
16 Feb – 7 March 2026 | CESA X VIT Mumbai
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About the Event
HACKFEST – INNOV8 TMRW is a structured, multi-round hackathon initiative by CESA-VIT designed to transform innovative ideas into real-world solutions. Built around carefully curated, domain-specific challenges, the event provides students with a dynamic platform to explore problems, develop strategic approaches, and implement technology-driven innovations that address practical needs.
The hackathon fosters creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving by encouraging participants to move beyond theoretical concepts and focus on tangible outcomes. With expert mentorship and a competitive yet supportive environment, teams refine their ideas, strengthen their execution, and enhance their presentation skills.
Through this journey, participants don’t just build projects — they design scalable, impactful solutions engineered for meaningful and lasting change.
Multi-Stage Competition
Multiple Domains
Mentorship & Recognition
Choose a domain, solve real-world challenges, and build beyond limits.
Intelligent Energy Management for Educational Institutions
Build an AI/ML-based Energy Intelligence System that predicts future energy consumption, incorporates historical usage, environmental factors, and occupancy data, recommends actionable optimization strategies, and provides interpretable insights instead of just raw forecasts. The goal is to move from passive monitoring to intelligent, data-driven energy optimization.
Predictive Maintenance for Urban Systems
Build an AI/ML-based predictive system that analyzes sensor logs, maintenance history, and usage data to detect early micro-failure patterns, predict infrastructure risk scores before critical breakdowns, recommend preventive maintenance prioritization, and provide interpretable risk indicators. The goal is to shift from reactive maintenance to predictive, data-driven infrastructure management.
Streamlined Community Issue Management System
Build a full-stack web application that allows users to report issues easily, enables real-time tracking of resolution status, provides administrators with tools to manage and prioritize requests, and ensures transparency through status updates and notifications. The goal is to create a reliable and scalable issue management system with an intuitive user experience.
Smart Professional Opportunity Matching System
Build a scalable web-based platform that matches users with relevant opportunities intelligently using structured profiles, skill indicators, experience data, and preferences, generates match scores, provides clear reasoning behind recommendations, and dynamically updates matches as profiles evolve. The goal is to move beyond simple keyword search and create an intelligent matching ecosystem.
Smart Food Waste Reduction and Donation System
Design a technology-enabled platform that allows donors to report surplus food in real time, intelligently matches donations with nearby verified recipients, optimizes collection and redistribution timelines, ensures traceability and basic quality checks, and measures and displays social impact. The goal is to create a reliable, transparent, and efficient food redistribution ecosystem.
Data-Driven Service Equity Analysis
Design a data-driven system that analyzes geospatial, demographic, and infrastructure datasets to identify underserved regions, quantifies accessibility gaps using scoring mechanisms, highlights critical service deserts, and provides prioritized intervention recommendations. The goal is to enable data-backed planning and equitable resource distribution.
Intelligent Agricultural Decision Support
Design a technology-driven decision support system that recommends suitable crops based on local conditions, analyzes soil, weather, and resource availability data, incorporates historical trends and market signals, accounts for risk and uncertainty in predictions, and provides clear, actionable farming recommendations. The goal is to enable informed, low-risk crop planning through intelligent data integration.
Computer Vision for Crop Damage Analysis
Design a computer vision based system that analyzes crop field images, detects lodging patterns, differentiates between healthy standing crops and lodged crops, estimates severity levels of structural damage, and provides actionable insights for intervention or yield adjustment. The goal is to enable fast, scalable, and data-driven crop damage assessment.
AI-Assisted Healthcare Triage
Design a technology-enabled patient triage system that captures basic patient details, symptoms, and vital indicators, assists healthcare staff in prioritizing patient care, generates risk or urgency scores, provides explainable reasoning behind prioritization, and supports decision-making without replacing medical professionals. The goal is to enhance efficiency, transparency, and safety in patient prioritization.
Predictive ICU Monitoring System
Design an AI-driven telemetry monitoring system that analyzes multi-parameter vital data streams in real time, detects early deterioration patterns, generates predictive risk alerts before critical thresholds are crossed, reduces false alarms, and provides clear and actionable risk indicators. The goal is to shift from reactive threshold-based alerts to proactive, intelligent clinical decision support.
Event Flow
PS will release on unstop. Registration opens and teams begin ideation.
Submit the abstract or PPT in the prescribed format. Submission evaluated on innovation, feasibility and clarity.
Shortlisted teams announced will be announced. Selected teams for Round 2 will receive new domain specific PS on 3RD MARCH and team need to pay 200 rupees.
Mentoring sessions will be conducting online at 8 p.m. Guidance on technical approach and feasibility.
On-campus final presentations. Jury evaluation. Winner declaration and closing ceremony.



Prize Pool
Celebrating innovation, excellence, and impact.
1st Runner-Up
₹8,000
Winner
₹15,000
2nd Runner-Up
₹5,000
Special Goodies
Swag & Gear
Exclusive hackathon goodies and items for the winning team.
Important
Hackfest is open to all undergraduate students with some technical knowledge. Participants must register in teams of 2–4 members.
Yes, a participation fee of ₹200 per team is applicable only for teams shortlisted for Round 2.
Teams must submit an Abstract or PPT in the prescribed format before the deadline.
Submissions are evaluated based on innovation, feasibility, clarity, relevance, and impact potential.
Shortlisted teams advance to Round 2 and receive new problem statements for further development.
Yes, the mentoring session is mandatory for all shortlisted teams as it serves as a progress evaluation round.