iQOO City Battles: Hyderabad Edition
Weekend 4. Hyderabad. Sept 26-27, 2026. The final city battle before the Grand Finale. 30 hours to build AI on the phone. Top 6 advance to Bengaluru.
Hyderabad’s Moment
HITEC City, Gachibowli, Madhapur – Hyderabad’s tech corridor is India’s second-largest IT hub. IIIT Hyderabad, BITS Pilani (Hyd), CBIT, VNR VJIT, and dozens of engineering colleges make this city a powerhouse for the student track.
7 Problem Tracks
- FinTech and Commerce – payments, lending, investing for how India transacts
- Smart Education – AI tutoring, study workflows, assessment
- HealthTech – healthcare, wellness, fitness, mental health AI
- Productivity – work smarter, automate tasks, manage information
- Smart Living – smart homes, IoT, connected devices
- Developer Tools – tools that help devs create, test, deploy faster
- Open Innovation – anything else, with a local model at the core
The Stack
A local or open-source model at the core earns brownie points. Snapdragon NPU for on-device inference. Office Kit bridges the phone to laptop compute. Free AI credits provided.