SAS has revealed the winners of its fifth annual global Hackathon, the world’s largest competition focused on real-world data and AI innovation. A record 2,058 participants from 708 organizations across 66 countries formed 125 teams to solve pressing business and societal challenges using SAS Viya and the latest in generative and agentic AI.
Teams tackled everything from early Parkinson’s detection via wearables to AI voice agents that fight fraud in real time. Standout projects include Neuro Drift (Americas winner) for continuous Parkinson’s monitoring, Agatha (Europe winner) – a multilingual AI fraud-protection voice agent, and LUCID (Energy winner) – a self-healing smart grid that reduces outages and renewable waste.
"The SAS Hackathon is an effective way for people of varying job roles and experience to experiment with the very latest in traditional, generative and agentic AI technologies and expand their AI skills," said Peter Lundqvist, Global Program Manager for the SAS Hackathon. "Today's SAS Hackathon champions show what's possible when passionate and innovative people come together to address big business and social challenges with those skills."
The overall 2025 champion will be announced live at SAS Innovate 2026 (April 27-30, Grapevine, Texas).
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