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Innovation doesn’t end with an idea—it reaches its true impact when ideas evolve into real-world solutions.

Over the past year, the MInT-athon 2025–2026, organized by the MInT Collaborative, IIT Madras, has brought together students, industry professionals, startups, mentors, jury members, and ecosystem partners to co-create innovative solutions for AI-driven Safe and Sustainable Mobility.

The journey has included:
✅ Nationwide call for innovative ideas
✅ Multi-stage jury evaluations
✅ Expert feedback and mentoring sessions
✅ Prototype development and review
✅ Funding support for shortlisted teams to build their full-scale solutions
✅ Continuous engagement with mentors and domain experts

Now, this journey reaches its culmination at the MInT Mobility Summit 2026, where the funded teams will present the outcomes of their work during the MInT-athon Open House. Visitors will have the opportunity to engage directly with the teams, explore their solutions, and understand how these technologies address real-world mobility challenges in an interactive exhibition format.

📍 Venue: Exhibition Hall, ICSR, IIT Madras
🗓 Open House: 7 & 8 July 2026

The showcase will feature two parallel MInT-athon programs:
MInT-athon for Students and Industry Professionals, supported by Bosch.
MInT-athon for Startups, supported by the Airawat Research Foundation.

We are also honoured to welcome our funding partners on 8 July 2026:

Ms. Sakina Baker
Head – CSR, Bosch Limited & Bosch India Foundation (BIF), along with the BIF CSR Team

Mr. Manish Srivastava
CEO, AI CoE for Sustainable Cities (Airawat), IIT Kanpur

Their presence reflects the continued commitment of Bosch and the Airawat Research Foundation to fostering innovation, supporting talent, and enabling promising mobility technologies to progress from concept to implementation.

The MInT-athon has never been just about selecting ideas—it has been about building solutions, strengthening collaboration across academia, industry, startups, and government, and demonstrating how innovation can contribute to a safer, smarter, and more sustainable mobility ecosystem.

We look forward to welcoming delegates, industry leaders, researchers, and innovators to experience the solutions developed through this year’s MInT-athon and celebrate the successful completion of another impactful edition.