Infinium '26 · IIIT Hyderabad

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Name: Infinium '26
Start: 2026-10-02T09:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-10-04T22:00:00+05:30
Location: IIIT Hyderabad Campus

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Flagship events

The biggest challenges at Infinium ’26.

Headline event · Finance & AI hackathon

Open Source Developers Group (OSDG)

CIBC Hackathon

OFFICIAL SPONSOR · CIBC HACKATHON

Event details

An industry-led hackathon with CIBC. Design practical solutions, build a working prototype and demonstrate business value with thoughtful use of AI. The challenge will be revealed to participants at the kickoff.

Participation: Solo or team of up to 4
Prizes: ₹4,25,000 prize pool
Duration: 2–4 October; 36-hour build phase
Venue: To be announced
Date & time: 2 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm – 4 Oct 2026, 9:00 pm IST

Format & rules: CIBC Hackathon

Solo or teams of up to four participants (1–4 total, including the captain). Registration is open. Venue: To be announced. All times below are in IST.
2 October, 4:00–5:00 PM: kickoff covering the format, rules, submission requirements and evaluation criteria. The detailed problem statement will be shared privately with participants.
2 October, 5:00–9:00 PM: system design phase. Propose an architecture, data flow and system components, including appropriate AI, scalability, business value and responsible governance. The top 50 submissions will be selected overnight for the build phase.
3 October, 9:00 AM–4 October, 9:00 PM: a 36-hour build phase for selected participants to implement, integrate, test and demonstrate their solutions.
During the build phase, industry representatives will review the top 10 initial designs and host an insight session.
4 October, 9:00 PM: implementation submission deadline. Submissions will be evaluated to select 10 finalists.
Finalists will have several days to refine and stabilise their prototypes, architecture, evaluation and presentations. Final presentations will take place at the partner office; date and schedule: To be announced.
Evaluation: business impact 25%; technical quality and working demo 25%; smart use of AI 20%; governance and responsible AI 10%; presentation and storytelling 20%.
Prizes: winner ₹2,00,000; second place ₹1,00,000; third place ₹50,000. Three special awards of ₹25,000 each bring the total prize pool to ₹4,25,000. Special award criteria: To be announced.
Subject to the hackathon terms, the industry partner may review, use, adapt or further develop submitted ideas, code and designs. Participation does not guarantee adoption, deployment or commercialisation.
Solutions are educational prototypes and must not be represented as endorsed by, or as actual systems of, the industry partner.

New registrations are open only to IIIT Hyderabad students (@students.iiit.ac.in or @research.iiit.ac.in)

REGISTRATIONS OPEN

Headline event · Cybersecurity

0x1337 Hacking Club

ContextCon Deccan CTF

OFFICIAL SPONSORS · CONTEXTCON DECCAN CTF

Y Combinator × Crustdata

INDIA’S FIRST COLLEGE-HOSTED CTF WITH Y COMBINATOR

Top 3 winner benefits & event details

Registrations Paused
To enter the waiting list fill this form - forms.cloud.microsoft/r/ztE5V4et9E (opens in a new tab)

An offline, jeopardy-style Capture the Flag competition open to participants from IIIT and beyond. Tackle Web Exploitation, Cryptography, Forensics, OSINT and Reverse Engineering, with an intermediate focus and challenges ranging from easy to hard.

Participation: Solo or team of up to 5
Prizes: ₹2,00,000+ prize pool + Crustdata internship opportunities worth $1,500/month and more
Duration: 12 hours
Venue: H105 (offline only)
Date & time: 2 Oct 2026, 9:00 am – 2 Oct 2026, 9:00 pm IST

Format & rules: ContextCon Deccan CTF

Participate solo or in a team of up to five.
Prizes cover at least the top ten teams, with separate awards for first solves on special problems.
Bring a laptop, internet access and a mobile phone with a camera; some challenges require the camera. At least 4G is available at the venue, and installing tools beforehand is recommended.
Do not brute-force or fuzz infrastructure unless a challenge or organizer explicitly permits it. Do not share flags or discuss solutions before the CTF concludes.
Document the basic logic of your solutions. Winners and the next three teams must submit documentation for every solved problem within 30 minutes of the CTF ending.
Follow all venue guidelines. The 0x1337 Hacking Club’s decisions on fair play and cheating are final.
For queries contact hacking.club@students.iiit.ac.in

Registration is currently closed.

