Bangalore: Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services announced the winners of Capgemini’s Tech Challenge 3.0. Team InbuiltMinds comprising Saran Kumar Pantangi, Aditya Sethia, Diptangshu Chakrabarty, Vamsikrishna Patchava and Balaji SR won the Tech Challenge Title for the penultimate challenge called the ‘Digital Shopper.’ The grand finale challenge aimed at creating a solution that would help  Digital shoppers evaluate all available product options  and buy the right product instead of the cheapest product. The team won INR 2 lakh in the award money. Tech Challenge 3.0 is a unique online hackathon to identify the best technology experts in the country. The challenge this year received an overwhelming response from over 74,000 tech enthusiasts across social media platforms with over 5 lakh page visits and 4.8 million views on the Tech Challenge microsite.

Tech Challenge 3.0 invited the best programmers in India to participate in a Coding Challenge and a Skill Challenge in various niche technology themes such as Digital, Insights & Data (I&D), Infrastructure Services, and Financial Services(FS). The Digital challenges included Pega, Hybris, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and Salesforce. The FS challenge comprised Blockchain while the I&D challenge hosted Data Integration and Data Science. Scientifically designed to identify the best, each challenge was divided into three levels with increasing complexity with Level 3 being the final challenge.

Sixty participants out of those registered reached the theme-based finals. Winners and runners up in every theme received cash prizes of INR 30,000 and INR 20,000 respectively. Besides cash prizes, select winners will get the opportunity of direct interviews with Capgemini India. The Top Five in Digital, I&D, Financial services and Coding themes battled it out on the day of the finale in the Level 3 physical hackathon – held at Capgemini Knowledge Park in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. The jury comprised key members from Capgemini India leadership.

Ashwin Yardi, COO, Capgemini India said, “We conceptualised Tech Challenge as a platform that would stimulate ideation, creativity and innovation for the best IT talent in India. Three years since inception, Tech Challenge has become one of the most popular engagement platforms with the current edition attracting record participation. The creativity and depth of talent we have witnessed is amazing. I would like to congratulate all the winners for some very innovative and practical solutions.”