about 1 month ago

Final call for submissions

There are only 3 days left to complete your submission for Agentic Cinema: The Blockbuster Hackathon.

about 2 months ago

Build Session Recordings

Thank you everyone for joining our Build Sessions!

Please find the recordings below:

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.

about 2 months ago

Replit Build Session Today at 12:00 PM ET / 11:00AM CT

Happening today — join the Replit team for their build session: Ship Your Agentic Cinema Submission: Live Build + Q&A with Replit. Manny Bernabe from Replit's community team will do a live build, cover what Replit handles for you (setup, hosting, deploys, debugging), and answer whatever's blocking your Agentic Cinema project. Bring your questions and see this live build!

When: Today, August 24th at 12PM ET / 11AM CT / 9AM PT
Where: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7117865414661/WN_4u2JRgA1R8eQzlsN49D6gg

See you there!

 

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.

about 2 months ago

Replit Build Session this Monday at 12:00 PM ET/ 11:00AM CT

Join the Replit team for their build session: Ship Your Agentic Cinema Submission: Live Build + Q&A with Replit. Manny Bernabe from Replit's community team will do a live build, cover what Replit handles for you (setup, hosting, deploys, debugging), and answer whatever's blocking your Agentic Cinema project. Bring your questions and see this live build!

When: Monday, August 24th at 12PM ET / 11AM CT / 9AM PT
Where: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7117865414661/WN_4u2JRgA1R8eQzlsN49D6gg

See you there!

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.

about 2 months ago

Parallel Build Session starts tomorrow at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT

Quick reminder: Getting Started with Parallel: Build a Web-Grounded Gemini Agent is tomorrow at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT.

Building for the Parallel track in Agentic Cinema? In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll connect Gemini to Parallel Search through Gemini’s native grounding tool and run a grounded query live, end to end. We’ll inspect the grounding metadata and source citations to verify that Parallel was actually called at runtime, then cover one common setup pitfall. You’ll leave with a copyable pattern you can adapt for your own hackathon project, plus links to the direct Search API and Search MCP…

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about 2 months ago

Grafana Build Session starts tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET / 8:30 AM PT

Quick reminder: Premiere Night - Build an Observability Agent with Grafana Cloud MCP and Google ADK is tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET / 8:30AM PT.

It's premiere night at a streaming platform, and playback is failing. In this live build session we'll start from an empty directory, build a Google ADK agent, and connect it to the Grafana Cloud MCP server with a single URL - no infrastructure to run, no integration code to write. Then we'll watch it investigate the incident live: discovering datasources, writing its own queries, pivoting from metrics to logs, and annotating the dashboard with what…

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about 2 months ago

[TOMORROW] ClickHouse Build Session at 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT

Tomorrow, August 18 at 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT — The Agent's Memory: Powering Real-Time AI Workflows with ClickHouse

This session gets specific: connecting ClickHouse as the real-time data layer behind a Gemini Enterprise agent, through a managed MCP server. We'll run real analytical queries live and structure the integration to meet the hackathon's actual runtime requirement.

Intermediate level — some familiarity with ClickHouse or MCP server setups will help you follow along.

If you're building in the ClickHouse track, this is where you get the exact integration your submission needs to pass, built end to end.

Register…

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about 2 months ago

IBM Build Session starts today at 11 AM ET/8AM PT

Quick reminder: Build Faster with IBM Bob: AI-Assisted Coding for Hackathon Teams is today at 11:00 AM ET.

In this live build session, Richard Boyd from IBM will walk through real development scenarios and show how Bob can help with everything from generating code to documenting and refining your application. You'll see practical examples that you can apply immediately to your own project and learn how to get more done during the hackathon without spending hours searching for answers. Leave with tips, prompt techniques, and a better understanding of how to use Bob as an AI coding teammate throughout…

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2 months ago

đź“… Upcoming Events!

Be sure to join us for these upcoming events this week!

Build Faster with IBM Bob: AI-Assisted Coding for Hackathon Teams

Live build session: watch IBM Bob turn real coding scenarios into working code, then walk away with practical prompts and tips for using it as your AI coding teammate during the hackathon.

📅 Aug 17, 2026 at 08:00 AM Pacific Time — Devpost Build Session

Register Now!

The Agent's Memory: Powering Real-Time AI Workflows with ClickHouse

Learn how to wire ClickHouse into your Agentic Cinema build as a fast, real-time backend for a Gemini Enterprise agent—via a managed MCP…

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3 months ago

The challenge is live — meet your partners 🎉

It's official: the Google Cloud Agentic Cinema: The Blockbuster Hackathon is fully underway — and we've just revealed everything. 👀 

What you're building

🎬 Build a functional agent—powered by Gemini and Google Cloud Agent Builder—that integrates a Partner Entity's product or MCP to power a real media & entertainment workflow.

Choose your partner track

All five partner tracks are now live. Pick one and build with their product or MCP server:

Prizes

Each partner track has $15,000 in prizes: $7,500 for 1st place, $4,500 for 2nd, and $3,000 for 3rd. That's $75,000 in total prizes…

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