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Build with AI: Code for Communities 2

A full-day build sprint where teams ship a working Gemini-powered prototype for a real civic problem in Nagpur - and demo it to a panel the same evening.

Register free300 seats · first come, first served
Date
Sun, 11 October 2026
Time
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM IST
Venue
IIIT Nagpur, Butibori
Capacity
300 seats
About this event

Code for Communities is the one day a year the chapter stops talking about AI and makes people build with it. Teams of up to four get a civic brief drawn from a real problem in Nagpur - waste collection routing, a municipal complaint tracker, accessibility of public transport information - and the whole day to ship something that runs.

There is no prize pool and no pitch deck round. At 4pm every team demos a working prototype to a panel of engineers and two people who actually work on the problem. The ones worth continuing get mentors assigned and a slot at the next DevFest.

What you leave with

  • A working Gemini-powered prototype you built, deployed and demoed the same day
  • Hands-on time with the Gemini API, function calling and grounding
  • Feedback from engineers and from the people the problem belongs to
  • A team - most of the collaborations in this community start in this room
Agenda

How the day runs

  1. Doors, coffee, team forming

    Come alone and leave with a team. We will help you find one.

  2. Briefing and the problem set

    Three civic briefs, how they were chosen, and what a good outcome looks like.

  3. Gemini API crash course

    Function calling, grounding and structured output - the three things you will actually need today.

  4. Build block one

    Mentors circulating. Ask early, ask often.

  5. Lunch

  6. Build block two

    Feature freeze is at 15:45. Plan backwards from it.

  7. Demos

    Six minutes per team: two to show, four to answer.

  8. Panel notes and what happens next

    Which prototypes get mentors, and how to keep going.

Speakers

Who you will hear from

Speaker to be announced

Engineer · TBA

Gemini API crash course

Speaker to be announced

Product · TBA

Choosing a civic brief

Saniya Imroze

Organizer · GDG Nagpur

Briefing and demos

Partners

Who makes it possible

Platinum

Google for Developers

Venue

IIIT Nagpur

Community

Women Techmakers
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