Build with AI 2026 x MLH Agentic AI Hackathon in Ahlen, NRW

Name: Build with AI 2026 x MLH Agentic AI Hackathon in Ahlen, NRW
Start: 2026-05-23T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-23T21:00:00+02:00

Initiative Bürgerzentrum Schuhfabrik e.V., 7 Königstraße, Ahlen, 59227

GDG Ahlen

Build with AI 2026 is here! 🚀 Join us for a high-impact, hands-on hackathon where developers of all levels acquire the skills to prototype, build, and deploy. ⚡ This professional 1-day sprint merges the global energy of Major League Hacking (MLH) with Google’s Build with AI 2026 campaign. It’s your chance to master Gemini, Vertex AI, and Agentic Workflows while competing for top honors! 🛠️

May 23, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

Please register for this in-person event via the MAJOR LEAGUE HACKATHONJoin us for an immersive, hands-on experience where we bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and local community needs. This isn't just a hackathon; it’s a mission to build the next generation of AI-native engineering.
Build with AI 2026 x MLH Agentic AI Hackathon in Ahlen, NRW 🚀Agentic AI: Navigating Gents for Local Impact!📍 Location: Initiative Bürgerzentrum Schuhfabrik e.V., 7 Königstraße, Ahlen, 59227 (NRW)
📅 Date: Saturday, May 23, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM (GMT+2)
💻 What to Expect at Build with AI 2026 x MLH Hackathon:Get ready for an immersive, hands-on experience focused on empowering you to architect the future with AI and Cloud! 
This year we are fostering a new generation of engineers who see AI as an integral part of their creative toolbox. 🚀
It’s time to prototype, build, and deploy applications using the latest Google AI technologies and models, including Gemini, Vertex AI, AI Studio, and Antigravity. 🛠️
🎁 Google Cloud CreditsWe’re planning to offer Google Cloud credits to attendees so you can explore and experiment on GCP after the event.
Activation details and instructions will be shared on-site.

* Major League Hacking (MLH) Partners with Google Cloud’s Gemini to Foster AI-Native Engineering Education. 

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When

Saturday, May 23, 2026
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM (UTC)

Where

Initiative Bürgerzentrum Schuhfabrik e.V.
7 Königstraße
Ahlen 59227

Agenda

8:00 AM	👋 Check-in & Welcome	Registration, ticket check, and issuance of welcome stickers.
9:30 AM	🎤 Opening & Briefing	Introduction of Hackathon. Prize overview.
10:00 AM	🚀 Intro & start with Anna Muzykina	Activating cloud credits.
10:30 AM	The Agentic Shift: Kick-off with Anna Muzykina: Why Agents? Why Now?	The New Wave: Intro to the shift from static LLM chats to Action-Oriented AI. Why 2026 is the year of the Agentic Workflow. The Mission: How Autonomous Agents act as "The Human Compass" to solve real-world problems in our community.
11:00 AM	Coffee break ☕️	Drinks and snacks
12:00 PM	🛠️ Workshop with Henry Lim: Hands-on with Agent Development Kit (ADK): The Garden of the Forgotten Prompt	Get hands-on with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), Google’s framework for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents. You'll progressively learn to design advanced agents and train them to play the text-based adventure game “The Garden of the Forgotten Prompt”. Get ready to explore a mysterious world, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets!
12:30 PM	🛠️ Workshop with Akshata Mohanty: Building a distributed multi-agent system with Google Cloud	We use this codelab to learn about building multi-agent systems with Google ADK. Through creating a set of specialized agents that collaborate to solve a complex task, participants will learn about concepts such as subagents, remote agents and orchestration agents. This is a hands-on workshop where we build a Course Creation System composed of a Researcher Agent (gathers information via Google Search), a Judge Agent (evaluates research quality), a Content Builder Agent (turns research into a structured course), and an Orchestrator Agent that coordinates the workflow between them.
1:30 PM	Lunch ☕️🍕	Lunch ☕️🍕
2:15 PM	🛠️ Workshop with Tarun R. Jain: Architecting Relationship-Aware Memory for AI Agents	Most developers building AI Agents focus on reasoning and planning but quietly ignore what matters most: Memory. This session begins by drawing a clear distinction between stateful and stateless agents, using OpenClaw or Clawbot as motivation for what becomes possible when an agent truly remembers, and highlighting what is broken in the current approach. From there, I will highlight why vector search alone breaks down when your Agent needs to chain facts together or track how information changes over time, and how knowledge graphs solve that in ways that retrieval simply cannot. In this workshop, I will showcase how memory works in the backend, including a live visualization of fact extraction and graph construction in working code. The primary focus will be on edge cases, especially the hybrid vector graph approach, where semantic search and structured traversal are combined to handle multi-hop reasoning and temporal changes. For demo, we will use Streamlit for UI, Cognee as the Memory layer, Qdrant as the Vector Store, and Google ADK for the Agents implementation
3:00 PM	💡Brainstorming: Team building.	Choosing ideas: from chatbots for local needs to multi-agent systems.
3:30 PM	🏗️ Hacking Sprint with Mentorship: Tarun R. Jain	"The Big Vibe." 2 hours of high-velocity coding. AI Agents are built for Local Impact.
5:30 PM	The Showcase	"Hard Demos Only." No slides. Teams run CLI commands or live agents to demonstrate the Local Impact.
6:15 PM	Judging	Scoring based on: Technical Complexity (30%), Professional Utility (30%), and Local Impact (40%).
6:45 PM	Awards	Digital "Build with AI" Badges Winner Announcement

Speakers

Anna Muzykina

GDG Ahlen Organizer

Founder CTO & CEO @ Proofa

Henry Lim

Google Developer Expert

Akshata Mohanty

Google Developer Expert in AI/ML

Head of Engineering - Tilla

Tarun R. Jain

Google Developer Expert, AI

Founding Engineer

Mentors

Tarun R. Jain

Google Developer Expert, AI

Founding Engineer

Saheed Adewumi

Proofa

GDE & Cloud AI

Md Samiul Bashar Apon

GDGoC UTM

Chapter Lead

Yogesh Pavan Kumar Reddy Yampaati

Henry Lim

Google Developer Expert

Akshata Mohanty

Google Developer Expert in AI/ML

Head of Engineering - Tilla

Judges

Praveenkumar Kondikoppa

Google

Workspace AI Platform Engineer

Mohammad Alamin

Aiiotsys

Cloud and Solution Architect | GDE

Luiz Carneiro

GDG Cloud Munich

Solution Engineer

Patty O’Callaghan

Charles River Laboratories

Head of AI Architecture and Engineering Group

Silu Panda

Senior Software Engineer, ML infrastructure

Ines Zenkri

Amazonian| CS student & Tutor @TU Braunschweig

Naomi Latini Wolfe

GDG Brunswick

Founding Organizer

Prakshal Doshi

Apple

Software Development Engineer

Hosts

Denys Doroshev

GDG Ahlen

Organizer

Anna Muzykina

GDG Ahlen Organizer

Founder CTO & CEO @ Proofa

Organizers

Adewumi Saheed Adewale

QT Solution Services

GDG Co-organizer

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Anna Muzykina

Proofa

GDG Organizer

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Md. Samiul Bashar Apon

GDG Co-organizer

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Denys Doroshev

GDG Organizer

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Build with AI 2026 x MLH Agentic AI Hackathon in Ahlen, NRW

May 23, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

Please register for this in-person event via the MAJOR LEAGUE HACKATHON