ISTKeynoteFinished
Opening keynote: Building for Bharat
- Main Auditorium, Block A
- With Ananya Iyer
300 of 400 registered
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HackNova 2026
Two days of talks, workshops and a 24-hour hackathon
- Sat, 24 Oct to 25 Oct 2026
- Venue: Deccan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Main Gate, Gandipet Road, HyderabadOpen in maps
320 of 320 seats taken
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Join the waitlistLive status boardHackNova is Deccan Institute's annual tech fest: keynotes, hands-on workshops across AI and ML, Web and Cloud, and Hardware and IoT, and a 24-hour hackathon with 1,05,000 INR in prizes.
This is the seeded demo event. Its people and numbers are made up.
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Connect to HackNova-Guest. The password is on the back of your badge.
Drafted by the OFFSTAGE assistant, approved by Event lead
Welcome to HackNova 2026
Welcome! Check-in is open at the main gate until 10:00. The opening keynote starts at 09:30 in the Main Auditorium.
Drafted by the OFFSTAGE assistant, approved by Event lead
Schedule
- ISTHackathonFinished
Hackathon kickoff and problem statements
- Main Auditorium, Block A
150 of 400 registered
- ISTTalk
ESP32 from zero
- Seminar Hall 3, Block C
- Hardware and IoT
- With Fatima Siddiqui
- ISTTalk
Serverless on a student budget
- Lab 101, Block B
- Web and Cloud
- With Priya Sharma
- ISTWorkshop
Workshop: Fine-tuning small language models
- Lab 204, Block B
- AI and ML
- With Karthik Menon
- ISTTalk
Next.js at scale
- Lab 101, Block B
- Web and Cloud
- With Arjun Reddy
- ISTPanel
Panel: Hardware startups in India
- Seminar Hall 3, Block C
- Hardware and IoT
- With Rahul Verma, Suresh Babu
- ISTWorkshop
Workshop: Retrieval that does not hallucinate
- Lab 204, Block B
- AI and ML
- With Vikram Joshi
- ISTKeynote
Keynote: Open source careers
- Main Auditorium, Block A
- With Imran Khan
- ISTTalk
Evaluating LLM apps
- Seminar Hall 3, Block C
- AI and ML
- With Lakshmi Prasad
Speakers
Ananya Iyer
Principal Engineer, Sarvam Labs (fictional)
- Opening keynote: Building for Bharat
- Closing ceremony and prizes
Karthik Menon
ML Researcher, Indus AI Research
- Workshop: Fine-tuning small language models
- Hackathon judging
Priya Sharma
Staff Engineer, Kaveri Cloud
- Serverless on a student budget
- Workshop: Postgres for app developers
Rahul Verma
Founder, Tessel Robotics
- Panel: Hardware startups in India
Meera Nair
Security Lead, Orbit Payments
- Hackathon judging
- Security for student developers
Arjun Reddy
Developer Advocate, Nimbus Devtools
- Next.js at scale
Fatima Siddiqui
Embedded Engineer, Godavari Semiconductors
- ESP32 from zero
Vikram Joshi
Engineering Manager, Banyan Analytics
- Workshop: Retrieval that does not hallucinate
Lakshmi Prasad
Assistant Professor, CSE, Deccan Institute
- Evaluating LLM apps
- Hackathon judging
Suresh Babu
Hardware Hacker, Makers Hyderabad
- Panel: Hardware startups in India
- Workshop: Sensors and TinyML
Divya Kulkarni
Voice AI Engineer, Bhasha Tech
- Voice AI in Indian languages
Imran Khan
CTO, Monsoon Games
- Keynote: Open source careers
Questions people ask
When does check-in open?
Check-in opens at 08:30 IST on both days at the registration desk at the main gate.
Where is lunch?
Lunch is served from 12:30 to 14:00 at the Food Court in Block D.
Do I get an OD letter?
Deccan Institute students get On Duty attendance through their department; the OD list goes to HODs by 28 October.
Supported by
- Acme Cloud