THE SUMMIT
st(AI)rway 24-Hour AI Hackathon
- Saturday, 27 February 2027
- 10:00 am – 10:00 am IST
- Main Seminar Hall, Block A, College of Engineering Kidangoor
The top of the stairway. Teams of 2–4 get 24 hours to build an AI solution for a real problem from Kerala's healthcare, agriculture, transport or education sectors. Mentors on call all night, food that doesn't stop, and a ₹1,00,000 prize pool for the teams that climb highest.
You'll be able to…
- Ship a working AI prototype in 24 hours
- Pitch to a jury of industry and academic judges
- Work in a team under real constraints
- Earn the Summit Climber badge
Prerequisites
- Teams of 2–4
- At least one prior step recommended
What to bring
- Laptop (8 GB RAM recommended) and charger
- Python 3.11+ installed
- A Google account for Colab
- Curiosity — plenty of it
- Extension board
- Sleeping bag (optional, brave)
- Your team
Agenda
- Sat 10:00Opening ceremony & problem statements
- Sat 11:00Hacking begins
- Sat 18:00Mentor round 1
- Sun 00:00Midnight check-in & surprise challenge
- Sun 06:00Mentor round 2
- Sun 10:00Code freeze, demos & judging
Speakers & mentors
Dr. Joseph Mathew
Principal Scientist, AI Safety, Indus Research Institute
Joseph leads evaluation research on large language models and advises policy bodies on responsible AI deployment.
Anjali Nair
Senior ML Engineer, Nimbus Labs, Bengaluru
Anjali builds language models for Indic languages and has shipped NLP systems used by millions. A CEK alumna, she started her AI journey in this very seminar hall.
Nikhil Raj
Founder & CTO, AgentForge
Nikhil's startup builds AI agents for small businesses across Kerala. He has judged 15+ hackathons and still loves the 3 a.m. energy.
Vishnu Prasad
Deep Learning Engineer, Monsoon AI, Kochi
Vishnu trains large models for a living and debugs exploding gradients for fun. Kaggle Master, PyTorch contributor.
Venue
Main Seminar Hall, Block A, College of Engineering Kidangoor
Kidangoor South P.O., Kottayam, Kerala 686583, India