Hacktoberfest Hack Day Jaipur x Hack IT Sapiens
Hacktoberfest 2026
Rupa ki Nangal, Post-Sumel, Via, Jamdoli, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302031 The LNM Institute of Information Technology Jaipur, Rajasthan 302031 India
Event Description
Hacktoberfest Hack Day Jaipur x Hack IT Sapiens is a one-day, in-person hackathon bringing together students, developers, working professionals, and early-stage builders to turn ideas into working prototypes using open-source and open-weight AI.
The event features Four prize categories:
- Best Use of Gemma 4
- Best Open-Source AI Project
- Best Local Agentic Tool
- Edge & Physical AI: Intelligence Beyond the Cloud
Your project can address any problem domain, with open-source or open-weight AI at its core. Explore the category descriptions below for their specific technical and submission requirements.
The day includes 5 hours of dedicated hacking time, alongside registration, team formation, technical guidance, project demonstrations, judging, and closing activities.
Participate in teams of 2–4 members. Every team member must register individually.
Whether this is your first hackathon or you’ve built at many before, come ready to learn, experiment, collaborate with fellow builders, and ship something over tea.
Looking for teammates or have questions? Join our event WhatsApp group to meet other participants, find your build crew, and connect with the organisers:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/E0MzKXIhwC9ErysJQJ9vLt?s=sh&p=a&mlu=4&ilr=4
Who can attend?
Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:
Links & Resources
Agent Skills Explained: What They Are, What They Aren't, and How to Use Them
Overview of the Agent Skill Open Standard and SKILL.md authoring.
Open link →A Developer's Guide to Open-Weight LLM API Integration
Guide to deploying and integrating large open-weight LLMs.
Open link →How to Run Google's Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama
Local setup and edge execution for models under 10B parameters.
Open link →Hermes Agent: A Practical Guide
Setting up and orchestrating workflows using open-source agent harnesses.
Open link →Sarvam AI Documentation
Explore Sarvam AI’s developer APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation, transliteration, chat, and document intelligence across Indian languages. Includes quickstarts, API references, SDKs, and code examples to help you integrate Indian-language AI capabilities into your project. Note: These are hosted APIs, so they are useful for general integrations but cannot serve as the core inference engine for the local-inference-only track.
Open link →Graphify Quickstart
Install Graphify, map your first repository and ask a question in minutes.
Open link →Graphify Installation Guide
Install with uv, pipx or pip, add extras, and fix PATH issues.
Open link →Graphify on GitHub
The open source Graphify engine: code, README and issues. Star it if useful.
Open link →Hosted by
Hack IT Sapiens
Hack IT Sapiens is a student developer community, where we learn by building. Founded in 2023, HIS has organized 2 national level hackathon, HIS 1.0 and HIS 2.0 in 2023 and 2024 respectively, and remains active through community events and partnerships with other tech communities in Jaipur.