1 winner - $12,500 cash value

1st Place Prize: - Amazon Echos - (Up to 5) DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2025 virtual conferences - Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project. *All Values of the amazon echo prizes will be sent at USD

1st Place: Three Months Free off of the annual Ambassador Blackbird Base plan. Plus, $1,000 in cash
2nd Place: $250 in cash and Two Months Free off of the annual Ambassador Blackbird Base plan

Contact: Matt Voget @ matt.voget@datawire.io

This challenge involves creating an API utilizing Ambassador Blackbird for API development. Here are the requirements for your API:
* You must provide an OAS file that describes your API
* Your API must have 5 endpoints minimum
* You must integrate your work in Blackbird into a development workflow (regardless of implementation language)
* Your API must be deployed and running in Blackbird’s hosted environment
* Use as many Blackbird CLI Commands as possible, all need to be validated
* Setup a CI/CD workflow that uses Blackbird instances
* Demonstrate areas where Blackbird is saving time during the development process
* Your API code will be tested and run by our judges
* Points for creativity/ thinking outside the box with your API!
We’re looking for a submission that utilizes Blackbird to create a functional, unique, and hardy API that solves a creative problem. You’ll submit a demo showcasing your API and its associated CI/CD workflow. You’ll also submit your API code with its associated API spec file and any other relevant code or scripts. Our team will watch the demo as well as test your code to ensure everything works as it should.

Anyone who participates in our Hackathon challenge, regardless of placement, will receive an extended free trial of Ambassador Blackbird for API development.

To get started on this challenge, make a free account here: https://blackbird.a8r.io/login

1st Place: Three Months Free off of the annual Ambassador Blackbird Base plan. Plus, $1,000 in cash
2nd Place: $250 in cash, plus two Months Free off of the annual Ambassador Blackbird Base plan

Contact: Matt Voget @ matt.voget@datawire.io

This challenge is all about speed. Perform the greatest number of different Blackbird operations in the shortest amount of time possible while also producing a killer API! This challenge involves building an API that utilizes as many Blackbird commands as possible (you will be given complimentary access to our full suite of features), including:
* Generating a Spec
* Mocking Your API
* Generating Code
* Running Your Code
* Deploying Your Code

You will be judged on your usage data and how many commands you utilize along the way. We’re looking for the team or individual that completes the largest variety of commands in the smallest amount of elapsed time from start to finish. This will require you to record a video of you building and demoing your API start to finish in Blackbird and then recording a similar video done manually and/or with other tool(s).

You’ll submit both recordings, as well as your code and scripts, showcasing how much time you saved in Blackbird to produce the same great result. Our team will watch both demos as well as test your code to ensure everything works as it should. Please demonstrate the ability for a 3rd party (like our judges) to push a change to your code and show how fast you can make an API code change. You should walk out of this challenge with two functional solutions, but one that shows how much time you saved by doing it in Blackbird.

Anyone who participates in our Hackathon challenge, regardless of placement, will receive an extended free trial of Ambassador Blackbird for API development. The faster you get your API fly, the better your chances of winning!

To get started on this challenge, make a free account here: https://blackbird.a8r.io/login

1st Place: EF12 Projector + $1000 Cash
2nd Place: EF12 Projector + $750 Cash

Contact: Tim.Nguyen@ea.epson.com

Epson believes that our efficient, compact, and precise line of products are enriching lives and help to create a better world. We are looking for creative innovators that want to test their skills to develop new solutions and user experiences that will foster communication and collaboration.. Participants will have to leverage the Epson Connect API (https://www.epsondevelopers.com/api/epson-connect/) and our world renowned printing and scanning solutions.

Join the Epson Connect API Hackathon

We’ve arrived at an exciting frontier of technology innovation and designed the Epson Innovation Challenge for developers, product designers and cutting edge startups to rapidly test their creativity and skills developing innovative solutions with the Epson Connect API on top of world renowned hardware products. Epson offers an attractive platform of over tens of millions sold printers and scanners across more than 150 countries. This is a very unique opportunity where innovators could get a rocket boost by partnering with a trusted brand with a global reach.

Epson is especially interested in solutions that compliments customer needs of sizable user populations in consumer and B2B markets, leveraging technologies such as Generative AI, ML, or OCR. Desired solutions are those that create a clear competitive advantage for the user experience compared to a standard print or scan function. Participants should bundle print or scan services to create a digital to analog to digital information flow. For instance:

* Automated printing workflows on top of photo management applications (i.e Google Photos) or social media (i.e Instagram, Pinterest). Allowing users to create tangible photo albums from their memories and interests at home.

