🚨 Pune, THAT'S A WRAP! 🚨

One more city battle. One more set of incredible builds. And Pune came ready to compete. The iQOO Hackathon 2026 Pune City Battle brought together 105 participants — students and working professionals — for non-stop building, problem-solving and innovation. 🧑‍💻🔥

📍 WeWork EON IT Park, Pune

Powered by the iQOO 15, teams pushed their ideas through a phone-first, hybrid development challenge — putting performance, optimisation, cooling and battery to the test. 📱⚡

After hours of brainstorming, coding, testing and refining, 6 teams emerged on top! 🏆

👨‍💻 Working Professionals — 3 Winning Teams

🏆 Winner — Team Chord Capital

Jammify turns solo music practice into a full-band experience, letting users jam along with manually built or AI-generated chords and instruments.

🥈 1st Runner Up — Team Merge Conflicts

Pune Tree Rakshak turns citizens into empowered tree-protection watchdogs by combining AI-verified evidence, government data and automated legal reporting.

🥉 2nd Runner Up — Team Knoxx

DailyFlow is a private, on-device memory layer that captures commitments, requests and deadlines from your digital life — without sending your data to the cloud.

🎓 Students — 3 Winning Teams

🏆 Winner — Team Redstring

RightPosture uses on-device AI and pose tracking to give patients real-time feedback on physiotherapy exercises, while helping physiotherapists monitor progress remotely.

🥈 1st Runner Up — Team Kensai

NoCapRX combines genomics, pharmacogenomics, prescription OCR and explainable AI to provide personalised medication-safety insights for users to discuss with healthcare professionals.

🥉 2nd Runner Up — Team Chanakya

Origo uses motion sensors and on-device AI to remember your walking route from your car and guide you back — completely offline, with zero GPS or cameras.

And the journey continues! 🔥

All 6 winning teams have earned a direct Wild Card entry to the Grand Finale in Bengaluru, October 9–11.

Next up: Chennai! 🌴

📅 12–13 September 2026

Haven't registered yet? Register now and get ready to build, compete and battle it out! ⚡

Pune, you brought the ideas. You brought the hustle. You BUILT. ❤️‍🔥

See you at the Finale!