About the challenge
Welcome to the Multimodal AI Hackathon 2026, organized by KamandPrompt, the Programming Club of IIT Mandi, Augli.ai, PurpleRain Tech, LDV Labs, and our community partner DevSwarm. This nationwide hackathon invites students to work at the intersection of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and real-world problem-solving, applying these emerging technologies to domains where they can create genuine impact.
Multimodal AI systems, ones that can reason across text, images, data, and more, are increasingly capable of tackling problems that were previously out of reach for automated systems. Yet in fields like Space research, BioTech, and Education, this potential remains largely untapped. Building solutions in these domains requires not just technical skill but a genuine understanding of the problems being solved, which is exactly the gap this hackathon is designed to close.
This hackathon offers participants the opportunity to design and build solutions that could meaningfully improve how problems are approached in Space, BioTech, and Education. Whether it's a tool that accelerates research, an application that improves access to learning, or a system that solves an overlooked operational bottleneck, your work here has the potential to extend well beyond a submission page.
Get started
- Mode: Fully online, nationwide
- Team Size: Solo/Upto 4 members (inter-college teams allowed)
- Duration: 15 days
- Tracks: 4 tracks across Space, BioTech, and Education
- Registration: Free, no fees
- Submissions to be made on devpost
- All further information will be shared in the official Discord community post-registration
Please note that this hackathon have a well defined set of Problem Statements and Judging criteria and the submissions will be evaluated on the same basis
Problem statements: click here
Join Discord community: https://discord.gg/KBY9WEGA9
Requirements
Submisson Requirements will be shared with problem statements.
Prizes
1st prize - Track A
1st prize - Track B
1st prize - Track C
1st prize - Track D
2nd prize - Track A
2nd prize - Track B
2nd prize - Track C
2nd prize - Track D
Judges
Harini Rajendran
Tech Lead, Citadel
Ravi Shanker Thadishetti
Senior Software Engineer , Paypal
Bharath Kandati
Engineering Manager II , Spotify
Arun Taneja
Principal Software Engineer , Orcale
Siddharth Senger
Sr Software Engineer , AWS
Sai Nitesh Palamakula
Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft
Aishwarya Nair
Sr. Data Engineer , Amazon
Sagar Rao
Sr Technical Account Manager , AWS
SathishBabu Thaiuri
Staff Software Engineer , TriNet Group
Anderson Cavalcante
Founder & AI Engineer , Moon Agency
Vivek Banka
Sr. Staff ServiceNow Architect , Nutanix
Sandipkumar Uchdadiya
Sr Solution Engineer (AI)
Jasvitha Buggana
Advanced Application Engineer , Honeywell
Ameen Shahid Kolothum Thodika
Director, Interated Quality Engineering
Sanyasi Naidu Piniti
Site Reliability Engineer
Gowthaman Arumugam
AI Architect , Tata technologies
Sanjay Kumar Singh
Senior Staff Engineer
Rohini Tirumalaraju
IT Lead Analyst - Workday , Camping World (USA)
Shimul Saurin Shah
Senior sales engineer , Fortinet
Tarang Nair
Founding Engineer , Noether
Apoorva Sritha Reddy Pindi
Software Development Engineer , AWS
MOHAMMED ABDUL MANNAN ANSARI
Solutions Delivery Consultant , AWS
Sanmesh Amol Sankhe
Software Engineer , MedGEO.Inc
Sougandhika Tera
Lead Software Engineer ,CVS Health
Raviteja Patnam
Manager, Digital Health, CVS Health
Sai Kiran Gundumonu
Software Engineering , Walmart
Pavan Kumar Veerapally
Senior Database Developer in Insurance Domain , Lyve tech
Sai Saketh Sunkara
Senior Salesforce Developer , TechClub Inc
Krish Chelikavada
Co-founder, Om Labs
Sandeep Nutakki
Sr. AI Engineer , Auger
Parijat Sharma
Lead Cyber Security – Detection & Response Engineering , Hearst Corporation
Keerthana Gadde
Backend Developer , AMS IT Solutions, Inc.
Kartik Agrawal
Android Engineer , Netflix
Prabhas Kumar
Consultant , Boston Consulting Group
Mukesh Kumar Mishra
QA Lead / Technical Specialist, Moodys
Brijmani kumar
AWS Cloud & RAN Engineer II, Dish Network - Echostar
Rohit Govindbhai Chudasama
Director of system architecture and product validation, Trackonomy Systems
Ashok Chowdari Apati
Digital Transformation Lead, Royal Canin North America
Manu Subhashchandrabose
Director - Digital and AI Quality Engineering, Tachyon
Srinivasa Sandilya Jandhyala
Technical Program Management Lead, Aurora Innovation
Sauj Janardhanan Nair
Senior Manager, Technical Infrastructure Program Manager, AWS, Amazon
Bhupendra Kapoor
Enterprise AI & Cloud Architect, iLink Digital
Judging Criteria
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Criteria 1
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Criteria 2
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Criteria 3
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Criteria 4
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Criteria 5
Questions? Email the hackathon manager