🏆 The Top 3 Solutions

🥇 Hackonauts (I&D)

Delivers real-time in-store assistance, combining navigation, inventory checks, personalized promotions, staff connection, and behavior-driven insights. Addresses the lack of personalized guidance in physical retail — helping shoppers save time, improving customer satisfaction, and driving higher customer spend.

🥈 S3ntry Hack (ER&D)

Generates shipping scenarios, evaluates them for cost, sustainability, and discounts, and communicates the optimal route to users. Addresses inefficiencies in traditional logistics, enabling smarter, greener, and more cost-effective shipping decisions.

🥉 Digital Hackers (C&CA)

A solution for efficient reservation management, offering personalized table seating recommendations (e.g., VIP prioritization, dynamic reallocation) and delivering real-time insights to staff on customer preferences and table turn-over predictions.

📣 Beyond the Winners: A Showcase of Innovation

Our Finalists represented the breadth of agentic AI applications across business verticals:

• The Boys (C&CA): Restaurant platform that streamlines reservations and optimizes table turnover through POS-integrated insights.
• ‍I&DAgents (I&D): Cloud migration solution that accelerates on-premise transitions with minimal costs and resource requirements.
• ‍Eureka (I&D): Anti-waste platform tackling the $750B food spoilage problem through predictive forecasting and dynamic pricing.
• ‍KarbønX (ER&D): Logistics optimizer that evaluates shipping options across cost and emissions for sustainable routing decisions.
• ‍PulseMind (Invent): Healthcare solution that automates clinical documentation to reduce clinician burden and improve care coordination.
• ‍Agent Smiths (Invent): Hospital workflow platform that automates discharge summaries and enhances patient-family communication.

Each finalist team demonstrated not just innovation capability, but a deep understanding of how AI agents can transform business operations.

🖼️ The Numbers Tell a Story

Engagement That Matters:

• 40% submission rate - significantly above industry hackathon averages
• 474 agents created - averaging 3.6 agents per submitted project
• 19 use cases addressed - covering critical business challenges

Global Collaboration:

• 45 countries represented - from Silicon Valley to Luxembourg
• Multi-timezone coordination - Global support network
• Cross-functional teams - blending technical and business expertise

Learning Impact:

• Deep-dive AWS toolkit mastery across Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q
• Enterprise-ready skills that translate directly to production environments

What We Learned: Insights from the Frontier

Agentic AI Is Ready for Prime Time

Unlike previous hackathons focused on single AI applications, this event proved that multi-agent systems can handle complex, real-world business processes. Teams didn't just build chatbots — they created well-orchestrated AI systems.

The Power of Real Problems

When participants know their solutions could actually be deployed, engagement skyrockets. Every team approached their challenge with startup-level intensity because the problems were genuine and the potential impact was measurable.

Global Talent + Cloud Infrastructure = Magic

The combination of worldwide expertise and enterprise-grade AWS tools created solutions that may typically take months to develop. Our model of large-scale global innovation across thousands of employees, reshapes the timeline and enterprise approach to rapid prototyping

Looking Forward: The Agentic Future

This hackathon wasn't just an event. It was a preview of how businesses will solve problems in an AI-first era. When human creativity combines with powerful AI platforms and real business challenges, the results exceed expectations.

A Win-Win-Win (How Everyone Benefits):

• AWS: Prove that their agentic AI platform can support enterprise-scale innovation at global velocity.
• Capgemini: A pipeline of 132 potential solutions, plus 3,000+ newly-upskilled AI experts across their organization.
• Participants: A career-defining experience building production-ready AI agents that solve real business problems for clients

The question isn't whether agentic AI will transform business operations — it's how quickly organizations can adapt to harness its full potential.

The 2025 AWS Global Agentic AI Hackathon proved that the future of enterprise AI is already here, and it's being built by the next generation of AI learners.