ZIVOX AI Innovation Challenge 2026
ZIVOX
📌 About the Event
The ZIVOX AI Innovation Challenge 2026 is an online innovation competition that invites participants to build practical AI-powered applications addressing real-world problems. Under the theme “Beyond Prompts — Build with AI,” participants can develop solutions using AI agents, large language models, computer vision, speech technologies, predictive models, developer tools and other AI technologies. The challenge follows a structured build sprint with two checkpoints and a final project submission, giving participants an opportunity to demonstrate their technical skills, creativity and ability to develop working AI products.
ℹ️ Event Details
- Competition Name: ZIVOX AI Innovation Challenge 2026
- Organizer: ZIVOX
- Theme: Beyond Prompts — Build with AI
- Mode of Conduct: Online
- Team Size: Individual participation or teams of 2–4 members
- Registration Fee: Free
📅 Important Dates
- Registration Opens: 1 October 2026
- Kick-off: 15 November 2026, 7:00 PM IST
- Registration Deadline: 15 November 2026, 11:59 PM IST
- Checkpoint 1 – Problem Statement and Plan: 19 November 2026, 11:59 PM IST
- Checkpoint 2 – Build Progress: 21 November 2026, 11:59 PM IST
- Final Project Submission Deadline: 22 November 2026, 11:59 PM IST
- Results Announcement: 29 November 2026, 6:00 PM IST
🎯 Eligibility & Rules
- Participants must be at least 13 years old; those under 18 require parental or guardian consent.
- Open to school students, undergraduate and postgraduate students, recent graduates and early-career developers worldwide.
- Projects must be developed during the official event window, and previously built projects cannot be submitted as new work.
- Participants may use AI coding assistants, APIs, pre-trained models, open-source libraries and public datasets, subject to the competition rules.
- Final submissions must include a project description, public code repository, working demo or demonstration video, and details of the technology stack.
- Entries are judged on innovation, technical execution and AI use, problem–solution fit, real-world impact, feasibility and demo quality.
🏆 Benefits for the Participants
- First Prize: ₹15,000 cash prize and winner certificate.
- Second Prize: ₹8,000 cash prize and runner-up certificate.
- Third Prize: ₹4,000 cash prize and certificate.
- Digital certificate for participants who complete both checkpoints and submit a final project.
- Written feedback from reviewers on project strengths and areas for improvement.
- Opportunity for outstanding projects to be featured on ZIVOX channels.
- Potential introductions to mentors from the ZIVOX network for selected projects.