SAP and Nextgrids have joined forces to bridge the gap between academia and industry through HackFest 2025 and beyond. This collaboration is designed to foster innovation, nurture skilled talent, and create impactful industry-academic engagements. With HackFest 2025 and other key initiatives, Nextgrids is revolutionizing the way talent meets technology to shape the future of innovation!
Key Aspects of the Partnership:Empowering Students & Faculty: Access to SAP’s cutting-edge technologies, industry mentorship, and hands-on learning opportunities.
Building an Innovation Ecosystem: Connecting colleges, startups, and enterprises to drive real-world problem-solving.
Enhancing SAP’s Reach: Strengthening SAP’s engagement with the next generation of tech talent through structured training programs and hackathons.
Industry Integration & Collaboration: Offering faculty development programs, industry immersion, and revenue-sharing opportunities for educational institutions.
Nationwide Impact: Bringing together 200+ colleges, 18 hubs, and thousands of students to solve industry-relevant challenges.
Together, SAP and Nextgrids are shaping the future of technology by fostering talent, enabling collaboration, and driving digital transformation at scale.
3. Hackathon Flow
Basic Rules of the Hackathon:
Rule 1: Team can consist of 4 to 5 Participants (min and max)
Rule 2: No student should be a part of two teams
Rule 3: Teams must be formed within your own college
Rule 4: Prototype + Presentation needs to be showcased to the jury
Rule 5: Only eligible teams from each college will be shortlisted for the next round
Rule 6: Utilizing resources from the internet or any other source is permitted. However plagiarism is not. Showcase your own work. Plagiarism will lead to disqualification
Rule 7: Hackathon Judging Criteria and presentation rules will be disclosed few days before the Hackathon begins
Rule 8: SAP's decision is final and binding
Additional Rules:
- Participants should belong to B.E, B.Tech, B.Sc., BCA, M.E, M.Tech, MCA MBA or MSc and should be studying in any stream and any semester/year.
- One team can register only one idea, duplicate/additional submission will be deleted
- Participants need not belong to same Stream and Semester/Year
- The teams should have registered to the SAP Learning Hub
- During Regional Round, Only ideas will be evaluated, it is not mandatory to have a working prototype
- Idea Pitch should be Slide based, Do not use paper based presentation
- Each team will be given 10 mins of time to pitch and 5 mins for Q&A
- The teams should have registered to the SAP Learning Hub - https://learning.sap.com/students
Code Related rules:
The first 3 rounds will not need any coding knowledge. However, subsequent rounds will have some amount of basic coding requirements on SAP BTP and related technologies. There are training modules made available for participants. All work should be done during the Hackathon time frame. Your code repository must be initialized at the beginning of the Hackathon
Teams
cannot use libraries, frameworks, or open-source code in their projects. Working on a project before the event and open-sourcing it for the sole purpose of using the code during the event is against the spirit of the rules and is not allowed
Note- Each team must fill out the form individually
Point of Contact from Nextgrids:
1. Philojah M, Program Manager - +91-9360795466
2. Pavan Thanai, Head of Programs - +91- 9916855101
3. Deepa Lingaraj, Head of Programs - +91-9886444066
4. Vipin Shenoy, Head of Programs - +91-91 87221 80809
5. Darshan Kasaravalli, CEO - +91 99724 99114
* Teams can be disqualified from the competition at the organizers’ discretion. Reasons might include but are not limited to breaking the Competition Rules, the Code of Conduct, or other unsporting behavior. In case of discrepancies, the final take shall lie with the organizers. All the Prizes and the Prize categories are decided on the sole discretion of SAP and can be modified at any time under requisite circumstances. SAP is not liable to give any notice for the same. 