ACM W BPDC PRESENTS
Hack After Hours
Hack After Hours is a 24-hour build event organized by ACM-W at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, where pre-formed teams design and prototype real, functional tech solutions. The event brings together students from BITS Pilani Dubai as well as other universities across the region and closes with a live pitch to a panel of judges from academia and industry.
Event Details
- Event
- Hack After Hours
- Dates
- November 16–17, 2026
- Venue
- BITS Pilani Dubai Campus
- Duration
- November 16: 9 AM to 2 PM
November 17: 9 AM to 2 PM - Team size
- 3–4 members per team
- Team formation
- Pre-formed teams
- Eligibility
- BITS Pilani Dubai students, open to students from other universities and campuses
- Entry fee
- Free only if all team members are ACM-W BITS Pilani members
AED 10 per team otherwise - Prize money
- AED 1,200
- Format
- In-person hackathon
Four Tracks. One Vision.
Rather than a single fixed theme, teams will be offered a choice across four tracks — giving participants room to build in a domain they’re genuinely excited about, while keeping the event’s signature element of surprise until the tracks are revealed at kickoff.
Every team, regardless of track, will be required to incorporate a meaningful AI or data-analytics component into their submission — a model, a predictive feature, a data-driven insight layer, or similar. This is built into the judging rubric as a mandatory criterion, giving Imperium a consistent, visible presence across every project at the hackathon.