2026 editionIndia · Aug → Dec case-comp window

Never miss a case comp again.

Upcoming Indian case competitions from August onward — with registration windows, one-click reminders for your calendar, and a playbook of resources to actually win.

📅 See the calendar📚 Winning playbook

⏰ Set these reminders first

The three nearest registration windows — add them to your calendar before doing anything else.

Emerge

IIM Shillong

Reg opens: Early August 11d ago

📆 Google

Utkarsh

IIT Mandi

Reg opens: Early August 11d ago

📆 Google

Ignite 180

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Kirori Mal College, DU

Reg opens: Mid-August 1d ago

📆 Google

📅 The calendar

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★ MUST-DOAugustIIM

Venix

IIM Bangalore

📅 Aug 1–3, 2026💰 ₹12.5L+ pool

Watch: The Fifth Move, C-Suite, Data Analytics Challenge, Young Entrepreneurs Summit, Young Leaders Summit. Theme: Vision. Venture. Victory.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-JuneEvent window passed
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @iimbvenix
ConsultingEntrepreneurshipFinance
AugustIITIIM

i5 Summit

IIT + IIM Indore (joint)

📅 Late August onwards

Watch: Pitch competitions, B-plan, ideathons. Central India's largest E-summit.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-JulyRegistration likely open now
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop
Entrepreneurship
SeptemberIIT

Techniche

IIT Guwahati

📅 Sep 20–22, 2026

Watch: Robowars, Aqua Wars, Nexus & Lecture Series, Legacy (esports), industrial conclaves.

🗓️ Registration window: Late JuneRegistration likely open now
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop
Tech-Mgmt
SeptemberIIM

Emerge

IIM Shillong

📅 Mid-September

Watch: Entrepreneurship Summit pitching, startup panels.

🗓️ Registration window: Early AugustRegistration likely open now
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Entrepreneurship
SeptemberIIT

Utkarsh

IIT Mandi

📅 September

Watch: Tech competitions, hackathons (some editions in November).

🗓️ Registration window: Early AugustRegistration likely open now
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Tech-Mgmt
★ MUST-DOSeptemberDU

Ignite 180

Kirori Mal College, DU

📅 September–October

Watch: Consulting case competition — the earliest national-scale consulting comp accessible to DU undergrads.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-AugustRegistration likely open now
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @ignite180.kmc
Consulting
★ MUST-DOOctoberIIM

The Red Brick Summit

IIM Ahmedabad

📅 Oct 3–5, 2026

Watch: Parivartan (CSR/case), TRBS Quiz, Can You Sell This?, BCG 'Unboxing Consulting', policy & geopolitics panels. 20,000+ Unstop regs.

🗓️ Registration window: Late AugustRegistration opens in ~9 days
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @trbsiima
ConsultingManagement
OctoberIIM

Horizons

IIM Kozhikode

📅 Oct 19–20

Watch: Management conclave, sectoral discussions.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-SeptemberRegistration opens in ~30 days
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Management
OctoberIIM

Khlurthma

IIM Shillong

📅 Mid-October

Watch: Business case competitions.

🗓️ Registration window: Early SeptemberRegistration opens in ~20 days
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ManagementConsulting
OctoberOther

Advaita

ISB Hyderabad + Mohali

📅 October

Watch: Consilium (consulting), Mercado (retail), C-Suite (best CEO), Beat the Clock (B-quiz).

🗓️ Registration window: Late AugustRegistration opens in ~9 days
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ConsultingManagement
OctoberDU

Econvista 2.0

LSR, DU

📅 Oct 14–15, 2026

Watch: Academic-economics conference.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-SeptemberRegistration opens in ~30 days
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Economics
★ MUST-DOOctoberIIM

Atharv Ranbhoomi

IIM Indore (IPM)

📅 Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2026

Watch: The only UG-driven flagship across IIMs — B-plan, marketing, finance comps.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-SeptemberRegistration opens in ~30 days
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @atharvfest
EntrepreneurshipFinanceConsulting
★ MUST-DONovemberOther

Ensemble-Valhalla

XLRI Jamshedpur

📅 Nov 15–17, 2026

Watch: The Next Gen Leader, Circus Maximus, Strategikon, War of Wits, Helios, Tech Tack, Societas. 60+ events, 30,000+ footfall.

🗓️ Registration window: Late SeptemberRegistration opens in ~40 days
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @ensemble_valhalla
ConsultingManagement
★ MUST-DONovemberIIM

7 Lakes Fest

IIM Calcutta

📅 Nov 15–17, 2026

Watch: Olympus, Marketplace, Lord of Sales, Bizworth, Consulting Knights, Empires of the Mind, Launchpad, Sociopreneur.

