Microsoft's Build AI
Microsoft Build AI is grounded in a simple belief: meaningful innovation comes from builders who take on tough challenges and deliver real, working solutions. Across six dynamic tracks, you’ll solve complex, real-world problems spanning productivity, security, agentic systems, and beyond. This is not just about ideation - it’s about execution, impact, and building what truly works.
About
Theme 01 - AI AT WORK Productivity & Teamwork Reimagined The way people work — and work together — is changing fast. AI is rewriting the rules of productivity and collaboration, turning chaotic inboxes into prioritized action lists, transforming scattered team conversations into shared clarity, and replacing manual drudgery with intelligent automation. This theme challenges you to build AI-powered solutions that cut through the noise, eliminate repetitive work, and help professionals focus on what actually matters — while making teamwork feel effortless, not exhausting. Think smart assistants, intelligent workflows, real-time knowledge sharing, AI-powered conversation summaries, and tools that make sure no idea gets lost and no task falls through the cracks. Whether it's helping an individual power through their day or helping a distributed team operate like they're in the same room — build something that doesn't just save time, but fundamentally changes how work gets done by individuals and teams. Theme 02 - SECURITY Security in the Agentic Future AI agents are powerful but they're also new attack surfaces. As autonomous systems start making decisions, browsing the web, and talking to each other, the security landscape gets a whole lot more complex. This theme challenges you to build monitoring frameworks, defense mechanisms, and trust architectures that keep agentic systems safe from prompt injection, identity spoofing, unauthorized access, and adversarial misuse. If agents are the future, someone needs to make sure that future is secure. Theme 03 - AGENTIC WEB Agentic Web What if AI could browse, interact, and get things done on the web on your behalf? This theme is about building autonomous agents that navigate websites, extract information, complete multi-step transactions, and orchestrate actions across services without hand-holding. Your agent should be smart enough to plan, resilient enough to recover, and useful enough that users never want to go back to doing it manually. Theme 04 - DATA & INSIGHTS AI Meets Data Data is everywhere, but insight is rare. This theme is about building AI solutions that take raw, messy, unstructured data and turn it into something teams can actually act on. Think intelligent data cleaning, automated enrichment, pattern discovery, and analytics pipelines that surface the signal buried in the noise. If your solution makes someone say 'I had no idea that was in our data,' you're on the right track. Theme 05 - AGENT SWARMS Agent Swarms One agent is useful. A swarm of agents working together? That's a different game entirely. This theme is about orchestrating multiple AI agents planners, retrievers, executors, validators that collaborate, self-organize, and solve complex multi-step problems no single agent could handle alone. This is distributed AI architecture at its finest containerized, scalable, and seriously impressive when it works. Theme 06 - PRODUCTION FUNCTION AI-Powered Production The AI revolution isn't just about smarter products - it's about fundamentally rethinking how we build them. Traditional production workflows, toolchains, people organizations and processes weren't designed for an AI-first world, and bolting AI onto legacy systems only gets you so far. This theme challenges you to reimagine the production function itself - new tools, new workflows, new systems, org structures and new ways of working that are built ground-up for AI-led delivery. Think AI-native CI/CD pipelines, intelligent quality gates, automated testing and deployment frameworks, AI-augmented project management, and process orchestration that adapts in real time. If the old playbook was built for manual execution, your job is to write the new one - where AI isn't an add-on, it's the operating system of production.
Eligibility
India Only, Professionals with 3+ years of work experience