Featuring innovative projects built with Agent Workbench by participants from Japan and Korea, the competition championed the convergence of agentic AI and low-code.

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — OutSystems, the leading AI-powered low-code development platform, today announced the winners of its “AI Agent Hackathon 2025,” unveiled at an award ceremony on Friday, December 19, in Roppongi, Tokyo.

Held from November 1 to 30, the hackathon aimed to empower participants to create the future with AI powered low-code by developing AI agents capable of autonomous reasoning and action to support and augment human work. Participants from 21 companies from Japan and Korea competed to build innovative agentic applications using Agent Workbench.

“A future where AI agents support daily operations and business processes is within reach,” said Tomohiro Mieno, Northeast Asia Regional Vice President and OutSystems Japan Representative Director. “This hackathon demonstrated that anyone can rapidly build impactful, agent-powered applications using Agent Workbench, marking a key step towards the agentic future of businesses. The creativity and technical excellence displayed by all participants further highlights the expanding possibilities of development in the AI era. OutSystems is committed to accelerating innovation hand-in-hand with the developer community.”

Participants were evaluated against judging criteria covering the effective use of AI and Agent Workbench, clarity of problem-solving approach, implementation quality and reproducibility, and overall business impact. The winning teams include:

ODC Enterprise License Division

• 1st Place: Hanwha Systems Co., Ltd./ Team: NeoNova (A team that rapidly creates new value by leveraging AI and low-code) – (Korea)
  Title: Building Accessibility-Centric Intelligent Services for a World Where Even Digitally Disadvantaged Users Can Easily Access Services (Welli)
  Overview: A voice-based AI life-support app designed for seniors facing digital access barriers.
• 2nd Place: Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd. (MKI)/ Team: AI Hajimemashita
  Title:Ibemaru-kun – An AI Agent That Serves as the “Right-Hand Assistant” for Event Planning
  Overview: An agentic AI tool automating internal event planning tasks.
• 3rd Place: LY Corporation/ Team: LINE Yahoo
  Title: Meeting Brush-Up – Measuring and Eliminating Wasteful Meetings
  Overview: App for improving meeting quality by identifying and reducing inefficiencies.

“We are truly honored to have received first place in the Enterprise category,” said 김태우 of Hanwha Systems Co., Ltd.. “This hackathon was a highly meaningful experience, as it allowed us to seamlessly experience everything from application development to AI within a single platform, OutSystems, and helped us realize that AI is not a threat, but a powerful tool that developers can leverage more effectively. We would like to sincerely thank everyone at our company who supported us throughout the hackathon, as well as all the team members who worked tirelessly until the very end. We look forward to continuing to achieve even more together through building systems with OutSystems in the future.”

ODC Personal Edition Division

• 1st Place: DX PlanBuilders
  Title: AI solution for supporting DX initiative planning, powered by Agent Workbench
  Overview: An application that uses AI to support analysis and planning in the DX initiative phase, enabling the democratization of development planning and reducing the workload of IT departments.
• 2nd Place: Rei Matsuda
  Title: Quick Summaries, Faster Approvals!
  Overview: AI-powered Approval Summary Application
• 3rd Place: Yu Ochiai
  Title: OutSystems 11 Review application “OutReview”
  Overview: An AI assistant for reviewing OutSystems 11 applications

MVP Award

• Chung Jae Young (Korea), Asia Information System CO., LTD
  Title: Hanamo
  Overview: A mobility safety support application for people with visual impairments
  Comment from the winner:

“I am deeply humbled to have received the MVP Award. By leveraging OutSystems’ AI-powered low-code platform, I was able to rapidly turn my ideas into a deployable, live solution at remarkable speed, deepening both my technical understanding and creative confidence. I intend to build on this experience by applying these new learnings to my future development efforts and pursue even more initiatives that drive meaningful social impact.”

Challenge for the Future Award

• Isuzu Motors Limited / Team B36AI（Build 360°× AI）
  Title: Auto Sales Forecast Adjuster
  Overview: Sales Forecast Adjustment Application
  Comment from the team:

“We are very pleased to have been awarded the Citizen Developer Award. With OutSystems’ AI-powered low-code environment, we were able to quickly bring to life a solution that flexibly incorporates business factors, which marks a significant milestone for us. This hackathon has opened our eyes to the potential of involving non-technical users in the application development process. Building on this experience, we plan to expand our usage of OutSystems as one of our core internal development tools to accelerate field-driven DX initiatives.”

The top winners were awarded a special invitation to the OutSystems ONE Conference to be held in Europe next year.

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About OutSystems

OutSystems is the leading AI-powered low-code development platform trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. The platform empowers CEOs, management teams, and technology leaders to build mission-critical applications and agentic systems that grow revenue, streamline operations, and deliver exactly what businesses need.

While evolving AI pilots into production success can be challenging due to talent gaps, legacy systems, imperfect data, and sprawling point solutions, OutSystems provides a proven low-code platform and AI-driven development experience that enables innovation up to 10x faster with the assurance of built-in security, scalability, and governance.

Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to innovate as fast as the evolving market demands and orchestrate powerful human + AI collaboration in the agentic future.

Founded in 2001, the company’s network spans more than 60 million end users, over 500 partners, and active customers in 75+ countries across 20+ industries. Learn more at www.outsystems.com.