Hacktopia Pune 2026

Hacktopia Pune – 24-Hour Hackathon

Hacktopia Pune is a 24-hour hackathon organised by Gotham-AI, the AI and emerging-tech community at JSPM’s Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering (RSCOE), Tathawade, Pune. It is held by the Department of Computer Science and Business Systems.

Hacktopia Pune is open to students from all colleges and disciplines. Teams will build innovative solutions, receive guidance from mentors, and pitch their work to a panel of judges.

Dates: 18–20 December 2026 Venue: JSPM’s RSCOE, Tathawade, Pune Prize Pool: ₹1,00,000+ (cash prizes, certificates and opportunities)

Eligibility

- Open to all UG and PG students from any college.

- Open to all disciplines, including tech, business, design and more.

- Team size: 2 to 5 members.

- Inter-college teams: Allowed.

- Inter-specialization teams: Allowed.

- Content Creator (Compulsory): Every team must have at least one content creator. Special content-creation challenges and additional prizes will also be there!

Rounds

Round 1 – Open Innovation (Online Submission)

Teams will showcase their best project or innovative idea by submitting a PPT and GitHub repository. Having a deployed application is recommended.

The PPT template, submission deadline and other details will be announced soon.

Round 2 – 24-Hour Offline Hackathon (at RSCOE)

The top teams from Round 1 will be invited to the offline hackathon at RSCOE. Teams will build solutions over 24 hours based on the officially released problem statements, with mentorship and technical support, followed by presentations to the judges.

Evaluation Criteria

- Innovation

- Problem relevance

- Technical implementation

- Feasibility

- Scalability

- User impact

- Presentation

- Overall solution quality

Rules

- Each participant can be part of only one team.

- During Round 2, teams must work on the officially released problem statements.

- Open-source libraries, frameworks and APIs are allowed, provided they are credited.

- At least one team member must be present at the venue throughout the 24-hour round.

- Participants must carry a valid college ID card to the offline round.

- Plagiarism, copying another team’s work, or any misconduct will lead to immediate disqualification.

- The judges’ decision will be final and binding.

- The organisers may change the schedule, rules or format, and any updates will be posted on this page.

- Detailed guidelines will be shared with registered teams soon.

FAQs

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