New Delhi: The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad’s Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) hosted its yearly flagship event, Megathon 2022. This time the competition was the Institute's largest hackathon organized by students to date.
The IIIT Hyderabad event brought together over 700 tech-savvy students from 30 colleges. The 24-hour hackathon was centered on four issue statements, two of which were submitted by Stellantis, one by Qualcomm, and another by Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS).
After a series of competing proposals, team 'AlphaQueue' came out on top for the Stellantis issue statement, while team 'Pied Pieper placed second. Qualcomm awarded the prize to 'Le Boys,' whereas 'Hack Your Mom' and 'What the Hack' topped the social problem round evenly.
After the first round of assessment, the pre-jury chose 23 teams to submit their pitches to the event's final jury.
The final jury consisted of Alok Madhukar, managing director of Goldman Sachs; Anish Anthony, angel investor; Murali Talasila, innovator and ex-PWC risk management partner; Saurabh Kumar, CEO of GMR Cargo; Madhusudanan Kandasamy, CEO of Qualcomm; and Rahul Rajupalepu, vice president and head of Stellantis' India digital hub.
The Stellantis problem statement chosen groups will have the choice to participate in a giant hackathon and submit their ideas. The event's keynote speaker, Ramesh Loganathan, introduced the students to IIIT Hyderabad's new start-up incubator, CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship).
Following him were the IIIT-H deans of research and development, CV Jawahar and Kannan Srinathan, who spoke to the students on the entrepreneurial mindset of problem-solving.
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