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GENAI HACKATHON T$O - 2025

Innovate | Build | Compete

📅 Date: 10th to 12th July, 2025
📍 Location: IIT Bhubaneswar
🕒 Duration: 48 Hours

About The Hackathon

Welcome to T$O 2025, a premier GENAI Hackathon that brings together the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and technology. This 48-hour innovation marathon challenges participants to harness the power of generative AI to create groundbreaking solutions that address real-world problems. Whether you're a seasoned AI developer, a creative problem solver, or an innovative thinker, this hackathon provides the perfect platform to showcase your skills and push the boundaries of what's possible with AI.

With access to cutting-edge AI models, cloud resources, and expert mentorship, participants will have the opportunity to transform their ideas into functional prototypes. The hackathon focuses on practical applications across software development, cybersecurity, and IoT, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovative thinking. Join us in this exciting journey where you'll network with industry leaders, learn from peers, and potentially kickstart your career in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI.

Who Can Participate?

  • Under graduate students
  • Graduate students
  • Post graduate students

Cash Prize & Media Recognition

  • 🥇 1st Prize: ₹40,000
  • 🥈 2nd Prize: ₹30,000
  • 🥉 3rd Prize: ₹20,000
  • Categorical Prizes:
  • 🏆 Best Presentation: ₹2,000
  • 🧠 Best Strategist: ₹2,000
  • 📊 Best Dataset Creation: ₹2,000
  • 💻 Best Implementation: ₹2,000
  • 👥 Best Team: ₹2,000

Why to Participate?

🎓 Special GenAI Training Offer

Team registration fee ₹1,000/team

New to GenAI? Jazzee will conduct a FREE workshop and online bootcamp worth ₹4,999 for participants interested in upskilling in the GenAI domain within a short period!

🎯 Mentorship & Internship

Get guidance from industry experts and potential internship opportunities with leading companies

🌍 Real World Impact

Create solutions that address real-world challenges and make a meaningful difference

🔄 Transdisciplinary Opportunity

Collaborate across disciplines and expand your perspective in the field of AI

💡 Skill Development

Enhance your technical, problem-solving, and teamwork abilities

Meet Our Judges

Sandeep Kadam

Sandeep Kadam

CTO, Kissht

Namrata Barpanda

Namrata Barpanda

Staff Security Engineer, ServiceNow

Sumedh Barde

Sumedh Barde

CPO, Simbian

Shadab Siddiqui

Shadab Siddiqui

CISO, JioHotstar

Pratyush Choudhary

Pratyush Choudhary

Principal, TogetherFund

Mohit Soni

Mohit Soni

CEO, TNSQ AI

Arbind Lochan

Head of Growth - Data Science, Grab

Shreyas Kumar

Shreyas Kumar

Professor of Practice, Texas A&M

Varun Bhatt

Varun Bhatt

Independent Consultant

Rajat Dhariwal

Rajat Dhariwal

Founder and CEO, AI for Good

Sandeep Hodkasia

Sandeep Hodkasia

Founder and CEO, AppSecure

Ranjan Pradhan

Ranjan Pradhan

Head of BioTechnology, OUTR

Competition Settings

This hackathon aims to find GenAI practitioners who have the potential to excel in the field of data science, comprising sub-domains including but not limited to software engineering, cybersecurity, and IoT. This competition will provide ample opportunity to showcase your skills and knowledge in the aforementioned areas.

Further challenging our efforts at communicating with the institutions of Odisha to address complex, emergent problems involves teams drawn from multiple disciplines. Our team has labelled this type of development as convergent research, which entails research practices that integrate knowledge, methods, and expertise from different disciplines to form novel frameworks to catalyze scientific discovery and innovation.

👥 Team Size & Fee

3-4 members per team
Entry Fee: ₹1,000 per team

⏱️ Format

48 hours of coding, mentorship, and networking

🎯 Judging Criteria

Innovation, Feasibility, Technical Execution, and Presentation

🛠️ Resources

Cloud credits, AI models, and APIs

🎤 Final Presentation

Live demo in front of expert judges

📦 Expected Outcome

A minimum viable product with working functionalities demonstrating AI/ML implementation

Categories & Use Cases

🔹 Software Development

  • AI-powered code generation & debugging assistants
  • Personalized AI chatbots for customer support
  • AI-enhanced document summarization tools

🔹 Cybersecurity

  • AI-driven phishing detection & prevention
  • Automated vulnerability scanning & risk analysis
  • AI models for anomaly detection in network traffic

🔹 Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Smart home automation with AI decision-making
  • Predictive maintenance for industrial IoT sensors
  • AI-powered traffic and environmental monitoring systems

🔹 Healthcare & Medical AI

  • Medical image analysis and diagnosis assistance
  • Patient data analysis and predictive healthcare
  • Drug discovery and development optimization

Venue

Hackathon Venue

IIT Bhubaneswar

Argul - Jatni Rd, Kansapada, Odisha 752050, India

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Final Ceremony Venue

Odisha University of Technology and Research

Kalinga Nagar, Ghatikia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751003, India

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