Institution Name: Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Event Type: Hackathon
Event Name: 48-hours Hackathon on ‘AI for Sugarcane Diseases and Pest Management’(AgriThon 2.0)
Event Start Date: 08.08.2025
Event End Date: 10.08.2025
Event Organizing Department: School of Computer Science and Information Systems
About Event: Join us for a 48-hour hackathon on “Dataset Curation & Model Implementation,” where participants will apply AI techniques to real-world agricultural challenges. Using field data from sugarcane, an economically vital crop prone to disease, the event focuses on dataset preprocessing & model implementation. This hackathon offers hands-on exposure to precision agriculture, deep learning, and data-driven crop health management, while fostering collaboration and innovation.
Hackathon Protocol:
- No registration fee
- Food & Accommodation will not be provided
- Refreshments will be provided
- Team size: 2 to 4 members and One registration per team
- All participants must bring their College ID Cards
- Dataset will be provided
- Teams must work on the given pre processing techniques and deep learning models
- After 24 hours, the first round will be evaluated.
- Only successful teams will be permitted to proceed to the second round
- All successful participants will receive certificates
Registration Fee : No Fee
Last Date for Registration: 01.08.2025
Registration Link: Click here
Institution Website: https://vit.ac.in/
Institution Address:
VIT
Vellore Campus
Vellore – 632 014
Tamil Nadu, India
Event Brochure: Click here
Event Website: Click here
About Institution: VIT was established with the aim of providing quality higher education on par with international standards. It persistently seeks and adopts innovative methods to improve the quality of higher education on a consistent basis. The campus has a cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from all corners of the globe. Experienced and learned teachers are strongly encouraged to nurture the students. The global standards set at VIT in the field of teaching and research spur us on in our relentless pursuit of excellence. In fact, it has become a way of life for us. The highly motivated youngsters on the campus are a constant source of pride. Our Memoranda of Understanding with various international universities are our major strength. They provide for an exchange of students and faculty and encourage joint research projects for the mutual benefit of these universities. Many of our students, who pursue their research projects in foreign universities, bring high quality to their work and esteem to India and have done us proud. With steady steps, we continue our march forward. We look forward to meeting you here at VIT.
