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Great ideas happen when you combine innovation, competition and a little friendly rivalry. Candescent's first company-wide AI hackathon is the proof.    Hundreds of employees came together for 48 hours to tackle real business challenges across security, onboarding, payments, operational intelligence, and product innovation.   The challenge sparked creativity. The competition fueled momentum. And the results went far beyond the event itself, with 10 of the top 120 submitted ideas advancing into active development within weeks.   A special thank you to CTO Satheesh Ravala for kicking off what has now become a catalyst for a quarterly AI innovation program where innovation can thrive and great ideas break through.   Read the Devpost article: https://lnkd.in/eG2BaztV

Candescent's company-wide hackathon is proof of what happens when you give teams dedicated time to experiment and build with AI, an effort led by CTO Satheesh Ravala. Candescent ran the hackathon on Devpost for Teams, aligning every submission to company priorities like security, onboarding, payments, operational intelligence, and product innovation. Key results: → 460+ employees formed 120+ teams and submitted 120 projects → Almost every team that formed finished a project → The Top 10 projects advanced into active development within weeks → These outcomes made the case for a recurring quarterly program Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eiD9Bx34

Parallel Web Systems is running a live, beginner-friendly session during the Agentic Cinema Hackathon. Introducing Getting Started with Parallel: Build a Web-Grounded Gemini Agent! During this session you'll be connecting Gemini to Parallel Search through Gemini's native grounding tool, running a real grounded query end to end, and checking the citations to confirm it's actually calling Parallel at runtime. 👀 📅 Aug 21, 12:30 PM ET 🔗 Register Today: https://lnkd.in/dFAeaKmW

☎️ Your code is calling? Answer it at the CALL-E Hackathon! Register today: https://bit.ly/calle26li

Another Devpost Build Session for Agentic Cinema! Introducing The Agent's Memory: Powering Real-Time AI Workflows with ClickHouse. This session gets specific: setting up a ClickHouse Cloud or self-hosted cluster, connecting it to your agent through the official MCP server, and running real queries live. If you're on the ClickHouse track (or just curious about their MCP in general), this is a session you won't want to miss. You'll walk away with a working example of an agent actually calling ClickHouse tools, plus a look at ClickHouse Agent Skills to speed up your dev process. 📅 Aug 18, 11:00 AM ET Register today: https://lnkd.in/d66hk8SY

Prompt, answer, "Hey, do better", "No, not that.", repeat. That's the old cycle of building with and leveraging AI. Google Cloud's new hackathon, All Things Agentic, is asking builders to go further: create agents that take a goal, make a plan, and carry it out end to end. Built on Gemini 3.5 and Google's Agent Development Kit, this is a global hackathon open to every skill level. Three tracks to choose from: Taskmaster — automate a real, messy workflow end to end Collaborative Partner — build an agent that guides and adapts to the user Fortified Enterprise Fleet — build agents that operate safely inside enterprise infrastructure $180,000 in prizes. $150 in Google Cloud credits to get started. Submissions close August 31. Register Today!: https://lnkd.in/dM4UGX4S

Help looks different depending on who needs it. For an individual, it might be one less thing on their plate like a bill paid on time or a schedule that manages itself. For a professional, it's the edge that makes the repetitive, judgment-heavy parts of the job faster without cutting corners. For a nonprofit, it's coordination that used to eat a volunteer's whole weekend. Agents for Humans Hackathon from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is built around that range. Three tracks: Everyday Agents, Professional Agents, Good Neighbor Agents 💰 $40,000 in prizes 📅 Deadline: September 14 Register today to build → bit.ly/agentsforhumans26li

Agentic Cinema is underway and IBM is running a live build session on their coding assistant, Bob. Real development scenarios, live demos of generating code, debugging faster, and documenting as you go. Building in the IBM track? Curious about the hackathon? Want to work with Bob? This is where you pick up the prompt techniques that'll save you hours over the next few weeks and in future projects to come. 📅 Build Faster with IBM Bob: AI-Assisted Coding for Hackathon Teams Aug 17, 11:00 AM ET Register today: https://lnkd.in/dE9dYJYy

Woo hoo! 🎉 Our #AskSafe #Home won 🏆 #First Place – #OpenInnovation Prize at #H0: Hack the Zero Stack with #Vercel v0 and #AWS Databases—our first #Devpost online hackathon! Nearly 9,800 builders showed up to prove they could ship a full-stack application with a production-grade backend. To be recognised among this incredible community is truly special. I’m incredibly proud to have built #AskSafeHome together with Cynthia Zhang, Yang Shu, and Emilie (Yue) Ouyang. As a team, we created an AI-powered full-stack application that helps seniors pause, understand risk signals and safely navigate uncertain messages, calls, video chats, or payment requests before acting. We were awarded $10,000 USD in cash and $10,000 in AWS Credits. More importantly, this win motivates us to keep building technology that helps people feel safer and more confident online. Thank you to my teammates, Devpost, Vercel, v0 by Vercel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and everyone who supported us throughout the journey. Explore AskSafe Home: https://lnkd.in/ggRSUvj5 #HackathonWinner #FirstPlaceWinner #OpenInnovation #AWS #Vercel #v0 #AIForGood #DigitalSafety #SeniorSafety #AskSafeHome #Bedrock #DynamoDB #GitHub #Terraform #TypeScript #Next.js #React #FinOps #AIProduct #AI