OutSystems Names 2025 Innovation Award Winners and Hackathon Champions: Real Results with AI + Low-Code
Oct 1, 2025 - At the ONE Conference in Lisbon, OutSystems spotlighted teams that shipped meaningful outcomes with AI and low-code. The awards and hackathon focused on one theme: build useful apps and intelligent agents that move metrics, not just slides.
For IT and development leaders, the signal is clear. Agentic systems, modernized core platforms, and tight business alignment are moving from pilot to production-at scale.
Why this matters for engineering and IT
- Delivery speed is compounding: multi-app portfolios in months, not years.
- Agentic patterns are landing in production with measurable time savings.
- Modernization is pragmatic: unify core ERP/processes while keeping governance intact.
- ROI is traceable: dev acceleration, reduced defects, and direct revenue/CSAT gains.
2025 Innovation Award winners: measurable outcomes
- Abu Dhabi Social Support Authority - Built and launched a financial support program against a four-month deadline; added two more services 10x faster; 95% CSAT.
- Clarins (Partner: Rokodo) - Streamlined ERP/IT/HR/Finance; saved $140K on one app; 60% faster delivery; 10 apps live across 15 countries.
- Global Automotive Group (Partner: Team Resilience) - Unified core ERP for sales through warehousing; standardized operations and lifted user satisfaction.
- Paragon Bank PLC - Shipped "Spring," a savings app that moved customers to higher-yield accounts; thousands of users in two months, raising millions of pounds.
- Petrobras - Low-code Center of Excellence supporting 100+ agile teams; 60% faster development; several apps at 15x ROI within a year; audit AI agent cutting up to 90% of research time.
- Roche (Partner: Axians) - Two generative AI apps: an employee companion (80,000 users in a year) and a no-code AI assistant builder (5,000 active users in six months).
- SeAH Group (Partner: VNTG) - Modernized a mission-critical MES; 3x developer productivity; 90% fewer bugs; new features delivered up to 70% faster.
- The Pokémon Company International (Partner: valantic) - Built an event locator for Pokémon Day in under a month; connected 14,000 players; higher attendance, better user satisfaction and operations.
- Tokyo Electron (Partner: DENTSU SOKEN INC.) - Shifted from monolithic ERP to a modular architecture; 100+ new apps; saved ¥8B on one app; cut build time from six months to two weeks.
What leaders said
"The 2025 Innovation Awards winners are proving what's possible with low-code and AI," said Woodson Martin, CEO at OutSystems.
"Winning the OutSystems Innovation Award in the Social Impact in Government category is a proud achievement," said Dr. Salem Al Mahri, Support Services Director at Abu Dhabi Social Support Authority. "Faced with a tight four-month deadline, our small, agile team chose OutSystems to deliver a scalable and user-friendly application, integrating with key government entities."
Hackathon champions: AI for social good
- 1st: Persistent Ecovison - Smart waste management with agent systems from collection to recycle.
- 2nd: VoluntAI - Volunteer management platform for Acreditar, supporting parents of children with cancer.
- 3rd: NovioQ DAIKnow - Teacher app that generates learning sessions, game-based assessments, and performance tracking.
Teams built on OutSystems Agent Workbench and Mentor-human + AI collaboration with production intent.
Practical takeaways for your roadmap
- Stand up a low-code + AI Center of Excellence. Standardize patterns, review guardrails, and ship reference architectures for agents and workflows.
- Target high-leverage use cases first. Internal audits, back-office workflows, customer self-service, and event ops show quick time-to-value.
- Modernize in slices. Wrap legacy with modular services, then replace high-change surfaces (ERP, MES) where speed and quality gains are largest.
- Instrument everything. Track cycle time, defect rate, adoption, and hard savings (e.g., research hours cut, license rationalization, ops throughput).
- Design agents with human checkpoints. Keep people in the loop for compliance, explainability, and exception handling.
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