## Before the keynotes, before the expo floor opened, a group of builders were already deep in the work.
The Kong Build Sprint asked developers to build something real on Kong in a matter of weeks: not a slide deck, not a concept, a working submission judges could actually put hands on.
## We asked for three things:
Technical execution, a genuine use of Kong, and originality. Every submission was judged by a panel of Solutions Engineers and our Product Growth team, scoring against those three criteria.
*To every team who submitted: thank you. The field this year was genuinely competitive, and it showed.*
## Winners
Three teams rose to the top.
**1st Place — Vard**
*Led by Pavan Aripakula*
Most differentiated build in the field, solving a problem real customers deal with every day, backed by a demo that showed the work behind it.
**2nd Place — KongChampion_Forever**
*Led by Sachin Ghumbre*
Strong technical execution paired with a genuinely practical use of Kong's tooling.
**3rd Place — ctc-global-sg**
*Led by Fernando Karnagi and Alinda Liaw Siew Ni*
An agent swarm concept tied into Kong in a real, working way.
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