QX Hack: Quantum for Social Good Hackathon
A 10-hour offline hackathon with Startup Park Bengaluru where teams shipped working quantum MVPs aimed at real social problems.
300+
Hackers
50+
Teams
10h
Build time
19
Problem statements
Winners
- 1st place
Infinity Loop
- 2nd place
Nexus
- 3rd place
Anurag
Four tracks, one theme
Every team picked a track and built a working MVP with a real quantum or quantum-inspired component, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
01
Sustainability & Climate
Water, energy, air quality and climate risk forecasting with hybrid quantum models.
02
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Disease risk prediction, hospital resource allocation and drug interaction simulation.
03
Security & Privacy
Post-quantum cryptography for messaging, digital identity and voting.
04
Social Impact & Optimization
Traffic, food distribution, waste collection and supply chains for essentials.
Format
- Mode
- Offline, one day
- Team size
- 2 to 4 members
- Checkpoints
- 2 mentor reviews
- Pitch
- 5 min demo + 2 min Q&A
- Final round
- Top 4 teams
- Entry
- Free, food and workspace provided
Stack
Approaches
- Quantum computing
- Quantum machine learning
- Quantum-inspired optimization
- Post-quantum cryptography
Tools teams used
- Qiskit
- PennyLane
- Cirq
- TensorFlow Quantum
- PyTorch