Over 700 members from 30 faculties
HYDERABAD, India, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — IIIT Hyderabad’s Entrepreneurship Cell performed its annual flagship occasion, Megathon 2022, that witnessed over 700 members from 30 faculties. The occasion was extremely profitable in garnering essentially the most entrepreneurial and technology-driven youth from throughout the area. This staggering participation additionally makes Megathon ’22 IIIT Hyderabad’s largest hackathon to this point. It was a 24-hour hackathon involving 4 drawback statements: 2 from their Title Sponsor Stellantis, 1 from Associate Sponsor Qualcomm, and the social drawback from Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS).
After a gruelling spherical of pitches, staff ‘AlphaQueue’ emerged as winners for the primary drawback assertion by Stellantis whereas staff ‘Pied Piper’ received the second. Team ‘Le Boys’ took residence the Qualcomm prize and at last ‘Hack Your Mom’ and ‘What the Hack’ collectively received the social drawback spherical.
Since 2016, Megathon has been performed yearly, and is rising yearly. Last yr it was performed on-line, however this yr it was offline, bringing in new challenges. These challenges had been handled by the scholar staff at E-cell, making Megathon the biggest student-run Hackathon performed at IIIT-H.
The opening ceremony of the occasion was graced by talks from a number of distinguished audio system. Prof. Ramesh Loganathan kickstarted the occasion by introducing the scholars to CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), IIIT Hyderabad’s personal start-up incubator. He was adopted by Prof. CV Jawahar, Dean RnD, IIIT Hyderabad and CEO of CIE, and at last Prof. Kannan Srinathan, who talked to college students concerning the entrepreneurial spirit of drawback fixing. The occasion was crammed with enthusiastic members who stored the power excessive all through the occasion.
After one spherical of choice by the pre-jury, 23 groups offered their lightning pitches to the ultimate jury within the closing ceremony.
The closing jury comprised of Alok Madhukar – Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, Anish Anthony – Angel Investor and CDO of T-Hub, Murali Talasila – Innovator and ex-PWC Risk Management accomplice, Saurabh Kumar – CEO of GMR Cargo, Madhusudanan Kandasamy – Qualcomm and Rahul Rajupalepu – Vice President and Head of India Digital Hub of Stellantis. They not solely judged the lightening pitches offered by the finalists, but additionally gave the members worthwhile inputs and perception.
The shortlisted Stellantis drawback assertion winners all get to be part of a a lot bigger hackathon and take part to get their finest concepts reviewed.
The occasion closed with the prize distribution ceremony, adopted by a photograph session with all of the winners and with the individuals who made the enthralling occasion a actuality.
About IIIT-Hyderabad:
The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is an autonomous analysis college based in 1998 that focuses on the core areas of Information Technology, equivalent to Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and their functions in different domains via inter-disciplinary analysis that has a larger social influence. Some of its analysis domains embrace Visual Information Technologies, Human Language Technologies, Data Engineering, VLSI and Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, Wireless Communications, Algorithms and Information Security, Robotics, Building Science, Earthquake Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics, Education Technologies, Power Systems, IT in Agriculture and e-Governance.
Website: www.iiit.ac.in
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