Team from Bangalore wins Tata Communications' cross-border hackathon- 'The Future of Collaboration’
On the back of two days (July 13,14) of some high adrenaline innovation, Tata Communications unveiled the winning entry entitled, ‘Interactive Place’, which represents the evolution of web browsing; it was created by a team of developers in Bangalore (Amitesh Madhur, Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan and Seetharamakrishna Madamsetti) during the world’s first simultaneous Silicon Valley and Bangalore hackathon. The ‘Interactive Place’ concept took the winning spot at the Tata Communications hackathon giving a new dimension to web surfing by allowing users to easily interact with other users on the same web page using video and text through their browsers.
Hot on the heels of Tata Communications’ recent jamvee™ launch (next generation global video collaboration), the hackathon was aimed at further developing the future of collaboration, using WebRTC. During the two-day hackfest nearly 200 developers in both countries worked together to innovate next-generation open-standard collaboration tools. The winners receive a $15,000 cash reward and their idea will be incubated by Tata Communications and iAccelerator-CIIE through November 2013. Both companies will provide investment, mentoring and infrastructure support to bring the concept to reality.
The second place award ($10K) was given to a team from Silicon Valley for their app called ‘DeMobo’ and Neehraj N Joshi, Prince Jain and Nilabh Pandey from Bangalore received the third place award ($5k) for their collaborative tool called ‘Dev+join’. Other awards include, Best Business Model ($10K), Best Collaboration between locations ($5K), Audience Favourite in Bangalore and Silicon Valley ($5K each), Best Tool for Education ($3K), as well as two on-the-spot Honourable Mention awards ($1K each) in Silicon Valley and Bangalore respectively. Tata Communications will continue to be in discussion with the participating teams.
For more information, visit: www.tatacommunications.com/futureofcollaboration
Twitter hashtag: #Collabhack13
