Welcome to the Amazon Nova AI Hackathon!
Amazon Nova is a portfolio of foundation models and services that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. This is your chance to invent with freedom and build with Nova’s capabilities, including advanced reasoning, tool use, multimodal understanding, voice AI, and UI workflow automation.
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Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday tasks. This is also the best model to use with Nova Forge.
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Nova 2 Sonic, a speech-to-speech model for conversational AI.
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Nova Act is a service to build and manage fleets of agents for automating production UI workflows with high reliability.
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Nova multimodal embeddings: A state-of-the-art multimodal embedding model.
Join and build innovative Gen AI applications using Amazon Nova 2!
Why Participate?
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Innovate with Next-Gen AI. Explore the frontiers of generative AI and apply Nova's differentiated features to solve real-world problems.
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Real-World Impact. Develop solutions that deliver measurable value for businesses or create meaningful benefits for communities.
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Compete for Prizes. With a prize pool of $40,000 in cash and $55,000 in AWS credits, your innovative projects could earn significant rewards.
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Learn and Grow. Access dedicated resources, code examples, technical documentation, virtual workshops, and office hours to support your journey.
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Showcase Your Skills. Gain recognition for your expertise and show everyone your hard work.
Get Started
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Amazon Nova 2 developer guide for foundation models and for Nova Act
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Amazon Nova website
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More Resources to help you!
Requirements
What to Build
Build a generative AI application using Amazon Nova on AWS. We encourage submissions that reflect one of the following focus areas. You may use any preferred services, frameworks (such as AWS Strands, LangChain), and tools (such as MCP, A2A), but your core solution must use a Nova foundation model (such as Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Sonic, multimodal Embedding) and/or the Nova Act service.
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Agentic AI: Build solutions where agents use Amazon Nova reasoning capabilities to tackle complex, real-world problems.
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Multimodal Understanding: Create rich multimodal applications that understand and/or generate across text, documents, speech, images, or video using Nova.
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UI Automation: Build Nova Act-powered agents that automate real-world workflows across web applications.
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Voice AI: Create real-time conversational voice experiences using Nova 2 Sonic.
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Freestyle: If your project doesn’t fit into the above categories, submit it under the Freestyle category.
What to Submit
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Submitter Type: Individual (student or professional), Team (student or professional), Organization
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Category: Agentic AI, Multimodal Understanding, UI Automation, Voice AI, Freestyle
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Text description: A brief summary of your project, its purpose, and how it leverages Amazon Nova foundation models
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Demo Video (Approx. 3 minutes): Upload a short video showcasing your project in action. Please include the hashtag #AmazonNova
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Code repo: Share link to your project’s code repository (e.g., Github). You can share a public or private repository - if private, please share access with testing@devpost.com and Amazon-Nova-hackathon@amazon.com
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Bonus Prize:
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A published blog post on builder.aws.com covering how your project can positively affect your target community. Discuss the potential benefits, envisioned real-world application, and any plans for encouraging adoption
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See Official Rules for Details
Please take the feedback survey after completing your project for a chance at $50 cash
Prizes
First Prize Overall
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Second Place Overall
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Best of Agentic System
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Best of Multimodal Understanding
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Best of UI Automation
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Best of Voice AI
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Best Student App
$5,000 in AWS Credits
Bonus Blog Post Prize
$200 in AWS Credits
Feedback Prize
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Jeff Barr
VP, AWS Evangelism | AWS
Eshan Bhatnagar
Director, Product Management, AGI | Amazon
Balu Angaian
VP and Senior Partner, Practice Leader | IBM
Sharon Li
Senior Specialist SA | AWS
Antje Barth
Dev Relations, AGI Autonomy | Amazon
Anuj Jauhari
Senior PMM, Amazon Nova | AWS
Dinesh Rajput
Principal PM, AGI | Amazon
Nitin Eusebius
Principal SA | AWS
Corey Hill
Principal PM, AGI | Amazon
Kris Schultz
Principal SA, AGI | Amazon
Felipe Blanes
Sr Technical Program Mgr, AGI Autonomy | Amazon
Lana Zhang
Senior Specialist SA | AWS
Gorka Madariaga
Senior PMM, Amazon Nova | AWS
Osman Ipek
Applied AI Architect, AGI | Amazon
Wong Chun Yin Cyrus
AWS Hero
Wale Akinfaderin
Sr Data Scientist, GenAI | AWS
Judging Criteria
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Technical Implementation - 60%
Includes the quality, effectiveness, successful integration with Amazon Nova, and overall system architecture. -
Enterprise or Community Impact - 20%
Assesses how the solution delivers business value or creates meaningful benefits for communities. -
Creativity and Innovation - 20%
Includes the novelty of the approach and innovative use of multi-agent systems to solve real-world problems -
⭐ Feedback Submission Judging Criteria
Eligible Feedback Submissions will be evaluated based on the completeness, viability, and potential impact of the feedback -
✨ Blog Post Judging Criteria
Evaluated on completeness and potential impact of the submissions that cover how your Project can positively affect your target community and discusses the potential benefits, envisioned real-world application, and any plans for encouraging adoption.
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