Hackathons — build, ship, win (Bangalore to worldwide)

Google Solution Challenge 2026

GDSC's annual flagship challenge: build a solution to a UN Sustainable Development Goal using Google technology. Teams get mentorship, cloud credits and a shot at the global final.

TechGig Code Gladiators 2026

India's largest coding championship — hundreds of thousands of developers compete across elimination rounds, with the winners offered direct placements at top tech companies.

ETHGlobal Brussels 2026

ETHGlobal returns to Brussels — 48-hour sprint building on the bleeding edge of Ethereum L2s, account abstraction and consumer-grade crypto applications.

Bangalore AI Buildathon 2026

A 24-hour builder sprint for AI-native products in the heart of Bangalore — LLMs, multi-agent systems and open models, with hands-on mentorship from engineers shipping AI in production.

MLH Hackcon 2026

The conference for hackathon organizers and seasoned student hackers — sessions on community-building, sponsorship and running events that actually change lives.

India GenAI Hackathon 2026

Focused on generative AI applied to India-scale problems — Aadhaar, UPI, ONDC, agri data — with mentors from leading Indian AI labs and venture capital.

Devpost Global AI Hack 2026

Devpost's open, async virtual hackathon for AI builders worldwide — 21 days to integrate large language models or open-source AI into a product the world can use.

Bangalore FinTech Hack 2026

Build the next generation of Indian fintech — open banking APIs, UPI 2.0 credit rails, fraud detection and AI-powered personal finance, with live data sandboxes from NPCI.

HackMIT 2026

MIT's flagship student hackathon — 24 hours of building, workshops by industry leaders, and some of the toughest acceptance criteria for student hackers in the world.

ETHGlobal San Francisco 2026

One of the world's premier Ethereum hackathons — 36 hours to ship a dApp, protocol primitive or zero-knowledge proof alongside thousands of the best web3 builders on the planet.

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026

The world's largest hackathon by participation — over 50,000 participants in 150+ countries solving NASA's open challenges with open data, spanning climate, space exploration and Earth observation.

BLR Web3 Hackathon 2026

Bangalore's community web3 sprint — build dApps on Polygon, bridge EVM ecosystems, or create on-chain gaming primitives with support from the largest Web3 ecosystem in South Asia.

Bangalore Climate Tech Hack

Tackle Bangalore's real climate challenges — urban heat islands, EV grid integration, waste and water — with datasets from BBMP, BESCOM and the Karnataka climate council.

Smart India Hackathon 2026

India's largest student hackathon — teams from engineering colleges across the country tackle real problem statements submitted by central and state government ministries.