5G Innovation Hackathon 2025:

The 5G Innovation Hackathon 2025 aims to bring together students, startups, and professionals to develop cutting-edge solutions using 5G labs in 100 institutes across India. The Hackathon will facilitate solution development in key technology areas such as AI-driven network maintenance, IoT-enabled applications, smart healthcare, industrial automation, quantum communication, and more. The hackathon provides a collaborative platform to the stakeholders to innovate and develop prototypes/applications/solutions through access to 5G labs, mentorship from industry and academic experts during the hackathon, provision of seed funding to the shortlisted proposals, and support for commercialization.

Hackathon Rules:

1. Participants must be undergraduate/postgraduate students, startups, professionals or in their collaboration with others.
2. Each team must submit a comprehensive proposal to any of the 5G Use case labs in 100 institutes outlining their problem statement, proposed solution, and expected impact.
3. Each institutions shall recommend 1-5 proposals to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) after internal screening.
4. Proposals will go through regional and national shortlisting before progressing to prototype development.
5. Teams will have access to labs for prototype development, and will be provided mentorship by experts.
6. The shortlisted proposals at regional level will be provided seed funding for further development of projects.
7. The final evaluation will be based on technical execution, scalability, market readiness, societal impact, and novelty.
8. Winning teams will receive cash prizes and opportunities to showcase their projects on national platforms.
9. Intellectual property rights (IPR) support will be provided for viable solutions.

Call for Proposals: From 15 March - 29 April 2025

Hackathon Theme:

"Innovating the Future with 5G Technologies" to address India-specific problems of various the socio-economic sectors

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