Searching for Upcoming Hackathon 2025 in India? Then your search ends here with the list of 9 Upcoming Hackathon 2025 in India with all the details.
What are Hackthons?
A hackathon is a collaborative event where people work together to solve problems or create new opportunities in a short period of time. The word “hackathon” is a combination of the words “hack” and “marathon”.
List of 9 Upcoming Hackathon 2025 in India
1. Smart India Hackathon
Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving.
The first four editions SIH2017, SIH2018, SIH2019, SIH2020, SIH2022 and SIH2023 proved to be extremely successful in promoting innovation out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students from across India.
- Eligibility: Regular Students of HEI’s pursuing “Graduate/Post-Graduate/Ph.D” will be able to showcase their talent and generate out-of-the-box open innovation ideas.
- Dates: Aug-Sept 2025
- Prizes: 3 teams per nodal center will be selected of which 1st prize money will be Rs 1 Lac and 2nd of Rs 75000 and 3rd will be Rs 50000.
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2. Prayagraj Mahakumbh 2025 HACKATHON (January – March, 2024)
The IIITA, in collaboration with Mela Pradhikaran Prayagraj and the UP government, organized a hackathon aimed at providing a platform for developing effective solutions for various issues associated with the Mahakumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj.
- Themes:
- Theme 1 focused on Security, Surveillance, Mobility, and Crowd Management, encouraging the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and Machine Learning. A total of 107 teams participated in this theme, showcasing their solutions tailored to address the complex challenges of managing large crowds effectively.
- Theme 2 centered on Extended Reality Solutions for enhancing pilgrim governance, exploring applications such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and the Metaverse. Nineteen teams participated in this theme, presenting immersive and innovative solutions to enhance the pilgrim experience and governance.
- Theme 3 emphasized Service Level Benchmarking for assets, inventory, facilities, and utilities monitoring and management, encouraging the utilization of drones, QR codes, and facial recognition technologies. Forty-four teams participated in this theme, offering solutions aimed at optimizing resource management and enhancing operational efficiency.
- Prizes: Prizes of Rs. 3 Lakhs
- Dates: Jan-March
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3. KU Hackathon 2025
Kalinga University, Naya Raipur, has emerged as a centre of excellence of higher education in Central India. Strategically located in the Smart City of Naya Raipur, this University has started carving a niche for itself in the education domain and is rising as a shining star on the horizon of quality education.
- Domains: KU Hackathon is based on 4 Domains- Smart Automation, Green Technology, Smart City and Block Chain Technology.
- Deadline: The last date for the registration is 10th January 2025.
- Prizes: Prizes of Rs. 22.5k
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4. Sparkathon 2025
Sparkathon is an open innovation challenge for Indian students to build cutting-edge tech solutions and create delightful shopping experiences. This year, you have an exclusive opportunity to reimagine a new era of retail that blurs the lines between the online and offline worlds more than ever.
- Eligibility: If you are an engineering student in India pursuing a degree in any of the following fields, Sparkathon is for you:
- Computer Science
- Data Science and AI
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Information Technology
- Mathematics
- Dates: July-Aug
- Prizes: Winning teams stand a chance to receive cash prizes upto INR 2,90,000 (subject to tax deduction).
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5. Google Girl Hackathon
Girl Hackathon is a program for women students in computer science and allied courses across India. It has been designed to provide a platform for women in the engineering campus space to showcase their coding skills and promote creative solutions for real time technical challenges. This virtual hackathon will challenge the innovation and problem solving skills of the participants and inspire them to creatively engage with Google.
- Eligibility: Students must be enrolled in an engineering college in India and must be studying in the year as submitted/stated during registration.
- Benefits: Participants in the Google Girl hackathon program will have the opportunity to:
- Learn about coding, design, and problem solving
- Network with other like minded participants who are interested in technology
- Compete for prizes
- Dates: March- April
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6. IBM TechXchange Hackathon
Get a head start on the IBM TechXchange Conference, where developers, data scientists, problem solvers, and more come together to explore the latest in AI and data. Join the pre-conference watsonx Hackathon, where you’ll get no-charge access to the IBM data and AI platform (plus IBM’s LLM, Granite) and a chance to earn a trip to the conference.
- How it works: There are two paths for this competition:
- Path 1: Build a generative AI application for a use case supporting productivity with IBM watsonx.ai
- Path 2: Improve productivity with day-to-day tasks using IBM watsonx Orchestrate
- Registration: Register for this hackathon with IBMid
- Prizes:
- 1st Place: Your team will receive $5,000 in IBM Cloud credits to continue your project, and each team member will receive an IBM Individual Learning Subscription and IBM watsonx swag bag. You’ll also get the chance to present your work on stage!
- 2nd Place: Each team member receives an IBM Individual Learning Subscription and IBM watsonx swag bag.
- 3rd Place: IBM watsonx swag bags for the full team.
- Dates: September
7. IoT GIS Hackathon 2025 by IIT Bombay FOSSEE-GIS/OSHW
Welcome to the National Level Open Hardware-IoT Geospatial Hackathon, a stage where innovation knows no boundaries. This premier event brings together visionaries, tech enthusiasts, and problem solvers from across the nation to harness the power of open hardware, the Internet of Things (IoT), and geospatial technology. Get ready to explore uncharted possibilities, collaborate on real-world challenges, and significantly impact our world.
- Registration: Interested candidates can directly apply through this link.
- Fee: Participation in the “National Level OpenHardware-IoT based Geopstial Hackathon” is completely ‘FREE OF COST/ NO FEE”.
- Prizes: As this is a national-level activity, supported through the FOSSEE project, National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), the prospective winners shall be given ‘prizes/awards ONLY’, based on their performance, category-wise (themes). The winners shall also be eligible to apply to the coveted “IIT Bombay FOSSEE Geospatial + OpenHardware Internship & Summer Fellowship 2024” and other flagship activities.
- Dates: April-July 2025
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8. TCS HackQuest Season 9
Technology advancements and increased digital focus expose organizations to greater security challenges. Hacking is now more organized and pervasive, with cyber attackers using various techniques to gain unauthorized access, steal sensitive information, or disrupt digital operations. In the wake of a post-pandemic era, the role of a massive ethical hacking community has become imperative, requiring cyber sentinels to safeguard decentralized systems.
- Eligibility: The Contest is open to students (enrolled in any recognized college /university / academic institute) in India who will be graduating in the academic year 2024.
- Prizes: Total prizes worth up to INR 5 Lakhs are given to the top-performing participants.
- Registration: Interested candidates can directly register through this link.
- Dates: Jan 2025
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9. MSME Idea Hackathon 4.0 for Women Entrepreneurs
The objective of the scheme is to promote and support untapped creativity and to promote the adoption of the latest technologies in MSMEs that seek the validation of their ideas at the proof-of-concept level. The scheme also supports engagement with enablers who will advise such MSMEs in expanding their business by supporting them in design, strategy and execution.
- Eligibility: Registration as Host Institute (HI): Institutions such as Technical Colleges, Universities, other Professional Colleges/Institutes, R&D Institutes, NGOs involved in incubation activities, MSME-DIs/ Technology Centres or any Institute/Organization of Central/State Government may apply for registration as an HI and act as a Business Incubator (BI) for nurturing of ideas from the initial stage of conceptualization to the commercialization stage through HIs/ BIs.
- Benefits: Financial assistance up-to maximum of Rs. 15 lakh per approved idea shall be provided to the Host Institute for developing and nurturing of the idea into prototype.
- Dates: Sept 2025
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