The Code for a Billion — Bharat Agentic-AI Hackathon 2026, run by Code for India with backing from Nasscom and SSC Nasscom's FutureSkills Prime, has its deploy deadline on 15 November 2026, with winners announced on 5 December 2026.
The 90-day, fully virtual and free hackathon — launched on India's 80th Independence Day — asks participants to build deployed agentic-AI solutions across education, health, climate, governance, and financial-inclusion tracks. Each participant gets 1 million free smart-code tokens via AgentFoundry.me.
For AI builders and student founders, this is structured validation with a national brand on it: the requirement to deploy (not just demo) forces the product discipline that hackathons usually skip, and the social-impact tracks align neatly with the kind of work that later unlocks grants, CSR funding, and government pilots.
With the 15 November 2026 deploy deadline just over a month out, teams forming now still have time — the hackathon has been running since mid-August, but agentic-AI workflows are fast to prototype when the token budget is free.
Why it matters for founders
Code for a Billion's deploy deadline is 15 November 2026: a free, fully virtual, Nasscom-backed 90-day hackathon for deployed agentic-AI solutions in education, health, climate, governance and financial inclusion — with 1M free tokens per participant. A deployed, nationally visible AI build is strong portfolio material for your next fundraise.