AI Security Engineering Hackathon

AI is moving faster than most security programs can keep up with — agentic tools, MCP servers, and AI-generated code are shipping into production every day, often outrunning the guardrails meant to protect them. This hackathon brings developers and security practitioners together to get hands-on with the skills defining the new discipline of AI Security Engineering. Working in teams, participants will tackle real-world AI security challenges spanning the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, threat modeling AI/agentic systems, securing MCP servers and agent skills against tool poisoning and supply-chain attacks, hardening vibe-coded applications, and red-teaming a live chatbot to find and exploit vulnerabilities before attackers do.

Whether you're a developer curious about securing AI-powered apps or a security specialist looking to apply your skills to LLMs and agents, you'll leave with practical, portfolio-ready experience — and the kind of muscle memory that only comes from breaking (and fixing) real systems. No prior AI security experience required — just a builder's mindset and curiosity about where AI meets attack surface.

Agenda

• 9:30am: Doors open + Networking

• 10:00 am - 10:30 am: Welcome + Agenda + Intros

• 10:30 am -11:30 am: Introduction to AI Security Engineering

• 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Hackathon guidelines

• 12:00 -12:30 pm: Lunch

• 12:30 -1:30 pm: Hackathon

• 1:30 pm: Submission deadline

• 1:35 pm - 1:45: Judges evaluate submissions

• 1:45 pm: Winners announced + Presentation

• 2pm: Event ends

Registration

Space is limited, please ensure you register both in Luma and on the following AWS URL http://events.builder.aws.com/d/vcz3j3 (required to enter the AWS building).
Please use your full name while registering, and remember to bring and official ID (US driver's license or passport) for