* Customized media printouts based on topics of interests identified through user preferences from media applications (i.e Apple News, news blogs or coupon websites for seniors)
Using AI to generate automated personalized greeting cards for every moment including birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries of loved ones.

* Provide on-demand distributed printing and scanning services at strategically located facilities such as libraries,coffee shops, hotels, co-working spaces,office printing centers, and transit hubs, enhancing accessibility to printing solutions.

* Integrate a comprehensive printing and scanning solution that bridges disparate system interfaces, converting output data into physical and subsequently digitizing it. Enhancing value and enriching the user experience across diverse sectors, including education, healthcare, and government.

Innovation Challenge ideas must leverage Epson Connect™ (https://www.epsondevelopers.com/api/epson-connect/), the secure cloud service for scan and print workflows and will have to look beyond a simple print or scan function in their solution. Desirable ideas will demonstrate a creative mix of scanning, data processing, and printing to address untapped opportunities in both consumer and commercial use cases.

Get creative on how we can simplify and enhance information sharing and collaboration. There are no limits in innovation! We’re looking forward to your application and joining us to enrich lives and help to create a better world!

1st Place: Meta Quest 3 VR Headset - 1 for each team member
2nd Place: Mechanical Keyboard (Keychron K2 Wireless RGB) - 1 for each team member

Contact: Devion Tharpe @ devion.tharpe@graviteesource.com

1. API Configuration Challenge:
- Configure Gravitee.io to interface with the Kafka backend.
- Implement rate limiting on API calls to manage canvas update frequency.
2. Pixel Streaming from Kafka
3. Real-time Visualization:
- Create a web interface that updates in real-time as pixels are changed.
- Implement zooming and panning features for large canvases.
4. Collaborative Features:
- Add user authentication and tracking of contributions.
- Implement "regions" that can be claimed by teams for collaborative work.
5. Artistic Challenges:
- Create tools for different brush sizes, shapes, or effects.
- Implement a color palette system or color mixing feature.
6. Performance Optimization:
- Optimize the system to handle a high volume of simultaneous users and updates.
- Implement efficient caching mechanisms for faster rendering.
7. Analytics Dashboard:
- Create a real-time dashboard showing user activity, popular areas, and color usage statistics.

1st Place: Sony PlayStation 5 Slim Console Digital Edition
2nd Place: Sleep Tight Weighted Blanket & CamelBak Camp Mug

Contact: Andre Escobar @ andres.escobar@okta.com

APIs are the backbone of modern digital experiences, enabling communication between applications and services. However, securing APIs without compromising performance or usability can be a challenge. Your task is to design and build a secure, scalable, and innovative API-driven solution using Auth0’s powerful authentication and authorization features.

Challenge Goals:
1. Build an API-driven application that leverages Auth0 to secure API access, protect sensitive data, and authenticate users or devices.
2. Implement API security best practices such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, and machine-to-machine (M2M) authorization.
3. Explore the use of Auth0 to protect public-facing, partner, or internal APIs, ensuring that only authorized users or systems can access them.

Categories:
1. Secure API Gateways for Microservices
a. Build an API gateway that securely manages access to multiple microservices. Use Auth0 to implement OAuth 2.0 client credentials, API tokens, and role-based access control (RBAC) for different service consumers.
2. API Security for Fintech & Banking
b.Create a secure API for financial services that handles transactions, sensitive user data, or payments. Leverage Auth0's API protection features like JWT validation and anomaly detection to safeguard transactions.
3. Multi-Party API Integrations
c. Develop a secure API that integrates multiple third-party services (such as payment gateways, IoT devices, or SaaS tools) and uses Auth0 to handle federated identity management, token introspection, or API token delegation.
4. M2M Authentication for IoT Devices
d. Design an IoT solution where multiple devices need to securely communicate with backend APIs. Use Auth0’s machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication capabilities to ensure secure access for devices to APIs.
5. GraphQL API Security
e. Build a secure GraphQL API that delivers data from multiple sources. Protect access to specific queries and mutations using Auth0’s API authorization features, ensuring fine-grained control over who can perform certain actions.

Tech Stack:
1. Auth0 APIs: Utilize Auth0’s authentication and authorization APIs, including features like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, API token validation, and RBAC.
2. Optional: Integrate your API with popular API management platforms (e.g., AWS API Gateway, Kong, Apigee) and enhance with additional security features like rate limiting or anomaly detection.
3. APIs of Your Choice: Build solutions using any public APIs or third-party services.

Bonus Points:
1. Implement fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC) to protect different API endpoints.
2. Use Auth0's machine-to-machine (M2M) flow to securely authenticate between services or devices.
3. Integrate anomaly detection or adaptive security features to identify potential security threats.
4. Design APIs with rate limiting, throttling, and auditing to prevent abuse.

