Three days at HCLTech's Noida campus solving problem statements the company's own delivery teams are working on. You get the dataset, an on-site engineer as mentor, and a demo slot in front of leadership. Top performers are fast-tracked into AI Force interviews.
Demo event for reviewing the rebuilt event page. Not a real hackathon.
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Pick one at check-in. Context packs are released with the briefing.
Enterprise ops teams drown in alerts that arrive after the outage. Build a system that reads telemetry and ticket history to flag the failure early and suggest the remediation.
Conversational support fails when it guesses. Build an assistant that grounds every answer in enterprise documentation and live entitlement data, and hands off cleanly when it can't.
Invoice matching, vendor onboarding, access requests — multi-step processes that still move by email. Build agents that complete them end to end with an audit trail a compliance team would accept.
One problem statement per team · chosen at check-in
Best enterprise-ready solution across all three problem statements. Every member of the winning team gets an AI Force interview fast-track, six months of mentorship, and a published case study with HCLTech.
Predictive incident management and self-healing infrastructure. Top three teams place.
Grounded conversational AI for enterprise support. Top three teams place.
Agentic workflows that clear real back-office processes. Top three teams place.
Bring photo ID. Teams pick one of PS-01 to PS-03 here — the choice is final.
Build floor, level 3. Ethernet, monitors and power provided.
20 minutes per team, booked on arrival.
Security, scale and deployment patterns judges look for.
Five minutes to a mentor pair. Feedback here shapes your final score.
Floor stays open. Food service through the night.
Repo, demo video and solution brief due in the portal.
Eight shortlisted teams, six minutes each plus questions.
AI Force recruiters on the floor after the ceremony.
Mentor rounds run twice daily, 20 minutes per team.
Security, scale, real deployment fit.
A working solution that runs.
Cost saved, hours automated.
Six minutes, clearly demoed.
Two judges score independently, then reconcile in the finals room. Ties break on enterprise readiness. A build that does not run at code freeze cannot place.
A-8 & 9, Sector 60, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301
Entry is through Gate 2 with a photo ID matching your registration. The build floor stays open all three nights.
Shuttles run to Gate 2 every 20 min from 07:30.
180 beds for outstation teams — request during registration.
Veg, Jain and halal options at every service.
Monitors, ethernet and power strips are provided.
Teams of 2–4. Students from any year and working professionals are both eligible; mixed teams are allowed. Solo builders can form teams at check-in.
You pick PS-01, PS-02 or PS-03 at check-in on Day 1. The choice is recorded and cannot change after briefings end.
All code must be written inside the hackathon window. Pre-existing open-source libraries, public models and AI coding tools are allowed and must be listed in your solution brief.
Problem-statement datasets are anonymised and licensed for the event only. They may not be retained, republished or used to train models you keep afterwards.
Yes. The hybrid format supports remote teams end to end — mentor rounds and checkpoint demos run over video, and finals can be presented remotely. Dorm beds and meals apply to on-campus teams only.
Top performers get interview fast-tracks into HCLTech's AI Force teams, and recruiters are on the floor after the awards.
No. Every problem statement ships with a context pack explaining the domain, and HCLTech mentors are assigned to teams, not to tracks.
Nothing. Entry, meals and dorm beds are free. Travel to Noida is your own.
Placing teams earn hackathon points toward the All HackIndia Rank, and every submission gets judge feedback on your profile whether it places or not.
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In their own words, from builders who took part.
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