Flagship event

Headline event · AI & wealth management

IIIT Hyderabad × LPL Financial

LPL WealthX Hackathon

OFFICIAL SPONSOR · LPL WEALTHX HACKATHON

Event details & timeline

Reimagine wealth management with AI. LPL WealthX is an open-ended AI and finance innovation challenge by LPL Financial × IIIT Hyderabad. There is no predefined problem statement: find a meaningful problem in finance or wealth management, reimagine it with AI, and build a working prototype that shows real value.

Participation: Solo or team of up to 4
Prizes: ₹1,70,000 prize pool + potential LPL internship opportunities
Duration: Multi-stage · 29 Sep – 13 Oct
Venue: To be announced

Format & rules: LPL WealthX Hackathon

Open only to IIIT Hyderabad students (@students.iiit.ac.in or @research.iiit.ac.in), solo or in teams of up to 4. You don't need to be a finance expert: teams can combine AI/ML, software development, data science, finance, product and UI/UX skills.
No predefined tracks: the problem you choose is up to you. Explore wealth management, investment and portfolio management, financial planning, financial research, advisor productivity, client experience, financial intelligence, risk analysis, financial data and analytics, or AI-powered financial applications.
Think it through: who experiences the problem, why it matters, what the current process looks like, where AI can create meaningful value, and what the future solution should look like.
29 September — Launch and registrations: meet LPL Financial, the WealthX challenge and the wealth-management ecosystem. Teams can register and start forming immediately.
29 September – 2 October — Ideation: submit a concise proposal covering the problem, target user, financial context, proposed solution, how AI enables it, and what you plan to build. No prototype is needed yet. You will be given a consent form, which you must fill in and submit along with this first submission.
4 October — LPL Connect: present your idea to LPL Financial professionals, ask questions and get feedback, and learn how LPL operates, the technology its teams work on and how it supports financial advisors.
4–10 October — Build: turn your idea into a working prototype with any AI approach, such as generative AI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, machine learning, predictive analytics, recommendation systems or multimodal AI.
10 October — Prototype submission by the end of the night: a working prototype, a brief solution description, your AI/technical approach, a GitHub repository or codebase, and a short demo or presentation.
11–13 October — CTRL+ALPHA presentations: the top 50 teams present the problem, the solution, the AI behind it, a live demo and its potential impact on wealth management.
Final round — LPL Financial Showcase: the top 10 teams present directly to LPL Financial representatives, covering the financial problem, solution, AI and technology, working prototype and future potential.
Prizes: 1st ₹60,000 · 2nd ₹40,000 · 3rd ₹30,000 · 4th ₹25,000 · 5th ₹15,000 (₹1,70,000 total).
Internship opportunities: at LPL Connect, learn what internships at LPL look like, the projects interns work on, the skills LPL looks for and how selection works — and showcase your skills directly to LPL professionals.

Open only to IIIT Hyderabad students (@students.iiit.ac.in or @research.iiit.ac.in)

REGISTRATIONS OPEN

Bot programming

Event sponsor

FYDY

The Game Theory @ IIITH

Code Bot (Bot Battle)

Code, test, and optimize a software bot for a game designed by FYDY. This is a pure coding competition, with no physical hardware involved. After the development window closes, all submitted bots will compete against each other in FYDY’s simulator, which will determine the final rankings.

