AGENTIC FOOTBALL CUP · 2026
A free half-day workshop. Build autonomous AI agents that play football. Learn the exact skills to deploy your own agentic workloads.
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Every player on screen is an autonomous AI agent making decisions in real time. No scripts. Pure emergent play.
Agentic AI — systems that perceive, reason, and act autonomously — is the defining technology of 2026. The Agentic Football Cup is the fastest way to go from concept to deployed agent. You build AI agents that play 5v5 football, making real-time decisions every two seconds. The skills you learn are the exact same skills required to deploy your own agentic workloads for your own use cases.
Design your agent's strategy. Choose a model, write prompts, wire up tools. Same steps as any production agent.
Ship your agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — AWS's managed runtime for AI agents. Production-grade from minute one.
Your agents play live matches. Real code, real results. Iterate, improve, and compete in the tournament.
→ Multi-agent coordination & orchestration
→ Real-time state management
→ Tool use & structured output
→ Guardrails & retry strategies
→ Observability & debugging agent reasoning
→ Prompt engineering for autonomous systems
→ Amazon Bedrock (foundation models)
→ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (managed runtime)
→ Strands Agents SDK (Python framework)
→ Kiro IDE (AI-powered development)
→ Amazon Nova, Claude, or any Bedrock model
→ Your own AWS account (full ownership)
The patterns are real. Everything you build — multi-agent coordination, state management, tool use, guardrails — maps directly to production agentic workloads like autonomous customer service, supply chain, and internal operations agents.
10 autonomous agents called in parallel every 2 seconds. Each one reasons over the full game state and returns a decision in under 500ms. Same architecture as production enterprise agents.
Every workshop is free. Pick the format that fits your organisation. Build alone or on a small team. Tech paired with non-tech makes it a powerful team-building exercise — everyone leaves agentic-AI literate; the builders leave with working agents.
Book a free private session for your org. Send the devs alone or pair tech with non-tech — run it as a team-building day. Customise the experience to your industry.
Solo devs join an open workshop, compete alone or form a new team. Same agenda, same tools, wider mix of participants from different organisations.
Complete a workshop and you're qualified for the global league. Group winners go to AWS re:Invent 2026 in Las Vegas to play for the grand prize, live on stage.
Workshop length
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Major cities worldwide
Once your squad is on the pitch, the real work starts. Tune prompts, swap tools, layer in multi-agent collaboration and watch each iteration play out in live match feedback. By full-time you'll have shipped a team of agents you understand at every layer — and the patterns to take straight back to your own use cases.
5 AI agents per side. Every 2 seconds, each agent receives the full game state — ball position, all player positions, stamina, score — and decides its next action autonomously.
11 command types: pass, shoot, dribble, press, mark, intercept, tackle, clear, move, support, hold. No scripts. Pure emergent play.
You can even coach them mid-match — type instructions from the sideline and watch your agents reason about whether to follow them. Same as a real coach shouting from the touchline.
Every pattern you use in the match maps to a production pattern:
⚽ Agent coordination → multi-agent enterprise workflows
⚽ Real-time state → customer context & session memory
⚽ Tool use → API calls & internal system integration
⚽ Guardrails → safe, bounded agent behaviour
⚽ Observability → debugging agent reasoning in prod
⚽ Prompt tuning → optimising agent performance
Completing the workshop qualifies you to compete in the Agentic Football Cup global league. Group winners go on to AWS re:Invent 2026 in Las Vegas to play for the grand prize, live on stage. Build something great in the morning, qualify in the afternoon.
Build and deploy your agentic football team. Private or public session — both qualify.
Your agents face off against other participants in a live tournament at the end of the workshop day.
All workshop completers are eligible for the virtual qualifying tournament. Continue improving your agents and compete globally.
Group winners play for the grand prize, live on stage at the world's largest cloud conference.
Terms apply. The path is real — build something great in the morning, qualify in the afternoon, and there's a route from your laptop to Vegas.
Your team walks in curious about agentic AI. They walk out having built and deployed one. The same services, patterns, and architecture they used to build their football team are exactly what they'll use to build agents for your business.
✓ Hands-on with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
✓ Production-grade agent deployment skills
✓ Multi-agent orchestration patterns
✓ Observability & debugging for agent reasoning
✓ A deployed agent they own in their AWS account
✓ Team-building that produces real technical outcomes
✓ Pair tech with non-tech — everyone learns
✓ Accelerate your agentic AI adoption
✓ Private sessions customised to your industry
✓ Free — no cost, no commitment
The football is the learning vehicle. The real product is your team's ability to deploy agentic workloads on AWS — because they just did it.
Book a free workshop for your team. Or sign up individually for the next public session in your city.
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Questions?
Email: agentic-soccer-world-cup@amazon.com
Web: agenticfootballcup.com
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