🗓️ Registration window: Late SeptemberRegistration opens in ~40 days
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ConsultingManagementFinance
NovemberIIT

Amalthea

IIT Gandhinagar

📅 Nov 9–10, 2026

Watch: Conclave, Symposium, Tech Expo (ISRO / Indian Army / Dronelab), Networking Dinner.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-SeptemberRegistration opens in ~30 days
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Tech-Mgmt
★ MUST-DONovemberIIM

Backwaters

IIM Kozhikode

📅 Nov 15–17, 2026

Watch: InQuizzitive (quiz), Kotler Sutra (marketing), White Knight (national B-plan), Avatar: The Ultimate CEO, MUN, Healthcare Summit.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-SeptemberRegistration opens in ~30 days
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @backwatersiimk
ConsultingEntrepreneurshipManagement
★ MUST-DODecemberIIT

E-Summit (Eureka!)

IIT Bombay

📅 Dec 11–12, 2026💰 Eureka! ₹2 Cr

Watch: Eureka! — Asia's largest business model competition; 28th edition; 25,000+ entries last year; access to 50+ leading VC firms. Plus Entre-MUN, Summit Chapters.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-OctoberRegistration opens in ~60 days
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @ecell.iitb
Entrepreneurship
DecemberIIT

Techfest

IIT Bombay

📅 Dec 21–24, 2026

Watch: Asia's largest sci-tech festival; Robowars, International Humanoid Summit, Techfest World MUN, AI/ML/IoT workshops.

🗓️ Registration window: Mid-OctoberRegistration opens in ~60 days
📆 Google Cal🔎 Find on Unstop📸 @techfest.iitb
Tech-Mgmt
DecemberIIM

IMRC — India Mgmt Research Conf.

IIM Ahmedabad

📅 Dec 5–7, 2026

Watch: Research-paper presentations. Academic flagship — not a student case comp.

🗓️ Registration window: Late AugustRegistration opens in ~9 days
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Academic

📚 The winning playbook

What separates the round-1 deck that advances from the one that doesn't. Frameworks, prep resources, and the operational details top teams obsess over.

🧠 Frameworks every finalist knows

  • Profitability Tree (Revenue − Cost)
    Decompose any profit drop into Price × Volume vs Fixed + Variable costs. Use first in any 'why are profits down' case.
  • 3C + 4P
    Company, Customer, Competition + Product, Price, Place, Promotion. Default lens for market-entry and marketing cases.
  • Porter's Five Forces
    Industry attractiveness — buyers, suppliers, new entrants, substitutes, rivalry. Use for entry/exit decisions.
  • MECE structuring
    Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive. Your buckets must not overlap and must cover the full problem.
  • AARRR (Pirate metrics)
    Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue. Default for any consumer-tech / startup case.

📚 Where to practice cases

  • Case in Point — Marc Cosentino
    The bible. Read frameworks chapter twice; do 10 practice cases.
  • Crack the Case System — David Ohrvall
    Best for math drills and chart interpretation.
  • RocketBlocks / PrepLounge
    Live partner-matching + structured drills (math, chart, brainstorming).
  • Management Consulted Casebook
    Free PDF; 500+ cases sorted by school.
  • Victor Cheng — LOMS
    Audio recordings of real candidate interviews. Pattern-recognition gold.

🎯 Round-1 PPT submission winners' rules

  • Slide 1 = answer
    Lead with the recommendation, not the agenda. Judges read 60 decks — they decide in slide 1.
  • Pyramid Principle
    Top: answer. Middle: 3 supporting arguments. Bottom: data. Never bottom-up.
  • One chart, one message
    Title the chart with the insight ('Tier-2 cities drive 70% of new GMV'), not the axis ('GMV by city').
  • Number every claim
    'Large opportunity' is dead. '₹4,200 Cr TAM, growing 18% YoY' wins.
  • Risks + mitigations slide
    Most teams skip it. Adding 3 risks with mitigation moves you from top-20 to top-5.

🎤 Live-round pitching playbook

  • Q&A is 50% of your score
    Practice hostile questions for every assumption. Judges test depth, not pitch polish.
  • Use the 'because... so what' chain
    Every assertion gets one 'because' (evidence) and one 'so what' (implication). Forces you out of generic answers.
  • Pre-empt the obvious counter
    'You might ask why not Tier-1 first — here's why we deferred it.' Disarms 80% of judge follow-ups.
  • Numbers > adjectives
    Replace 'significant', 'large', 'fast' with actual figures even in spoken answers.

👥 Team formation & ops

  • 3 is the magic number
    1 strategy, 1 finance/quant, 1 design/storyteller. 4 = coordination tax; 2 = burnout.
  • Pick a captain on day 1
    Final call on slides + submission goes to one person. No democracy at 3am.
  • Lock the slide template before research
    Fonts, colors, slide master decided before anyone opens a browser. Saves 6 hours later.
  • Submit 6 hours before deadline
    Unstop crashes 30 minutes before close every single time. Set your internal deadline at T-6h.

🛠️ Tools the top teams use

  • Unstop ↗
    Primary registration + submission platform for every Indian case comp.
  • Statista / IBEF / RBI / MoSPI
    Free Indian market data. Cite the source on every chart.
  • Think-Cell or SlideTeam templates
    Consulting-grade charts and waterfalls in PowerPoint.
  • Perplexity + ChatGPT for research
    Use AI for fast desk research — but verify every number against a primary source.
  • Notion / Google Docs for collab
    Single source of truth for hypotheses, math, sources. Avoid WhatsApp doc-passing.