Agent Forge Hackathon: Architect the Agents of Tomorrow
Agent Forge Hackathon: Beyond the Demo, Ship Real AI
The era of simple chatbots is over. Real AI applications need to access live data, write their own code, and run reliably in the cloud.
Agent Forge Hackathon provides the ultimate stack to ship production-ready agents in one day. We are moving beyond local prototypes—if it doesn't deploy, it doesn't count.
The Challenge
Build an autonomous agent or data-driven application that solves a real-world problem.
Unlike standard hackathons where you build UI shells, this event focuses on functionality and live data. Your agent should be able to gather intelligence (Scraping), process it, and live on the web (Deployment).
The Stack (Your Arsenal)
You will have access to premium credits and tools from our innovation partners to build your solution:
Bright Data: The world's #1 web data platform. Use their enterprise-grade scraping and proxy networks to feed your agents real-time live data from the web.
Zeabur: One-click deployment. No more struggling with AWS config files. Push your containerized agents to production instantly so judges can test them live.
Qoder: The agentic coding platform. Accelerate your development speed by using Qoder's AI to help write, refactor, and ship your codebase faster.
Suggested Tracks & Ideas
While you can build anything using the stack, we recommend focusing on these areas:
🤖 Track: Intelligent Web Agents
Perfect for: Engineers building automation and data pipelines.
The Goal: Build agents that autonomously browse the web, collect data, and make decisions.
Example Projects:
Market Watcher: An agent that scrapes competitor pricing across 50 e-commerce sites and adjusts your own pricing database via API.
News Synth: An app that aggregates breaking news from specific niche forums and summarizes them into a daily briefing.
Real Estate Hunter: An agent that monitors listing sites for specific criteria and alerts users instantly.
The Workshops
We will host hands-on sessions to get you up to speed with the stack:
"Web Data at Scale" with Bright Data: How to bypass CAPTCHAs, manage proxies, and scrape dynamic websites for your agent's knowledge base.
"Ship in Seconds" with Zeabur: How to containerize your AI application and deploy it to a live URL with a single click.
🏆 Prizes
$2,000 USD Total Prize Pool 🚀
All winning teams will share a total pool of $2,000 USD in sponsored credits.
⚡ Agenda
10:00 AM - Kickoff & Introduction
10:30 AM - Technical Workshops (Bright Data & Zeabur)
11:30 AM - Team Formation & Hacking Begins
12:30 PM - Lunch
4:30 PM - Hacking Ends / Live Demos (Deployed URLs required!)
5:30 PM - Winners Announced + Networking
6:00 PM - Close
Who should come?
✅ You want to build AI that accesses the real internet, not just static datasets.
✅ You want to deploy something live, not just run it on localhost.
✅ You want to connect with the SMU AI community and the AI Builders network.
🤝 Partners
Innovation Partners:
Zeabur - One-click deployment for your AI apps
Qoder - Agentic coding assistant for rapid development
Bright Data - Enterprise web scraping and real-time data collection at scale
Community Partner:
AI Builders - A premier community of AI builders, developers, and innovators
Special Thanks:
SMU AI (SMU Artificial Intelligence Club) - A student-led initiative proudly supported by the Singapore Management University Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SMU IIE)
⚠️ Limited spots available. Register now.