#5 AWS Agentic AI Hackathon Event Highlights
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Event Overview
The AWS Agentic AI Hackathon brought together over 100 innovators across 24 teams, all competing to build next-generation AI agents using AWS Bedrock. Over a 10-day build window, students tackled a highly impactful problem:
Design an autonomous AI system that helps UTD students navigate career planning with intelligent, data-driven guidance. From job-market reasoning to course mapping to project roadmaps, every system had to be powered by autonomous reasoning loops and multi-agent orchestration.
After intense evaluation by the club’s judges, the Top 4 Finalists advanced to the Finale on October 28th, delivering live demos in front of industry leaders, faculty, and senior technologists.
Welcome & Opening
The event opened at 3:30 PM with the host, who welcomed faculty, AWS judges, finalists, and industry guests. The energy in the room was electric as she highlighted the afternoon’s agenda, including finalist presentations, a keynote from AWS, the awards ceremony, and an executive panel discussion.
Hackathon Challenge & Success Criteria
The core challenge was recapped : building autonomous agents capable of guiding students toward optimal career pathways using:
Real job-market intelligence
UTD's Course Catalog
Project Recommendations
Personalized Planning
Fully autonomous multi-agent workflows
Success required solutions that were intelligent, self-directed, and production-ready, leveraging AWS Bedrock for retrieval, reasoning, and decision-making.
Meet the Judges - AWS Solution Architects
The judging panel featured three distinguished AWS experts:
Ashoo Shetty - Principal Technologist, AWS
Mahmood Siddiqui - AWS Solutions Architect
Sohail Noor Muhammad - AWS Solutions Architect
These technologists evaluate enterprise AI solutions worldwide, making their feedback invaluable to the finalists.
Finalist Presentations
The four finalist teams showcased their end-to-end systems live on stage. Each team demonstrated agent collaboration, orchestration logic, RAG pipelines, Bedrock model usage, UI/UX, and real-world applicability.
Team S3entience
Members: Subid Basaula, Ron Chaudhuri, Sachin Sigdel, Davis Mo, Arpeet Nan
A strong start to the finale with an impressive multi-agent design and a refined user experience.
Team EvoAgents
Members: Akshay Kulkarni, Tharun Bedapudi, Venkatesh Prasad, Rohit Kumar Padidala, Kiran Hegde
Showcased sophisticated task-planning loops and robust Bedrock integration.
Team NextAI
Members: Soham Patil, Ria Patole, Ameya Naik, Chinmayee Gurav, Rishabh Balaiwar
Delivered the most comprehensive, scalable, and production-ready solution of the evening. Their system stood out for technical depth, exceptional autonomy, and a polished user experience.
Team Agentra
Members: Tejas Deshkulkarni, Esha Pandey, Krithi Sundararaman, Shruti Vanparia, Rinisha Dungdung
Demonstrated excellent architectural clarity and clean agent-workflow design.
AWS Keynote – Productionizing Agentic AI
While judges finalized scores, Ashoo Shetty (Principal Technologist, AWS) delivered an insightful talk on:
Building enterprise-grade AI
Deploying agentic systems securely
Best practices for scaling Bedrock-powered workflows
Moving from prototype → production in real companies
His guidance bridged the gap between academia and industry-grade AI engineering.
Awards Ceremony – The Winners
After careful evaluation, the AWS judges announced the results:
1st Place – Team NexAI
Recognized for exceptional technical execution, agent collaboration, and real-world viability.
2nd Place – Team EvoAgents
Praised for elegant architecture, strong retrieval pipelines, and user-friendly design
3rd Place – Team S3entience
Celebrated for creativity, clear logic design, and robust workflow automation.
All four finalists received certificates, and the top teams were photographed with judges and industry leaders.
Executive Panel – “Agentic Enterprise: A Point of View”
The evening continued with a high-level panel discussion featuring:
Rajesh Sankaran – SVP, Amax Insurance
Dr. Ashim Bose – JSOM Faculty & Board of Advisors
Vineet Rao – Head of Technology, Magnolia
Seshi Vangaru – CEO, ALTCloud.ai
Moderated by Arvind Murali – Chief Data Officer, Datacolor
Topics included:
The rise of agentic systems in enterprise
AI-driven workflow automation
Future skills students need
How companies are adopting AI today
Refreshments were served as attendees networked with executives and technologists.
Closing Remarks
The event concluded with thanks to:
AWS, Datacolor, and ALTCloud.ai
Judges & panelists
AI Biz Club organizing committee
Faculty advisor Dr. Ashim Bose
All 100+ hackathon participants
Students left energized, inspired, and ready to continue building the future of agentic AI.