The BAY AREAS PREMIER AI HACKATHON

Win prizes & speak on the AI By the Bay stage.

View all the amazing hackathon challenges & prizes located below. 

November 18 + 19, 2025 - In Person

Tue, Nov 18

• ​​9:00 am – 10:00 am | Onboarding, registration, coffee

• ​​10:00 am – 10:30 am | Kickoff, rules, safety/CoC

• ​12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch

​​Mentor office hours

• 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
  Who and Where: 

Hugh McKee - Akka booth
Claire Longo- Comet booth
Chandler Mayo - Redpanda booth
Fred Patton - Auth0 (Okta) booth
Jeremy Adams - Hackathon Mentor Zone
Francis Bouvier- Hackathon Mentor Zone

• ​3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Coffee break

• ​6:00 pm | Happy Hour​

• ​7:00 pm | Doors close

​​​Wed, Nov 19

• ​8:00 am | Doors open, coffee

• ​​11:00 am | Submissions due (repo + 3-min demo video)

• ​​11:00 am - 1:30 pm | Online Judging

• ​12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch

• ​1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | In-Person Judging (a team representative has to be at the venue)

• ​​3:00 pm – 4:10 pm | Finalist lightning demos - will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel

• ​4:10 pm - 4:40 pm | Coffee Break

• ​​4:40 pm – 5:10 pm | Closing panel with judges

• ​​5:10 pm – 5:20 pm | Awards + group photo

• ​​5:20 pm – 5:40 pm | Closing remarks

1. Register via Event Website

2. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the AI By The Bay hackathon site. 

3. AI By The Bay Hackathon Kicks off! 

4. Review Hackathon Instruction here!

* All Hackathon Attendees must be pre-registered on the Event Website & DevPost.

• Business Value & User Impact — 20 pts
  You’re solving a real B2B/B2C problem, not just showing model tricks. We want a credible path to adoption.
• Production Readiness: Reliability & Maintainability — 20 pts
  Your agent/app can be owned, extended, and kept stable by a team.
• Security & Safety by Design — 20 pts
  Safe from agent-specific attacks and good enterprise hygiene.
• Observability & Operability — 20 pts
  You can see what’s happening and fix it fast.
• Knowledge Layer & Verifiable Reasoning — 15 pts
  Agents maintain an explicit, explainable “world view.”
• Bonus: Multi-Agent & Validation Tooling — up to +5 pts
  Encouraged, not required.
• Redpanda (+10 extra credit points)
  Integrates Redpanda as a key component of the solution.
• Akka (+10 extra credit points)
  Integrates Akka as a key component of the solution.