Calling all developers!
Welcome to the Agent Development Kit Hackathon with Google Cloud. Everyone's talking about AI agents, but the real magic happens when they collaborate to tackle complex tasks - think complex processes, data analysis, content creation, and customer support. In this hackathon, you'll build autonomous multi-agent AI systems using Google Cloud and the open source Agent Development Kit (ADK).
This is your chance to dive deep into cutting-edge AI, showcase your skills, and contribute to the future of agent development.
Requirements
What to Build
Your project must be built using Agent Development Kit and you must focus on the design and orchestration of interactions between multiple agents using ADK (Python or Java version). Build your solutions within one of the following categories:
- Automation of Complex Processes: Design multi-agent workflows to automate complex, multi-step business processes, software development lifecycle, or manage intricate tasks.
- Data Analysis and Insights: Create multi-agent systems that autonomously analyze data from various sources, derive meaningful insights using tools like BigQuery, and collaboratively present findings.
- Customer Service and Engagement: Develop intelligent virtual assistants or support agents built with ADK as multi-agent systems to handle complex customer inquiries, provide personalized support, and proactively engage with customers.
- Content Creation and Generation: Build multi-agent systems that can autonomously generate different forms of content, such as marketing materials, reports, or code, by orchestrating agents with specialized content generation capabilities.
Your project must be built using Agent Development Kit and you must focus on the design and orchestration of interactions between multiple agents using ADK. While ADK is foundational, you are allowed and encouraged to enhance your solutions by integrating with other relevant technologies and frameworks within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
The project must be capable of being successfully installed and must function as depicted in the video and/or expressed in the text description.
What to Submit
- Include a URL to the hosted Project for judging and testing.
- Include a text description that includes a summary of the Project’s features and functionality, technologies used, information about any other data sources used, and your findings and learnings as you worked through the project. Written parts of entries must be in English to be eligible. The Submission must, at a minimum, support English language use.
- Include a URL to your public code repository to show how your project was built. The code repository must be public to allow access for judging and testing. By submitting this code, you confirm you have the authority and right to share the code for the purposes described in this Contest.
- Include an Architecture Diagram showing which technologies were used and how they interact with one another.
- Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission must meet the following criteria:
- Should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the platform(s) for which it was built.
- No parts of the submission can be derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is inappropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the Contest.
- No part of that submission contains content, material or any element that is unlawful, or otherwise in violation of or contrary to all applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations in any country, state or applicable territory where you created the video and in the United States.
- The Submission must not contain any content, material or element that displays any third party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark or otherwise indicates a sponsorship or endorsement by a third party, commercial entity or that is not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion.
- The Submission must be an original, unpublished work that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or entity.
- It cannot contain any content, element, or material that violates a third party’s publicity, privacy or intellectual property rights.
- It should not be longer than 3 minutes. If it is longer than 3 minutes, only the first 3 minutes will be evaluated.
- It must conform to the technical requirements set forth on the Contest site, including that the Submission must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube or Vimeo, and a link to the video must be provided on the Submission form on the Contest Site.
- It must be in English or include English subtitles.
Check out the rules tab for full details on submissions.
Start learning about AI agents on Google Cloud here.
Prizes
Grand Prize
• $15,000 in USD
• $3,000 in Google Cloud Credits for use with a Cloud Billing Account
• 1 year of Google Developer Program Premium subscription at no-cost
• Virtual Coffee with a Google Team Member
• Social Promo
Honorable Mentions
• $1000 in USD
• $500 in Google Cloud Credits for use with a Cloud Billing Account
North America Regional Winner
• $8,000 in USD
• $1,000 in Google Cloud Credits for use with a Cloud Billing Account
• Virtual Coffee with a Google Team Member
• Social Promo
Latin America Regional Winner
• $8,000 in USD
• $1,000 in Google Cloud Credits for use with a Cloud Billing Account
• Virtual Coffee with a Google Team Member
• Social Promo
Asia Pacific Regional Winner
• $8,000 in USD
• $1,000 in Google Cloud Credits for use with a Cloud Billing Account
• Virtual Coffee with a Google Team Member
• Social Promo
Europe, Middle East, Africa Regional Winner
• $8,000 in USD
• $1,000 in Google Cloud Credits for use with a Cloud Billing Account
• Virtual Coffee with a Google Team Member
• Social Promo
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

To be announced
A panel of qualified judges
Judging Criteria
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Technical Implementation (50%)
How well is the solution executed? Is the code clean, efficient, and well-documented? How effectively does it utilize the core concepts of Agent Development Kit? Did the project showcase the use of multiple AI agents working together to achieve tasks? -
Innovation and Creativity (30%)
How novel and original is the idea? Does it address a significant problem or create a unique solution? -
Demo and Documentation (20%)
Is the problem clearly defined, and is the solution effectively presented through a demo and documentation? Have they explained how they used Agent Development Kit and relevant tools? Have they included an architectural diagram? -
Bonus Points
Submitting the following optional components will positively impact the score the submission receives from the Judges. -
a) A published blog post, video, or podcast
Cover how the project was built using Agent Development Kit. Include language that says you created the content for the purposes of entering this hackathon. For any social media posts, include the hashtag #adkhackathon. See Full Rules for Details. -
b) A contribution to the Agent Development Kit open source repository
Show your commits, pull requests, issues opened, and code reviews by linking to your GitHub profile or the repository's contribution history. See Full Rules for Details. -
c) The use of Google Cloud technology
includes, but is not limited to Agent Engine, Cloud Run, and BigQuery, or Google AI models. See Full Rules for Details.
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