Build practical AI agent prototypes that tackle real enterprise challenges; with guidance, credits, and the teams behind IBM Watsonx Orchestrate, Tavily, and Redis.
This weekend hackathon is designed to help you go from idea → working demo → pitch-ready story, with a focus on measurable business impact.
🧠 What You’ll Build
Teams will create an AI agent that can plan, call tools/APIs, and produce verifiable actions or artifacts within enterprise guardrails.
🎯 Challenge Themes
Choose a theme (or propose your own) and build a prototype around it. Examples include:
HR & Talent: onboarding concierge, skills inference + career pathing, policy Q&A with audit trails
Customer Ops Copilot: multi-agent triage, retrieval-augmented response, policy-aware escalation
Procurement & Finance: spend analysis, invoice exception resolution, close-automation runbook
IT & Security: access request agent with approvals + guardrails + verification
Supply Chain: exception detection + resolution planner, delivery delay comms with live data
Sales & RevOps: proposal builder with compliance checks, intelligent briefings + CRM updates
Open-ended: participant-originated enterprise agent ideas welcome
🗓️ Agenda
Friday (Mandatory "In-person kickoff @ One Madison") — 5:00–7:00pm
5:00–5:30pm Arrive, meet other builders, grab pizza
5:30–6:30pm IBM AI Labs, Tavily, and Redis Lightening Talks
6:30-7pm Networking + team formation
🍕 Pizza + refreshments provided at kickoff.
Saturday (Remote)
Heads-down building
Mentor support + async help in Discord
Sunday (Remote submissions + judging)
3:00pm Submission deadline
5:00–6:00pm Zoom presentations (top teams present; Q&A with judges)
6:00pm onward Judges finalize winners
✅ What You Must Submit
Every team submits:
A business case deck (problem → target KPI → ROI hypothesis) or a demo video
A GitHub repo with a clear README + setup steps
Projects must be built during the hackathon weekend (no outside projects)
🎁 Prizes
Prizes include:
Tavily & Redis Credits Introduction to IBM Ventures & Partnerships Teams for winners
Certificates for various awards (e.g. People’s Choice)
👥 What You'll Need
✅ Laptop + charger✅ Comfort coding (Python recommended)✅ Basic terminal navigation
