Aether HackConquest Hackathon

We are thrilled to invite you to Aether HackConquest 2026, a two-round online hackathon designed to challenge students, aspiring innovators, and technology enthusiasts to ideate, innovate, and develop impactful solutions for real-world problems. HackConquest provides a platform to showcase your technical expertise, creativity, problem-solving skills, and ability to transform ideas into working prototypes. Whether you are passionate about AI/ML, building web and mobile applications, analyzing data, designing engaging user experiences, or exploring cybersecurity and cloud technologies, this is your opportunity to turn your ideas into meaningful technological solutions. Who Can Participate? Open to engineering students, undergraduate students, postgraduate students, MBA students, and students and professionals interested in technology and innovation. Teams must have 2–4 members with atleast 1 Female member Multiple teams from the same college are welcome. Themes/Problem Areas: Participants can explore the following focus areas: Web & App Development - Design and develop interactive websites or mobile applications, focusing on usability, functionality, accessibility, and real-world utility. Data Science & Analytics - Analyze datasets, identify patterns, build insightful dashboards, and generate actionable insights for real-world decision-making. AI/ML & Deep Learning - Build intelligent models, predictive systems, recommendation engines, automation solutions, or deep-learning applications to solve complex problems. UI/UX & Frontend Design - Create engaging user interfaces and seamless digital experiences with a focus on usability, accessibility, visual design, and user needs. Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Cloud - Develop secure systems, address data privacy challenges, strengthen cybersecurity, and explore cloud-based solutions for modern technological problems. Participants may select an appropriate problem area based on the challenge provided by the organizing committee. Why Participate? Opportunity to Innovate: Turn your ideas into practical technology solutions addressing real-world challenges. Build & Develop: Get the opportunity to create and demonstrate a functional prototype. Collaborate with Peers: Work with teammates, exchange ideas, and solve problems together. Showcase Your Skills: Demonstrate your technical, creative, analytical, and problem-solving abilities. Gain Recognition: Present your solution before judges and gain visibility in the technology and innovation community. Exciting Awards: Compete for trophies, medals, certificates, and the Best Innovative Solution Award. Platform: HackConquest 2026 will be conducted fully online. Shortlisted participants will receive further instructions and online-event details through the registered communication channels. Round 1 – Idea Submission & Screening (10 Sep – 25 Sep 2026): Registration Starts: 10 September 2026 Registration Deadline: 23 September 2026 Shortlisted Teams Announcement: 25 September 2026 Submissions will be made through the Unstop platform. Teams must submit their Problem Statement & Proposed Solution, Team Details, and Technology Stack. The technology stack may include planned programming languages, frameworks, platforms, APIs, tools, cloud technologies, databases, and other relevant technologies. Optional supporting material such as GitHub repositories, demo videos, existing prototypes, or previous project/work links can also be submitted. Ideas will be evaluated based on Innovation & Creativity, Feasibility, Relevance, and Technical Implementation Potential. The most promising teams will be shortlisted for the Online Hackathon Finale. Round 2 – Online Hackathon Finale (30 Sep 2026): Shortlisted teams will participate in the online hackathon finale and present their working prototype/demo before the judging panel. Teams must present their proposed solution, technical implementation, key features, impact/use case, and future scalability or improvements. Time per team: 8 min presentation & demo + 2 min Q&A. Teams may submit optional slides, diagrams, GitHub links, or other supporting material in advance. Evaluation Criteria: Innovation & Creativity, Relevance, Feasibility & Implementation, Technical Potential & Scalability, and Presentation & Communication. Judges will interact with the teams during the Q&A and evaluate the solutions based on their innovation, relevance, implementation, technical potential, scalability, and overall presentation. Awards: Top 2 Teams: Trophy, Medal, Certificate of Achievement Runner-Up: Medal, Certificate of Achievement Best Innovative Solution Award: Special Trophy, Certificate All Finalists: Certificate of Participation Important Dates: Registration Starts: 10 September 2026 Registration Deadline: 23 September 2026 Shortlisted Teams Announcement: 25 September 2026 Hackathon Main Event: 30 September 2026 Join Aether HackConquest 2026 and get ready to innovate, build, collaborate, and conquer real-world challenges through technology!