Blueprint to Brilliance
The results are in!
Pega Community Hackathon 2025 Winners
Category 1: Vision to Blueprint
Winner
MedHub - Redefining Pharma Distribution
MedHub introduces an AI-powered direct distribution model for the pharmaceutical supply chain, streamlining delivery from manufacturers to hospitals and pharmacies. It enhances transparency, speeds up fulfillment, improves compliance, and uses predictive analytics to optimize inventory and reduce costs.
- Kiruthika Anbalagan
- Dhivyabharathi Ravi
- Nithiya Narayanan
Organization: IQZ Systems LLC
Runner-Up
Agentic Service Recovery
The video shows how a blueprint structures the AI-driven solution: it defines two core case types—silent dissatisfaction detection and guest service recovery—that work together within the Pega platform to automate detection, decision-making, and personalized recovery actions, ensuring seamless and proactive guest issue resolution.
Organization: IQZ Systems LLC
Category 2: Blueprint to Production-Ready
Winner
Smart Housing Hub
An AI-powered platform, Smart Housing Hub, was presented for matching home buyers and agents, featuring secure onboarding, fraud detection, AI-driven property matching, and automated viewing scheduling. The demo showed user registration, document verification, preference extraction, and workflow for buyers, agents, and admins.
Organization: Capgemini
Runner-Up
Submission Automation System
AI and Pega Infinity '25 automate commercial property insurance submissions, replacing manual intake with automated data extraction, validation, and workflow. The blueprint was converted to a production app, improving speed, data quality, and scalability for future product lines.
Organization: Cognizant
Event details
This Hackathon showcases the power of Pega Infinity '25, featuring groundbreaking capabilities like Pega GenAI Blueprint, enhanced low-code development tools, and AI-powered automation.
Whether you're ideating the next big solution or building production-ready applications, Infinity '25 gives you the tools to transform ideas into impact at unprecedented speed.
Prizes Awarded
First place prize: $500 Visa gift card
Runner-up prize: $250 Visa gift card
Choose your category
We're challenging community members to explore two distinct pathways that represent the full spectrum of application development – from initial vision to deployed solution.
CATEGORY 1
Vision to Blueprint
Focus on ideation, discovery, and outcome alignment. This category celebrates the most creative use of Blueprint to solve complex business problems. Show us how you can take a challenging business scenario and craft a compelling vision that maps business needs to technical possibilities.
What we're looking for: Creative problem-solving, strategic use of Blueprint for ideation, clear business outcome alignment, and innovative approaches to complex challenges.
CATEGORY 2
Blueprint to Production-Ready
Starting with Blueprint as your foundation, showcase how an initial design can expand into a fully functional, production-ready application. Leverage Infinity 25's low-code capabilities, GenAI-powered development tools, and robust platform features to build applications that demonstrate not just what Blueprint envisions, but how it becomes reality.
What we're looking for: Technical sophistication, effective use of Infinity 25 features, demonstration of development best practices, and applications ready for real-world deployment.
Meet our judges
Don Schuerman
CTO & Head of Marketing
David Vidoni
Chief Information Officer
Stephen Bixby
Sr. Vice President, Product Engineering
Drew Piekarski
Vice President, Product Management
Dennis Grady
Vice President, Platform Engineering
Eric Musser
Global Head of Solutions Consulting
Stephanie Louis
Sr. Director, Pega Community and Developer Engagement
Anu Shah
Sr. Director, Specialist Solution Consulting
Chris Venne
Sr. Director, TSO Delivery Services
Matt Healy
Sr. Director, Product Marketing
Chris Boone
Enterprise Technical Solutions Director
Suman Kumar Bhowmick
Director, Product Management, Security
Kamil Janeczek
Technical Solutions Director
Ivan Anikanov
Technical Solutions Director
Brad Tanner
Consulting Manager
Marc Cheong
Principal Business Architect
FAQs
Have a product question?
Ask the experts in our Blueprint & App Design Expert Circle. Be sure to use the hashtag #PegaHackathon in the body of your post so our experts can find your questions and help you out!
Need an environment?
Your free Pega Community Edition environment for the Hackathon will be available on November 3, 2025. On that date, you and all team members enter at sign-up can access your Hackathon system at My Trials. Be sure you are logged into your Pega account and that you add your team when signing up.
We're accepting submissions till November 7th, but your Hackathon instance will be available till November 12th. After that date, you will no longer have access to your Hackathon environment, so be sure to export any work you want to save.
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