ITC Infotech’s iTech 2017 Sets Technology Benchmark

ITC Infotech, a global scale full service provider of technology solutions and a fully owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, successfully concluded the third chapter of ‘iTech 2017’, its annual technology innovation and co-creation platform.

As part of iTech 2017, ITC Infotech organised a codeathon and a startup showcase on July 22 & 23, 2017, at its Bangalore campus. Microsoft Azure was the official cloud partner  for the event.

At the Start-up Showcase, innovative start-ups from  across the country got an unique  opportunity  to present their solutions in front of ITC Infotech’s global client representatives and senior leadership of ITC Infotech and ITC Ltd..

These solutions, based on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AR, VR etc., addressed real-world industry challenges crowd sourced from across ITC Infotech’s global client base, as well as from ITC Ltd.

Two start-ups, inFeedo and Aindra won a grant of Rs. 5 Lacs for a paid POC each, and the chance to co-develop their solution with ITC Infotech as a part of its go-to-market strategy. inFeedo presented a chatbot that can talk to employees and proactively  identify those who are unhappy or most likely to leave.

AIndra developed an AI based - face recognition/ verification/ validation, visitor tracking, damage detection to use in machine learning, also, asset review and management.

The codeathon brought together some of the sharpest technology minds in the country  to compete, create and code for complex business applications. The participants addressed various challenges ranging from social chats to jigsaw puzzles to  demonstrate their programming expertise and mettle in technological innovation.

The winning group titled: Latch, used Node JS, Django and Bots to create a social chat application. They walked home with a cash prize of Rs. 3 Lacs. The first runners-up titled: Offline Champs, demonstrated how to cache and update content offline using Magnolia CMS on the iOS Platform. They won a cash prize of Rs 2 Lacs. The second runners-up, titled: Sparks, created a smart solution for push notifications for all mobile platforms using Node JS and won a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lac.

Special jury awards of Rs. 25,000 each were also given to three promising participants.