The Department of Mechanical Engineering at PESITM, in association with Anvesana Innovation & Entrepreneurial Forum

and the IIC, successfully conducted a Two-Day Lean Start-up & MVP Boot Camp on 11th August 2026.

With 103 Applications Received, 25 Teams Shortlisted, 19 teams participated, and 75 student innovators

The boot camp provided hands-on exposure to Design Thinking, Customer Discovery, MVP Development, Testing, Validation, and Iteration, empowering students to transform innovative ideas into practical solutions.

The highlight of the programme was the final pitch session, where 19 teams presented their innovations to an expert jury.

Best Innovation-ECE 14 – Eye Control AI: A Multi-Layer Hands-Free Authentication and Computer Interaction System Using Eye Tracking and Face Recognition

Best MVP-ISE 18 – Law Buddy

Best Overall-CE 1 – Review on Modern Deep Fake Detection: Advanced Framework for the Deep Fake Detection