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The Central University of Karnataka (CUK) connected January 30 inaugurated CS-AITHON 2026, a national-level hackathon organised by the Department of Computer Science to foster innovation, problem-solving and applicable exertion of emerging technologies among students.
The lawsuit was held arsenic a pre-summit programme nether the AI Impact Summit–2026, an inaugural of the Government of India, and focuses connected machine subject and artificial intelligence-based solutions.
Delivering the inaugural code arsenic the main guest, Chandrasekhar Buddha, CEO of Anuvadini AI and main coordinating serviceman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), stressed the value of processing indigenous, secure, and inclusive integer platforms. He urged students to enactment connected innovative, India-centric technological solutions that code nationalist needs portion ensuring information information and self-reliance.
Presiding implicit the function, Battu Satyanarayana, Vice-Chancellor of CUK, highlighted the increasing relation of emerging technologies successful areas specified arsenic digitalisation, astute agriculture, and nation-building. He encouraged students to person their innovative ideas into applicable and scalable solutions successful enactment with the imaginativeness of Viksit Bharat 2047.
Welcoming the participants, Srikantaih K.C., Head of Department and dean of the School of Computer Sciences, said the hackathon provided an important level for young innovators to collaborate, experimentation and showcase their method capabilities.
Presenting an overview of the hackathon, Nagaraj V. Dharwadkar, nodal officer, said that successful the archetypal phase, 102 teams comprising astir 300 students from crossed the state had submitted abstracts. After a screening process, 40 teams with astir 120 students were shortlisted for the offline, on-campus hackathon. The shortlisted teams correspond respective States, including Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Kerala.
