Dehradun, Nov. 24 -- Today, UPES hosted Udbhav 2025 - the first Emerging Technology-based Hackathon under the Uttarakhand AI Mission (UKAIM), bringing together student innovators from leading universities and institutes across Uttarakhand to solve real-world governance and development challenges using cutting-edge digital technologies. The state-level hackathon was organised by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of Uttarakhand (GoU), through the Uttarakhand IT Development Agency (ITDA), in collaboration with UPES as host institution.

The Udbhav hackathon ran across two pitching tracks, where student teams presented their ideas to parallel juries of experts from academia, government and industry. Each team gave a sho...