Hackathon: The Google Cloud AI Autonomous Networking Challenge

Unlock agentic-era autonomous networking to transform network operations and customer experiences.

The Challenge Managing complex networks, solving network irregularities, and delivering consistent customer experiences are costly and resource intensive. Autonomous networking is enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to solve business challenges with AI automation, and intent-based systems to transform network operations and customer experiences.

Building on the success of last year's Vertex AI Hackathon, Google Cloud is proud to sponsor this in-person enterprise Hackathon, taking place at the heart of DTW Ignite in June 2025.

We invite CSPs, optionally with their partners, to experiment with cutting-edge Google Cloud AI and AI optimized infrastructure to solve real-world network challenges.

Your mission is to build modular, intelligent network-related prototypes. Teams will combine standardized TM Forum code frameworks with Google Cloud latest technology and AI optimized infrastructure. The goal is to build modular, intelligent network-related use cases that demonstrate progress towards autonomous network level 4, focusing on enhancing network automation, sustainability, or customer experience, leveraging technologies like Gemini 2.5 and agentic systems.

After 2 days of hacking, teams will deliver a working prototype/demo and a short pitch explaining the problem, solution, impact, and architecture.

Your mission in this Hackathon is to bring the best of both the worlds together to build modular, intelligent applications on top of existing or mock digital environments by combining standardized frameworks from TM Forum on Agents, Intent, Closed Loop and TMF APIs with Google Cloud's collaborative agents, LLMs, AI/ML and Data services. You’ll create impactful prototypes that unlock value in automation, sustainability, and customer experience.

Interested? Please register your team’s interest below.

Prizes: The winning team will receive:

• $6000 USD of Google Cloud credits
• 3 months of follow-up support from a Google mentor.
• Trophy + Google swag (received on stage, live-streamed).
• TM Forum Inform spotlight article.
• Post-event marketing, including 'winner social post' and a webinar feature.

Key dates: May 30: Registration deadline Upon Registration: Briefing deck supplied - pre-learning; choose your challenge, environment & data prep; initial meeting with Google mentor June 2: Webinar: Overview and onboarding June 2 - 16: Continue preparations; email communications and weekly meetings with the mentor June 17 - 19: Prototype development: 9am – 5pm, Bella Center, Copenhagen June 19: 9am – 12pm: The Pitch; 1.30pm: Innovation Awards ceremony – the competition winner is announced

Why participate?

• Unlock AI-enabled network use cases with the very latest with Google Cloud AI and Open APIs.
• Join the community in an exciting and intense two & a half day competition and learn from the best of your industry peers while you tackle some of the hardest telco industry challenges.
• Contribute industry thought leadership in building practical applications of TM Forum Autonomous Network specifications for high value scenarios to feed into the emerging TM Forum AN standards for collaborative, multi-agents and digital twins.
• Be among the first to work with the latest version of Gemini 2.5 to maximize your benefits from the incredibly broad range of TM Forum assets by integrating them into your own business processes.
• Free All Access passes to TM Forum´s DTW Ignite 2025 - (see full terms and conditions below)
• Access to an exclusive Google mentor to help guide your Hackathon preparation and access to $2000 USD of Google Cloud credits for the competition, first hand experience with Google’s cutting-edge technology.