CAPGEMINI; Competition and Win Cash Prizes

Capgemini is gearing up to celebrate 50 years in the industry. With this we are excited to write to you, people who will mould the technology landscape of India, about TechChallenge - a unique hackathon that simulates ideation, creativity and innovation for the best IT talent in India. It is a hackathon for young tech enthusiasts with lucrative opportunities and prizes in cash and kind.

This year’s edition – TechChallenge50 is a level up not only in terms of technology, but also prize money.Students can participate in the 2017 edition of this distinctive hackathon to stimulate their knowledge in the upcoming TechChallenge50.The skills will range from Machine Learning,IBM Bluemix, IoT, DevOps, Data Science, Cloud Computing, BOT Framework, Blockchain, SFDC, PEGA, Hybris, AEM, NoSQL, and Mobility.

Is that all? No, wait there is something for everyone a generic Tech Aptitude and a general coding Challenge.

The students stand a chance to win exclusive cash prizes worth upto INR 2,50,000* out of the total INR 15,00,000*. Apart from learning from our leaders, contestants also stand the opportunity to bag a job with Capgemini.

By competing on a national level and among thousands of competitors, the students will become certified specialists of whichever challenges they take up.

We will write to you soon with further details of TechChallenge50 and hope that you will encourage your students to further their careers with this one-of-a-kind opportunity.

Contest ends on October 20, 2017. 


All Tech Challenge related updates would be available at this link

For registering click the register link:    register

Urgent: Competition Participation

All Students fill the following form  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegfTM33FdEqmyKCHAWCXRN_tQyyfa_639e-ho0Uy2bJJt4dw/viewform?c=0&w=1

To be eligible to get support from the department as well as get mentoring from the department.

Wipro TopCoder Hackathon 2017

For registration follow the instructions at the following link:

http://crowdsourcing.topcoder.com/Humblefool-Hackathon#page-block-mn8750vrwg2mlsor

Humblefool (Harsha Suryanarayan) was the best competitive programmer India ever produced.

Being the best he may have worked for big companies, but he wanted to contribute to the community — by teaching programming to students and helping mentor startups. 

This hackathon is in honor of Humblefool: to carry on his legacy and help spread the word about programming across our country. 

Thus, the broader theme here is programming education.

Create a Application which helps in learning or teaching programming/coding.

There is no restriction on creating a web app or a mobile app.

The education industry in our country is still taking in fast-progressing information technology, and this is your chance to think outside of the box and create an app that can really make a difference here.

The successful and the best applications will be made available to the public and also we will be sponsoring a child's education in Harsha's name. The winners will also have a chance to contribute their prize money towards the same cause.

Challenge Overview

This hackathon is in honor of Humblefool: to carry on his legacy and help spread the word about programming across our country.

Thus, the broader theme here is programming education.The education industry in our country is still taking in fast-progressing information technology, and this is your chance to think outside of the box and create an app that can really make a difference here.
The successful and the best applications will be made available to the public and also we will be sponsoring a child's education in Harsha's name. The winners will also have a chance to contribute their prize money towards the same cause.
For more details and Prizes visit the microsite here.
Important : You need to be registered on the microsite here to submit here. Otherwise your submission will be not be considered.
  Checkpoints
Idea Generation Checkpoint

Before this checkpoint you to open your minds and submit your idea to us. You are encouraged to be creative about building an application specifically for programming education or around programming education. All you have do is pen down your idea in a doc file and submit to the challenge.
Submission Deadline : 26th October

Judging Criteria
Understanding of the theme
Impact & feasibility
Newness and Creativeness

Submission Guidelines
Write your idea in a text/doc file zip the file and submit it to the challenge.  
You will also have to describe how it is solving what you believe to be the pain points of the current system and why you chose your particular platform.
  Design/Prototype Checkpoint
Before this checkpoint competitors can submit a Design/Prototype of the app.
Submission Deadline : 16th November
Judging Criteria
User Experience
Code/Scalability
Design/Wireframe/Blueprints
Usability
Submission Guidelines
Zip the two files mentioned below and submit on the challenge below

• Submit the image design files and code files(if any) of your planned application
• A text file with a link to the video describing your design.

