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Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Tushar_Parekar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:24:31 GMT

What's the challenge

Build a Databricks App on Free Edition with a Genie Agent at its core.

Build a Databricks App, create and configure your own Genie Agent, connect it to your App, and use it to power a meaningful, useful, or unexpected experience. The problem, audience, data, interface, and solution are up to you.

Build app →Configure Genie Agent →Connect →Deploy →Create a demo →Submit 👈

Key dates

Two weeks to build.

Launch

Aug 17

Submissions close

Aug 31

Winners announced

Sep 10

The theme

Genie at the Core.

Genie at the Core means the Genie Agent should be central, meaningful, and effective in your application. Your app should use Genie to power its main experience or outcome. For example, people might ask questions about data in natural language and receive answers, insights, or results through the app.

The gut check

If Genie were removed, would the main experience or outcome of your app change significantly?

If the answer is yes, you are thinking in the right direction.

Choose your track

Two ways in. Pick one.

Track A

Real-World Problem Solver

Build an app that solves a practical problem for a real audience, an internal data app that helps people explore business information, spot operational trends, or answer the questions they ask again and again.

The focus is usefulness - show how Genie moves a user from a question to a data-backed answer inside the app.

Track B

Creative Thinking

Use Genie in an imaginative or unexpected way. The idea can be unconventional, playful, or exploratory, as long as Genie plays a meaningful role and the app shows what it can do with real data.

The focus is originality - surprise us with the experience and the questions your app lets people ask.

How to participate

Five steps to enter.

Build a Databricks App with a Genie Agent at its core, in Free Edition.

Choose your track - Real-World Problem Solver or Creative Thinking.

Share your project story in Community Articles. For exactly what to include, see the Project story checklist below.

Create a demo of your app - a short video or walkthrough that shows Project in action.

Submit your entry through the challenge registration form.

Project story

Help the community learn from your build.

A clear explanation of your Project setup will help other builders. Make these clear in your write-up:

→ What problem, opportunity, or creative idea does your app address?

→ Who is it designed for?

→ Describe your application architecture and data flow.

→ What can users ask the Genie Agent?

→ How does Genie power the app’s main experience?

→ What did you learn while building and testing the app?

How it is judged

Scored out of 40 points.

Justice to the theme - Genie at the Core

20 pts

How central, meaningful, and effective is the Genie Agent? Does it power the main experience?

Track execution

10 pts

Track A: how effectively does the app solve a real-world problem?
Track B: how creative and distinctive is the idea and its use of Genie?

App experience

10 pts

How intuitive, polished, and effective is the overall app experience?

Total 40 points

Recognition

More than a badge.

🏆 Winners

Top 4

The top four entries will be recognized as challenge winners and will get swags.

🎤 Spotlight

Top 2

The top two entries will be selected as Bricktalk speakers.

All participants will be awarded a Contributor badge in recognition of their entry.

Getting started

New to Genie or Apps? Start here.

Free, self-paced courses and the exact docs you will need to get building.

Databricks Academy

• Building Reliable Conversational Agents with Genie

• Databricks Apps

• Building Enterprise Applications with Databricks Apps

• Deploying and Monitoring Agent Applications on Databricks

Product documentation

• Add a Genie Agent resource to a Databricks App

• Get started with Databricks Apps

• Create and manage a Genie Agent

• Add resources to a Databricks App

• Curate an effective Genie Agent

Submit your entry →

Choose your track. Put Genie at the core. 🚀

Show us what you can create. Drop a 💬 in the comments with what you are thinking of building, and like the entries you love.

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Brahmareddy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:35:20 GMT

Genie is an area I’ve been exploring closely, so I’m looking forward to building something meaningful and sharing it with the Community. Excited to be part of another Community challenge!

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:32:09 GMT

Looking forward to it, @Brahmareddy! 😎

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

srimonishan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:58:27 GMT

🚀 Building Something Awesome

I’m excited to be part of the Databricks Community Genie-Powered App Challenge! I’m going to build something awesome with Genie at the core, focused on turning real data into meaningful, interactive insights. Looking forward to sharing the journey and the final experience with the community!

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

cgambill — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:06:24 GMT

What a super cool challenge! I'm definitely sharing this with my YouTube and LinkedIn communities. Thanks for hosting this Databricks!!

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:31:16 GMT

Really appreciate you sharing the challenge with your communities, @cgambill‌ 🙌‌.

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:35:14 GMT

That sounds exciting! Can’t wait to see what you come up with,@srimonishan. 👀

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

UstOldfield — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:28:42 GMT

I hope you like the police procedural as a format, as that it what I'm getting my Genie agent to be.

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:45:49 GMT

INTERESTING 😃!

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:10:17 GMT

Hello participants! 👋

Just one week left to build and submit your projects! ⏳⏰

Be sure to share the challenge with your colleagues, fellow learners, and anyone who’d love to compete. The more builders, the more creative and interesting ideas we get to see! 🙌

Let’s spread the word and make this challenge even more exciting. 🔥💪

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

kulkarnigauri3 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:37:12 GMT

Excited to join my first Databricks Community Challenge! I’m working on a Track A project focused on helping operations teams move from “what happened?” to “why did it happen?” using Genie-powered conversational analytics. Looking forward to building, learning, and sharing the final project with the community!

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

sandeepbojanala — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:26:47 GMT

Hi Admins,

My article ("Beyond FIFO with Databricks Genie: Resolving the UK Pensions Dashboards Missing Valuation Bottleneck") was caught by the automated spam filter: https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/beyond-fifo-with-databricks-genie-resolving-the-uk-pensions/m-p/166797#M1479

Could you please review and approve it when you get a chance?

Thanks,
Sandeep

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

VivekKumar — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:34:51 GMT

Hi Admins,

My article for the genie powered app challenge has been marked as SPAM. Could you please review and approve ?

https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/genie-powered-app-challege-bushfire-exposure-across-victoria-s/m-p/166804#M1481

Thanks,

Vivek

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

sandeepbojanala — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:38:42 GMT

Hi Admins,

Just an update: I have submitted my contest entry using this Community Article URL:

https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/beyond-fifo-with-databricks-genie-resolving-the-uk-pensions-dashboards-missing-valuation-bottleneck

Could you please review and unblock/approve the post from the spam filter so judges and the community can view it?

Thank you,

Sandeep

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:58:20 GMT

Hi @sandeepbojanala! Apologies for the inconvenience. Your article is now live on the Community!

Thanks for submitting your project and sharing it with the Community.🙂

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:58:40 GMT

Hi @VivekKumar! Apologies for the inconvenience. Your article is now live on the Community!

Thanks for submitting your project and sharing it with the Community.🙂

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

VivekKumar — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:24:11 GMT

Thanks @Advika , appreciate your help.

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

Advika — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:35:52 GMT

⏰ LAST DAY TO SUBMIT

The Genie-Powered App Challenge closes tonight (Aug 31 at 11:30 PM PDT)!

Don't forget to:

Share your project write-up in Community Articles
Submit your final entry via the Registration Form

Thank you to all the amazing builders – our team is excited to see what you've created!

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

sudiptob-DA — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:21:59 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I'm experiencing a critical issue with my Databricks App deployment. The app is running successfully but completely inaccessible via all access methods due to OAuth authentication failures.

## Issue Summary

I have created the Databricks App in my Databricks free tier platform , has been successfully deployed and is showing **RUNNING** status with **SUCCEEDED** deployment, but the app URL is **completely inaccessible** via all access methods. The app returns "App Not Available" . Did anybody face similar issues ?

Re: Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge

sandeepbojanala — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:47:43 GMT

Hi Advika, Thanks for fixing it.