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Hacktoberfest Hack Day Pune x AI Hackers Collective

Hacktoberfest 2026

Saturday October 17, 2026
9:00AM to 6:30PM IST
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FlytBase Labs
Baner Road, Pune
Office 701, 7th Floor, Amar Paradigm
Pune, Maharashtra 411045
India
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Event Description

Join us in Pune this 17th October for a day of building, experimenting, and learning with open-source AI.

Hacktoberfest Hack Day with AI Hackers Collective is a hands-on mini-hackathon bringing together developers, AI builders, students, and open-source enthusiasts to explore ideas, experiment with new tools, and build something by the end of the day.

The day will revolve around a focused AI challenge, with participants getting a chance to explore open-source tools and open-weight models, work alongside other builders, and put together a working project within a few hours.

You do not need to come with a finished idea or a team. We’ll kick things off with some context around the challenge, give you time to form teams and explore approaches, and then spend most of the day building.

Expect a day of:

  • Open-source AI and open-weight models
  • Hands-on building and experimentation
  • A focused challenge revealed on the day
  • Mentors and fellow builders to bounce ideas off
  • Live demos at the end of the hackathon

Whether you already contribute to open source or are simply curious about building with open AI, this is a chance to spend a day learning by doing and meeting people who like building things too.

The Challenge

The exact challenge will be revealed on the day.

It will revolve around building with open-source AI, with enough room for teams to experiment with different models, architectures, tools, and approaches.

The goal is simple:

Build something that works, learn something while doing it, and show us what you made.

Please Note: Registrations are subject to shortlisting.

Registering does not guarantee participation. Shortlisted participants will receive a confirmation email from us soon.

Who can attend?

Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:

Schedule

9:00 AM
Breakfast + meet the people you’ll be building alongside

9:30 AM
State of the Art + open-source AI demos + challenge reveal + Q&A

11:00 AM
Build, test, break things, fix them, and keep going

6:00 PM
Selected demos + results + prizes

More details about the challenge, mentors, judging, and prizes will be announced soon.

Links & Resources

Gemma 4 Resources

General hub and documentation overview.

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Gemma Quickstart

Getting started guide and rapid API setup.

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Gemma API Docs

Endpoint specifications and API references.

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Gemma Beginner Guide

Step-by-step introduction for new developers.

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Hosted by

Harshad Sheelwant
Aryan Patel
Mahesh Mali
Ankita Divekar
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AI Hackers Collective is a builder community bringing together engineers, AI researchers, students, and technologists to learn, experiment, and build together with AI. We’ve hosted 60+ AI community events in past one year, with our recent hackathons attracting 350+ registrations each, and have grown to 2,500+ community members on whatsapp and 8,500+ subscribers on luma. Our events are hands on by design, with builders spending the day working on real technical challenges across open models, agents, multimodal AI, and developer tooling.

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