Business Challenges

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Bringing Foreign Exchange Markets onto Blockchains

Physical Representation of Market Performance for ALGO Cryptocurrency

Person to Person and Payments on Algorand Blockchain

A Question-Answer System on Health Data Standards

Building AI Chatbot for Human Resource Information System

I-Remember – An App for my Grandma

Community Commerce via FaceBook Group

Community Management and Monetisation beyond Facebook Groups

Empowering Social Networks with Blockchain Technology

Emrit CoolSpot network topology Proof of Coverage earnings optimization

Helium Hotspot Helium Network Tokens earnings estimator for new deployments

Practical Avenues of Tokenizing Real Estate

Using Gamification for Community engagement

Rapid Training Solution for Medical Equipment Preparer Occupation

Define solution for 3D virtual walkthrough of a house

On Demand Market Research of Emerging Engineering Trends

Marks Extractor

Skills Assess Bot

Video Timestamp Generator

Discover and Connect Organizations with Right Opportunities at Right Time

Bringing Foreign Exchange Markets onto Blockchains---

Physical Representation of Market Performance for ALGO Cryptocurrency

Person to Person and Payments on Algorand Blockchain

A Question-Answer System on Health Data Standards

Building AI Chatbot for Human Resource Information System

I-Remember – An App for my Grandma

Community Commerce via FaceBook Group

Community Management and Monetisation beyond Facebook Groups

Empowering Social Networks with Blockchain Technology

Emrit CoolSpot network topology Proof of Coverage earnings optimization

Helium Hotspot Helium Network Tokens earnings estimator for new deployments

Practical Avenues of Tokenizing Real Estate

Using Gamification for Community engagement

Rapid Training Solution for Medical Equipment Preparer Occupation

Define solution for 3D virtual walkthrough of a house

On Demand Market Research of Emerging Engineering Trends

Marks Extractor

Skills Assess Bot

Video Timestamp Generator

Discover and Connect Organizations with Right Opportunities at Right Time

How it works

Confirm the participation

All participants must register for the hackathon by accepting the terms & conditions

Form a team & pick a business challenge

Form a team, to choose and work out the business challenges from the 20 challenges available. (Team size Min 1 & Max 5). Recommended team size is 3 members

Need mentor support?

For any assistance, reach out to the TiE Chapter Mentors in your region via Slack Channel

Work on your Solution

Submit your Solution as per the submission guidelines. The last date for submitting a draft solution is 7th March. After that solutions can be edited but new solutions cannot be uploaded.

The team leader can submit multiple drafts until 12th March. final solution by the due date.

Attend the Bootcamps and Workshops

Join the complimentary boot camps offered by our technology partners and workshops by the business challenge owners

Global Business Hackathon

ALL teams (who have submitted draft solutions till 7th March) will compete in an online global business hackathon to work on their solutions along with mentors over a period of 48 hours on 13th and 14th March

First Round of Evaluation

Top 20 solutions will be shortlisted for the next level of competition

Competition round

The top 20 teams will present their solutions to a jury panel on 27th (Semi-Final) and 28th March (Final)

Top 3 Winners of Global business hackathon

The top 3 Winners will be announced by the jury and they will receive the cash prize. Industry partners will announce the internships & grants

Awards, Recognitions, and Participation Certificates

Top ideas under different categories will receive recognitions, jury awards, and participation certificates

