Futureworld×AWS

Slay tomorrow's
dragons.
Today.

Real challenges. Real ideas.
Real impact at scale.

A one-day AI hackathon that brings senior leaders and multi-disciplinary teams together inside the AI Futuremakers platform. We hunt high-value opportunities — internally known as Dragons — and put real AI to work by the end of play.

The AI hackathon day · designed for impact

From the morning brief
to the winning pitch.

Four acts. One day. Built so that every minute either sharpens the problem or builds the answer.

Morning

Understand the dragons

Futurists and AWS experts unpack the forces shaping your industry. A bold challenge is set — a worthy Dragon, identified — and crews form around it.

Midday

Build what's next

Teams ideate, prototype and solve using AI and AWS technologies with Aegis · Forge · Whisp as expert AI Guides. Real working AI by the close of play.

Afternoon

Pitch to the leaders

The leaders join for live thirty-second pitches and five-minute demos. They select the concepts with greatest potential to cross into Quest.

Evening

Connect. Reflect.

A private leadership dinner with futurists and AWS leaders. War stories, what's next, and the moves that turn one day into a program.

The seven-stage challenge framework

Brief to Launch.
In a single day.

Every crew walks the same seven-stage track. Points compound as you climb. Judges score on outcome, not on code.

01 · Easy

Brief

Read & restate the challenge in your own words.

02 · Medium

Frame

Problem statement plus three angles, walked with Forge.

03 · Hard

Build

First version. Pick a Toolbox shape. Working v0.

04 · Hard

Advance

End-to-end. Decide what the AI does at runtime.

05 · Medium

Refine

Test session with one real colleague. Iterate once.

06 · Hard

Pitch

Thirty-second pitch and a five-minute live demo.

07 · Win

Launch

Leaders pick. Winners cross straight into Quest.

Leadership visibility · End-to-end

One live dashboard for every Dragon in the room.

Mission Manager is the leadership view. Run on stage during pitch time, and on the desktop for the months that follow. Real-time pipeline of every team, every challenge, every prototype.

Track every crew's progress, stage by stage
Identify risks before they slow you down
Measure impact, hours saved, and problems solved
Make confident investment decisions on day one
Run multiple Adventures — your cohorts — side by side
Live · Mission Manager
Mission Manager — Collaborative AI Challenges. Four missions, 32 resources, 920 total XP. Mission 1 detail: Faster Customer Onboarding.
Beyond the day

From ideas to scaled value.

The AI hackathon is the launchpad. The AI Futuremakers platform takes the strongest concepts on a structured journey from prototype to production. Demo-day energy turns into measurable enterprise value.

Mission Space The AI hackathon journey
Brief
Frame
Build
Advance
Refine
Pitch
Launch

7 mission stages · discover & develop

Quest Space Winning concept to scaled value
Validate
Engineer
Govern
Pilot
Scale
Sustain

6 quest stages · validate & scale

The future doesn't wait for plans.
It rewards those who build it.

AI
FuturemakersAI Hackathon · Futureworld & AWS
Slay tomorrow's dragons. Solve high-value challenges with AI. In one day — then carry the strongest concepts into Quest.
Let's build
the future.
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