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Nat'l Hackathon begins in city

FE REPORT | February 29, 2020 00:00:00


Participants at the 'National Hackathon on Frontier Technologies' that began at the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) in the city on Friday

A two-day 'National Hackathon on Frontier Technologies' began at the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) in the city on Friday.

As many as 51 teams, comprising 150 innovators, from across the country are taking part in the social coding event where they will strive to come up with possible technological solutions to the most citizen-centric 10 challenges of Bangladesh.

Under the ICT Division's 'Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project', Startup Bangladesh in association with the High Commission of India in Dhaka and Tech Mahindra Limited (TechM) organised this event.

iDEA Project Director (Additional Secretary) Syed Mojibul Huq inaugurated the hackathon.

Speaking on the occasion, he welcomed everyone at the hackathon and gave thanks to the High Commission of India and the Tech Mahindra Limited (TechM) for being a part of this initiative.

Head of Global Innovation of TechM Nikhil Malhotra attended the opening ceremony.

Akash Dolas, Customer Relationship Head-Makers; Umesh Kad, Head of Startnet & Campus Connect, Debashish Mitra, Country Manager (Bangladesh), on behalf of the team of Tech Mahindra Ltd., and Deputy Director of iDEA Project Kazi Hosna Ara were also present.

The 51 teams are selected on the basis of 349 shortlisted innovative solutions submitted by the applications from across the country. Forty mentors are guiding the participants.

Finally, top 10 participants will be awarded as the winner at the closing ceremony on Saturday (today).

The winning teams will be provided mentoring and training with R&D support at "Makers Lab" of Tech Mahindra Limited (TechM), India.

At the same time, the necessary investment will be made in maturing the innovative project.

After the maturity of the projects, they will be supported to bring their project to the growth stage by promoting through the marketing channels of TechM in different countries of the world.

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