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AVINYA 2K26: Where Intelligence Meets Impact
Welcome to AVINYA 2K26—SIIC,IIT Kanpur’s two-day AI & Machine Learning Summit engineered to bridge the critical gap between academic theory, technological innovation, and real-world execution.
Hosted at Techno Park, IIT Kanpur, AVINYA converges top-tier students, developers, and deep-tech founders onto a single, high-velocity platform to decode the future of Artificial Intelligence.
Moving far beyond a conventional conference, AVINYA is anchored in a strict, outcome-driven framework: Learn → Build → Solve → Pitch.
Learn: Deep-dive into frontier AI paradigms with leading technologists.
Build: Translate concepts into reality through rigorous, hands-on technical workshops.
Solve: Tackle complex, high-stakes challenges in collaborative hack environments.
Pitch: Showcase and defend your innovative solution before a panel of expert jury members.
Organized by the SIIC, IIT Kanpur, AVINYA 2K26 drives a singular mandate: nurturing elite AI talent, accelerating high-potential startups, and forging powerful industry-academia synergies.
Whether you are an ambitious AI architect, a visionary founder, a passionate student, or an enterprise seeking breakthrough talent and innovation, AVINYA 2K26 is where ideas evolve into intelligent solutions, meaningful collaborations take shape, and innovation meets real-world impact. Designed as a convergence of learning, building, and problem-solving, the summit empowers participants to transform bold concepts into scalable AI-driven products while connecting with industry leaders, startups, and the broader incubation ecosystem.
Unlike a typical campus tech fest, AVINYA is anchored to real institutional infrastructure for AI innovation and entrepreneurship — giving every session, workshop, and hackathon track direct continuity into research, incubation, and funding pathways rather than ending when the event does.
Organized by
SIIC — Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT Kanpur
SIIC is IIT Kanpur's startup incubation and innovation centre, and one of India's most established technology business incubators. It has supported hundreds of startups across deep-tech, AI, hardware, and emerging-technology domains, providing mentorship, R&D facilities, co-working infrastructure, and pathways to funding and industry partnerships. AVINYA 2K26 draws on this ecosystem to connect participating teams directly to a credible startup and incubation pipeline beyond the event.