Conduent Incorporated (NYSE: CNDT), a digital interactions company, hosted the ConduentBlockchainHackathon finaleat its office in Hyderabad on June 22 and 23, 2019, held in collaboration with HackerEarth, an enterprise software talent management company.
The first hackathon of the series kicked off in India on April 12, 2019. Open to all blockchain enthusiasts in the country, the event’s first phaseconsisted of 1,276 participants who competed in a virtual crowdsourcing process over the course of six weeks. It then culminated into a 36-hour, no sleep, on-site hackathon where 76 participants forming 27teamscreated and presented their blockchain solution prototypes.
Shivam Singh, RajatRawat, RohanChougule and SwastikShrivastava of team shivam2813_1716 from Lucknow earned the grand prize of INR 3,00,000 (3 lakh Indian rupees)and the title of ultimate winners of the ConduentBlockchainHackathon India segment. The first runner up award went to SudharshanIyengar, Shankar Thyagarajan, Kiruba Karan and Magesh B of team HackerXfrom Chennai who received INR 2,00,000(2 lakh Indian rupees)and, the second runner award was given toAnand Kumar Sinha, Sangat Das, SairajSawant and RohitBadre of team anandsinha07_adab from Pune who received INR 1,00,000(1 lakh Indian rupees).
The focus of the Hackathon was to build a viable, decentralized application to share assets in the business-to-business (B2B) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) contexts around the following themes:
- Incentive systems for social behavioral change
- Blockchain for a shared economy
- Smart properties
- Transparent interactions with the Government
- Delegative voting systems
Participants could use any blockchain platform, technology stack, domain, or programming language of their choice. Applications were evaluated on the basis of their novelty and practicality.
“Blockchainis an evolving technology with abilities to support a wide range of uses in the commercial and public sectors, and Conduent is focused on fostering these types of emerging technology disciplines,” said Nikhil Nayab, Global Head, Payments Innovation and Blockchain, Conduent. “The level of enthusiasm and innovative ideas exhibited at the Hackathon was extremely impressive, and we’re excited to provide opportunities to the many talented developers and coders across India – a leader in blockchain research with one of the highest concentrations of blockchain developers in the world.”