India's largest Aviation Hackathon
The full-service airline, Vistara has launched ‘Vistara Hackathon’, the country’s largest of its kind in aviation. The ‘Vistara Hackathon’ is aimed at encouraging the young minds and draw participation from across the country to create innovative solutions that will disrupt the industry in line with the airline’s vision of transforming the flying experience for travelers in India. The all-India ‘Vistara Hackathon’ will be held in Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru from October 7, 2017, to October 8, 2017, the registration for which is open until September 25, 2017.
Elaborating the airline’s focus on technology, Ravinder Pal Singh, Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Vistara, said "Vistara is the first Indian airline to have built an end-to-end IT infrastructure on Cloud. We’re adopting the latest technologies to drive innovation across avenues – from maximising convenience for travellers across customer touchpoints to simplifying internal processes that lead to increased productivity and cost-saving. Technology will help bring about disruptive changes in the aviation industry, some of which we hope to discover at the ‘Vistara Hackathon’.”
The ‘Vistara Hackathon’ will involve 20 teams from each city that will compete with each other to create new applications and tools to address aviation-related challenges in areas such as, tracking traveller behaviour, personalization of air travel, intelligent crowd monitoring at airports, system integration with third-party APIs and software, in-flight entertainment and intelligent customer targeting, amongst other challenging aspects. The solutions submitted at the ‘Vistara Hackathon’ will be reviewed by a panel of technology and aviation experts who will hand-pick winners, based on originality, the potential for scalability, and successful execution.
Vistara is organizing this Hackathon in partnership with IncubateIND. IncubateIND provides a fertile ground for networking and teamwork to students and professionals and helps to discover, create, work together, achieve collective goals, and pursue shared ambitions. Essentially, the company works with students and entrepreneurs community to create workable solutions for better India. It works on solving world’s greatest problems through a technology-driven community of students, entrepreneurs, and government.
"Technology is no more a need now rather it has become a lifestyle. This Hackathon is a birthplace of innovation. It can be adapted to greatly accelerate the process of digital transformation. IncubateIND helps to drive innovation by crowd-sourcing talent using latest technologies, competing to build, test, and launch amazing ideas to the world for tech products, platforms, and brands," said Samkit Sharma, Co-Founder, IncubateIND.
Putting an emphasis on the working structure of the company, Punit Jain, Co-Founder, IncubateIND further stated that Innovation is born out of curiosity and most businesses, nowadays, have taken birth out of a robust engineering of innovation.
"Every company is seeking modernization to increase their productivity and efficiency. IncubateIND provides a platform to students, professionals, and entrepreneurs, and helps them in developing their skillset in the domain of technology," he said.
IncubateIND has always believed that there exists no problem in the world whose solution is not possible. Since its inception in 2016, the company has endeavored to solve world's greatest problems by providing an environment to the young tech minds to flourish their ideas and convert them into business. With 'Vistara Hackathon', IncubateIND aspires to build solutions which will disrupt the aviation and transform the flying experience for travelers in India.
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