 

Platforms

• IBM Bluemix

Technologies

• Cognitive

Final Submission Guidelines

Final Submission Guidelines

Your Final Submission should be a zip file with three folders/files

1. Code Files or the link to your github public repository
2. A text file containing the link to a video describing the application ,explaining the code, platform used, problems faced etc.
3. A presentation for the judges.

Final Judging Criteria

• Innovation (30%) The submission creates an innovative and creative solution to a known problem or creates a new market opportunity using the APIs. Innovation is not strictly about ideas, the submission also executes on the innovative idea.
• User Friendly (25%) The systems and the UI designed should be user friendly
• Overall (35%) The submission is easy for end users to use and consume.  The application is complete and usable.Is the submission a high quality submission? Would you use this application?
• Presentation for Judges (10%)

Payments

Topcoder will compensate members in accordance with the our standard payment policies, unless otherwise specified in this challenge. For information on payment policies, setting up your profile to receive payments, and general payment questions, please refer to https://help.topcoder.com/hc/en-us/articles/217482038-Payment-Policies-and-Instructions

Reliability Rating and Bonus

For challenges that have a reliability bonus, the bonus depends on the reliability rating at the moment of registration for that project. A participant with no previous projects is considered to have no reliability rating, and therefore gets no bonus. Reliability bonus does not apply to Digital Run winnings. Since reliability rating is based on the past 15 projects, it can only have 15 discrete values.
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Google DSC registration -Chandigarh University

Registration for Developer Students Club.

Only students who are ready to attend classes on any day of the week  of 2nd and 3rd year shall apply .First 150 registrations will be accepted.

For registering yourself fill the form below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcK5m_mRROOanRv0p1oJUOE2LZNTBKPuKuhNG2ypfd_tArQw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Introducing to OpenShift.io

In Partnership with Red Hat OpenShift Online

OpenShift.io is an open online development environment for planning, creating and deploying hybrid cloud services.

Register

Web Sparks Workshop

*Code the web*

Basic web development workshop by Web Sparks on 7th and 9th of October.

To register follow the link below.
https://goo.gl/Ky5hXe

Code Tantra Cse Competition

Code-Tantra 2.0 is the second edition of the Coding competition conducted as part of C-Square club by Chandigarh University, Punjab. Participate in the online prelims to get direct entry to the finals on 6th October. Top 60 entries will be joining the final round. Participants should register here to qualify for the finals.
Date- 3rd oct 2017
Register at- https://www.hackerrank.com/code-tantra
Kindly fill out the form too.-
https://goo.gl/forms/n09LctCDE3Wx4BLX2

ACM ICPC REGIONAL ROUNDS

ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Site Regional 2017 is hosted by Amrita School of Engineering at Amritapuri and Coimbatore.

ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Site Preliminary Online contest is scheduled for the end of October / first week of November.  The contest is common for all the ICPC sites in India. Like last year, a separate rank list is prepared after the online contest after removing the cheating teams.

The contest will be held online over the internet.

Cheating teams in the online round cannot participate in the onsite round.

Executing the code online in other online judges may sometimes make your code open on the internet. Such cases also fall under “cheating” category.

Registration Process

Registration is mandatory in Baylor Site.  Here are the steps for online contest registration:

