Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
BUILD AI AGENTS. WATCH THEM COMPETE. WIN YOUR WAY TO VEGAS.Â
The Agentic Football Cup has 100+ events completed or scheduled across India, Australia, Latin America, Europe, and the US - rated 4.8/5 by developers globally. Now it's Warsaw's turn. Don't miss your city's chance to compete. You write the strategy, your agents play the match - five autonomous AI agents per team, making decisions every two seconds on passing, shooting, pressing, and defending with no human input once the whistle blows. This isn't a demo you watch, it's a working system you build and deploy in an afternoon.
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THE FORMATÂ
Four hours, one tournament. Build a squad, deploy to AWS, and play your first match before lunch. Then tune your prompts, swap tools, layer in multi-agent coordination, and compete again. Best team wins prizes - but every team leaves with a deployed agentic system and the skills to build the next one.
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YOUR PATH TO RE:INVENT 2026Â
Every team that completes the workshop qualifies for the Agentic Football Cup global league. Group winners fly to Las Vegas to compete live on stage at AWS re:Invent. This afternoon is your qualifying round.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARNÂ
Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands Agents SDK - the same stack powering enterprise agentic systems, except your agents play football. You'll walk away understanding multi-agent orchestration, real-time state management, tool use, and guardrails at a level that takes most teams months to reach.
WHO SHOULD COME
Developers of any level - no AI/ML experience needed. Bring a non-technical teammate to name the squad, pick the formation, and handle the trash talk. Everyone leaves agentic-AI literate.
