📌About the Event

Avinya 2K26 is a two-day AI Innovation Summit & Mini Hackathon organised by the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC), IIT Kanpur. The event brings together students, developers, researchers, founders, and AI enthusiasts to learn about emerging AI technologies, build solutions to real-world problems, and pitch their innovations before experts. It follows the Learn → Build → Solve → Pitch format, combining expert-led learning, hands-on workshops, collaborative problem-solving, and an AI-focused hackathon.

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ℹ️ Event Details

• Dates: 8–9 October 2026
• Venue: Techno Park, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
• Mode of Conduct: Offline/In-person
• Duration: Two days
• Theme: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, innovation, and real-world problem-solving
• Event Format: Learn → Build → Solve → Pitch
• Participants will attend AI-focused sessions and hands-on technical workshops.
• Teams will work on real-world challenges in a collaborative hackathon environment.
• Participants will showcase and defend their solutions before an expert jury panel.

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📅 Important Dates

• Last Date to Register: 30 September 2026
• Event Day 1: 8 October 2026
• Event Day 2: 9 October 2026

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🎯 Eligibility & Rules

• Eligibilty:
• Open to students, developers, AI/ML enthusiasts, researchers, startup founders, early-stage teams, and industry professionals.
• Participants do not need to have a finished product before registering.
• Applicants should have an idea, problem statement, or interest in developing AI-powered solutions.
• Individual participants as well as groups/teams can participate.

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🏆 Benefits for the Participants

• Participants get an opportunity to showcase their AI solutions before an expert jury.
• The event offers interaction and networking opportunities with AI professionals, technologists, startups, and innovators.
• Participants gain access to hands-on AI workshops and collaborative hackathon experience.
• The event is connected with SIIC IIT Kanpur’s broader startup, incubation, research, and funding ecosystem, creating potential pathways for promising innovations beyond the event.