1. Coach creates a team in the Baylor Site under “Asia Amritapuri First Round Online Programming Contest” Online contest.  Coach is expected to create a team with the official email id. Official email id means, he/she shall use the institutional email id. While creating teams, the coach shall invite the contestants and reserve.
2. Team members (contestants) complete their profile in Baylor Site. It is mandatory that all the details as required in the Baylor system shall be completed before the last date.
3. The team shall pay the registration fees of INR 500 as DD/NEFT.
4. Bank account details:Account No: 026005300006900
   Name M/S.AMRITA CONSULTANCY
   Branch Code: 260
   IFSC Code: DLXB0000260
   Bank: DHANLAXMI BANK LTD, M.A MATH, VALLIKAVU, AMRITAPURI P.O, KOLLAM.
   MICR: 690048801
   Account Type: CURRENT ACCOUNT- RESIDENT.  Fill the online payment details here to verify your payment.
5. If you are paying via DD, it has to be in favour of “Amrita Consultancy” payable at “Kollam”. Send the DD to “Anand Shenoi, Admissions Office, Amrita School of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala. PIN 690525. Phone: 0476 280 9402. Fill the DD details here to identify your demand draft.
6. Team cancellation is possible only 5 days before the online contest. Fees will be refunded after the request is received by email. No refund is possible after the last date and the contest. Non-participation in the contest also will not lead to the refund of the fees.
7. After the successful completion of all the above steps, Registration Chair “ACCEPTS” the team in the Baylor Site.

Baroda Finathon Challenge

OVERVIEW

Bank of Baroda is a state owned second largest bank in India. With INR 9.85 trillion business mix and a network of 5422 domestic branches and 107 offices in 24 foreign countries. The Bank’s Technology initiatives are focused on customers and its Business Transformation Program encompassing technology is meant to provide its customers continuously improved convenience banking on 24X7 basis.

The Bank introduces “Baroda Finathon Challenge”, a hackathon contest, inviting the techies, developers, students and start-ups to come up with exciting, innovative, novel and viable solutions under the listed themes.

For about two months, expert developers will showcase how their solutions can help Bank in developing better banking systems. We invite you to not only enjoy the outcome, but also the journey through a challenge that puts you to test via a coding battlefield.

THEMES

 

Innovation

The “Innovation” theme of the Finathon provides a unique opportunity to apply out of box thinking to create new age banking solutions using emerging technologies .You can use one of the below API options to develop solution/ application under “ Innovation” theme.

You may also use these API options to develop solutions for any other themes (Customer Acquisition, Customer Experience, Conversational ...

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Customer Acquisition

Identify and reach prospective and profitable customers for retail loan and deposit products

• Bank needs to increase its retail loan portfolio, with special focus on home loan, car loan and personal loan. The challenge is to ‘identify’ and ‘reach out’ to the prospective customers with a high probability of conversion in short term and good credit standing.
• CASA deposits are low cost and more of...

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Customer Experience

Leverage AI (Artificial Intelligence) & NLP (Natural Language Processing) technology to enhance customer experience

• Improvement in customer experience is a continuous journey. As Bank embarks on its new transformation journey, bank would like to leverage the latest technological tools to enhance customer experience. Challenge is to design products using AI & NLP technologies to create pro...

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Conversational Banking

Build solutions leveraging technology for conversational banking use cases other than Contact Center Chat, Chabot, etc.

• Challenge is to design products/services using Conversational Banking for better customer experience at the branch. This should not include Customer Contact Chat, Chatbot etc

 

Collections

Improve collections and recovery from borrowers by using internal and external data and technology.

• There are mechanisms for recovery of dues from delinquent accounts and for monitoring the recovery. However, at times, there are cases when recovery is not as per schedule or even there is no recovery due to factors related to economy, industry/sector, geography, customer and account etc. The chall...

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Compliance

Build a digital KYC mechanism which is easy, secure, maintains history and can be shared consistently across entities within and outside the Bank

• KYC is a necessity both from business as well as regulatory imperatives. All organizations onboarding new customers need to complete KYC norms. Challenge is to leverage technology to complete KYC with minimum process steps and sharing of KYC details as-...

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Operational Efficiency

Use of GPS, external data sources and analytics to build a solution for planning/ identification of right locations for opening new branches, digital kiosks, ATMs and for rationalization of existing network of branches, kiosks and ATMs.

• Bank needs to continuously increase its footprint across the nation and in overseas territories. While Bank has a defined process to identify the ideal location f...

