VibeFlow.AI Just Rewrote the Rules for AI Hackathons Worldwide

Yo, tech fam! 🖐️ Ever felt like hackathons are all about the pitch and the prizes, and less about the actual code? Yeah, us too. That’s why we, at STEM Link, decided to flip the script. We just wrapped up VibeFlow.AI, and let's just say, the AI scene in world will never be the same again.

Enter VibeFlow.AI. This wasn't just another event; it was a high-stakes experiment that went down live in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the shockwaves are just getting started.

It Wasn't a Hackathon, It Was a Vibe 🔥

Forget what you know about hackathons. VibeFlow.AI on July 19th 2025 was a whole new level of intense. We handpicked 60 of the most brilliant minds in AI, ML, and experience engineering and threw them into a six-hour, high-pressure, real-world sprint. The mission? To see what really happens when developers and AI collide in a production-like environment. The result? Pure magic. ✨

This was a no-pitch-deck zone. It was all about raw, unfiltered development. We watched as teams experimented with a variety of AI tools and models, testing and tweaking different prompt templates to generate the most efficient and elegant code for the given case study tasks. It was a masterclass in AI-assisted problem-solving, with every commit monitored via GitHub and SonarCloud. We were obsessed with understanding the real synergy and the real friction between human talent and artificial intelligence.

The Heavy Hitters Who Backed Us 🚀

You know it's a big deal when the best in the business show up. Huge shoutout to our amazing sponsors who made this happen: Hypebam, Perplexity, GDG (Google Developer Group), and EN2H.

And the judges? We had a panel of absolute legends from the top tech organizations in Sri Lanka. These are the people shaping the future of tech, and they were right there, in the trenches with us.

The Judge Board:

• Pasindu Wijesena: Chief Technology Officer at Zeya Health

• Dr. Sumani Rajadurai: Principal Machine Learning Engineer at OCTAVE and Assistant Vice President at John Keells Holdings PLC

  

• Isuru Alagiyawanna: Head of AI at Veracity Digital and Co-Founder of Zuu Crew

• Suresh Peiris: Co-founder of Infowaves and Articom

• Nisal Mihiranga: AI Practitioner and Microsoft AI MVP, Visiting Lecturer

  

• Roy Ian: Principal Data Scientist at Pick Me

• Pubudu Wanigasekara: Founder of EN2H

• Premuditha Perera: Director - Software Engineering at Calcey and Head of Engineering at DreamStart Labs

• Sameera Abeysinghe: Chief Executive Officer at OREL IT

What’s Next? The Tea is About to Be Spilled ☕

We're not stopping here. We're currently crunching the numbers and analyzing six hours of code, dozens of GitHub and SonarCloud metrics, and direct feedback from the developers themselves. We're building a deep insight report that will give you the real, unfiltered truth about what AI + dev collaboration looks like in practice. This report will be open, transparent, and designed to provide honest insights that will help shape the future of AI development.

The Champions of the Code 🏆

After six hours of intense coding, three teams rose above the rest. A huge congratulations to our winners who didn't just code, they conquered.

• Winner: Binary Brains (300,000 LKR)

  

• 1st Runners-up: CodeWiz (150,000 LKR)

  

• 2nd Runners-up: Team Etherna (50,000 LKR)

  

A Massive Thank You! 🙌

To every single developer, mentor, judge, and partner who was a part of VibeFlow.AI, thank you. You didn't just participate in an event; you helped build a movement. You helped raise the bar for AI-powered development in Sri Lanka.

At STEM Link, we believe in challenging the status quo and building the blueprints for others to follow. VibeFlow.AI was just the beginning. Stay tuned, because we're just getting started.