Track 1

The Productivity Flow

The world of work is undergoing a massive shift. People are increasingly relying on AI for everyday tasks—from writing and organizing to decision-making and automation. Organizations across industries are now adopting AI-powered tools to enhance productivity, reduce repetitive work, and enable employees to focus on creative, strategic problem-solving.

As the next generation of product builders, students have an opportunity to shape how the future workforce interacts with AI. This track challenges you to imagine, design, and prototype an AI-driven solution that can meaningfully improve workplace productivity.

Explore the Microsoft stack with Azure credits and build where productivity meets intelligence.

Unlock with Azure: Explore Azure OpenAI Service for context awareness, Microsoft Graph API for workplace data, and Azure AI Translator for multilingual support.

Prefer another tech path? That’s perfectly fine too - use any tools that work best for you.

Track 2

AI for India

Create AI solutions that tackle real problems - cleaner air and water monitoring, smarter energy consumption, education that reaches every child, and digital services in the languages people actually speak.

Your solution should work on spotty internet, show transparent impact metrics (like emissions saved or people reached), and be ready to pilot in real communities tomorrow.

Dive into Microsoft’s AI and cloud tools with Azure credits and build solutions that can drive India-first, community-focused impact.

Unlock with Azure: Explore Azure Maps for environmental tracking, Azure AI Speech for local dialects, and Azure IoT Hub for energy monitoring data.

If you’re more comfortable with another stack, you’re free to use that instead.

Track 3

AI Study Buddy

Build an app that sees your messy handwritten notes, reads them aloud, breaks down complex concepts, and quizzes you in both English and your favorite Indian language - making studying actually engaging instead of exhausting.

This is about multimodal AI that understands images, text, and speech to create personalized learning experiences that stick.

Experiment with Microsoft’s AI ecosystem using Azure credits and see how vision, speech, and language models work together in one platform.

Unlock with Azure: Explore GPT-4o with Vision (via Azure OpenAI) to analyze images, and Azure AI Speech services for text-to-speech capabilities.

You’re also welcome to build with any framework you already know and love.

Track 4

Agent Teamwork

Orchestrate three cooperating AI agents - a planner who maps the strategy, a retriever who fetches the right resources, and an executor who gets things done - all working in harmony to solve multi-step challenges like creating a complete semester plan with deadlines and reminders. This is distributed AI architecture at its finest, containerized and scalable.

Use your Azure credits to explore Microsoft’s container and orchestration ecosystem and see how agent-based systems scale in the cloud.

Unlock with Azure: Explore Microsoft AutoGen or Semantic Kernel for agent orchestration, and deploy using Azure Container Apps.

Prefer your existing toolchain like Docker or Kubernetes elsewhere? Go right ahead.

Track 5

Trustworthy AI

AI systems are powerful, but they’re also vulnerable - prompt injection attacks, poisoned training data, model theft, and adversarial misuse are real threats that need real solutions.

Build monitoring frameworks, defense mechanisms, and resilient architectures that protect AI pipelines from attackers trying to break, steal, or manipulate your models.

Leverage Azure credits to try Microsoft’s security-first AI infrastructure and enterprise-grade protection capabilities.

Unlock with Azure: Explore Azure AI Content Safety to detect jailbreaks, and Azure Machine Learning for robust model monitoring and management.

You may also use any security tools and platforms you trust.

Track 6

The Next Billion Builders

Give everyone a cape. Participants can build tools that help anyone - from beginners to seasoned devs - turn ideas into production-ready multi-agent apps using AI (e.g. M365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Clawdbot and others).

Think coding copilots, testing agents, data-to-app pipelines, MCP servers exposing campus or enterprise services, or Foundry agents that become reusable building blocks. The goal is to remove friction, accelerate learning, and help builders ship confidently and joyfully.

Tap into Microsoft’s AI platform with Azure credits and build with tools designed to accelerate modern builders.

Unlock with Azure: Explore GitHub Copilot Extensions to build custom dev tools, and Azure AI Foundry to create reusable agentic building blocks.

And if you’d rather work with a different stack, that option is always open.