🚨 Bengaluru, YOU BUILT. 🚨 

And just like that, the iQOO Hackathon 2026 Bengaluru City Battle is DONE! ⚡

30 hours. 115 participants. Students and working professionals coming together to build, solve and compete. 🧑‍💻🔥

📍 WeWork Galaxy, Bengaluru

Teams took on a phone-first, hybrid development challenge powered by the iQOO 15 - putting its performance, optimisation, cooling and battery to the test. 📱⚡

With 10+ industry mentors, teams had expert guidance and support throughout the challenge. 🧑‍🏫

And then came the moment everyone was waiting for .. 🏆

6 winning teams:

👨‍💻 3 teams from the Working Professionals bucket

🎓 3 teams from the Students bucket

Working Professionals 👨‍💻

🏆 Winner — Team Tokoti

Tokito Companion turns the phone into an AI-powered interface for engineers to interact with and debug physical circuits using camera vision, voice and multimodal AI.

🥈 1st Runner Up — Team ZXRO 77

Mira.ai is an on-device AI wellness coach that uses vision, voice and memory to deliver personalised, real-time yoga guidance while keeping everything local.

🥉 2nd Runner Up — Team Chai and Code

PhoneOS AI turns the smartphone into an agent that can understand, search and execute multi-step tasks across apps, files and device functions through natural language.

Students 🎓

🏆 Winner — Team Chole Bhature

SecondSense uses the phone’s camera, audio and haptics to help people with visual impairment detect obstacles beyond the reach of a traditional white cane — entirely offline.

🥈 1st Runner Up — Team Nexus

Anchor verifies whether your phone’s location can be trusted by cross-checking GNSS with physical sensors and on-device AI, even without internet connectivity.

🥉 2nd Runner Up — Team Smoke Test

Kavach uses on-device AI to detect scam patterns in live conversations and flag risky UPI QR codes and payment links — without sending data to the cloud.

And the biggest reward? 👀
All 6 winning teams get a direct Wild Card entry to the Grand Finale in Bengaluru, October 9–11! 🔥

One city battle down. Three battles ahead.

📍 Next stop: Pune | 5–6 September 2026

Haven't registered yet? Register now and be part of the next city battle! 🚀

Bengaluru, you showed us how it’s done. ❤️‍🔥

See you at the Finale!