Craft a real business solution using the power of Microsoft 365 / Dynamics 365 —SharePoint, Teams, Viva Village, Azure lake and more. Whether you’re working on desktop or web, using audio, video, keyboard, touch, mouse, or even a chatty parrot perched on your shoulder, build something both effective and adventure-worthy. In this whirlwind era of AI evolution, you’re not just placing blocks—you’re forging an AI-infused pickaxe that helps you mine insights faster than ever. Prioritize accessibility, privacy, and a smooth player experience. Harness AI, LLMs, Copilot Studio, Agents, or your own redstone-and-command-block fusion of innovation to bring your creation to life—the crafting table is yours… start building!
I will be evaluating hackathon projects with a focus on responsible AI governance and best practices. This includes assessing how teams address ethics, transparency, data privacy, security, fairness, regulatory compliance, and risk management, as well as how thoughtfully AI is integrated into real-world use cases. Emphasis will be placed on accountable, and trustworthy AI design.
From raw blocks to data diamonds: Use Fabric to mine and shape all your raw data, surface insights in Power BI visualizations, and prepare strong foundations with Fabric IQ so agents and data scientists can discover the true gems. If it’s not valuable, keep refining! ⛏️💎
I really love the simplicity of Low code, but also the extent to how far Low code can be taken without having to write PCF or use code. Intelligent and practical usage of the Low code capabilities across the Power Platform components is what I'm looking for. Go check out my village for some clues.
Psst, come closer - it's all about the code... AI tools: built using code. Data products: coded into existence. Low-code drag-and-drop stuff: the output of a codefest! Demonstrate how code solves a problem. Be innovative, show off, blow our minds!
Deliver a solution that helps businesses do more with less, improving customer experience using intelligent automation. Strong entries show measurable impact, improved customer or employee experience, and a clear understanding of how the solution would work in the real world.
Goes out of their way to create something extraordinarily useless or does something really really stupid!
Goes out of their way to create something extraordinary useless or does something really really stupid!
First end-to-end working solution or detailed plan of solution delivery. Must be delivered before lunch (Thursday 12:00).
Using gadgets, costumes or similar to create a really cool camp, and keep extraordinary team spirit throughout the event.
Starting the day before the sun rises.
Keeps an extraordinary good team spirit throughout the day. Snap a picture and post to social media to spread the word.
Code, dataset or api is made available for other teams and you do a sensible contribution(pull request, Integration) on a compeeting teams solution.
Uses several third-party solutions in the delivery, opensource or payable solutions made available by others. Show the importance of leveraging existing tools and APIs.
Solution is responsive. Adapts to all devices and screen sizes
Using search in an innovative, useful way. Solve a business problem!
Create great looking dashboards with graphs, kpi's and reports using your preferred data visualization framework. Minimum 4 graphs, gauges or kpi's. Make sure the dashboard shows business-value
Uses external data to add business-value to existing data in your solution, or mine after gold in you own data and present it in an excellent way.
Integrate into everything that flips bits
On popular demand the feature bombing badge is back! But this time cram as many user features into one screen as you can. Five or more and you might get some points. If you go all aboard and it all makes sense, extra points
Shiny, beautiful, glossy user interfaces would earn this badge, it won't break on small screens right?
Implement workflow to improve business productivity in a solution. Do you have a process that can be automated?
Show use of the hippest coolest tech.
Cast a spell with magical technology! Craft intuitive designs, mystical AI, enchanted workflows, or anything you deem magical to your solution, bringing the wizarding world to life.
Creating super dirty hacks to achieve awesomeness
This is all about Apps. Create an app/plugin for a Microsoft Product (Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics, Office 365, VS Code, Visual Studio etc.). And don't forget that it has to solve a business need.
Show a good example of how to use your preferred low-code platform combined with pro code customization.
Doing something cool with late technologies. It's all legacy now, baby!
Got a great, well thought idea with some cool sketches? Maybe you can get a badge for that.
Combine at least three different Microsoft cloud api's and the badge could be yours!
Demonstrate and integrate AI that shows an existential risk for the world. Does your solution have a conscience? Can it think on it's own, Iis it smarther than a 5'th grader?
Practicing development and deployment best-practice. Can only be claimed on day 3 in a single post, where you demonstrate true ACDC craftmanship.
Showcases well structured, modern client-side solutions with attention to performance, maintainability, and a great user experience.
Script the config of your entire solution. Azure infrastructure as code, ARM, PowerShell, CI/CD
Doing something collaborative in real-time with socket.io, signalR, websockets etc. Don't repeat yourself! Expecting to see code on this one.