Meet Our Mentors

Dr. Ajit S Dixit

TiE Carolinas

Anand Tiwari

TiE Denver

Arun Shroff

TiE New Jersey

Atul Gupta

TiE Kolkata

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Varla

TiE Hyderabad

Brett Fulesday

TIE Pittsburgh

Chitra Sivakumar

TiE Chennai

Craig Abbott

TiE New York

David Smith

TiE Oregon

Mr.B. Krishnamurthy

TiE Coimbatore

Satyajit Doctor

TiE Dallas

Mahendra Naik

TiE Toronto

Mahesh Joshi

TiE DC

Dr. Mahesh K Rao

TiE Mysuru

Mrityunjoy Samaddar

TiE Germany

Mukesh Patel

TiE New Jersey

Nitin Anand

TiE Dubai

Paul Lopez

TiE Atlanta

Prashant Ambe

TIE Pittsburgh

Ravi Brahmbhatt

TiE Houston

Ravi Puli

TiE DC

Ronald Fernandez

TiE Madhya Pradesh

Sheenu Jhawar

TiE Rajasthan

Suhas Apte

TiE Tampa

Sunil Singhal

TiE Tampa

Vani suresh

TiE Silicon Valley

Eric Ensor

TiE Atlanta

Vijay Menon

TiE Global

Subbaraju Pericherla

TiE Hyderabad

Viiveck Verma

TiE Hyderabad

Nakia Melecio

TiE Atlanta

Dr. Ajit S Dixit

TiE Carolinas

Anand Tiwari

TiE Denver

Arun Shroff

TiE New Jersey

Atul Gupta

TiE Kolkata

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Varla

TiE Hyderabad

Brett Fulesday

TIE Pittsburgh

Chitra Sivakumar

TiE Chennai

Craig Abbott

TiE New York

Mr.B. Krishnamurthy

TiE Coimbatore

David Smith

TiE Oregon

Satyajit Doctor

TiE Dallas

Mahendra Naik

TiE Toronto

Mahesh Joshi

TiE DC

Dr. Mahesh K Rao

TiE Mysuru

Mrityunjoy Samaddar

TiE Germany

Mukesh Patel

TiE New Jersey

Nitin Anand

TiE Dubai

Paul Lopez

TiE Atlanta

Prashant Ambe

TIE Pittsburgh

Ravi Brahmbhatt

TiE Houston

Ravi Puli

TiE DC

Ronald Fernandez

TiE Madhya Pradesh

Sheenu Jhawar

TiE Rajasthan

Suhas Apte

TiE Tampa

Sunil Singhal

TiE Tampa

Vani suresh

TiE Silicon Valley

Eric Ensor

TiE Atlanta

Vijay Menon

TiE Global

Subbaraju Pericherla

TiE Hyderabad

Viiveck Verma

TiE Silicon Valley

Nakia Melecio

TiE Atlanta

TEAM NAME	TEAM NAME	NAME	COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY	CHAPTER
#WeThree	#WeThree	Manik Jain	Welingkar Institute of Management Bangalore	TiE Mysuru
#WeThree		Nikhil Nayak
#WeThree		VAISHALI DESALE

ARDecor	ARDecor	DIGNA PATEL	New Jersey Institute of Technology	TiE New Jersey
ARDecor		Pradnya Desai
ARDecor		Sainithin Kuntamukkala

Baldr Medical	Baldr Medical	Abdul Mohaimen Safi	University of South Florida	TiE Tampa
Baldr Medical		Magdelena Harrah
Baldr Medical		Mitchell Harrah
Baldr Medical		Sadhu Moka

Banerjee's	Banerjee's	Tuhina Banerjee	NMIMS	TiE Mumbai

Bit Legion	Bit Legion	Dhwani Panchal	Dj Sanghvi College of Engineering	TiE Mumbai
Bit Legion		Kashish Shah
Bit Legion		Keval Shah
Bit Legion		Neeti Adhia
Bit Legion		Yukti Doshi

BTI Tech Sonic	BTI Tech Sonic	Dhruv Thakkar	Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering	TiE Mumbai
BTI Tech Sonic	BTI Tech Sonic	Krisha Shah		TiE Mumbai

Error 404	Error 404	Amartya Mannava	NMIMS/ MPSTME	TiE Mumbai
Error 404		Bhooyas Kapadia
Error 404		Shreya Shah
Error 404		Soham Deshpande
Error 404		Tirth Gandhi

Ether Bots	Ether Bots	Anuj Gupta	Dwarkadas Jivanlal Sanghvi College of Engineering	TiE Mumbai
Ether Bots		Parth Gala
Ether Bots		YADNIK BENDALE

eunoia	eunoia	Danush B	Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science	TiE Coimbatore
eunoia		Navina G A
eunoia		Sangamithra K.M
eunoia		Sasthikaa K T
eunoia		Siddharth L

FriendsOfHR	FriendsOfHR	Keshav Rao	IIT Madras	TiE Chennai
FriendsOfHR		Pranav Pawar
FriendsOfHR		Shankar Lal

moLabs	moLabs	Mohammed Saqib	University of Toronto	TiE Toronto

Muhammed Razeen	Muhammed Razeen	Muhammed Razeen	Govt. Model Engineering College	TiE Coimbatore