Participation: Individual
Prizes: $1,000+ prize pool
Duration: 20 hours
Venue: H205
Date & time: 2 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm – 3 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm IST

Format & rules: Code Bot (Bot Battle)

This is the FYDY Bot-Building Competition: an individual challenge. Every participant develops and submits their own bot.
FYDY will reveal the game, mechanics, scoring, constraints and bot interface at the beginning or a later stage of the competition. Starter code may be provided.
Use the designated 20-hour development window to build, test and optimize your bot against the provided specification.
Development runs from 6:00 PM on 2 October to 2:00 PM on 3 October 2026 (IST). Final submission: 2:00 PM on 3 October. Late submissions may not be considered.
There are no manual head-to-head matches during development. Eligible submissions run together in the final common simulation.
Allowed libraries, external resources, code restrictions and additional rules will be communicated when the game is revealed.
The prize pool is $1,000+. The winner and runner-up distribution and any special recognition will be announced by FYDY.

Registration is currently closed.

Flagship event

Programming & problem solving

Event sponsor

Theory Group × Programming Club

Divide and Conquer

Take on Jane Street’s collaborative challenge across two tracks: competitive programming and Olympiad-style problems in mathematics, linguistics and theoretical computer science. Decide your strategy and solve together.

Participation: Solo or team of up to 4
Prizes: ₹1,20,000 prize pool
Duration: 4 hours
Venue: H105
Date & time: 4 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm – 4 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm IST

Format & rules: Divide and Conquer

Teams of up to four work collaboratively across both tracks within a total of four hours. Most problems include subtasks or smaller subproblems.
The programming track uses Codeforces. Access to any other website is prohibited.
The subjective track is pen-and-paper. Proofs and solutions are assessed for clarity, and partial marks are awarded.
Combined-track prizes: ₹40,000 for first, ₹20,000 for second and ₹15,000 for third (₹75,000 total).
Each individual track awards ₹15,000 and ₹7,500 to its top two teams (₹22,500 per track).

Registration is currently closed.

Flagship event

CASE-A-THON · PM CLUB, IIIT HYDERABAD

Case Competition

Online Phase Started

₹70,000 total prize pool

Event sponsor

The online phase has now started. Register for Case-a-thon and explore the problem statement, rules and competition timeline right here on the website.

Teams of 3–4 · Open to college students across India

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More to take on

From the dance floor to the quantum world.
Find the event that feels like you.

Dance

The Dance Crew (TDC)

Clash of Duos

Clash of Duos is a high-energy dance competition where teams of two battle against each other. Duos will face random clashes and showcase their performances. With creativity and fierce competition at the heart of the event, get ready to see duos bring their best moves to the stage. Exciting prizes await the winners!

Participation: Team of 2
Duration: 3 hours
Venue: H105
Date & time: 1 Oct 2026, 10:00 pm – 2 Oct 2026, 1:00 am IST

Format & rules: Clash of Duos

This event is for IIITH participants only.
Participate as a duo: exactly two dancers per team.
Round one features random clashes and performances; round two is a freestyle challenge featuring random songs.

For IIITH participants only

Game development

Event sponsor

Co-powered by

The Gaming Club (TGC)

TGC Game Jam

Build, iterate, and ship a complete game from scratch in 100 hours. Whether you are an experienced dev or a beginner bringing your very first world to life, this sprint will test your limits to deliver an unforgettable player experience.

Participation: Solo or team of up to 5
Prizes: ₹75,000 Prize pool + Incubation opportunity from GDAI
Duration: 100 hours
Venue: H205 / Online (Hybrid)
Date & time: 2 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm IST

Format & rules: TGC Game Jam

All participants must join our Discord for Announcements, rules, and per team mentorship: discord.gg/eQMQbTYdS8 (opens in a new tab)
and make sure to register at: indieconnect.in/game-jams/tgc-gamejam-sp… (opens in a new tab) for the final submission

Robotics

Electronics and Robotics Club (ERC), IIIT Hyderabad

The Wall Climber Challenge

Design an RC bot that scales walls, navigates obstacles and scores points. Put your physics, electronics and engineering skills to work in ERC’s gravity-defying challenge.

