ZERO ORIGIN, organized by the Rotaract Club of SNS College of Technology, is a problem-driven online hackathon focused on transforming real-world problems into practical, innovative, technology-driven solutions.

Participants can choose challenges across AI, Automation, Cloud Computing, Finance & Economics, and Healthcare Technology, or bring their own validated problem through Open Innovation within the official themes.

Ready to participate? 🚀

Complete the official ZERO ORIGIN Registration Form to register your participation and provide your participant/team details.

🔗 Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegAz4Ghchcc1eCbLRpmPE0CfApY4UQYATrlkN_ZiUKOjjGag/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=116678800314912500429 

Stay connected with the organizing team for important announcements, updates, reminders, clarifications, and hackathon-related communication.

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Identify a meaningful problem, understand the affected users, explore existing gaps, and develop your solution concept.

Round 1 Submission Window: 27 August – 26 September 2026

Teams must submit their Solution with Pitch Video through this Devpost hackathon page before the deadline.

Shortlisted teams will be invited to Round 2 through the Devpost hackathon page. Teams will transform their ideas into a functional prototype and demonstrate its technical implementation, feasibility, and real-world impact.

Round 2 is exclusively for shortlisted teams.

1. Intelligent Business Document Analysis
Build an AI system that extracts deadlines, obligations, anomalies, missing data, and financial values from invoices, contracts, reports, or compliance documents, with outputs traceable to the original document.

2. Predictive Food Waste Management
Develop a demand-prediction system using historical consumption and factors such as weekdays, holidays, events, and weather to recommend preparation quantities and reduce food waste.

3. End-to-End Event Management Automation
Automate registration, verification, attendance, communication, feedback, certificate generation, and reporting while reducing duplicate data entry and manual administration.

4. Dynamic Queue Management
Develop a real-time queue system with registration, priority rules, estimated waiting time, resource availability, and live queue updates to minimize unnecessary waiting.

5. Scalable Real-Time Application Infrastructure
Build and deploy a cloud-native application demonstrating horizontal scaling, load balancing, monitoring, fault recovery, database scalability, and performance under normal and high-load conditions.

6. Real-Time Digital Fraud Detection
Develop a system that generates fraud-risk scores using transaction amount, frequency, location, device, timing, and transaction history, while explaining alerts and minimizing false positives.

7. Intelligent Scholarship Matching — Finance & Economics + AI
Build an AI-powered platform that matches students with scholarships based on academic, financial, demographic, geographic, and other eligibility criteria, while explaining eligibility, identifying missing requirements, ranking opportunities, and tracking deadlines.

8. 30-Day Small Business Cash-Flow Prediction
Develop a forecasting system that predicts a business's cash position for the next 30 days using sales, receivables, payables, expenses, inventory costs, and other relevant data.

9. Intelligent Healthcare Service Navigation
Build a platform that helps patients find suitable healthcare facilities based on required services, location, operating hours, accessibility, and appointment availability. The solution must remain a navigation and coordination tool, not a diagnostic system.

10. Real-World Innovation Within ZERO ORIGIN Themes
Identify a validated real-world problem and develop a working solution within AI, Automation, Cloud Computing, Finance & Economics, or Healthcare Technology. Teams must demonstrate affected users, evidence of the problem, existing-solution limitations, and measurable improvement.

👥 Team Size: 2–4 Members
🌐 Mode: Online
🟢 Round 1: FREE
🔵 Round 2: ₹50/person
🏆 Cash Rewards for Winners

Don’t just build a project. Solve a problem that matters.

• ⚖️ Round 1 — Ideate & Validate
  Evaluate how clearly the team identifies and validates the real-world problem, understands the affected users, presents an innovative and feasible solution, and demonstrates its potential real-world impact through the PPT and pitch video.