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National AI hackathon
National AI Innovation Sprint
The defining 12-hour national AI hackathon bringing teams from colleges and companies across India together to build functioning, deployable solutions for India’s most critical technological bottlenecks.
01Challenge tracks
The problem tracks for AICNI Hack India 2026 are being finalised with our mentors and partners, and will be published on this page.
Coming soon
You can form your team today. Registration does not depend on a track, so there is nothing to choose yet. Start building your team while the tracks are finalised.
Register your teamRs 50,000 will be shared across the tracks.
Each track will come with a problem statement and the benchmark your solution is judged on.
Check back here. The tracks will be published before the sprint begins.
02Evaluation and milestones
03What to submit
Submissions require working GitHub code and an interactive video demo.
Every submission needs working code in a GitHub repository.
Every submission needs a video demo you can interact with, so the jury can see the solution working.
Know a team that should be in the room? Send them this page.
04Also coming up
A 24-hour agentic AI hackathon on the Goa coast.
Build AI agents that do real work
Two days, two nights and one question: can your team build an AI agent that plans a task, uses real tools and data, and hands its work to a person for the final decision? Teams from colleges and companies across India meet in Goa to build working agents for problems that matter.
Meals and refreshments, 2 nights of shared accommodation, mentoring and a digital participation certificate are planned for confirmed participants. Passes start at Rs 3,999 and are bought on the hackathon page before you register a team.
See details and registerForm a team of two to four and register now. The tracks will be announced soon.