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Events & workshops

Coming up across the chapters

Confirmed sessions, workshops and competitions. Register through your chapter.

Upcoming

The flagship event in every domain

Each domain community commits to one headline event a year. These are the formats; dates are set chapter by chapter.

  • CybersecurityFlagship — quarterly

    Capture The Flag (CTF) Competition

    Timed team challenge where students exploit intentionally vulnerable systems to capture hidden flags. Three parallel tracks — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced — so no one is excluded. Winner gets certificates, sponsor prizes, and a recommendation letter.

    • Web exploitation
    • Reverse engineering
    • Cryptography
    • Forensics
    • OSINT
    • Binary exploitation
    • Steganography

    See the Cybersecurity year

  • AI & MLFlagship — Twice/year

    Weekend ML Bootcamp

    From zero to deployed model in 2 days. Day 1: Python, NumPy, Pandas, data cleaning. Day 2: Scikit-learn, model training, evaluation, and Streamlit deployment on Hugging Face Spaces. Students leave with a live app and a shareable link.

    • Sentiment analyzer
    • Price predictor
    • Image classifier
    • Recommendation engine
    • Custom chatbot

    See the AI & ML year

  • Cloud & DevOpsFlagship — Annual

    Multi-team Cloud Infrastructure Hackathon

    24-hour event where teams build and deploy a complete cloud-native application — frontend, backend, database, CI/CD pipeline, and monitoring — all on real cloud. Judged on uptime, architecture decisions, and cost optimization. Cloud sponsors provide free credits.

    • Architecture quality
    • Uptime and reliability
    • CI/CD implementation
    • Cost optimization
    • Security posture

    See the Cloud & DevOps year

  • Developer communityFlagship — Twice/year

    48-Hour Hackathon

    Teams of 4 build a working product in 48 hours around a real problem statement. Judged by industry mentors on product thinking, code quality, and execution — not just the idea. Top 3 teams receive sponsor prizes and fast-track to internship interviews with partner companies.

    • Product thinking
    • Code quality
    • UI and UX
    • Technical execution
    • Pitch clarity

    See the Developer community year

What runs across the year

The published plan every chapter works to, quarter by quarter. A plan, not a schedule of confirmed dates.

Quarter 1

Jan — Mar

  • CyberBeginner CTF
  • AI & MLML bootcamp (2 days)
  • CloudFirst AWS deploy lab
  • DevGit + OSS onboarding
  • AllQ1 Cross-domain demo day

Quarter 2

Apr — Jun

  • CyberInter-college CTF (open)
  • AI & MLKaggle competition sprint
  • CloudCI/CD build challenge
  • DevHackathon 1 — 48 hrs
  • AllQ2 Cross-domain demo day

Quarter 3

Jul — Sep

  • CyberRed vs. blue simulation
  • AI & MLDeep learning bootcamp
  • CloudKubernetes 2-day workshop
  • DevOpen source sprint 2
  • AllQ3 Cross-domain demo day

Quarter 4

Oct — Dec

  • CyberAnnual security summit
  • AI & MLAI for social good demo
  • CloudCloud infra hackathon (24h)
  • DevHackathon 2 — flagship
  • All — Year-endAnnual showcase + certificates

The full curriculum

Past events