2026V
Operative Track 1st Place (highest score overall)
VendorGuard
Agent Academy Hackathon (Microsoft)
An autonomous vendor-contract compliance system: a Copilot Studio orchestrator and four specialist agents score inbound contract PDFs against a 15-rule Dataverse rulebook with red/amber/green verdicts, going from email to report in under two minutes — the highest-scoring entry of the entire hackathon.
2026P
Recruit Track 1st Place
Performance Development Assistant
Agent Academy Hackathon (Microsoft)
A Copilot Studio agent that turns performance-review feedback into a concrete development roadmap — pulling skills from SharePoint, surfacing Microsoft Learn resources, matching internal mentors, and routing manager approval through Power Automate.
2026S
Special Ops Track 1st Place
SprintForge
Agent Academy Hackathon (Microsoft)
An AI scrum assistant: forward an email with meeting transcripts and it extracts sprint goals, epics and stories, enriches them via the Microsoft Learn MCP server, and files issues in Jira Cloud through a Jira MCP server — reportedly cutting sprint prep time by about 70%.
2026A
Cowork Collective Track 1st Place
Autonomous ITSM Platform on Microsoft 365
Agent Academy Hackathon (Microsoft)
An autonomous IT service desk for small businesses: a SharePoint portal feeds a Copilot Studio triage agent via Power Automate, managers approve with one tap in Teams, and actions execute through least-privilege Microsoft Graph calls — with the whole stack built and maintained by AI agents under a single person's supervision.
2025S
Best AI Application ($1,500)
Smart Waste Management for Dallas
Microsoft Fabric FabCon Global Hack
An AI system that makes city waste collection smarter: it monitors bin fill levels, predicts when they will overflow, and dynamically reshuffles collection routes. Built by a Kenyan team with Fabric Data Agents, Copilot Studio and Azure OpenAI.