🔥 AWS x Anthropic x Datadog GenAI Hackathon — $35K+ in Prizes
Join us for an immersive, hands-on hackathon where builders, developers, and AI enthusiasts come together to create production-ready Generative AI agents using the latest innovations from AWS, Datadog, and ecosystem partners.
This unique challenge invites participants to leverage cutting-edge tools such as Amazon Bedrock, Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Datadog MCP, and Kiro Powers, alongside select AWS Partner products, to push the boundaries of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agent workflows, and real-world AI applications.
🍽️ Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks will be provided.
💡 The Challenge
Build a functional, production-ready Generative AI application or agent workflow with built-in observability.
To be eligible for the prize pool, all participating teams must meet the following Core Infrastructure Requirements:
✅ Core Infrastructure Requirements
AWS Infrastructure
Your solution must be built and deployed using AWS services, including at least one of the following:
Datadog Observability
Teams must integrate Datadog observability capabilities to monitor system performance, reliability, or LLM behavior, such as:
[New!] Additional Prize Tracks
Additional technical tracks and challenges powered by our ecosystem partners. These tracks will feature additional technical challenges, tooling integrations, and product-focused prompts designed to help teams push their systems further. Participating ecosystem partners include:
MiniMax
Neo4j
TestSprite
CopilotKit
🏆 Prize Pool & Award Tracks
We are actively scaling the prize pool as new partners join. Current awards include $20K+ value in prizes, $15,000 in AWS credits, and additional partner benefits, including:
💰 Cash Prizes
$12,000 from MiniMax, TestSprite, and CopilotKit
If you plan to use MiniMax, please submit below form ahead of time to get free credits for hacking https://forms.gle/Fazk8r87QmudNLNd6
🎯 Special Awards
Datadog Observability Award – Meta Glasses
Neo4j Award – Neo4j cloud service credits, Bose QuietComfort Ultra Bluetooh Headphones, Wireless Headphones, and more!
And more!
☁️ Cloud Credits & Partner Rewards
$15,000 in AWS Credits
Over $10,000 in additional partner credits and benefits
🎁 Swag & Perks
Exclusive partner merch, AWS gear, and partner-specific perks.
🍽️ Food & Refreshments
A special thank you to MongoDB for generously sponsoring meals and refreshments throughout the day.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light snacks will be provided for all participants. Build hard. We’ll keep you fueled.
📅 Agenda
9:00 – 9:30 AM — Check-in and breakfast ☕
9:30 – 11:00 AM — Partner talks and sponsor mini-workshops 🎤
11:00 AM — Team formation and hacking begins 💻
12:00 PM — Lunch 🍽️ (provided by MongoDB)
5:00 PM — Project submission deadline ⏳
5:00 – 7:00 PM — First round of judging (science fair format) 🧑⚖️
7:00 – 7:30 PM — Selected team presentations 🚀
7:45 – 8:00 PM — Award presentation 🏆
🧩 About the Speakers
🌟 Saptarshi Banerjee – Senior Solutions Architect, Gen AI & Serverless @ AWS
🌟 Varun Jasti – Partner Solutions Architect @ AWS
🌟 Nina C. – Technical Customer Solutions Manager II, ISV GenAI Security + Observability @ AWS
🌟 Shashiraj Jeripotula(Raj) – Principal Partner Solutions Architect @ AWS
🌟 Srinivas Kesanapally – Partner Solutions Architect Leader @ AWS
🌟 Bharadwaj Tanikella – Applied AI @ Datadog
🌟 Marius Buleandra – Technical Staff @ Anthropic
🌟 Abhimanyu Chakrabarty – Senior Solutions Architect @ MongoDB
🌟 Yunhao Jiao – CEO & Co-Founder @ TestSprite
🌟 William Lyon – AI Innovation @ Neo4j
🌟 Victor Su-Ortiz S. Ortiz – Developer Relations @ MiniMax
🌟 Uli Barkai – Co-Founder @ CopilotKit
🌟 Yujian Tang – Founder @ OSS4AI | GP @ Gravitational Ventures
🧑⚖️ Meet Our Judges
We’re honored to welcome an exceptional panel of operators, investors, and technical leaders across AI, infrastructure, and venture.
Nick Simha - Solutions Architect Leader @ AWS
Mickey Iqbal - Sr. Principal SA @ AWS
Sujatha Kuppuraju- Account SA @ AWS
Jon Turdiev - Senior Solutions Architect @ AWS
Varun Jasti - Solutions Architect @ AWS
Saptarshi Banerjee - Senior Solutions Architect @ AWS
Alicja Kwasniewska - AI/ML Tech Leader @ AWS
Mani Kumar Adari - Principal Software Engineer @ AWS
Avnish Kumar - Senior Engineer @ AWS Bedrock
Bharadwaj Tanikella - AI Product Leader @ Datadog
Victor Su-Ortiz - Developer Relations @ MiniMax
Allie Gu — Machine Learning Staff @ xAI
Wesley Tillu — Partner @ Section 32
Allen Smith — Managing Partner @ Musa Capital
Vignesh Ravikumar — Partner @ Sierra Ventures
Uli Barkai — Co-Founder @ CopilotKit
Jeremy Adams - Senior Developer Advocate @ Neo4j
John Bohlmann - GP @ Spacefund, Founder @ Hawken AI
Mark Morgan - Member of Technical Staff at ATG (YC 25)
🧩 About the Hosts & Partners
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, AWS provides scalable infrastructure and advanced AI services—including Amazon Bedrock—to help teams build, deploy, and scale generative AI applications securely and efficiently.
Datadog
Datadog is a leading monitoring and observability platform for cloud-scale applications, enabling teams to visualize, secure, and optimize modern systems—including AI- and LLM-powered workloads—with real-time insights.
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
MiniMax
MiniMax is a leading AI foundation model company building multimodal large language models that power next-generation applications across text, voice, and visual intelligence. Its advanced AI systems are designed to enable scalable, human-like interaction and intelligent automation for global developers and enterprises.
Neo4j
Neo4j is the world’s leading graph database platform, enabling developers to build intelligent, connected applications by modeling and querying data as graphs. It is widely used in AI, knowledge graphs, recommendation systems, fraud detection, and agent-based applications where understanding relationships is critical.
TestSprite
TestSprite is an AI-powered testing and quality engineering platform that helps teams ensure the reliability, robustness, and performance of modern software systems at scale.
CopilotKit
CopilotKit is the Agentic Application Platform—an open-source framework with cloud and self-hosted options—for building AI-powered, user-facing agentic applications with speed and flexibility.
MongoDB
MongoDB is the leading developer data platform, offering flexible and scalable databases purpose-built for modern, data-intensive, and AI-powered applications, trusted by developers worldwide.
B.E.L.L.E Community
B.E.L.L.E is a global community in technology, AI, and entrepreneurship, dedicated to breaking boundaries and building futures through events, education, and cross-industry collaboration. Our impact: Connected 25,000+ people, supported 600+ startups, and collectively helped raise $1B in funding.
OSS4AI
OSS4AI is an open-source community advancing AI innovation through collaboration, shared tools, and practical knowledge, with a focus on real-world adoption and open ecosystems.
📍 Venue Partner
Special thanks to AWS Startup Loft San Francisco
for providing their beautiful SF space and supporting the builder community.
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