Participation: Team of 2–4
Prizes: 1st: ₹10,000 · 2nd: ₹9,000 · 3rd: ₹8,000
Duration: 4 hours
Venue: Himalaya corridor
Date & time: 4 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm – 4 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm IST

Format & rules: The Wall Climber Challenge

Teams must have two to four participants.
Teams should build their own bots in advance, only minor adjustments are allowed during the competition.
The teams must fund their own bot, and the budget is capped to ₹7,000.
Bots must scale walls while navigating obstacles and scoring points.
A detailed rulebook will follow, including mechanical and electrical constraints, scoring and the event schedule.
Rule Book Link: drive.google.com/file/d/14N-jETJtJHbl4BW… (opens in a new tab)

Registration is currently closed.

Quantum computing & game development

ISAQC, IIIT Hyderabad

QURIOSITY: A Quantum Game Dev Challenge

Turn quantum computing into an interactive game in 16 continuous hours. Quantum principles must drive the gameplay itself, from superposition and gates to interference, teleportation and measurement.

Participation: Solo or team of up to 4
Prizes: 1st: ₹14,000 · 2nd: ₹7,000 · 3rd: ₹4,000
Duration: 20-hour event · 16-hour build sprint
Venue: H204
Date & time: 3 Oct 2026, 10:30 am – 4 Oct 2026, 6:00 am IST

Format & rules: QURIOSITY: A Quantum Game Dev Challenge

Enter solo or in a team of up to four. Interdisciplinary teams of game designers, developers and quantum computing enthusiasts are encouraged.
Stage one — Hackathon: 16 hours to conceptualize, develop, test and polish your game, followed by code review and playable-build audits by technical evaluators.
Stage two — Finalist Showcase: selected teams present live to a panel of domain experts. Each finalist gets eight minutes: five minutes of live gameplay and three minutes of technical Q&A.
Every submission must demonstrate a meaningful connection between its gameplay and at least one of the challenge-track concepts.
Challenge tracks: Qubits & the Bloch Sphere (state-vector navigation, rotations and geometric alignment); Quantum Logic Gates (gameplay built on X, Z, H, CNOT and Toffoli); Quantum Interference (constructive and destructive interference as mechanics); Grover’s Search (amplitude amplification for search, stealth or tracking); Shor’s Algorithm & Period Finding (quantum modular arithmetic and QFT-inspired patterns); Quantum Teleportation (state reconstruction and information routing via entanglement); Quantum Error Correction (detecting and correcting bit-flip and phase-flip errors); Variational Quantum Eigensolver (optimization with hybrid classical-quantum feedback); Quantum Phase Estimation (signal calibration, resonance and diagnostic puzzles); and Quantum Random Walks (traversal in superposition across multiple paths).
Open-engine policy: use Unity, Godot, Unreal, WebGL/Three.js, Pygame, Bevy or a custom engine. Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane or your own implementation of the quantum mathematics are allowed.
Write all primary gameplay logic and project code during the 16-hour window. Third-party open-source libraries, general utility scripts and public asset packs (audio, textures, 3D models) are permitted if declared in your submission documentation.
Create a public GitHub or GitLab repository at the start and commit regularly and incrementally. Bulk uploads or single-commit dumps at the deadline may trigger a disqualification audit.
Submit a public repository with the complete source code and a descriptive README, a playable standalone build or hosted WebGL link, and a two-minute unedited gameplay recording showing the core quantum mechanics.
Quantum Mechanics Fidelity (35%): how accurately the game implements the underlying quantum model, and whether quantum mechanics genuinely drives the gameplay rather than serving as a visual theme.
Game Design & Intuitiveness (25%): the quality and responsiveness of the gameplay loop, and how well complex quantum behaviour is communicated through UI, visual metaphors and level design.
Technical Stability & Performance (20%): code architecture, modularity, performance, frame-rate consistency and the absence of serious bugs or bottlenecks.
Originality & Execution (20%): creativity of the concept, innovation in turning the chosen quantum concept into gameplay, and overall visual and audio cohesion.
Plagiarism, pre-built prototypes and presenting existing code as event work result in immediate disqualification. Respect fellow participants, mentors and evaluators; harassment, toxic behaviour or deliberate disruption can lead to removal. Judges’ and organizers’ decisions on compliance, audits and scoring are final.
Prize details are to be announced.