Pythia	Pythia	Ajay Purushothaman Thundathil	Full Sail University	TiE New York
Pythia	Pythia	Vageesh Muralitharan	Full Sail University	TiE New York

Runtime Terror	Runtime Terror	Aravind Pidaparthy	Indira College of Engineering and Management	TiE Mumbai
Runtime Terror		nishant mishra
Runtime Terror		Radhika Gupta
Runtime Terror		Sami MK

Shift del bugs	Shift del bugs	Bhavya Gandhi	Dwarkadas J Sanghvi college of engineering	TiE Mumbai
Shift del bugs		Manali Maniyar
Shift del bugs		Neha Doshi
Shift del bugs		vidhi Jain

Sustaina	Sustaina	Nidhi Uppoor	Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering	TiE Mumbai
Sustaina		Sanvika Singhania
Sustaina		Sunidhi Raj Kohli

Team Bro's	Team Bro's	Abhishek Gera	VISHNU	TiE Hyderabad
Team Bro's		Allu Daddy Durga Praveen
Team Bro's		Aremanda Abhijeeth
Team Bro's		Bala Mahesh Chilakala
Team Bro's		Boyinapalli Sandeep Dora

Team Hacktroid	Team Hacktroid	Arhya Singh	Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering	TiE Mumbai
Team Hacktroid		Ayushya Shah
Team Hacktroid		Dev Ganjawalla
Team Hacktroid		Nidhi Nair
Team Hacktroid		Rushank Shah

Team red	Team red	bhavin patanwadia	NMIMS	TiE Mumbai
Team red		Dharshi Bhavsar
Team red		Drumin Gajjar
Team red		Kedar Joshi
Team red		Neha Kulkarni

Team SS	Team SS	Shreya Malhotra	Mukesh Patel School of Technology and Management	TiE Mumbai
Team SS	Team SS	Swapnil Singh	Mukesh Patel School of Technology and Management	TiE Mumbai

Team7	Team7	Param Rajani	Dwarkadas J Sanghvi College of Engineering	TiE Mumbai
Team7		Parth Kurhade
Team7		PARTH PANDEY
Team7		Purva Shukla
Team7		siddhant nayak

TeamMcManus	TeamMcManus	Brendan McManus	Duquesne University	TIE Pittsburgh

Tech star	Tech star	Aishwarya Lakshmi S	LOYALA INST OF TECH	TiE Chennai

WeHack	WeHack	Meghana Varanasi	IIT BHILAI	TiE Andhra Pradesh
WeHack		Prahitha Movva
WeHack		Shreya Gundu

Company Name	BUDDI
Title	A Question-Answer System on Health Data Standards
Business Challenge Description	SNOMED CT is a queryable ontology which indexes standardized medical terminologies such as conditions, bodyparts, symptoms, drugs, procedures, techniques, severity, etc. UMLS provides medical taxonomies in terms of metathesaurus, lexical tools, and semantic networks. UMLS allows the data to be loaded to a relational database for querying. RxNorm provides a standardized list of drug names against the syntactic variations. When these taxonomies are combined, a queryable medical knowledge base could be constructed, with which, a Question-Answer system should be constructed. Combining the taxonomies to a queryable medical knowledge base is one part of the expected solution. The 2nd part of the solution is to create a natural language interface that allows an user to type a query in English to seek an answer from the knowledge base..
Expected Business Solution	A web interface that accepts a question in natural English language from an user. The QA system should understand the question for semantics and use the underlying UMLS/SNOMED/RxNorm knowledge base to find the best answer(s) rank ordered by relevance or significance.
Tools & Technology	Apache cTAKES is a powerful platform that integrates well with the UMLS for developing software applications for medical language processing.
Resources/Reference(s)	UMLS: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/index.html SNOMED: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/healthit/snomedct/index.html RxNORM: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/index.html cTAKES: https://ctakes.apache.org/ Supporting Documents: https://smartinternz.com/assets/tie/supporting/Algorand-TiE%20Hackathon%20Business%20Challenge_%20Blockchain%20and%20Social%20Network.pdf

