AX Hackathon 2026
Samsung ennovateX
📌About the Event
The AX Hackathon 2026, hosted by Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore (SRI-B), is a high-level challenge focused on Agentic Transformation (AX). Participants are tasked with building autonomous Agentic Systems that use reasoning, planning, and tool-chaining to solve complex, real-world problems. This is a “code-first” competition where technical depth and open-source contributions are mandatory.
ℹ️ Event Overview
- Category: National AI & Agentic Systems Hackathon.
- Organizer: Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore (SRI-B).
- Eligibility: Students from select partner institutions (Solo or teams of up to 2).
- Core Requirement: Must use Open Weight Models (e.g., from Hugging Face) and Apache-2.0 licensed code. Proprietary APIs (like GPT-4/Claude) are prohibited in the final runtime.
- Location: Phases 1–3 are Online; Grand Finale is On-site in Bengaluru.
📅 Critical Timeline (URGENT)
- Phase 1 Deadline: May 13, 2026 (ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT).
- Task: Submit your Solution Blueprint (PDF) to register.
- Qualified Teams Announcement: May 26, 2026.
- Full Solution Submission: June 22, 2026.
- Grand Finale: July 30, 2026 (at Samsung ennovateX 2026).
💰 Rewards & Career Impact
- 🏆 Grand Prize: Laptop (up to ₹1 Lakh) for each team member.
- 🥈 Runner Up: Tablet (up to ₹50,000) for each team member.
- 💼 Internship: Direct Internship Opportunity at Samsung R&D Bangalore for all winners and runners-up.
- 📜 Recognition: Certificates for all shortlisted teams.
🧠 Key Problem Statements (Pick 1 of 11)
- Robotics: Natural Language Object Manipulation (Vision-Language-Action).
- Networking: Context-Aware Flow Embeddings for Traffic Classification.
- Mobile AI: Adaptive Memory Solutions for Mobile Agentic Systems.
- Audio: Robust AI for Speech Disentanglement.
- UX: Empathetic Intelligence for everyday life.
- SLMs: Enhancing Reasoning in Small Language Models using Reinforcement Learning.
- Ethics: GenAI-based Ethical Deepfake Video Generation.
- Telecom: RAG-based Future-Ready RAN Assistant.
- 3D Vision: Occlusion-Aware Scene Reconstruction.
📝 How to Register (Phase 1 Instructions)
There is no registration form. Your submission is your registration.
- Download: Get the blueprint template from the official portal.
- Draft: Define your architecture, innovation, and feasibility.
- Format: Export as PDF. Rename to:
your_team_name-problem_number-solution_name.pdf. - Email: Send from your official institute email to ennovatex.io@samsung.com.
- Subject:
AX Hackathon Phase 1 Submission | Problem Number | Team Name