Close Menu
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    • Our Story
    • Partner with us
    • Reach Us
    • Career
    Subscribe Newsletter
    HR KathaHR Katha
    • Exclusive
      • Exclusive Features
      • Research
      • Point Of View
      • Case In Point
      • Dialogue
      • Movement
      • Profile
      • Beyond Work
      • Rising Star
      • By Invitation
    • News
      • Global HR News
      • Compensation & Benefits
      • Diversity
      • Events
      • Gen Y
      • Hiring & Firing
      • HR & Labour Laws
      • Learning & Development
      • Merger & Acquisition
      • Performance Management & Productivity
      • Talent Management
      • Tools & Technology
      • Work-Life Balance
    • Special
      • Cover Story
      • Editorial
      • HR Forecast 2024
      • HR Forecast 2023
      • HR Forecast 2022
      • HR Forecast 2021
      • HR Forecast 2020
      • HR Forecast 2019
      • New Age Learning
      • Coaching and Training
      • Learn-Engage-Transform
    • Magazine
    • Reports
      • Whitepaper
        • HR Forecast 2024 e-mag
        • Future-proofing Manufacturing Through Digital Transformation
        • Employee Healthcare & Wellness Benefits: A Guide for Indian MSMEs
        • Build a Future Ready Organisation For The Road Ahead
        • Employee Experience Strategy
        • HRKatha 2019 Forecast
        • Decoding and Driving Employee Engagement
        • One Platform, Infinite Possibilities
      • Survey Reports
        • Happiness at Work
        • Upskilling for Jobs of the Future
        • The Labour Code 2020
    • Conferences
      • Rising Star Leadership Awards
      • HRKatha Futurecast
      • Automation.NXT
      • The Great HR Debate
    • HR Jobs
    WhatsApp LinkedIn X (Twitter) Facebook Instagram
    HR KathaHR Katha
    Home»News»Events»More women participated at Capgemini Tech Challenge 5.0 than last year
    Events

    More women participated at Capgemini Tech Challenge 5.0 than last year

    HRK News BureauBy HRK News BureauDecember 12, 2018Updated:December 12, 20183 Mins Read25500 Views
    Share LinkedIn Twitter Facebook
    Share
    LinkedIn Twitter Facebook

    The annual Tech Challenge 5.0 organised by Capgemini, to identify the best programmers and tech enthusiasts from across the country, witnessed more than 1,35,000 registered participants this year, of which 36 per cent were women. This shows a marked increase of 22 per cent from last year.

    On the final day, the top 55 finalists competed in a live hackathon held at Capgemini’s Pune Hinjewadi campus. The jury panel comprised Ashwin Yardi, COO, Capgemini in India; A B Ravi, editor-special projects, CNBC-TV18; Dr Vahida Z. Attar, head-Dept of Computer Engineering & IT, College of Engineering Pune, Pune; Girish Wardadkar, head, Sogeti India and Sarika Naik, chief marketing officer & chairperson – diversity & inclusion for Capgemini in India.

    The hackathon this year was won by Team Juggernauts, comprising Adithya AN, Meetkumar Patel, Rajesh Kumar Sundaramurthy, Sandeep Kogge, Suvajit Majumdar and Tejaswini Khambe. The six of them together had created a proof-of-concept of an application called ‘KUDAConnect,’ for effective garbage disposal and waste recycling. The winners will receive a prize money of INR 3 lakhs and will qualify for the final round of interviews for potential employment opportunities at Capgemini.

    The theme for the final challenge this year was ‘environment sustainability’. The finalists were required to develop proofs-of-concept for solutions to either reduce carbon emissions, improve urban planning or to manage waste.

    The winning solution, KUDAConnect, proposes an Android platform to connect government authorities, local agencies as well as citizens and other stakeholder to ensure a seamless garbage disposal and waste management process for the community. The solution can be made more user-friendly by integrating Deep Learning and can also be integrated with Google Maps so that common garbage disposal locations in nearest to the user can be identified, ensuring efficiency.

    In 2017, the Tech Challenge finalists were given a social challenge where contestants had to create prototypes to solve the problem of missing children in India. The prototype was later converted into a real app called ReUnite, which is soon going live in the Android store.

    “We are overwhelmed by the huge success of the 5th edition of Tech Challenge. This year, we witnessed record participation with an increase of over 40% in registrations, compared to the last season’s challenge,” said Ashwin Yardi, chief industrialisation and automation officer, and chief operating officer of Capgemini in India. “We believe that Tech Challenge has become one of the most popular engagement platforms that promotes innovation and connects tech enthusiasts from across India to exchange ideas and contribute positively to building a better society. I would like to congratulate all the winners.”

    This hackathon aims to orient young techies to the skills needed in the age of digital disruption and provide them with the opportunity to solve real-world business and social challenges with the help of emerging technologies.

    Share. LinkedIn Twitter Facebook
    HRK News Bureau

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    twenty + sixteen =

    Related Posts

    Welspun Living and NSDC collaborate to upskill Indian textile workforce

    June 19, 2025

    How The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts is shaping future hospitality leaders

    May 29, 2025

    Lenskart, Virohan to collaborate; bridge gap in India’s eyecare workforce

    May 19, 2025

    Broadridge India partners with Lovely Professional University to ensure industry-ready students

    May 7, 2025

    QUICK HR INSIGHTS

    EDITOR'S PICKS

    How corporate culture change dies a thousand small deaths

    June 23, 2025

    The Great Displacement: How automation is reshaping India’s workforce

    June 20, 2025

    How corporate prejudices are strangling innovation in the workplace

    June 19, 2025

    Psychological safety: the new superpower in winning the talent war

    June 18, 2025
    Latest Post

    How corporate culture change dies a thousand small deaths

    Exclusive Features June 23, 2025

    In boardrooms across Britain, a familiar ritual unfolds. Leadership unveils a grand transformation plan—agility, innovation,…

    Cognizant to invest Rs 1,582 crore in AP; create 8,000 jobs

    News June 23, 2025

    Visakhapatnam will see 8,000 jobs being created at a soon-to-be established information technology (IT) campus.…

    CitiusTech gets Navneet Khandelwal as group chief financial officer

    Movement June 23, 2025

    CitiusTech, the healthcare technology and services company has appointed Navneet Khandelwal as its group chief…

    1,400 job cuts at Voice of America

    Global HR News June 23, 2025

    To decrease what is being called unnecessary expenditure, the US administration is cutting jobs at…

    Asia's No.1 HR Platform

    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram LinkedIn WhatsApp Bluesky
    • Our Story
    • Partner with us
    • Career
    • Reach Us
    • Exclusive Features
    • Cover Story
    • Editorial
    • Dive into the Future of Work: Download HRForecast 2024 Now!
    © 2025 HRKatha.com
    • Disclaimer
    • Refunds & Cancellation Policy
    • Terms of Service

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.