AI for Everyday Life
★★★★☆
The Memory Agent
People use WhatsApp, emails, PDFs, screenshots, notes and calendars to store information, but important information gets lost across different platforms. Build an AI assistant that creates a personal searchable memory from user-provided data.
Challenge
- Retrieve information across different data types.
- Understand context and relationships between people, events and documents.
- Handle conflicting information.
- Provide source references.
- Avoid confidently inventing information.
BONUS: Build an autonomous agent that can take actions based on retrieved information.
Smart Campus Innovation
★★★★★
Campus Digital Twin
Build a digital twin of a university campus representing buildings, classrooms, labs, hostels, parking, events and facilities in one interactive system.
IoT / DATA → BACKEND → ANALYTICS → CAMPUS MAP → REAL-TIME DECISIONS
Challenge
- Show classroom and lab availability.
- Find available parking and facilities.
- Visualize crowd levels and activity.
- Show events and reported campus issues.
- Combine multiple simulated or real data sources.
BONUS: Predict crowd movement and facility demand.
FinTech for Everyone
★★★★☆
Can You Trust This Payment?
Build a real-time payment risk assistant that evaluates transaction context and explains why a payment may be unusual or suspicious.
TRANSACTION + CONTEXT → RISK MODEL → EXPLANATION → USER ACTION
Challenge
- Analyze amount, recipient history and payment frequency.
- Consider device and location changes.
- Analyze QR/payment requests and accompanying messages.
- Learn normal user behavior rather than using fixed thresholds.
BONUS: Detect coordinated fraud patterns across multiple accounts using graph analysis.
Where Did the Electricity Go?
Build an AI-powered energy intelligence platform that identifies unusual consumption, energy wastage, peak demand and abnormal usage across buildings, rooms or devices.
HISTORICAL DATA + CONTEXT → FORECAST → ANOMALY → CAUSE → ACTION
Challenge
- Predict expected electricity consumption.
- Detect unexpected usage patterns.
- Identify peak-demand periods.
- Use weather, occupancy, holidays and schedules as context.
- Explain possible causes of anomalies.
BONUS: Automatically recommend an optimized energy schedule.
Healthcare & Smart Tech
★★★★★
Patient Zero: The Missing Context
Medical information can be scattered across prescriptions, laboratory reports, scans and hospital visits. Build a system that converts multiple medical documents into a longitudinal patient timeline.
DOCUMENTS → EXTRACTION → TIMELINE → RELATIONSHIPS → SOURCED INSIGHTS
Challenge
- Identify changes across reports over time.
- Track repeated tests and medication history.
- Connect relevant information across documents.
- Identify missing or inconsistent information.
- Preserve uncertainty and source provenance.
IMPORTANT: This is an informational record-organization tool, not an autonomous diagnostic system.
Web & App Open Innovation
★★★★★
The Internet Control Room
Build a platform where a user gives a high-level objective and the system decomposes it into multiple tasks and executes them using available APIs and services.
GOAL → PLAN → TOOLS → EXECUTE → VERIFY → RECOVER
Challenge
- Choose the right tools for each task.
- Decompose objectives into executable workflows.
- Maintain state across multiple steps.
- Handle API failures and conflicting results.
- Support authentication, human approval and recovery.
BONUS: Allow developers to plug their own tools and APIs into the agentic system.