What If Every Stadium Had an AI Copilot?

Pratik Dhore — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:43:02 +0000

🚀 Excited to share ArenaMind 🏟️🧠, the project I built for the Google GenAI Hackathon!

The challenge was to imagine how Generative AI could transform the experience of hosting one of the world's biggest sporting events—the FIFA World Cup 2026.

While building ArenaMind, I wanted to go beyond creating another chatbot. The goal was to design an AI-powered platform that could assist both fans and stadium operations teams in real time, while remaining reliable during high-footfall events through deterministic workflows and intelligent AI reasoning.

Using Google Gemini function calling, ArenaMind combines AI-powered decision making with structured backend logic to deliver accurate, context-aware assistance.

👥 For Fans

✅ Multilingual voice & chat companion supporting English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, and Arabic

✅ QR e-ticket awareness for personalized gate and seat navigation

✅ Dedicated WCAG 2.1 AA wheelchair & step-free routing

✅ Real-time food stall and restroom queue monitoring

🏟️ For Organizers & Venue Staff

✅ Interactive crowd congestion heatmaps

✅ 30-minute predictive crowd overload forecasting with proactive mitigation alerts

✅ Natural-language Operations Assistant for venue directives

✅ AI-powered incident triage with automated P1–P4 severity classification

⚙️ Tech Stack

• Google Gemini
• TypeScript
• React
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• SOLID Architecture

One of the most rewarding aspects of this project was designing a system where AI enhances decision-making while deterministic workflows ensure reliability—even if AI services become unavailable.

Building ArenaMind reinforced how Generative AI can create meaningful impact beyond conversations by improving accessibility, navigation, crowd management, and operational efficiency for large-scale live events.

A huge thank you to Google for Developers and Hack2skill for organizing such an exciting hackathon and providing an opportunity to innovate with GenAI.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you were attending the FIFA World Cup 2026, which ArenaMind feature would you find the most useful?

Check out the project screenshots below! 👇

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EarthPulse AI — Hack2Skill Challenge 3: Carbon Footprint Awareness

Pratik Dhore — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:43:55 +0000

🚀 Had a blast participating in the Hack2Skill Virtual Hackathon tackling Challenge 3: Carbon Footprint Awareness Platform!

Instead of just building a standard tracking app, I wanted to experiment a bit for fun. This hackathon was promoting the use of AntiGravity, so I decided to dive in and use it for the very first time.

My biggest takeaway? The developer experience was incredibly smooth. Integrating AntiGravity to handle the application logic made building out EarthPulse AI a really great learning curve, especially under a hackathon timeline.

The app translates daily habits—like commuting and energy use—into visual data insights to help people step up their sustainability game.

Check out the live link or dive into the code below to see how it came together:
🌐 Live Application: https://drpratik.github.io/EarthPulse-AI/
💻 Codebase: https://github.com/DrPratik/EarthPulse-AI/

Always great to walk away from a hackathon with a new tool in the toolkit! 🛠️

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