📌About the Event

Pixels to Products – Cloudinary AI Hackathon 2026 is a fully virtual AI and media-tech hackathon by HackIndia in partnership with Cloudinary. Participants must build real, working products using Cloudinary’s AI-powered image, video, audio, media transformation, generation, and automation capabilities. The competition is open to developers, designers, and builders across India.

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ℹ️ Event Details

• Mode: Fully virtual/online.
• Team Size: 1–4 members.
• Theme: AI-powered media products using Cloudinary.
• Participants can choose from 3 challenge tracks:
• AI Media Pipelines: Build automated workflows for media ingestion, tagging, background removal, moderation, transformations, optimization, etc.
• Generative Content Workflows: Build products using Cloudinary’s AI image generation, variations, AI Vision, and media APIs.
• Your Media-Savvy Startup: Build a startup-style product where images, video, audio, or other media form a core part of the user experience.

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📅 Important Dates

• Registrations: Currently open.
• Hackathon Start: September 14, 2026
• Hackathon End / Submission Period Ends: October 3, 2026

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🎯 Eligibility & Rules

• Eligibilty:
• Open to developers, designers, and builders across India.
• All experience levels are welcome; participants do not need to be AI or media experts.
• Teams may have 1 to 4 members.
• Every team member must register individually.
• Participants must select one of the three official challenge tracks.
• The project must meaningfully use Cloudinary for functions such as uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, searching, generating, or delivering media.

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🏆 Benefits for the Participants

• Total Prize Pool: Up to ₹1,40,000.
• 🥇 1st Place: Up to ₹1,20,000
• ₹30,000 per team member for teams of up to 4.
• Awarded as Amazon.in gift cards.
• 🥈 Runner-Up: ₹20,000 total
• Divided equally among team members.
• Awarded as Amazon.in gift cards.