β±οΈ Design, build, and launch a real-world AI Agent - As part of Dubai AI Week
π Fall 2026 / TBA
π $60,000+ prize pool
π€ Join solo or with a team.
π Location
Deriv Offices, One by Omniyat, 24th Floor, Al Mustaqbal Street, Business Bay, Dubai, UAE
On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation are not covered.
π§βπ» Apply now and build the next generation of AI Agents.

Join us during Dubai AI Week for the Rise of AI Agents Hackathon.
This hybrid event brings together developers, founders, and innovators to design AI Agents that can reason, plan, and act autonomously. With a global online build phase and an exclusive on-site finale in Dubai, participants will experiment, collaborate, and showcase high-impact AI solutions.
Projects should go beyond simple prompt-response interactions, demonstrating autonomy, structured decision-making, multi-step workflows, and real-world applicability across productivity, research, automation, finance, and operations. This is a chance to build production-ready AI Agents that truly support users, teams, and organizations, all within the excitement of Dubai AI Week.
Design, build, and launch a real-world AI Agent - As part of Dubai AI Week
π Enterprise Utility Solve a real-world friction point for the managers and entrepreneurs at AI Week.
To be eligible for Google GCP prizes, you must build your project using Gemini models and Google AI tools to power the intelligence and behavior of your agent. Youβll choose your track from the options listed in the Challenge section to guide your project focus.
Participants should select the Gemini model that best aligns with the intelligence, speed, and complexity required by their AI Agent.
Gemini 3 Flash is optimized for speed and responsiveness. Itβs ideal for agents that need to operate in real time, handle frequent interactions, or power fast user-facing experiences such as chat assistants, workflow automations, and interactive tools. If your agent prioritizes low latency and high throughput, Gemini 3 Flash is a strong starting point.
Gemini 3 Pro is built for advanced reasoning and deeper cognitive tasks. Itβs well suited for agents that need to analyze complex inputs, reason across long contexts, plan multi-step actions, or synthesize information from multiple sources. Teams building research agents, analytical assistants, or decision-making systems will benefit most from Gemini 3 Proβs enhanced reasoning capabilities.
Access to Technology:
Projects should demonstrate multi-step, agentic or rule-based workflows, realistic future-of-work use cases, and a
production-style web application.
What Weβre Looking For
β’ Enterprise-Ready: Your agent should address pain points or opportunities within marketing, sales, customer success, HR, or other enterprise functions.
β’ Agentic & Autonomous: Move beyond simple prompts. Build workflows where the agent can reason, plan, and act with minimal human input. Think multi-step tasks, decision trees, and feedback loops.
β’ Future-of-Work Focused: Help teams save time, make smarter decisions, or enhance collaborationβthrough the lens of what future employee experience could look like.
β’ Web-Based & Deployable: Your project should be a deployable web app. Teams aiming for the Vultr Awards should deploy it on Vultr, but you can use any stack, language, or framework. Apps should be cloud-hosted and publicly accessible (Vultr credits will be provided for eligible teams).
β’ Scalable Tooling: We encourageβbut donβt requireβuse of technologies like vector databases, model context protocol (MCP), or other modular, scalable AI components.
Key Positioning
β’ Vultr is the central backend powering your system
β’ Your application coordinates planning, workflows, and operations
β’ Focus on platform thinking, not just a one-off demo
Developer Expectations
Each team must provide:
β GitHub repository with setup and documentation
β Vultr VM backend deployment
β Public demo URL
β Recorded demo video
β’ Clear explanation of architecture and use case
Technology
β’ Use any programming language or framework.
β’ Use open-source LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation. (Also available via Vultr Serverless Inference)
β οΈ Note: Vultr GPUs are not available for this event.
Resources:
β’ Reference Documentation
β’ Vultr Serverless Inference Documentation
β’ How to Deploy Claude Code Projects on Vultr Using Coolify
β οΈ Important Note on Vultr Credits
Vultr credits will be provided for 30 days as part of this hackathon. Teams that wish to continue using their Vultr infrastructure beyond the credit period must link a valid payment method to keep their resources active.
Speaker: Sanskriti Harmukh - Junior Developer Relations
Topic: Vultr Serverless Inference
π Read more about Vultr Serverless Inference
Speaker: Sanskriti Harmukh - Junior Developer Relations
Topic: Supabase
π Read more about Supabase
Speaker: Sanskriti Harmukh - Junior Developer Relations
Topic: Coolify
π Read more about Coolify
πBest use of Gemini
π₯ 1st place - βοΈ $25,000 in GCP credits
π₯2nd place - βοΈ $15,000 in GCP credits
π₯3rd place - βοΈ $10,000 in GCP credits
πBest use of Vultr
π Basic Information
β’ Project Title
β’ Short Description
β’ Long Description
β’ Technology & Category Tags
πΈ Cover Image and Presentation
β’ Cover Image
β’ Video Presentation
β’ Slide Presentation
π» App Hosting & Code Repository
β’ Public GitHub Repository
β’ Demo Application Platform
β’ Application URL
For further details and guidance, please visit Submission Guidelines
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Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of previous AI or coding experience! We encourage anyone with a passion for AI or an interest in exploring how it can be used in their field to join.
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