Company Name	Azent Overseas Education
Title	Marks Extractor
Business Challenge Description	How can we leverage AI to accurately extract information from Indian Marks Sheets A major problem that we face today is the inability to leverage data that we have inside scanned documents and images. The challenge is not just to extract data from scanned documents but also to extract it accurately. This becomes even more challenging when the documents have different formats and different information to be extracted from them.
Expected Business Solution	The expected solution should be a prototype model that can be executed on at least 2-3 different mark sheets from various boards to extract information and should be easily extensible to support multiple formats in the future.
Tools & Technology	You are free to use any available tools for research and implementation.
Resources/Reference(s)	https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr https://towardsdatascience.com/extracting-text-from-scanned-pdf-using-pytesseract- open-cv-cd670ee38052

Company Name	SmartBridge Educational Services Pvt Ltd.
Title	Skills Assess Bot
Business Challenge Description	52% of talent acquisition leaders say that the most difficult part of their job is to shortlist the right candidate and 3% of candidates never hear back from a company after one touchpoint. Even acquisition leaders don’t find the confidence in the candidates in there answers.For high volume recruiting, this would require communicating with thousands of candidates, in addition to a recruiter’s normal screening functions and other duties. Artificial Intelligence enabled software bots can definitely provide a solution for this problem.
Expected Business Solution	Build a Bot with general HR questions which can assess the answers given by the candidate and generate a score based on the relevancy & grammar. The bot should also generate recommended online video courses freely available on YouTube.
Tools & Technology	IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Watson Personality Insights, Python 2 or 3, IBM Watson Studio, IBM Cloud for Deployment, Any Web / Mobile app frameworks
Resources/Reference(s)	https://marutitech.com/14-powerful-chatbot-platforms/ https://chatbotsmagazine.com/how-to-develop-a-chatbot-from-scratch-62bed1adab8c https://ideal.com/recruitment-chatbot/

Company Name	Revature
Title	Video Timestamp Generator
Business Challenge Description	Video hosting websites like YouTube have become increasingly popular as both a form of education and entertainment. For the former, learners using the platform can be inundated with options from various publishers that match their search query, often returning videos longer than 15 minutes. In some videos, there is an infographic that displays the video timestamps for when certain topics are covered by the content creator. As a learner, parsing through large lists of seemingly helpful videos without the timestamps for specific topics can quickly become overwhelming, especially when time is of the essence. An example of the timestamp infographic for a Networking Video can be found on the next page. Design a solution such that given a URL for a YouTube video, a text file is returned containing the Timestamps and Topics for any start of a new topic.
Expected Business Solution	The application should be implemented as either a Web Application or Desktop Application (Desktop App need not be compatible with all OS). Parse the audio from any YouTube video using OpenCV (or another library of your choice) Using a sentiment analysis library of your choice, determine which sentences in the video which are indicative of a new topic and which are supporting a topic. Gather the timestamps from when the new topics are introduced into the video and write them to a file in chronological order.
Tools & Technology	You are free to use whichever languages or tools that are available to you but note that the OpenCV library is only usable with C++
Resources/Reference(s)	https://research.google.com/youtube8m/index.html https://github.com/opencv/opencv https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl GCP AutoML Vision ($300 in free GCP credits for 90 days)

Company Name	Husys
Title	Building AI Chatbot for Human Resource Information System
Business Challenge Description	To develop a chatbot to be integrated with HRIS application (all platforms) and any third party software which should have standard APIs readily available for integration with any other software (of any type) as and when required.
Expected Business Solution	Story: User able to get response from chat boat based on user query as per data restrictions and assess rights In ChatBot, if the user wants to view his current leave balance, After typing the show my current leave balance system has to show the leave balance. Text Field and Voice: Users will apply queries like (Check for leave status, Fetch latest payslip, Apply for reimbursement).
Tools & Technology	Flutter, Python, React, NLP engine
Resources/Reference(s)	http://www.aphusys.com/ Supporting Documents https://smartinternz.com/assets/tie/supporting/Husys-AI%20Chat%20bot.pdf

