Wissenaire

Wissenaire is the annual techno-management festival of Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar held in the Arugul, permanent campus of IIT Bhubaneswar. It is one of the most awaited technical festival of East India. It is a three-day-long event usually held during the third week of January every year. The word Wissenaire is derived from the German word 'Wissen' meaning knowledge and 'aire' meaning free. Thus it is justified by its tagline knowledge runs free. Wissenaire encompasses various sectors of technology, science and management. These include quizzing, coding, designing, robotics, planning and testing the creativity and innovative spirit of the young technical minds.

Novus is regarded as the first technical fest by IIT Bhubaneswar. But it remained an intra-college event. Later in 2011, technical enthusiasts of IIT Bhubaneswar conducted the maiden edition of its techfest and named it Wissenaire. The maiden edition received an enormous response from across the country. Wissenaire had an overwhelming participation from various parts of the country like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh as well as home state Orissa. The fest is also associated with Solid works, Microsoft, Dell and IBM.

Wissenaire has collection of events of both technical and management domains. The events are clubbed into following groups:

Yanthrix represents the robotics events of the fest. The events are noted for promotion of spirit of technology among the techies. The events under Yanthrix are

Ingenium encompasses all the events under management. The event tests the innovative and managerial skills of the students. The events under Ingenium are

Qwissenaire is the set of quiz events with technical and managerial background.

Grand Arcanum includes the design and thinking competitions of Wissenaire.

Colloquia is a paper presentation competition of various fields of science that includes