About the challenge

AI that doesn't just provide answers—it helps you take action.

Building Agents for Real-World Challenges is your opportunity to move beyond the chatbot and into the world of agents that accomplish tasks for you. This hackathon is designed for every level of technical builder: whether you are writing your first script or architecting complex systems, this is your chance to build an agent that can reason, plan, and execute tasks under your oversight.

Built with Gemini’s advanced reasoning and our technology partners' solutions, you will create agents that help people get more done. You provide the logic; Gemini provides the brain; our partners provide the superpowers.

Turn your ideas into agents that solve real-world problems.

Partners and prizes to be announced on or around May 5th!

Requirements

The Challenge

Your mission is to engineer a functional agent that solves a real-world challenge—specifically targeting your work, personal life, hobbies, or daily routines. We want to see how AI can tackle real-world problems.

Your Goals:

  • Move Beyond Chat: Your agent shouldn't just answer questions. It should use tools and capabilities to accomplish tasks (e.g., managing a local database, automating a hobbyist workflow, or interacting with a live web service).
  • The Multi-Step Mission: Build a system that can handle complex goals. Your agent should be able to plan the steps and use the tools at its disposal to finish the job, while keeping you in control.
  • Partner Power: Your solution must demonstrate a meaningful integration with at least one participating partner’s solution using MCP to give your agent its "superpowers."

How to Build:

  • Google Cloud Agent Builder: Ideal for rapid prototyping, building, and scaling. Use this low-code, high-power environment to build and orchestrate agents with grounding in your own data.

 

What to Build

Build a functional agent—powered by Gemini and Google Cloud Agent Builder—that integrates a Partner Entity’s MCP server to solve a real challenge.

 

What to Submit

  • Include a URL to the hosted Project
  • Include a URL to your open-source code repository for judging and testing. 
    • The repository must be public and include a complete open source license file. This license should be detectable and visible at the top of the repository page (in the About section)
  • Include a ~3 minute demo video
  • Select which challenge you’ll be submitting for
  • Your completed Devpost submission form

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$50,000 in prizes
Elastic - 1st Place
$5,000 in cash
1 winner

Elastic - 2nd Place
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

Elastic - 3rd Place
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

Arize - 1st Place
$5,000 in cash
1 winner

Arize - 2nd Place
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

Arize - 3rd Place
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

Dynatrace - 1st Place
$5,000 in cash
1 winner

Dynatrace - 2nd Place
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

Dynatrace - 3rd Place
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

GitLab - 1st Place
$5,000 in cash
1 winner

GitLab - 2nd Place
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

GitLab - 3rd Place
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

MongoDB - 1st Place
$5,000 in cash
1 winner

MongoDB - 2nd Place
$3,000 in cash
1 winner

MongoDB - 3rd Place
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

A qualified panel of judges will be revealed around May 5

A qualified panel of judges will be revealed around May 5
Judge applications are not being accepted.

Judging Criteria

  • Technological Implementation
    Does the interaction with Google Cloud and Partner services demonstrate quality software development?
  • Design
    Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out?
  • Potential Impact
    How big of an impact could the project have on target communities?
  • Quality of the Idea
    How creative and unique is the project?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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