For the first time. DevFest Chennai is coming to campus 🚀

GDG Chennai is bringing the energy, learning, and innovation of Devfest directly to student communities with DevFest on Campus 2026. Designed to bridge student innovation with the professional tech ecosystem, this pilot initiative features hands-on hackathon and technical showcase.

It’s an action-packed series of problem-solving challenges and hands-on building where your code does the talking. Bring your best ideas, team up, and tackle real-world problems 🚀. Register here.

Problem Statements

Solving for Bharath: Digital Public Infrastructure & Citizen Services

• Post & Postal Services : Improve discovery, preparation, routing, tracking, accessibility, or support around postal services.

• Indian Railways & Passenger Services : Streamline passenger planning, station navigation, ticketing guidance, disruption updates, and accessibility using service information.

• Passport, Visa & Consular Services : Guide document readiness, application prep, appointment readiness, and status interpretation using approved rules and info.

• Transport, RTO & Driving Services : Help citizens understand driving/vehicle workflows, prepare documents, and interpret rules without making legal or eligibility calls.

• Municipal & Civic Services : Ease citizen issue reporting, service discovery, civic communication, and document/workflow assistance for local services.

• Public Healthcare Services : Support non-diagnostic healthcare navigation, appointment prep, records organization, and public-health information with clear escalation.

• Agriculture & Farmer Services : Help farmers navigate schemes, market info, crop workflows, documentation, advisories, and grievances.

• Education & Student Services : Assist with education administration, scholarships, certificates, admissions guidance, accessibility, and student support.

• Courts, Legal Aid & Justice Services : Provide non-lawyer support for public legal information, document organization, case navigation, and legal-aid intake distinct from legal advice.

• Social Welfare & Citizen Benefits : Make public-benefit discovery, document prep, application support, grievance handling, and citizen communication easier.

Rules

Team formation

• Pre-formed teams register as 2–4 members.

• Solo registrants are placed into teams that need balancing (organizer matching).

• Final teams should be 2–4 members; organizers may rebalance before the build.

Core build constraint

The solution must be an Gen AI / AI-agent experience. A plain CRUD app, static dashboard, search page, or rule-based workflow alone is not sufficient. The primary value must come from an agent / Gen AI solution reasoning over inputs, using tools/data, taking permitted actions, coordinating with other agents, or producing a useful outcome.

Data & safety boundary

• Use synthetic data, publicly available datasets, or mock APIs.

• Do not require privileged access to government systems, expose personal data, or automate irreversible decisions about a real citizen.

• When a task would normally need an authorized officer, the agent should prepare a recommendation, draft, or handoff and not impersonate the authority.

Submission & demo checklist

• Problem statement selected and clearly scoped usecase

• Goal and user persona

• Architecture (or) flow of the proposed solution

• At least one meaningful agent/tool interaction (or) a live working demo