Welcome to the Google Cloud Next AI Hackathon! Get ready to unlock the power of low/no code generative agents in Vertex AI Agent Builder. Combine your creativity with Google Cloud to change the world as we know it. These innovative AI companions are poised to revolutionize industries and reshape the way we work, learn, and create. No matter what your day job, passion, or hobby is, generative agents offer boundless potential to revolutionize your work, learning, and creativity ![]()
We know you have a thousand things to see, do, and learn at Google Cloud Next, so in this hackathon, participants won’t be building end-to-end agents from scratch but rather dreaming up an innovative idea and crafting the prompts required to train your agent. We anticipate it to take you approximately 60-90 minutes to ideate and complete your submission. Join us and harness the power of generative agents to change the world ![]()
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Day 1 & Day 2 Google Cloud Next |
| April 9th & 10th 12:00am - 11:59pm |
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Registrations Open
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| Day 3 Coding Hub within Innovators Hive |
| April 11th 9am - 12:30 pm |
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Submissions Open & Demo Day
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Requirements
On April 11th, make sure to head to the Coding Hub within Innovators Hive to check in, start building, team up, and submit and demo your project for the judges.
Looking for teammates? Join Devpost from 9 - 10 am in the Coding Hub as we’ll have tables set up to mix and mingle with fellow registrants!
Already have a team? Work on your project together in the Coding Hub from 9 am - 12:30 pm!
Have questions? Come to the Coding Hub within Innovators Hive to ask the Google team technical questions.
What to Build
Use the Studio to come up with an idea for a generative agent. You must provide an overview of what the agent will do and for whom it will be useful. Start a generative app in Vertex AI Agent Builder and construct the Goal and Instructions for your agent by creating a (1) playbook.
It's simple to use Vertex AI Agent Builder's UI; no need to deploy anything or hook up APIs for this hackathon. We expect ideation to submission to take less than 90 minutes.
What to Submit
- Text description that includes a summary of your Generative Agent idea (at least 1 paragraph)
- Overview of why this Agent would be useful and to whom (at least 1 paragraph)
- Summary of Additional Requirements: any data, APIs, functions, etc. requirements you expect you would need to build out a full featured application for this agent
- Screenshot(s) of the Goal and Instructions fields from Vertex AI Agent Builder playbook you would use to begin building out this agent
- At least one member of the team must be physically present in the Coding Hub within Innovators Hive to demo the Project to judges during the Judging Period. Presentations must include a summary of points 1-4 above. Projects with no demonstration will only be eligible to win Participation Prizes. In person demos should be no more than 2 minutes.
Good luck and happy building!
Prizes
1st Place
$5,000 in USD
$3,000 in Google Cloud Credits
Virtual Meeting with a Google Team Member
Social Promo
Option to judge online global hackathon
Participation Badge
2nd Place
$3,000 in USD
$2,000 in Google Cloud Credits
Virtual Meeting with a Google Team Member
Social Promo
Option to judge online global hackathon
Participation Badge
3rd Place
$2,000 in USD
$1,000 in Google Cloud Credits
Virtual Meeting with a Google Team Member
Social Promo
Option to judge online global hackathon
Participation Badge
Best Prompt Engineering
Virtual Meeting with a Google Team Member
Social Promo
Option to judge online global hackathon
Participation Badge
Most Original
Virtual Meeting with a Google Team Member
Social Promo
Option to judge online global hackathon
Participation Badge
Most Likely to Change the World
Virtual Meeting with a Google Team Member
Social Promo
Option to judge online global hackathon
Participation Badge
Participation Prize
Digital Participation Badges will be awarded to the first 300 eligible Entrants.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Keelin McDonell
Product Manager, Google Cloud
Alan Blount
Product Manager, Google Cloud
Erica Chuong
AI/ML Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Natacha Maheshe
Developer Marketing Manager, Google Cloud
Frank Guan
Developer Marketing Manager, Google Cloud
Praveen Rajasekar
Developer Marketing Manager, Google Cloud
Holt Skinner
Developer Advocate, Google Cloud
Judging Criteria
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Originality / Wow Factor
Impress the judges. Does it use newly released features? Does it have a quality that stands out creatively? -
Potential Impact
How big of an impact could the project have on society globally? -
Use of Prompt Engineering
How precise and clever are your Goal and Instructions prompts included in your screenshot? -
Interpretability
How well does the Project Description explain the underlying methodology of their Generative Agent and does the Summary of Requirements clearly identify what’s needed to fully build out this Agent, e.g. data stores, APIs, functions, etc?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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