Registration is currently closed.

Quiz

TVRQC

SciBizTech Quiz

Test your knowledge of the worlds of science, business and technology. This general quiz starts with a written preliminary round, followed by the finals.

Participation: Team of 2
Prizes: ₹6,000 prize pool
Duration: 3 hours
Venue: Himalaya rooms
Date & time: 2 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm – 2 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm IST

Format & rules: SciBizTech Quiz

Enter in teams of exactly two.
A preliminary round is followed by a final round. The top eight teams from the prelims qualify for the final.
Topics covered: science, business and technology.

Registration is currently closed.

Engineering design

Event sponsors

Astronautics Club

Cosmic Lander: Egg Drop Challenge

One miscalculated descent turns years of work into scattered debris. Design and build a planetary lander that protects a fragile astronaut — a raw egg — from a freefall of up to 50 metres. With limited rations of craft and structural materials, balance terminal velocity, drag, impact absorption and weight. Will your probe survive touchdown, or will your astronaut scramble?

Participation: Team of 3–4
Prizes: 1st: ₹3,000 · 2nd: ₹2,000 · 3rd: ₹1,000
Duration: To be announced
Venue: Football Field
Date & time: 3 Oct 2026, 1:00 pm – 3 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm IST

Format & rules: Cosmic Lander: Egg Drop Challenge

Teams of three to four participants, including the captain.
Design a low-cost, innovative protective structure that stops a raw egg from cracking or breaking when dropped from a height of up to 20 metres.
Mystery rations are provided on-site: sponges, threads, paper, cloth, tape, straws, balloons, rubber bands and basic arts and crafts materials. Every team receives an identical kit.
Use only the materials in your kit. External materials, bought or brought, are not allowed unless organizers explicitly permit them in advance. Return any unused material before the drop round begins.
Egg survival & drop height: each team gets two turns. Scoring depends on whether the egg is intact, cracked or broken.
Descent time & design innovation: a slower descent indicates better drag or parachute performance. Creativity and originality of the design or mechanism also count.
Judges’ and organizers’ decisions on scoring and disqualification are final and binding.

Registration is currently closed.

Drones & programming

Infinium '26

Drone Arena

Get ready to take flight! Code your way through a high-stakes aerial obstacle course: write the logic to hunt down specific targets and test it in our virtual simulator. Make the cut, and you command real drones in the physical arena, dodging obstacles and bursting balloons in a race against the clock.

Participation: Team of 2–4
Prizes: To be announced
Duration: 1-hour showdown
Venue: To be announced
Date & time: 3 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm – 3 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm IST

Format & rules: Drone Arena

Open exclusively to IIIT-H students.
Teams of two to four members.
27 September — Pre-workshop: learn how to write your code and test it on the simulator, which is provided by the organizers.
30 September — Evaluation: the top four teams with the best simulator scores are shortlisted for the finals.
2 October — Rehearsal: shortlisted teams get an exclusive hands-on practice session with real drones.
3 October, 4:00–5:00 PM — The Showdown.

For IIITH participants only

Music

The Music Club

Euphonic

Serving as Infinium’s grand finale, Euphonic transforms the center stage in the football ground into a feast for your eyes and ears. Multiple student bands command the spotlight, blending rock, indie, pop and fusion into a powerful night of music. Electric energy, vibrant visuals and incredible talent unite to give the festival the send-off it deserves!

Participation: Open to all attendees
Duration: 3 hours
Venue: Center stage, football ground
Date & time: 4 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm – 4 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm IST

Format & rules: Euphonic

Live band performances on the center stage.
Student bands perform rock, indie, pop and fusion.

No event registration needed

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