 Pengufest, an open coding members' consortium, and Sangam, an inter-departmental technical contest were also new additions to this edition.Guest lectures were an integral part of the festival, with prominent speakers like Gayle Lackmann McDowell, Gert Lanckriet, J N Reddy, Michael E Brown, Jeff Lieberman, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Dr Vijay Chandru, Dr Sivathanu Pillai and Narendra Nayak presenting guest lectures across three days.Workshops on Bipedal Robotics, IC Engines, Light Painting, Intro to Stocks, Pengufest and Cyber forensics were conducted.