About the challenge

Build an AI agent, agent system, or agent application using the Databricks platform. While you're free to work on any project that excites you, we encourage exploring our "data for good" themes using our partner datasets (details below). The only requirement is using Databricks as your platform, though you can integrate any additional tools or frameworks you'd like. Some things to consider:

  • You have approximately 6 hours, so think about what you can realistically accomplish and do some planning in advance
  • You'll be giving brief presentations to judges, so consider how to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) that will demo well
  • Explore the partner sites/resources beforehand to understand how you might be able to integrate them into your projects

Get started

  1. Sign up for your Databricks trial using this link, which will give you $1,000 in credits to use for the hackathon for the day.
  2. Get access to partner data by submitting your workspace's Delta Sharing ID via this form. Instructions for obtaining your workspace's Delta Sharing ID and setting the required permissions can be found here.
  3. Read through some of the notebooks and other materials in this GitHub repo for ideas and inspiration.

Data for Good Challenges

We've partnered with organizations providing datasets to support projects with social impact. While working on these challenges and using partner data is optional, we highly recommend it—it's a great opportunity to make an impact and connect with some great organizations.

  • Theme 1: Community Wellness & Support Navigator AI agents that provide insights into community health, connect people to local support services (health, social, wellness), and help them navigate complicated healthcare benefits data.
  • Theme 2: Accessible City & Travel Equity Agent AI agents that promote inclusivity by helping individuals with accessibility needs discover and navigate cities and travel options, or analyze urban data to advocate for improvements.

Data partners: The Bright Initiative (Google Maps business data, Airbnb and Booking.com datasets), mimilabs (30TB+ healthcare data from CMS, CDC, FDA), and Nimble (live web data from Google Maps places, reviews, product listings).

Follow this link for instructions on accessing partner data in your workspace, and see this notebook for a quickstart guide on using the partner data once it is in your workspace.

Requirements

What to Build

Create an AI Agent proof-of-concept using one or more Databricks tools. Your agent should demonstrate intelligent reasoning, decision-making, or autonomous action-taking capabilities. For example, you might work on:

  • Agents that can query databases, analyze data, and provide recommendations
  • Multi-step reasoning agents that break down complex tasks
  • Agents that interact with external APIs or tools to accomplish goals
  • Conversational agents with access to data through RAG
  • Agents that can generate, execute, and iterate on code or analysis
  • Multi-agent systems where different agents collaborate or specialize

(Optional) Data for Good Challenges

  • Theme 1: Community Wellness & Support Navigator AI agents that provide insights into community health, connect people to local support services (health, social, wellness), and help them navigate complicated healthcare benefits data. Here are some specific project ideas—feel free to use them or come up with your own:
    • Proactive Community Health Alerting: Agent monitors data, identifies emerging health concerns, and generates/sends alerts to stakeholders.
    • Personalized Support & Action Facilitator: Agent finds tailored support resources and takes an action like drafting an email or pre-filling a form for the user.
    • Resource Equity & Gap Visualization Agent: Agent analyzes resource distribution, visualizes gaps, and generates reports/communications for advocacy.
  • Theme 2: Accessible City & Travel Equity Agent AI agents that promote inclusivity by helping individuals with accessibility needs discover and navigate cities and travel options, or analyze urban data to advocate for improvements. Here are some specific project ideas—feel free to use them or come up with your own:
    • Accessible Lodging & Attraction Verifier & Booker's Assistant: Agent finds/verifies accessible lodging/attractions and drafts inquiries or simulates booking steps.
    • Curated Accessible City Experience Planner & Concierge: Agent curates accessible experiences, verifies details, and drafts accommodation requests or facilitates visit planning.
    • Hyper-Personalized Accessible Route & Experience Planner: Agent plans detailed accessible routes and generates personalized itineraries.

What to Submit

Submissions to the Hackathon must meet the following requirements as applicable:

  1. Include a project built with the required developer tools that meets the above Project Requirements.
  2. Access must be provided to an Entrant’s working project for judging and testing by providing a link to a website, functioning demo, or a test build. If the Entrant’s project is private, Entrant must include login credentials in its testing instructions. If the project requires access to third-party data, Entrant must ensure that the Judges, Sponsor, and Administrator will have access to its testing instructions.
  3. Include a text description that explains the features and functionality of your project.
  4. Include a URL to your public and open-source GitHub repository for the project. The GitHub repository must show that the project was built during the Hackathon Project Period, include an open-source license, and be publicly visible.

 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

3 non-cash prizes
First Place
1 winner

Gift card(s) to be equally divided among all Eligible Individuals on the team and Project highlight at Data+AI Summit

Second Place
1 winner

Gift card(s) to be equally divided among all Eligible Individuals on the team and Project highlight at Data+AI Summit

Third Place
1 winner

Gift card(s) to be equally divided among all Eligible Individuals on the team and Project highlight at Data+AI Summit

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Databricks Team

Databricks Team

Judging Criteria

  • Business Applicability
    How well does this solve a real business problem for your industry?
  • Data Relevance
    How have you combined relevant and interesting databricks’ datasets and tools?
  • Creativity
    Is this a new and original idea, or has this been done before?
  • Thoroughness
    Is your application easy for the end user to understand? Does it provide relevant and insightful information?
  • Well-Architected
    Can your application/RAG model scale well at a linear cost? Can it accommodate additional features without rewriting most of the codebase?]

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