Company Name	Technomile
Title	Discover and Connect Organizations with Right Opportunities at Right Time
Business Challenge Description	Being in the Washington DC metro area, the most dominant force around us is Federal Government. Majority of the business around DC area are doing business with the government and government has been on the technological innovation push with Open Government API, Cloud Adoption and many other strategic initiatives. One of such initiative that Government is usaspending.gov where all the US government spending data is available. But it is very challenging for companies who want to work with Federal Government to identify which opportunities matches their capabilities and what work they should be pursuing for which their chances of winning is highest. This project will match the companies with the opportunities and also make recommendations for which keywords to focus on their business development efforts.
Expected Business Solution	The solution requirements are to develop a Neural Network for sentiment analysis using Keras or similarDeep Learning Library to match companies with opportunities. Data for analyzing will be provided.
Tools & Technology	Any combination of the following AWS Python Kerras TensowFlow MongoDB
Resources/Reference(s)	https://usaspending.gov https://sam.gov

Company Name	Wemanage
Title	I-Remember – An App for my Grandma. To build a gaming app for I-Phones that will use old photos and engage elderly citizens in matching names of the people on photos with names announced by audio.
Business Challenge Description	As people get older their memory suffers and they can have a hard time remembering things Against this background, the internet and electronic games market has come up with numerous games and exercises designed to train and engage an individual’s brain, with a view to providing challenging exercises to test alertness and memory. The I-Remember game fits within this category but has the added function of personalizing the game to the individual concerned. This is done by using family photographs from days gone by. The custom game has to be highly usable by an elderly individual, leading to quick and high adoption with commensurate benefits to the individual and the immediate family or friends close by. Detail 1. Develop an app for use on the I-phone which has the following functions. 2. Capture old photographs, either by taking a photo of the old picture, or by copying in a jpeg of the old photograph 3. Ensure the photograph has clearly recognizable faces and use a finger to mark out circles around each face, for a maximum of six per photograph. 4. For each marked out face, record a sound clip with the person’s name 5. The game consists of the name being announced in random sequence and the individual having to touch the image of the person whose name was called out. 6. The app tracks correct identification and time taken for identification and gives a score. Modes (SEE PDF FOR FULL DETAILS) 1. Game Set up – Picture select and capture, Mark faces, Record names, Fine tune rules 2. Game Play – Enter name, Select picture, Start, Touch/mark, Pause, Finish 3. Game report – Memory evaluation, Alertness evaluation (time based), Consolidated results
Expected Business Solution	1. The app will run native code on the I-phone and will store all data locally 2. If the team feels the use of a cloud solution or use of an existing game development platform is to be adopted, they have the choice to do so. In this case suitable consideration will need to be given to privacy and security of data not stored on the phone. 3. The team will come up with a working app with no major bugs or non-functional components. 4. The screen design, user interface and overall user experience must be geared towards older people who are minimally familiar with smartphones. 5. The logistics and process needed for deploying the app on the Apple store are to be worked out. Other information 1.Clarification questions and discussions will be permitted, either via email or via calls. The answers will be made transparent to all participating teams 2. The IP for the game, the app, the code, the screen designs and the business rights are owned by the TiE 3. Hackathon Business Challenge sponsor. 4. The winning team may be asked to continue in refining the game, eg by making the memory challenges harder and by working on version upgrades eg for Android phones. 5. The participating teams will have the right to use to code and the game for personal use, but any commercialization of the game must be cleared with the sponsor in writing first.
Tools & Technology	--
Evaluation	1. App is complete, with full functioning of the defined use cases. 2. App has attractive displays, sounds and is easy to use. 3. Amount of thought put into distribution and possible commercialization of the App. 4. Approach taken for its marketing and successful use, including support requirements.
Reference and Resources	Download the attached PDF for a complete view of the Business challenge

