Enterprise Agents Hackathon: Powered by IBM Watsonx Orchestrate AI Labs, Tavily, and Redis

Build practical AI agent prototypes that tackle real enterprise challenges; with guidance, credits, and the teams behind IBM Watsonx Orchestrate, Tavily, and Redis. This weekend hackathon is designed to help you go from idea → working demo → pitch-ready story, with a focus on measurable business impact. 🧠 What You’ll Build Teams will create an AI agent that can plan, call tools/APIs, and produce verifiable actions or artifacts within enterprise guardrails. 🎯 Challenge Themes Choose a theme (or propose your own) and build a prototype around it. Examples include: HR & Talent: onboarding concierge, skills inference + career pathing, policy Q&A with audit trails Customer Ops Copilot: multi-agent triage, retrieval-augmented response, policy-aware escalation Procurement & Finance: spend analysis, invoice exception resolution, close-automation runbook IT & Security: access request agent with approvals + guardrails + verification Supply Chain: exception detection + resolution planner, delivery delay comms with live data Sales & RevOps: proposal builder with compliance checks, intelligent briefings + CRM updates Open-ended: participant-originated enterprise agent ideas welcome 🗓️ Agenda Friday (Mandatory "In-person kickoff @ One Madison") — 5:00–7:00pm 5:00–5:30pm Arrive, meet other builders, grab pizza 5:30–6:30pm IBM AI Labs, Tavily, and Redis Lightening Talks 6:30-7pm Networking + team formation 🍕 Pizza + refreshments provided at kickoff. Saturday (Remote) Heads-down building Mentor support + async help in Discord Sunday (Remote submissions + judging) 3:00pm Submission deadline 5:00–6:00pm Zoom presentations (top teams present; Q&A with judges) 6:00pm onward Judges finalize winners ✅ What You Must Submit Every team submits: A business case deck (problem → target KPI → ROI hypothesis) or a demo video A GitHub repo with a clear README + setup steps Projects must be built during the hackathon weekend (no outside projects) 🎁 Prizes Prizes include: Tavily & Redis Credits Introduction to IBM Ventures & Partnerships Teams for winners Certificates for various awards (e.g. People’s Choice) 👥 What You'll Need ✅ Laptop + charger✅ Comfort coding (Python recommended)✅ Basic terminal navigation