- The hackathon was held in Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, & Kochi
- The top three winners of the hackathon from each city received cash rewards of INR 50,000, INR 30,000, and INR 20,000 respectively
Chennai : Microsoft today announced the winners of the Future Ready Applications hackathon. In Chennai, more than 250 participants joined the 8-hour-long in-person event which was open to all Microsoft customers and pro developer community. The participants came up with new age, innovative apps which were built on cloud native architectures leveraging the Microsoft Azure platform.
The event also provided an opportunity for the participants to interact and engage with subject matter experts across Microsoft, its key partner organizations, Tech Influencers and Microsoft Valuable Professionals across India. The participants showcased innovative solutions around four key themes fintech, e-commerce, sustainability, and developer velocity.
In Chennai, the event witnessed an overwhelming response from developers in the manufacturing and technology sectors. Participants from leading companies like Tech Mahindra, Mindtree, Hexaware technologies, Cognizant, TCS, Capgemini, amongst others participated in the hackathon to create applications around developer velocity and customer experience.
The top three winners from Chennai were:
| Microsoft FRA Hackathon Winners: Chennai | |||
| Position | Team Name | Solution | Category |
| Winner | Skalable_Fintech · Praveen Kumar Vetrivel · Vedachalam M · Suresh Kumar S · Althaf A | An Insurance Fintech Solution – Influencing Behaviours, Driving towards Safer, Healthier Society | Fintech |
| Runner Up | NoM (No Money) · Anees A · Thabassum A | Supply Chain and Inventory Management Solution through Azure Storage and Azure ML | Retail/e-Commerce |
| Second Runner Up | Dhineshkumar Selvaraj | Utility Web Application | Developer Velocity |
The winning teams were shortlisted based on the innovative idea and their presentations. In addition to the reward for winners, all the participants were given $200 Azure credit coupons and participation certificates.
Aparna Gupta, Executive Director, Customer Success, Microsoft India, said, “At Microsoft, we are committed to designing solutions and providing the right skills and resources for pro and citizen developers to grow and thrive in a digital economy. The Future Ready Applications hackathon was organized to bring India’s brightest technical minds together to collaborate, connect and innovate. Congratulations to all the hackathon winners. We are very excited to see the innovative thinking and the potential of scale of some of these applications that will enable businesses in India to solve for challenges, innovate and grow on cloud.”
Microsoft Azure platform hosts more than 200 products and cloud services which can help developers solve today’s challenges and design solutions for the future. Our goal is to empower developers to harness the power of the cloud, enabling them to move from idea to code; code to cloud and cloud to the world. A series of initiatives focused on developers have been launched to empower the community like the Blogathon Challenge, Azure Developer League, virtual training days, cloud skills challenge across the Azure community present in 100 Indian cities.