Company Name	Algorand Foundation
Title	Empowering Social Networks with Blockchain Technology
Business Challenge Description	Many have been talking about decentralizing social networks with blockchain technology. Although it is not easy to completely revolutionize social networks, several projects have been trying to add decentralized functions for social networks as plugins. We would like you to focus your challenge efforts to keep extending in this direction. We do not want to limit your imagination but here are some topics for your team to consider as reference: - Social network crowdfunding with instant payments using cryptocurrency - Distributed P2P fiat and cryptocurrency gateway (Find people on the social network in your neighborhood to exchange fiat and cryptocurrency) - Decentralized Zola (Fund your friends’ wedding gift with cryptocurrency on social networks) - Social credit scores or distributed reputational systems that link social media activity back to data
Expected Business Solution	It is expected that at the end of the day, you could deliver the following pieces: - A functional product prototype - A document/slides that introduce the idea and mechanism If you get interested in your project and you still want to continue to work on it after the hackathon, you may apply to the Algorand Foundation for a development grant that will be considered for further funding.
Tools & Technology	We recommend you to use ALGO and Algorand blockchain due to its instant transaction finality and rich features. All tools and documents you need can be found on https://developer.algorand.org/
Resources/Reference(s)	https://www.coindesk.com/decentralized-social-networks-next-big-blockchainopportunity https://sopa.tulane.edu/blog/decentralized-social-networks https://tippin.me/ https://mask.io/

Company Name	Convosight
Title	Community Commerce via FaceBook Group
Business Challenge Description	How can we leverage the large distribution network of Facebook communities to enable Community Commerce, which in turn helps Admin monetize his/her community by earning a fee or commission. There are examples of other word of mouth driven commerce which uses the network effect of large platforms such as Meesho (which leverages WhatsApp Network), Pinduoduo (Bulk Buying leveraging WeChat)..
Expected Business Solution	The expected solution should be a prototype model that can be executed on Facebook Group by the Admin leveraging the power of community and creating value for the Admin, Members and Brand. The solution should explain, on first principles, why your idea (s) should work. Something that has been tried and tested with an entire workflow would be ideal
Tools & Technology	You are free to use any available tools for research and implementation Note: We are expecting the final presentation with workflow to be in a powerpoint or google presentation along with a process chart.
Resources/Reference(s)	www.convosight.com www.meesho.com https://en.pinduoduo.com/company https://a16z.com/2019/10/08/passion-economy/

Company Name	Emrit
Title	Emrit CoolSpot network topology Proof of Coverage earnings optimization
Business Challenge Description	Determine the optimal Emrit CoolSpot network topology to maximizing PoC HNT earnings for providing network coverage.
Expected Business Solution	Determine optimal network deployment topology using 6 Coolspots to provide network coverage to a geographic area. Star, Ring, Bus, Point to Multipoint, hybrid. PoC HNT earning per CoolSpot per topology (Larger is better) Geographic area covered (larger is better) RSSI coverage map Comparison of Max HNT vs. Geographic coverage optimizations Create a simulation tool that allows an estimate of HNT earning based on the different topologies..
Tools & Technology	Knowledge of RF and RF propagation; Ability to interpret RF data and translate into coverage, QoS, and PSR reports. Block Chain coding and algorithm analysis; Ability to inspect Helium block chain source code to extract PoC algorithm and chain variables (C-code). Translate and build simple simulation tool (python, excel spreadsheet, other). Emrit will provide 6 loaner CoolSpots for the duration of the challenge.
Resources/Reference(s)	https://emrit.io/ https://www.helium.com/ https://github.com/helium/HIP https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/master/0015-beaconing-rewards.md https://explorer.helium.com/ https://www.sitebot.com/helium/hotspots/search

Company Name	33 Holdings Real Estate Investments
Title	Practical Avenues of Tokenizing Real Estate
Business Challenge Description	Since the inception of real estate markets, buyers, sellers, and investors have dealt with foundational issues in real estate transactions including lack of liquidity, transparency, and high complexity. With the emergence of blockchain technologies, we have the opportunity to fundamentally disrupt the existing processes by tokenizing the ownership of real estate. This will increase assessibility, affordability, cost efficiency, and transparency.
Expected Business Solution	By tokenizing real estate assets and utilizing smart contracts and other functionalities enabled through blockchain, ownership and valuation of real estate properties can be verified real-time and on-demand in a decentralized, transparent, and secure way which benefits all parties involved in the transaction.
Tools & Technology	Familiarity with ETH, blockchain, and smart contract functionalities and solidity programming language or other alternative forms of layer 1 blockchains with smart contract functionality.
Resources/Reference(s)	Any available open source online resources that involve blockchains with smart contract functionality

