BHARATHACKS – PROGRAMMERS, DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS, AND ENTREPRENEURS JOINING HANDS TO MAKE LIVES OF BILLION INDIANS BETTTER

BharatHacks is the first-of-its-kind combination of a hackathon and startup incubation event, particularly to solve problem for India. Programmers, designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs will come together to build products to make the lives of a billion Indians better at BharatHacks Delhi-NCR 2017.
“Hackathons have become too commercial these days. BharatHacks is free for both entrepreneurs and hackers, to join hands and work towards a better India. From a pool of over 1,000 applicants, we’ve chosen the top 200 to particiate at BharatHacks,” said Anand Chowdhary, the CEO of Oswald Foundation and organizer of BharatHacks, “There is no restriction on the topic to build upon, it just has to be a product that solves a particular problem for Indian — it can be anything, an app, a bot, a device, etc.”
After the hacking ends, participants will pitch their products to industry-leading mentors and investors, who will help them take their ideas forward by incubating them to market launch. They will also get the opportunity to raise funds from these investors and through crowdfunding on DesiredWings, India’s largest crowdfunding platform.

Other technology partners at BharatHacks include the cloud infrastructure provider, DigitalOcean, who is offering free servers to all participants, the .tech registry that’s providing free domain names to all participants, and IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program is expected to select products from BharatHacks and give them thousands of dollars in cloud credits to kickstart their entrepreneurial journey. Apart from them, iSPIRT, the parent organization of IndiaStack, the team behind Aadhaar, UPI, and eKYC APIs are also partnering for the event. Other partners include Neuron, Digio, HackerEarth, Aadhaar Bridge, .tech, F6S, HackSociety, Melangebox, Bizztor, and more.
“We’ve partnered with incredible organizations and investor networks to provide a great opportunity to budding entrepreneurs. This platform will help engineers bring their ideas to the market and win prizes worth thousands of dollars,” said Saransh Kataria, the Chapter Lead of Facebook Developer Circles Delhi-NCR and founder of WisdomGeek.
BharatHacks is being jointly organized by Oswald Foundation, India’s foremost accessibility technology company that build products for individuals suffering from disabilities, and the Delhi-NCR chapter of Facebook’s Developer Circles. The event will have hacking and product development, Tech Talks from industry leaders, recruiting, and incubation.
The event is being organized on June 17-18 at 91springboard’s new campus in Noida. This is the first hackathon that’s taking place at the venue, which is the largest coworking space in Delhi-NCR with a capacity of 800.
BharatHacks is open to startups, investors, and developers, to come together and build technology for a better India. You can visit BharatHacks.com for more information about the event and apply to participate as a hacker or startup.