Hacknight Bengaluru: Build AI Agents, ship by 6pm

Register via Luma: https://luma.com/ukqg6i9d

Four hours. One working agent. A real problem worth solving.

This is a builder-first, in-person hacknight at the Elastic office collaborating with AWS UG Bangalore. The premise is simple: you've got your coding agents, Elastic, AWS services and a 4-hour build window. The plumbing is no longer the hard part, judgment is.

When you arrive, you'll pick from a set of curated problem themes, all rooted in things Bengaluru actually deals with every day. Civic services. Commute. Housing. Health. Things that affect real people. We'll reveal the themes at 12pm-1pm so the playing field is level: nobody pre-builds, everybody starts from the same line.

This is not a workshop. There are no step-by-step tutorials. Mentors are around when you're stuck, but the direction is yours. Solo or team, beginner or advanced, the only rule is: ship something.

Why problem-first

Most hackathons measure tool fluency. This one measures judgment. With coding agents in the room, anyone can wire up a vector index in 20 minutes. The hard part is knowing what to build, where to find the data, how to cite it, and how to make an agent that earns a real user's trust. That's where the four hours actually go.

Bring your own data — no starter pack

We won't hand you a pre-staged index. Find your sources, ingest them properly, cite them, credit them. Part of the judging is whether you treated the data and the people behind it with respect.

What to bring

Your laptop. An open mind. A coding assistant subscription if you have one (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Kiro, Copilot, bring your own). Energy.

What's on the line

₹30,000 in swags. Food and coffee on us, served at your desk so you don't lose build time. And bragging rights for shipping something that actually matters.

See you at 10:30.

• Real-world Impact and relevance
  
• Data effort
  
• Elastic usage
  
• AWS usage
  
• Actionability & Security Practices
  
• Demo quality & Storytelling