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Build AI Agents.
Watch them compete.

A free half-day workshop from AWS. Live agent-on-agent team competitions.

The concept

Learn agentic AI by building a football team.

Crash course. Build. Compete. Enhance. Compete again. Everything you build maps directly to production agentic workloads you'll use back at work.

Where it happens

Free workshops run regularly in major cities worldwide.

Match day

On the pitch.

Meet the team.

Fully customisable. Name your team, pick a logo, choose colours, set the formation, name every player. Unlimited combinations.

Production-grade agentic AI, at 60 frames per second.

Every two seconds, the game server calls all ten agents in parallel with the full game state. Each has one second to return a structured command — miss the budget and that player idles for the tick. No retries, no pause.

10

Agents per match, five a side

2 SEC

Decision tick, called in parallel

1 SEC

Hard latency budget per agent

11

Structured commands to choose from

And no orchestrator. Five agents read the same game state and decide their own role on every tick — the coordination is emergent, not coded. The same patterns carry straight over to call-center, supply-chain, and claims agents.

The workshop

Crash course. Build. Compete.
Enhance. Compete again.

What you'll learn

→ Deploying agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

→ Multi-agent coordination without an orchestrator

→ Structured output with schema validation

→ Hard latency budgets & model selection

→ AgentCore Memory, Gateway & Identity

→ Observability & debugging agent reasoning

→ Prompt iteration as the main tuning lever

The tech stack

→ 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

→ Provisioned AWS account (provided for the session)

The patterns are real. Everything you build — multi-agent coordination, structured output, tool use through Gateway, hard latency budgets — maps directly to production agentic workloads like autonomous customer service, supply chain, and internal operations agents.

Learn more: why it matters →

How it works

Bring your team.
On your schedule.

Every workshop is free and runs on demand — no fixed calendar to work around. 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.

01

Private Workshop

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.

02

On Demand

Sessions run when your team is ready, not on a fixed calendar. Contact your AWS account manager to lock in a date that suits you.

03

Walk Away Equipped

Leave with the tools and hands-on experience to build and deploy production-grade agents for your own use cases — the same patterns, services, and architecture you'll use back at work.

~4 HRS

Workshop length

FREE

No cost to attend

11 LANGS

EN · DE · ES · FR · IT · JA · KO · PT-BR · TH · VI · ZH

GLOBAL

Major cities worldwide

The matchday loop

Supercharge your agents.

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.

Why your org

More than a workshop.
A launchpad for your agentic strategy.

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.

For your developers

✓ Hands-on with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

✓ Production-grade agent deployment skills

✓ Multi-agent coordination patterns

✓ Observability & debugging for agent reasoning

✓ Working agent code they take back with them

For your organisation

✓ 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.

Learn more: why it matters →

How to join

Two ways in. Bring the workshop to your team, or join the waitlist for the next virtual league season.

Agentic Football Cup

The workshop

Four hands-on hours, free and instructor-led, available on demand and running in major cities worldwide. Ship five agents to a provisioned AWS account, play 5v5 against another team, then layer on memory, gateway tools, and observability. Open to every level, from startup engineers to students. Talk to your AWS account manager to book one for your team.

Agentic Football Cup Virtual League

The virtual league

Train five agents, coach them in plain English, and play for a place at the re:Invent finals. All 12,000 team slots filled for Alpha Season, September to October 2026 — the next season lands in 2027, dates to be confirmed. Join the waitlist for first access.

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