Deadline: October 31, 2025
Applications are open for the AI by HER: The Impact Challenge for Women in AI 2025. AI by HER: The Impact Challenge for Women in AI is a global innovation challenge inviting women technologists to demonstrate AI solutions tackling large scale or novel real-world public challenges.
Focused on inclusive innovation and global impact, this initiative promotes gender equity, Global South innovation, and aims to showcase scalable AI-for-good applications at the India-AI Impact Summit to be held in New Delhi, India, in February 2026.
Benefits
- Awards of INR 25,00,000 to each of the top 10 winners and potential incentives such as cloud and compute credits.
- Top finalists (upto 30) receive travel and accommodation support to participate in the India-AI Impact Summit in New Delhi for global visibility, investor connections and networking opportunities. A separate Investor Pitch Session will be curated for such high-potential women-led AI solutions.
- Mentorship from industry experts on business strategy, pitch readiness etc.
- Recognition of the top solutions in the AI Innovation Compendium and potential mentorship from premier institutions to enable real-world deployment and scaling.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be women-led teams or entities building innovative and impactful AI centric solutions addressing real-world challenges.
- The company /startup/consortium is led by a woman or a woman is in a key decision-making role and leadership position (CEO, CTO, COO). Or the core applying team includes at least one woman as technical lead, product lead, or business lead.
- Up to three members At least two team members who could represent the shortlisted AI solution during the Summit, presentations, and evaluations must be women.
- Teams from across the globe are welcome to apply. They strongly encourage a diverse range of solutions from all regions.
Application
For more information, visit AI by HER: The Impact Challenge.