Company Name	Colaberry
Title	Rapid Training Solution for Medical Equipment Preparer Occupation
Business Challenge Description	The jobs crisis triggered by COVID-19 has left a record number of Americans stripped of their work. These newly laid-off workers are seeking effective pathways that could help them get into high-growth occupations for the future of work. Medical Equipment Preparer is an occupation with high projected growth, offers a living wage, does not require a post-secondary degree or a license. Medical Equipment Preparers prepare, sterilize, install, or clean laboratory or healthcare equipment. They may also perform routine laboratory tasks and operate or inspect equipment. Top skills that are developed in this role include critical thinking, monitoring, quality control analysis, active listening and operation monitoring.
Expected Business Solution	An innovative tech-based training solution that would enable remote and rapid acquisition of job-ready skills for the Medical Equipment Preparer role. The solution to be presented in the form of flow charts, screens, and systems diagrams.
Tools & Technology	Consider all currently available tools and technologies, including cloud computing, VR, AR, AI tools, ML, etc.
Resources/Reference(s)	https://www.careersinhealthcare.com/medical-equipment-preparer/ https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupational-projections-and-characteristics.htm https://livingwage.mit.edu/ https://www.gleechi.com/

Company Name	Borderless Capital
Title	Person to Person and Payments on Algorand Blockchain
Business Challenge Description	Enable students to make P2P transfers and Payments using payment rails of USDC on Algorand
Expected Business Solution	Mobile payment app built on Algorand that accepts P2P transfers and settlement for providers. Leverage low transaction cost (0.001 Algo), high throughput and 2.5 sec finality of the Algorand blockchain. Use Algorands integration with USDC Stablecoin.
Tools & Technology	TEAL language, USDC on Algorand. etc.
Resources/Reference(s)	https://developer.algorand.org/docs/features/asc1/teal_overview/ https://developer.algorand.org/tutorials/ https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/usdc-for-algorand-now-available-in-your-circle-account

Company Name	Ansys
Title	On Demand Market Research of Emerging Engineering Trends
Business Challenge Description	Scientific/engineering discoveries become industry and mega trends following a path similar to this: The Scientific / engineering discoveries are made in R&D groups at academic institutions, government agencies or private companies -> promotion of the discovery & market opportunity by their innovators, thought leaders, early investors, etc. -> technical breakthroughs to make the discoveries viable -> substantial investment flows by market players & strategic alignment of their businesses to harness the value of those discoveries. There is lot of information in social media chatter, industrial magazines, company presentations, their SEC reports, etc. Today, we have to buy reports from consulting companies specialized in market research. The problem is that these reports are expensive, available for only certain technologies / industry trends, and are created / updated only periodically.
Expected Business Solution	Create a web platform/service that mines the internet, aggregates the information pieces based on relevant & popularity, and presents this information on-demand in a consumable form. For example, I input in “hybrid propulsion” or “hydrogen as a fuel”, an information map on items such as centers of engineering activity, key influencers (people, companies), investment activity, etc. is created on the fly.
Tools & Technology	Any Open Source tool can be used.
Resources/Reference(s)	--

Global Business Hackathon

Hackathon

Till 07 March'21

07 March'21 Midnight

13th -14th March'21

14 March'21 Midnight

Competition

19th March'21

27th March'21

28th March'21

Semi-Finalists

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Global Business Hackathon

First Round of Evaluation

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Top 3 Winners of Global business hackathon

Awards, Recognitions, and Participation Certificates

BootCamps

BootCamps

TECHNICAL BOOTCAMPS

Natural Language Processing

Essentials of Blockchain

Using AI to Solve Bussiness Problems

Blockchain in IoT

Efficient Smart Contracts

Data-Driven Marketing & Analytics

Intelligent Chatbots

Developing Apps on Algorand Blockchain

BUSINESS CHALLENGE OWNER WORKSHOPS

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Challenge Specific Workshops Day - 2

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Meet Our Mentors

Meet Our Mentors

Dr. Ajit S Dixit

Anand Tiwari

Arun Shroff

Atul Gupta

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Varla

Brett Fulesday

Chitra Sivakumar

Craig Abbott

David Smith

Mr.B. Krishnamurthy

Satyajit Doctor

Mahendra Naik

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