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The competition featured innovative projects built using Agent Workbench by participants in Japan and South Korea, championing the fusion of agent AI and low-code.
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — OutSystems, a leading AI-powered low-code development platform, today announced the winners of the AI Agent Hackathon 2025, announced at an awards ceremony held in Roppongi, Tokyo, on Friday, December 19th.
The hackathon, which ran from November 1 to 30, aimed to empower participants to create an AI-powered, low-code future by developing AI agents capable of autonomous reasoning and action to support and enhance human work. 21 participants from Japan and South Korea competed to build innovative agent applications using Agent Workbench.
OutSystems AI Agent Hackathon 2025
“A future in which AI agents support daily operations and business processes is within reach,” said Tomohiro Mieno, Vice President, Northeast Asia, and Representative Director, OutSystems Japan. “This hackathon was an important step toward the future of agents in business by demonstrating that anyone can quickly build impactful, agent-driven applications using Agent Workbench. The creativity and technical excellence displayed by all participants further highlighted the expanding possibilities for development in the age of AI. OutSystems is committed to partnering with our developer community to accelerate innovation.”
Participants were evaluated based on criteria targeting effective use of AI and agent workbench, clarity of problem-solving approach, quality and reproducibility of implementation, and overall business impact. The winning team includes:
ODC Enterprise License Division
- 1st place: Hanwha Systems Co., Ltd. / Team: NeoNova (a team that quickly creates new value using AI and low-code) – (South Korea)
Title: Building Accessibility-Centric Intelligent Services for a World Where Digitally Disadvantaged Users Can Easily Access Services (Welli)
What it is: A voice-based AI life support app designed for older adults who face digital access barriers. - 2nd place: Mitsui Information Co., Ltd. (MKI) / Team: Started AI
Title: AI agent “Ibemaru-kun” who will be your “right hand” in event planning
What it is: An agent AI tool that automates internal event planning tasks. - 3rd place: LY Corporation/Team: LINE Yahoo
Title: Meeting brush-up ~Measuring and eliminating wasteful meetings~
What it is: An app to improve meeting quality by identifying and reducing inefficiencies.
Mr. 김태우 of Hanwha Systems Co., Ltd. said, “We are really honored to win first place in the enterprise category.This hackathon allows you to seamlessly experience everything from application development to AI within a single platform, OutSystems, and we believe that AI is not a threat. It was a very meaningful experience for me as I realized that it is a powerful tool that developers can use more effectively.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone at the company who supported us throughout the hackathon.''I would like to thank all the team members who worked tirelessly until the end. We look forward to achieving even more by building systems with OutSystems. ”
ODC Personal Edition Division
- 1st place: DX Plan Builders
Title: AI solution that supports DX initiative planning using Agent Workbench
Overview: An application that utilizes AI to support analysis and planning during the DX promotion phase, democratizing development planning and reducing the burden on the IT department. - 2nd place: Rei Matsuda
Title: Easy Overview, Faster Approval!
Overview: AI-powered approval summary application - 3rd place: Yu Ochiai
Title: OutSystems 11 review application “OutReview”
Overview: AI assistant for reviewing OutSystems 11 applications
MVP award
- Chung Jae Young (Korea), Asia Information System CO., LTD.
Title: Hanamo
Overview: Mobility safety support application for visually impaired people
Winner's comment:
“I am extremely humbled to have won the MVP award. By leveraging OutSystems' AI-powered low-code platform, I was able to turn my ideas into live solutions that can be deployed at incredible speed, deepening both my technical understanding and creative confidence. I plan to build on this experience by applying these new learnings to my future development efforts, and pursue further initiatives that deliver meaningful social impact.”
Future Challenge Award
- Isuzu Motors Co., Ltd. / Team B36AI (Build 360°× AI)
Title: Auto Sales Forecast Adjuster
Overview: Forecast Adjustment Application
Comment from the team:
“We are thrilled to win the Citizen Developer Award. OutSystems' AI-powered low-code environment allows us to quickly deliver solutions that flexibly incorporate business elements, and this is an important milestone for us. This hackathon has shown us the potential to include non-technical users in the application development process. Based on this experience, we plan to expand our use of OutSystems as one of our core internal development tools to accelerate field-driven DX initiatives.”
Top winners received special invitations to the OutSystems ONE conference in Europe next year.
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About OutSystems
OutSystems is the leading, AI-powered, low-code development platform trusted by thousands of customers around the world. The platform enables CEOs, executive teams, and technology leaders to build mission-critical applications and agent systems that drive revenue, streamline operations, and deliver exactly what the business needs.
Evolving an AI pilot to a successful production environment can be challenging due to talent shortages, legacy systems, incomplete data, and sprawling point solutions, but OutSystems provides a proven low-code platform and AI-driven development experience to innovate up to 10x faster with built-in security, scalability, and governance guarantees.
Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to rapidly innovate in response to evolving market demands and orchestrate powerful human-AI collaboration in the future of agents.
Founded in 2001, the company's network spans more than 60 million end users, more than 500 partners, and active customers in more than 20 industries and more than 75 countries. For more information, please visit www.outsystems.com.
