Capgemini revealed the winners of the 6th version of its Tech Challenge yearly hackathon. Team TechELITES, consisting of 6 members including both students and veteran experts, won the Tech Challenge 2019 title for producing a proof-of-concept for competent water management and conservation. The winning solution utilized digital expertises for example cloud, IOT (Internet of things), AI (artificial intelligence) and analytics to solve water leakage, track usage and permit the treatment of water – recycling and reuse - across domestic, commercial and industrial utilisation.
Tech Challenge 2019 obtained a record reaction with registrations from over 160,000 participants across 80 cities in India, a rise of 20% from previous year. In 2019, 30% of the leading 55 finalists were women, a unique participation in the finale challenge round. The solutions from the live hackathon organised at Capgemini’s Pune Hinjewadi premises were assessed by a renowned jury panel consisting of Dr. Radha Shankarmani, Dean, Quality Assurance and Head Of Department – IT, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology; Mamunur Rahman, Head of Global IT Services, Toll Group and Head of Toll Technology Center in India, Aditya Kumar Sinha, Associate Director, C-DAC Pune, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India, Arul Paramanandam, COO of Capgemini in India and Sarika Naik, CMO of Capgemini in India.
Lauding the winners and finalists, Arul Kumaran Paramanandam, COO of Capgemini in India observed, “Capgemini is committed to harnessing the power of digital technologies to contribute to a sustainable tomorrow. Designed to identify young programmers and tech enthusiasts to solve real world challenges using emerging technologies, Tech Challenge has now become a unique platform to engage young and brilliant minds in the industry to find solutions, consistently and successfully, to real-life social challenges. The record response this year and the quality of talent is heartening and is a reflection of our conviction that millennials have the power to be the Architects of Positive Futures and revolutionise the way we interact with the society and the world at large.”
The winning squad won prize money of INR 3 lakh and has directly qualified for the final round of interviews for potential employment scopes at Capgemini. Apart from this, the leading 5 colleges with maximum participation in the contest were felicitated at the awards ceremony.
Tech Challenge brings together the most brilliant IT talent across India to encourage ideation, creativity and novelty. It gives every keen developer a chance to compete with the most brilliant minds in programming and balance their coding talents to resolve real-world problems and enhance social and economic worth for the community. In 2017, Tech Challenge finalists were given a social challenge where contestants had to generate prototypes to solve the problem of missing children in India. The prototype was later transformed into a real app called ReUnite, which is presently live on the Android store. In 2018, Tech Challenge finalists created proof-of-concept on varied topics like Reduced Carbon Emissions, Better Urban Planning and Improved Waste Management.
Capgemini is one of the biggest recruiters of talent in India, with more than 25000 hires in 2018. Capgemini maintains powerful links with academia and the industry via programmes for example Tech Challenge, Tech Fiesta, faculty enhancement programs, joint Centers of Excellence (COEs), seminars and workshops. Students and experts chosen will obtain an opportunity to ace their careers with Capgemini on digital expertises of their preference.
About Capgemini
A worldwide leader in consulting, expertise services and digital transformation, Capgemini is a pioneer of novelty to address the complete breadth of customers ’ scopes in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its powerful 50-year tradition and deep industry-specific technology, Capgemini permits organizations to realize their business aspirations through a range of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is propelled by the conviction that the business worth of expertise comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of more than 200,000 team members in more than 40 nations. The Group reported 2018 worldwide revenues of EUR 13.2 billion (about $15.6 billion USD at 2018 average rate).
Capgemini in India consists of more than 100,000 team members working across 12 places – Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Salem and Tiruchirappalli.
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