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August 20, 2026

Power What's Possible: Kizen's NYC AI Hackathon Winning Ceremony

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And the winner is....

In just 5 hours, our builders turned ideas into real use cases, and the results genuinely blew us away. Watching founders, builders, engineers, strategists, and students all tackle real problems in regulated industries like finance, insurance, healthcare, and food safety, in the same room, on the same tight clock, was a reminder of what's possible when you give smart people a challenge and something like Kizen's AgenticOS to build on.Thank you to our judges Gus Kimble, Laurie Pratt Ehrbar, and Michael Turcotte, who spent hours evaluating use cases and workflows, asking sharp questions, and helping us pick winners from an incredibly strong field of builders.

To everyone who competed: thank you for trusting us with your time, ideas, and energy. It showed in every single demo!

A special shoutout to our winners:

Grand Prize: Disha Anil

Best Commercially Viable Solution: Michael McEntee

Best Use of AI: Saurav Das

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Read more about our grand prize winner here - https://kizen.com/newsroom/blog/how-k...

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