About Hacklytics 2026: Golden Byte
Step into a world of pure imagination at Hacklytics 2026, where creativity, curiosity, and innovation come together in a factory of endless possibilities. This year’s hackathon invites you to unwrap bold ideas, experiment fearlessly, and turn imaginative concepts into impactful solutions.
As you journey through this whimsical factory of innovation, you’ll tackle real-world challenges and blend technical skill with creativity and vision. Whether you’re crafting your first prototype or refining a polished solution, Hacklytics 2026 is your golden ticket to explore, build, and create alongside fellow innovators.
Bring your ideas, your skills, and your sense of wonder. Let’s see what you can invent.\
Find out more about our hackathon at our website!
TRACKS
Finance
Analyze market trends, predict stock movements, and build cutting-edge fintech solutions. This track is perfect for projects focused on financial modeling, risk analysis, fraud detection, trading strategies, or improving access to financial tools using data and machine learning.
Sports Analytics
Dive into player performance, game strategy, and the future of sports data. Projects in this track may analyze real-time statistics, optimize team decisions, enhance fan engagement, or explore how analytics can redefine athletic performance and competition.
Healthcare
Innovate in bioinformatics, patient care, and personal health technology. This track encourages solutions that improve health outcomes, enhance medical decision-making, personalize care, or use data and AI to tackle challenges in healthcare accessibility and efficiency.
Entertainment
See how AI is transforming movies, gaming, and interactive experiences. Build tools or platforms that enhance storytelling, content creation, player engagement, or immersive media experiences across film, gaming, and digital entertainment.
Pure Imagination
Unleash your creativity, explore unconventional ideas, and use data to build the coolest, most unique project. This track is all about bold thinking—whether your project is experimental, playful, artistic, or completely unexpected, creativity takes center stage here.
Prizes
Best Overall Hack – 1st Place
Apple 13” MacBook Air (M4 chip w/ 10-10-16 cores, 16GB memory, 256GB SSD)
2nd Overall Hack
Apple AirPods Max
3rd Overall Hack
Samsung 27” Odyssey OLED G5 QHD Gaming Monitor
First in Finance
Nespresso Vertuo Next w/ Milk Frother
Second in Finance
JBL Grip Speaker
Third in Finance
Clay Poker Set
First in Sports
Apple 40mm Watch SE 3
Second in Sports
JBL Grip Speaker
Third in Sports
Pickleball Set
First in Healthcare
Theragun Mini Gen 3
Second in Healthcare
Fitbit Inspire 3
Third in Healthcare
Owala Water Bottle
First in Entertainment
Home Projector
Second in Entertainment
Karaoke Machine
Third in Entertainment
Vinyl Record Turntable
Pure Imagination
Ninja Swirl by CREAMi Soft Serve and Ice Cream Maker
Most Unique Application of Sphinx
Recognizes a project that applies Sphinx’s tools or data in a novel, impactful, or unexpected way.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Hacklytics
Michael Waldrop
Nvidia, Manager Senior, SW Engineering
Anshul Gandhi
Apple, Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Sheldon Rodrigues
Microsoft, Senior Applied Scientist
Puneet Thakkar
Google, Finance Senior Project Analyst
Sahil Gandhi
Amazon, Senior Business Intelligence Engineer
Anusha Kovi
Amazon, Business Intelligence Engineer
Ashwathama Rajendran
Stripe, Data Analytics Lead
Akshit Calonia
Cisco, Machine Learning Engineer
Sagar Bharat Shah
JPMorgan Chase, Vice President, AI & Data Analytics
Amandeep Singh
Oracle, Principal Cloud Architect
Ramya Chintamaneni
Equifax, Software Engineer
Maninder Jeet Singh
Capital One, Senior Director
Rahul Kapoor
Google Cloud, Staff Software Engineer
Kashish Mittal
Uber, Staff Software Engineer
Mrinal Jain
Lowe's Technologies
Abdur Rahman
Datatex Textile Information, Inc.
Mitul Chittoory
Microsoft, Software Developer
Kashif Saleem
SubscriptionFlow
Abhishek Patria
Invesco, Principal Data Scientist
Karthigayan Devan
Genuine Parts Company, Software Engineer Manager
Hemant Soni
Capgemini America Inc., Product Development Leader
Phanindra Panthagani
Populus Financial Group, Senior Data Scientist
Shubham Kulkarni
QVC Group
Snezana Zivcevska-Stalpers
EAS Consultancy
Arunachalam Rajkumar
Rustoleum Corporation- BI Developer, Data Analytics
Rahul Khurana
Kroger, Tech Lead
Rashi Dhenia
Hitachi, Sr Business Intelligent Analyst
Yukti Goyal
KForce Inc, Lead Software Engineer
Gautham Kanekal Guruswamy
PayPal
Pooja Akkaladevi
Verisk, Lead Data Scientist
Aaditi Singhal
ProfitWise, CEO
Krishna Bhatnagar
Profitwise Inc.
Ramadevi Nunna
Wells Fargo
Dev Patel
PPL Corporation, Data Engineer II
Uday Kiran Chilakalapalli
LPL Financial, Senior Data Analyst
Brij Mohan
LPL Financial, VP Software Dev.
Andrei Vince
SuperKey, Software Engineer
Purvi Joshi
Amazon
Rohith Vangalla
Optum Technology
Abhishek Trehan
Saksham Kapoor
Jeevan Kumar Goud Bandharapu
Ganesh Kumar Suresh
Gautam Krishna Moorthi
Judging Criteria
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Creativity and Originality
Projects should demonstrate a unique, unexpected approach to the data analysis and/or solution development. -
Impact and Relevance
Projects should provide strong and adequate evidence that they present potential benefits to society, science, and/or policy. They should also align strongly with the goals of the competition. -
Scope and Technical Depth
Projects should utilize an adequate variety and complexity of data/tools. They should use these tools correctly and consistently within analysis and/or development. -
Clarity and Engagement
Projects should provide a well-organized, complete and clear description of the approach used, tools utilized, and conclusions made. -
Soundness and Accuracy
Projects' data analysis techniques used in projects should be consistent and correct; conclusions must also be logical. -
Video Presentation and Communication
Project video submissions should clearly explain the approach, tools, and conclusions while being engaging, enthusiastic, and well-structured to capture and maintain the audience's attention.
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