InnovateX Hackathon 2026:

Engineering Intelligent Systems for Operational Excellence

Date: February 20–22, 2026
Format: Hybrid / Virtual
Welcome to InnovateX Hackathon 2026.

InnovateX Hackathon 2026 is a premier innovation challenge designed to bring together multidisciplinary teams to engineer intelligent systems that transform how organizations plan projects, optimize processes, deliver technical support, and implement enterprise-scale solutions. The hackathon emphasizes real-world applicability, encouraging participants to move beyond conceptual prototypes toward deployable architectures grounded in operational realities.

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Hackathon Tracks & Challenge Themes

AI-Driven Project Intelligence

Develop predictive scheduling tools, risk forecasting systems, cost-estimation engines, and stakeholder analytics platforms that improve project outcomes and delivery confidence.

Intelligent Process Optimization

Design workflow automation, digital twins, simulation models, RPA systems, and optimization frameworks to eliminate bottlenecks and improve throughput across business operations.

Smart Technical Support Systems

Build AI-assisted service desks, anomaly detection platforms, root-cause analysis engines, automated ticket triage, and predictive maintenance solutions.

Scalable Systems Implementation

Create deployment orchestration tools, cloud-native architectures, infrastructure automation platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring dashboards for enterprise systems..

End-to-End Operational Platforms

Develop unified solutions that combine planning, optimization, support, and deployment into cohesive operational ecosystems powered by intelligent decision layers.

Ethical Intelligent Systems

As intelligent systems increasingly drive mission-critical operations, trust, security, and ethics become foundational—not optional.

SponsorPitch Section

InnovateX Hackathon 2026 offers sponsors direct engagement with top technical talent, emerging startups, and research innovators. Sponsors gain brand visibility across digital platforms, on-site materials, and keynote sessions while shaping challenge statements aligned with real industry needs.

Rules & Eligibility

The InnovateX Hackathon is open to students, professionals, startups, and researchers from all disciplines. Participants may register individually or in teams of up to five members. All submissions must be developed during the official hackathon period, ensuring fairness and originality.

Teams are permitted to use open-source tools, publicly available datasets, and pre-trained models, provided that proper attribution is given and licensing terms are respected. 

All participants must adhere to the InnovateX Code of Conduct, which emphasizes inclusivity, respect, collaboration, and ethical technology development. Solutions that violate privacy, promote bias, or compromise security will be subject to disqualification.

Event Timeline & Flow

Phase 1
Registration & Team Formation: Participants register, form teams, and attend pre-event orientation sessions.
Phase 2
Kickoff & Problem Briefing: Organizers introduce the challenge tracks, judging criteria, and available resources.
Phase 3
Build Sprint Teams develop their solutions with access to mentors, workshops, and technical clinics.
Phase 4
Midpoint Check-In Progress reviews with mentors and optional pivot opportunities.
Phase 5
Final Submissions & Demos Teams submit deliverables and present live demonstrations.
Phase 6
Judging & Awards Ceremony Winners are announced and recognized.

Submission Requirements

Each team must submit:

  • A working prototype or simulation.

  • Architecture diagrams.

  • A technical whitepaper (maximum 5 pages).

  • A business and implementation plan.

  • A 3-minute demo video.

  • Source code repository or packaged application.

Judges & Mentors

Guiding innovation, inspiring intelligence — meet the minds behind the analysis.

Bangar Raju Cherukuri

Senior .NET Developer Tech Analysis Inc. Washington DC USA

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Mr. Arjun Dev Nair

Lead Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud India

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Oreoluwa Omoike

Site Reliability Engineer , USA

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Mr. Michael Carter

Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, IBM Cloud Security – USA

Evaluation Criteria:

Innovation & Creativity

Novelty of approach and originality.

Operational Impact

Measurable improvements and enterprise relevance.

Technical Execution

Architecture quality, model performance, scalability.

Presentation & Clarity

Storytelling, demo quality, and documentation.