Convolve 4.0 - IIT Hackathon Winners

Convolve 4.0, a Pan IIT AI/ML Hackathon hosted by IIT Madras, brought together participants from across India to develop impactful AI systems in various critical domains such as healthcare, disaster response, and climate monitoring. The event emphasized advanced AI technologies like multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and multimodal intelligence, focusing on long-term, scalable deployment. The top projects included Masthishq, a multimodal AI agent assisting dementia patients with real-time context-awareness; SignalWeave, a temporal AI memory system for detecting emerging trends through persistent vector memory; and Demeter, an autonomous system for hydroponic farm management using multimodal data and expert decision-making. These projects demonstrated the importance of memory and retrieval as foundational AI infrastructure, using Qdrant as a persistent memory layer to enable systems to remember, reason over history, and improve over time.