AWS, in collaboration with ISV partners Snowflake, Zoom, Confluent, Forcepoint, Coalfire, Dynatrace, and Wiz, along with AWS Partners Temporal, NLX, Senso, MongoDB, Creators Corner and many more, invites you to transform bold ideas into reality through an exclusive MCP hackathon. Join us to build cutting-edge AI agents by leveraging AWS's latest innovations including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q developer, and the newly launched Kiro platform, alongside AWS Partner products. This unique opportunity allows participants to push the boundaries of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI applications while working with industry-leading AWS partners.
🎤 Showcase Your Vision:
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Utilize at least 3 sponsor tools to build your agent
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You will have 3 minutes to demo your project. Impress us with your agent!
Requirements
What to Submit
- 3-minute demo recording along with all details required from Devpost
Prizes
Best use of AWS AI
1st prize - $10k AWS credits
2nd prize - $5K AWS Credits
Best use of Confluent Cloud
- iPad Pro for the winning team
Best Use of Snowflake
- 1st Place: $500 cash prize for the team
- 2nd Place: An advanced AI robot
- 3rd Place: A Nintendo Switch
Most fun use of ClickHouse
ClickHouse platform credit of $500, and one tbd physical gift of around $500 dollars of value
Top AI Video Innovation with HeyGen API
Bring your AI ideas to life with HeyGen! The team that builds the most creative or impactful solution using the HeyGen API will win a 3-month free Scale API Plan (worth $990)—giving you access to high-quality video avatar generation, multi-language translation, and interactive streaming API. Perfect for startups, creators, and developers who want to supercharge their storytelling.
Best Use of MiniMax
- best use of MiniMax API - $500 cash + membership （2 in total）
- best use of MiniMax Agent - $500 cash + membership (2 in total)
Best Use of MongoDB
iPad for each team member
Best Use of NLX
- 1st Place Prize: Even Realities G1 Smart Glasses per team member
- 2nd Place Prize: Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses per team member
- 3rd Place Prize: 1 Year Subscription of Huel per team member
Best Use of Rime
- Top Prize: "Best use of Rime" $1k credits and $500 cash per member
- Runner-up Prize: "Most advanced use of Rime" $1k credits per member
- Runner-up Prize: "Most fun/creative use of Rime" $1k credits per member
Best Use of Senso
$2000 in credits
Best use of Tavily MCP
- 1st place: $1,000 for the best use of Tavily MCP + 40,000 Credits
- 2nd place: 30,000 Credits
- 3rd place: 20,000 Credits
Best use of Temporal
$3000 Visa gift card for the winning team
Best use of Wiz
1st - Nintendo switch 2
2nd - PlayStation 5
3rd - AirPods Pro 2
Best Use of Bright Data's MCP for Web Access in AI Agents
1. Amazon gift card - $1,500
2. Amazon gift card - $1,000
3. Amazon gift card - $500
Best use of Dynatrace
1st - $1250 gift card
2nd - $500 gift card
3rd - $250 gift card
Top 5 Overall Teams
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Saptarshi Banejree
AWS
Jon Turdiev
AWS
Varun Jasti
AWS
Avnish Kumar
AWS
Vinicius Senger
AWS
Bashir Mohammed
AWS
Venu Kanamatareddy
AWS
Sujesh Pulikkal
Vaibhav Mishra
Chinmay Patel
Raghu Ramesha
NVIDIA
Surya Kari
AWS
Srujith Poondla
AWS
Vasu Sankhavaram
AWS
Shilpa Shastri
Sean Falconer
Confluent
Mason Yan
Wiz
Vino Duraisamy
Snowflake
Bakshi Kohl
Forcepoint
Nathan Dehmuth
Coalfire
Daniel Braaf
Dynatrace
Kaushik Iska
ClickHouse
Subham Pramanik
Mandolin
Linda Sheng
MiniMax
Mikiko Bazeley
MongoDB
Sofia Guzowski
Tavily
Carl Von Bonin
Tavily
Rotem Weiss
Tavily
Zhuoer Chen
HeyGen
Lily Clifford
Rime
Cho So
NLX
Soumya Matthews
NLX
Mandy Swinton
Dynatrace
Judging Criteria
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Idea - 25%
Idea - Unique value proposition delivered by a vertical-specific agent using advanced reasoning, action, and tool use. -
Technical implementation - 25%
Technical implementation - Surprise and inspires judges and participants through the novel use of tools in a unique way. -
Tool Use - 25%
Tool Use - Integration of at least 3 sponsor tools to enable sophisticated agentic behavior -
Presentation - 25%
Presentation - Present a live demo in 3-minutes that clearly demonstrates the agent’s impact. Keep it to 1 overview slide.
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