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      "venue": "TinkerHub Foundation",
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      "venue": "IBS Campus, Infopark Phase 1, Kakkanad",
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      "venue": "Le Méridien Kochi, Maradu",
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      "venue": "TinkerSpace, Kalamassery",
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      "end": "2026-08-29",
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      "venue": "LuLu IT Twin Towers, SmartCity",
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      "organizer": "Umbraco India User Group",
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      "venue": "Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE)",
      "city": "Kothamangalam",
      "organizer": "IEEE MACE Student Branch",
      "blurb": "7th edition of MACE's flagship 36-hour hardware + software hackathon, powered by Devin. Eight tracks from smart cities to resilient communities, judged by industry mentors. Winner of the IEEE Darrel Chong Award and the IEEE Kochi Subsection Best Event Award.",
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      "title": "WikiConference India 2026",
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      "end": "2026-09-06",
      "category": "opensource",
      "venue": "Venue confirmed, address not public yet",
      "city": "Kochi",
      "organizer": "Wikimedia community India / IIIT Hyderabad",
      "blurb": "Fourth edition of India's national Wikimedia conference and the first hosted in Kochi — Indic-language projects, open knowledge and South Asia movement strategy.",
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      "title": "OpenSpeaks: Language Documentation & Archiving",
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      "end": "2026-09-07",
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      "endTime": "18:00",
      "category": "opensource",
      "venue": "WikiConference India side event",
      "city": "Kochi",
      "organizer": "OpenSpeaks / FOSS United",
      "blurb": "In-person capstone of the OpenSpeaks workshop series: recording, archiving and publishing Adivasi and other low-resource languages on Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia.",
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      "title": "OpenAI Codex Community Meetup — Founder's Edition",
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      "end": "2026-09-10",
      "category": "ai",
      "venue": "Venue TBA",
      "city": "Kochi",
      "organizer": "Codex Kochi community",
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      "start": "2026-09-18",
      "end": "2026-09-19",
      "category": "startup",
      "venue": "LuLu Twin Towers, Infopark SmartCity",
      "city": "Kochi",
      "organizer": "IIMK LIVE",
      "blurb": "IIM Kozhikode LIVE's deep-tech summit — two days of prototype-to-company conversations with founders, mentors and investors. \"Proof over pitch.\"",
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        "Investors",
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      "end": "2026-09-27",
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      "endTime": "17:00",
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      "venue": "NIMHANS Convention Centre",
      "city": "Bengaluru",
      "organizer": "FOSS United",
      "blurb": "India's largest free and open source software conference: eight community-curated devrooms, a Maintainer Summit on the 25th, and pre-events through the week.",
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      "end": "2026-09-28",
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      "venue": "Sahrdaya College of Engineering & Technology",
      "city": "Thrissur",
      "organizer": "Kerala Startup Mission",
      "blurb": "11th edition of Kerala's flagship student-innovation summit — IEDC units across the state showcase products, plus keynotes, panels and learning stations.",
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      "start": "2026-10-06",
      "end": "2026-10-13",
      "category": "security",
      "venue": "Grand Hyatt, Bolgatty",
      "city": "Kochi",
      "organizer": "Kerala Police / ISRA",
      "blurb": "19th edition of India's longest-running security conference. Pre-con training Oct 6–8, the main briefing Oct 9–10, post-con training Oct 11–13 — CTFs, villages and live bug hunting throughout.",
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        "CTF",
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      "end": "2026-11-14",
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      "venue": "The Leela Raviz, Kovalam",
      "city": "Thiruvananthapuram",
      "organizer": "Kerala Startup Mission",
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      "category": "enterprise",
      "venue": "Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty",
      "city": "Kochi",
      "organizer": "Gartner",
      "blurb": "Gartner's premier India CIO conference lands in Kochi — AI strategy, cybersecurity and enterprise IT leadership tracks.",
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        "CIO",
        "Enterprise",
        "Paid"
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