Infosys - PALS TechZooka
Hackathon 2025
Welcome to Infosys – PALS TechZooka - Hackathon 2025
📝 What to expect
• A hands-on, hackathon-style experience that encourages experimentation and
learning
• Opportunities to collaborate with peers and industry teams, gaining exposure to
diverse perspectives
• Evaluation by industry leaders, offering expert guidance and feedback
throughout the event
• A chance to win exciting goodies and gain recognition as one of the top-
performing teams
This Hackathon is more than a competition - it’s a space to learn, build, and grow. Unleash
your creativity, innovative spirit, and coding prowess as you tackle real-world challenges
and contribute to meaningful advancements in AI and technology
📅 Mark your calendar
Join us as we bring together some of the brightest minds to tackle tomorrow’s challenges
today. Let’s build solutions that matter.
• 12 Aug – Team Registration Opens
• 14 Aug – Orientation & Q&A Session – Zoom Platform
• 19 Aug – Team Registration Closes
• 23 Aug – Submission of Entries – Link to upload will be provided on 19th Aug
• 29 Aug – Finalist Selection by Infosys (Top 10 Teams)
• 4 Sep – Final In-Person Presentations (Top 10 at Infosys Mahindra City Campus,
Chengalpattu ) – Selected student teams will have the opportunity to present their
solutions in person at the finals. Travel and accommodation arrangements will
need to be made by the teams themselves.
🧠Theme: Building AI Runways
As AI continues to reshape industries—from healthcare and agriculture to finance and
education—organizations face the challenge of scaling AI responsibly, ethically, and
sustainably. Many promising AI pilots fail to reach production due to gaps in
infrastructure, governance, or real-world integration. This hackathon challenges
participants to design robust, scalable, and ethical AI “runways” that can take
solutions from ideation to impact, ensuring trust, transparency, and long-term value.
Hackathon Challenges
Participants can choose from the following problem statements:
• MedAssist – AI-Powered Patient Triage System
• WasteWise – Smart Waste Segregation and Recycling System
• Safe Route – AI-Driven Public Safety Navigation System
• AssistEd – Assistive Learning Tools for Students with Disabilities
• Climate Guard – AI for Climate Prediction and Disaster Preparedness , and
long-term value.
We request participants to submit the following details as part of Hackathon Submission
• Team ID: Team Name (e.g., Code Crackerz)
• Email id of Individual team members along with Team leader’s name and email
address.
• Presentation of the idea, including the problem statement, working solution, time
to market, and any additional details you wish to include. (Refer the template -
Infosys TechZooka - PALS Hackathon_Solution Template.pptx)
Rules and Guidelines
To ensure fair and honest competition, we have established the following ground
rules:
• Teams must comprise individuals from the same college.
• Teams are permitted to use their tools or open-source tools to develop their ideas.
• During registration, team leads and members must provide their email addresses.
• If a registered team fails to participate, they will be automatically disqualified.
• Each team should consist of a max of 3 members.
• An individual may only join one team. Each team entering the Hackathon must
appoint a 'Team Leader' to register, represent, and submit ideas.
CODE OF CONDUCT :
• The participating teams are required to treat organisers, experts, and other
participants with utmost respect.
• The rules communicated during each stage of the hackathon must be adhered to.
• Teams exhibiting unsporting behaviour and ideas, solutions that are inappropriate
or unethical will be disqualified.
• The decision of the jury is final.
• Teams are not permitted to submit entries that are currently existing and
commercially available.
• All submissions must be original work and not owned by or subject to any other
person or entity having any right or interest in it.
• Submissions must not violate any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights
including, but not limited to, contract, copyright, patent, trademark, and/or
privacy rights, of any other person or entity.
• Infosys is not liable for any plagiarism of ideas that take place during or after the
event unilaterally by individuals or teams.
• The application may include the use of open-source software, but they should
ensure that:
o They comply with applicable licenses, and
o The applicable license terms should not require the release, disclosure or
distribution of any part of the Application back to the open-source
community or to any third party under any circumstances.
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