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PRIZES INR 10,00,000 IN PRIZES

Potential opportunity to explore a commercial relationship with Bank.

Main Prizes

 

First Prize

INR 5,00,000

 

Second Prize

INR 3,00,000

 

Third Prize

INR 2,00,000

Megathon

ABOUT MEGATHON

Started in 2016, Megathon is an ambitious hackathon organised jointly by E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad and E-Cell IIT Hyderabad with the intention of promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship and development among the student community in and around Hyderabad. The first edition of Megathon turned out to be a huge success with participation from 80 teams having around 450 participants and over 1000 aspirants from 85+ colleges.

The second edition of Megathon comes with a different format where the participants shall be brainstorming on one of the 5 problem statements from the Corporate or Social category. Participants will work on their ideas based on these problem statements over a 24-hour long hackathon before the presentations begin.

Corporate Challenges   

Work on some of the most challenging and prevalent problems provided by Amazon, IBM and PwC.and grab the opportunity to get your solutions and products recognized and used by millions of customers and a chance to be offered an internship at one of these companies along with exciting prizes.

Social Challenges   

Help the She Team of Hyderabad Police to address the problem of women safety and be a part of the revolution of making India a safer place for women. Exciting prizes to be won too !

Format

You will be presented with 5 problem statements divided into two categories - Corporate and Social. The problem statements would be released by 15th of September for you to brainstorm about the problem. This shall be followed by a 24-hour onsite round on the 23-24th September where you would actually be building upon your ideas in teams of 1-4 with the help of some amazing mentors from both industry and academia. The winners would be chosen on the evaluation criteria provided by the case maker that shall be shared with all the participants on the day of the event.

We, as E-Cell, also promote and help in making ideas turn into businesses. So, if any of your ideas across any problem statement has the potential to become a successful startup, CIE ( Centre for Incubation and Entrepreneurship ), IIITH, shall provide an initial seed funding of Rs. 5 lac (subject to serious progress in the next three months). So, do not miss out on this opportunity.

1. Phase 1 ( Early Bird ): You register for the event mentioning your preferred choice of the problem statement. When the problem statements are released, you shall be asked to choose one ( can be different from your preferred choice).Hurry since limited slots. Fee : Rs. 250/-

2. Phase 2 ( Regular ) : Opens on 16/09/2017. You register for a particular problem statement. On the spot payment would also be accepted. Fee : Rs. 500/-

The purpose of the registration fees is to take in only serious participants. The entire amount shall be reimbursed on the day of event in the form of food and free T-shirt among other goodies.

MEGATHON'17 ONLINE

Due to the overwhelming response, we received for Megathon'17 and many more requests daily to be able to participate in the event, we are glad to announce an Online Round for Megathon'17.

The rules for the Online Round are as follows:-

• The problem statements for the Online Round will remain the same as that of the Onsite rounds, which are available here.
• The online round is completely independent of the onsite round, i.e., the submissions for the online round will NOT be considered for evaluation and/or prizes we have mentioned for the onsite round ( i.e. the main event on the 23rd-24th September ).
• The submission portal will open on the 27th September but you can register now. LIMITED SEATS.

Prizes for Megathon-17 Online Round

• 50k worth of Amazon Gift Coupons.
• Winning team in each category will receive Rs. 5k worth of Amazon Gift Coupons.
• Two runner-ups in each category will receive Rs. 2.5k worth of Amazon Gift Coupons each.
• Digital Certificates
• A chance to get your solutions recognized by the companies and put to use and also a chance to land an internship at one of these companies.

Eligibility

• The participants registered for the onsite round on the 23-24th of September are NOT eligible to participate in the online round.
• Any college student in India.
• Cross college teams are allowed.

Note for the Participants Registered for the onsite event

Megathon-17 Onsite event would proceed as scheduled and in the same format as was before. You are not eligible and also, it isn't necessary for you to upload your ideas on the portal for the online round.

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: http://megathon.tech/