Kompact AI Hackathon 2025: India's Premier Enterprise AI Challenge for Students

Join ZIROH LABS for a 7-day virtual hackathon and compete for a ₹7,00,000 prize pool. Dates to be Announced.
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About the Kompact AI Hackathon

The Kompact AI Hackathon 2025 is a national-level virtual hackathon for college students and recent graduates in India. Hosted by ZIROH LABS, this online AI competition challenges you to build Next-Gen Enterprise AI Applications. This is your chance to work on real-world problems in Healthcare AI, FinTech, Manufacturing, and more...

Build with the Kompact AI Runtime

  • Top 20 finalists will get exclusive access to our proprietary inference runtime. We're challenging you to build powerful AI agents, RAG systems, and predictive models that are not only smart, but also efficient and secure. This is tech you won't find anywhere else.
  • Exclusive details will be shared to the selected teams. Follow our social sites for updates.

Win Over ₹7 Lakhs in Prizes and Get Hired

  • Winners and top performers get a direct pass to final-round interviews.
  • We invest in ideas we believe in. Your hackathon project could become your startup.
Winner

₹4,00,000

1st Runner-Up

₹2,00,000

2nd Runner-Up

₹1,00,000

2-Phase-Selection Process

Project Submission

The entry project submission link will be open till 10th Dec, 2025. Top 20 Finalist teams will be announced on our social media pages by Dec 14, 2025.

Main Hackathon

The top 20 finalist teams will compete for the prize. Dates to be announced. Exclusive information will be provided to teams that qualify for the Top 20 Finalists.

Who can apply?

Collegiate level, pass-outs.
Team Size - 1 to 5 members

No Lock-Ins. Every Environment Covered.

Cloud-Agnostic
Shift between providers at will. No Vendor lock-in.
Every Environment Covered
Cloud, on-prem, edge, or isolated networks.

Visibility & Control

Built-In OpenTelemetry
Track model health and performance in real time.
Operational Insights
Data to keep your AI running at its best.

Ready to build the
future of Enterprise AI?

Deadline: 10 Dec, 2025

Register for the Hackathon Today

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Kompact AI Hackathon?

The Kompact AI Hackathon 2025 is a premier, national-level virtual competition hosted by ZIROH LABS. It's an exclusive event for India's brightest student innovators to build the "Next-Gen Enterprise AI Applications." The 20 top-selected teams will compete for a total prize pool of ₹7,00,000 and exclusive career opportunities at ZIROH LABS.

Who is eligible for this AI hackathon?

Yes. Kompact AI supports deployment in private or on-prem setups.

  • The runtime to execute the Models.
  • Remote REST‑based server for serving model inferences remotely.
  • Observability to track model and system performance.
  • Client-Side SDKs in Go, Python, Java, .NET, and JavaScript, which are OpenAI Compatible for writing downstream applications that use the Kompact AI models.
Is this an online or offline hackathon? A: This is a fully online (virtual) hackathon?

Yes. Kompact AI can run on standard edge devices for local inference

What is the prize money?

Yes. Kompact AI is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed, for example,  on Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

What is the Kompact AI Runtime?

 Kompact AI supports several open and enterprise-grade models — including Qwen, Llama, Phi, and DeepSeek.
 (For the complete list, please refer:  https://www.ziroh.com/model-listing )