

In this live build session, we'll walk through real development scenarios and show how IBM Bob can help with everything from generating code to documenting and refining your application.
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The Agent's Memory: Powering Real-Time AI Workflows with ClickHouse

Give your Agentic Cinema build a fast, real-time backend. In this live session, we'll connect ClickHouse to a Gemini Enterprise agent through a managed MCP server, run real analytical queries live, and structure the integration to meet the hackathon's runtime requirement
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Getting Started with Grafana

We'll walk through the Grafana Cloud MCP server — 60+ tools your agent can call to query metrics, logs, and traces, search dashboards, and manage alerts — live.
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Getting Started with Parallel: Build a Web-Grounded Gemini Agent

We'll connect Gemini to Parallel Search live using Gemini's native grounding tool, run a grounded query end to end, and inspect the citations to confirm Parallel was actually called at runtime. Beginner-friendly, preconfigured demo environment
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Ship Your Agentic Cinema Submission: Live Build + Q&A with Replit

This session provides a live, step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Replit Agent to quickly build, host, and deploy a web application for your Gemini and Google Cloud Agent Builder project. Led by Manny Bernabe, the event is designed to help participants finalize their "Agentic Cinema" submissions by covering setup, debugging, and deployment, culminating in a live Q&A to resolve any technical blockers.
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From One-Shot Calls to Long Task Goals: Building Autonomous Agents with CALL-E

This session demonstrates how to build autonomous voice agents using CALL-E, progressing from single-interaction phone calls to multi-step task execution. Developers will learn to set goals, trigger phone calls, process structured results, and implement agentic workflows that allow voice agents to reason iteratively and achieve complex real-world business objectives.
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Agent Speedrun: Ideate → Build → Validate → Deploy

This hands-on workshop guides developers through building and deploying a production-ready AI agent using the Strands Agents SDK for the Agents for Humans Hackathon. Starting from a blank file, participants move beyond basic demos by configuring tools, setting up runtime controls, and deploying a fully functional agent that handles real-world repetitive tasks live before the session ends.
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Will It Ship? Live Project Reviews + Q&A with All Things Agentic

With less than a week to the August 31st deadline, this interactive live workshop allows participants to stress-test their AI agents against the official hackathon rubric through live reviews and Q&A to finalize their submissions.
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Driving AI innovation with internal hackathons

Learn how to build your AI strategy with Okta, Estée Lauder Companies and SAP
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A conversation with Microsoft hackathon organizers and winners

Catch up on this conversation with Microsoft hackathon organizers and winners
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Level up your next all-hands hackathon

Learn how to transform your company-wide hackathons from Motorola Solutions, Toyota North America, and JLL Technologies.
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AI hackathon playbook

Proven plays to distribute AI and accelerate adoption—for developers, employees, and customers.
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Customer hackathon AI adoption playbook

Download the strategic blueprint for running customer AI hackathons that drive native adoption, surface new use cases, and secure upcoming renewals.
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How to plan an internal hackathon for your entire company

Download this guide to learn how to plan and manage company-wide hackathons.
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How to sell AI: Use customer hackathons to drive adoption

AI adoption is one of the biggest challenges companies face today. This guide shows how customer hackathons get customers building with your tools.
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Calculating the total cost of running an online hackathon

Learn how to build your hackathon budget and calculate the total cost of running a public online hackathon in this free guide.
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How to run an online hackathon

Learn how to plan and run online hackathons for public audiences that inspire innovation and drive developer engagement.
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Best practices for in-person hackathon managers

Your go-to guide for planning and hosting successful in-person hackathons.
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How to boost public hackathon registrations and submissions

Learn how to boost hackathon registration and developer engagement in this free downloadable guide.
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How to build and scale your developer community with high-impact hackathons

Learn proven strategies to grow and sustain your developer community with hackathons that inspire participation and long-term engagement.
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Build production-ready AI agents in Agentic Cinema: The Blockbuster Hackathon

Build an agent with Google Cloud and one of 5 star-studded partners: IBM, Grafana Labs, Parallel, ClickHouse, or Replit.
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User Story: How Iron Man Inspired a Win at the Gemini Live Agents Challenge

Here's how Bryen Param built a drone you can talk to — and why he almost didn't believe he'd won Best of Live Agents in Google's Gemini Live Agent Challenge.
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Hackathon planning

The ultimate internal hackathon template and planning kit

Get the tools and templates you need to kick-start your next company hackathon.
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What Devpost’s AI Trends Report 2026 reveals about how developers build

Enterprise hackathon growth, the agentic AI adoption gap, and what the data says about recurring programs.
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3 proven plays to accelerate AI tool adoption

How to drive adoption through hackathons across your developer communities, employees, and customers.
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What the data shows about how to drive developer tool adoption in 2026

New data from enterprise and community hackathon programs shows what actually drives developer AI adoption.
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Hackathon planning

What a learning hackathon is and how our last one went

Inside our 30-day hackathon built around learning a skill, with results from 1,200+ developers.
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Build AI agents for real-world challenges in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon

Build a Gemini-powered AI agent using MCP integrations from six technology partners and compete for prizes in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon.
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User story: How Dylan Vu hacked his way from 50 lines of code to engineering at Amazon

Meet Dylan, a software engineer at Amazon who's been part of nearly 60 hackathons as a hacker, mentor, and judge.
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What internal hackathons actually produce

Here's what leading companies are getting from their internal hackathon programs.
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What to expect from a hackathon program (and how it compares to running just one)

Running more than one hackathon compounds your results—more developer touchpoints, richer insights, and a stronger community over time. Here's what to expect.
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Hackathon planning

A 48-hour hackathon example for engineering teams… exactly how we ran ours

An inside look at how our dev team used an internal learning hackathon to explore new AI integration paths and build functional features in just 48 hours.
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Make a real impact on customer retention with hackathons

Here are 5 reasons to run customer hackathons.

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