
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.
Design a comprehensive, technology-driven framework that strengthens aviation safety across prevention, in-flight assistance, and coordinated emergency response. The system should move beyond reactive investigation toward proactive risk anticipation and structured emergency orchestration within real aviation ecosystems.
Conceptualize a structured, technology-enabled framework that enhances inventory transparency, improves price intelligence, and strengthens coordination between farmers, warehouses, and markets to reduce post-harvest losses and improve income stability.
Develop a structured recovery intelligence framework that bridges hospital discharge and long-term rehabilitation through coordinated monitoring, medication adherence tracking, and relapse risk identification within scalable healthcare ecosystems.
Event Flow
Common Problem Statements for Round 1 released during the official unveiling. Registrations open and teams begin ideation.
Final deadline to submit the abstract or PPT in the prescribed format. Submissions evaluated on innovation, feasibility, and clarity.
Selected teams announced. Shortlisted teams advance to Round 2 and receive new, domain-specific problem statements.
Online mentoring session conducted. This stage also serves as a progress evaluation round for shortlisted teams.
Final Round presentations before the judging panel. Teams showcase their developed solutions, implementation strategy, and impact, followed by evaluation and result announcement.



Prize Pool
Celebrating innovation, excellence, and impact.
1st Runner-Up
₹7,000
Winner
₹10,000
2nd Runner-Up
₹3,000
Special Sponsor Award
₹1,000
Awarded to the best project based on a sponsor-provided problem statement (if applicable).
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.