Judging Criteria:
1. Security – How well are the APIs secured, and how effectively does the solution handle different types of API-based attacks or threats?
2. API Design – How intuitive, scalable, and performant is the API design, and how well does it integrate with external services?
3. Innovation – Does the solution introduce novel ideas in terms of API use cases, integrations, or API security?
4. Usability – How easy is it for developers to use the API, integrate with it, and understand the security mechanisms in place?
5. Presentation – How well is the API integration documented, and how clear is the demo showcasing its functionality and security features?

1st Place: 4K Aerial Photography Drone UAV w/ Dual Camera + Accessories
2nd Place: Ray-Ban Meta Polarized Wayfarer Smart Glasses

Hasura is about to launch a new AI product that enables you to build powerful AI assistants and agents on your data (think ChatGPT on your data). This product provides a unified semantic query layer over any number or type of data sources, gives LLMs a computational capability, and has advanced techniques to significantly reduce context loss.

Hasura is about to launch a new AI tool that enables you to build powerful AI assistants on your data (think chatGPT for your data). This tool provides a unified semantic query layer over any number or type of data sources, gives LLMs a computation runtime and structured memory to eliminate context loss.

Getting Started: Hasura Challenge Guide - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sfYUfvqdzwKUJGRZ5z4-9u7eyQ07bFTrc2hcEzi0ZcA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1t0buhwvufma

Contact the Hasura team on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/XwwXzBPC

Contact: anushrut.gupta@hasura.io

Challenge Description:

Develop an AI assistant using the Hasura Data Delivery Network (DDN) that enhances the capabilities of a team/teams within your organization. This AI co-pilot should empower team members by providing intelligent access to data, insights, and the automation of routine tasks. By interacting with data through natural language, the assistant will help the team act with the right information, make informed decisions, and improve efficiency/productivity.

Challenge outline:

Identify and choose a problem that you and your team face at work, which can be solved by an AI tool/assistant acting on your organization’s data. Think of your support teams looking to manage the customer tickets, engineering teams trying to manage their sprints and repositories, or HR teams trying to understand employee data. Be as creative as possible.

Connect at least 1 data source to your AI app using Hasura DDN. The more data sources you build on, or the more sophisticated the use case is, the more points you get. These data sources can range from your SQL/NoSQL/Vector databases, APIs, Logs, Docs, etc. If you do not have access to your organization’s data, then it’s also acceptable to use public data sets or AI-generated data.

Define a semantically descriptive Hasura DDN supergraph.

The solutions should demonstrate Hasura AI’s capabilities to perform computations, aggregations, and analytics (programmatic and semantic) on your data.

Judging criteria/requirements:

Validity and complexity of the problem.

Diversity and quality of the data sources and the supergraph.

Co-pilots that can flexibly answer user queries using Hasura DDN and do not rely on pre-defined/canned workflows.

Bonus points for teams that demonstrate how Hasura reduced AI app development time or reduced hallucinations.

1st Place: Hiboy MAX Pro Electric Scooter - White (BB)
2nd Place: Joola Essentials Pickleball Set + Net

Contact: anushrut.gupta@hasura.io

Hasura is about to launch a new AI product that enables you to build powerful AI assistants and agents on your data (think ChatGPT on your data). This product provides a unified semantic query layer over any number or type of data sources, gives LLMs a computational capability, and has advanced techniques to significantly reduce context loss.

Challenge Description:

Individually develop a personal AI assistant using the Hasura Data Delivery Network (DDN) that enhances your daily life by intelligently interacting with your personal data and services. This AI co-pilot should help you manage tasks, organize information, and streamline routines by connecting to your personal devices, applications, and data sources. By leveraging natural language interaction, the assistant will provide personalized support, increase productivity, and simplify daily activities.

Challenge outline:

This event is restricted to 1 person per team

Choose a challenge you face in daily life that can be solved by an AI assistant acting on your personal data. The challenge could range from helping you log/query your health data, managing emails, and scheduling events to controlling smart home devices and organizing to-do lists.

Integrate your AI app with at least one personal data source using Hasura DDN. The more data sources you connect, or the more sophisticated your use case is, the more points you earn. Possible data sources include Gmail, Calendar, Slack, IoT devices, social media accounts, notes apps, and more.

Showcase the tool's ability to perform analytics, workflows, and intelligent processing (programmatic and semantic) on your personal data.

Judging criteria/requirements:

Validity and complexity of the problem.

Diversity and quality of the data sources and the supergraph.

Co-pilots that can flexibly answer user queries using Hasura DDN and do not rely on pre-defined/canned workflows.

Bonus points for teams who can demonstrate how HasuraAI reduced AI app development time or reduced hallucinations.