National Hackathon awards country's top app developers

National Hackathon 2022, organised by the national appstore ‘bdapps’, has recognised the best 10 teams of the competition at the gala round in Dhaka on Tuesday .

bdapps, managed by Robi, organised the National Hackathon in partnership with the ICT Division, said a press release.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak attended the gala event as the chief guest.

Robi’s CEO Rajeev Sethi, Chief Commercial Officer Shihab Ahmad, and other high officials of the company were present at the event. Members of bdapps developer’s community and the finalists of the competition were also present on the occasion.

Team Hako came on top of the competition, followed by Team NUB; Team Sangu secured the third place. The first, second, and third team were given two lakh, one lakh twenty-five thousand, and seventy-five thousand Taka respectively.

In total, the 10 best teams were given five lakh Taka as prize money. Robi’s Chief Commercial Officer Shihab Ahmad revealed these insights on the competition.

“The innovative energy of the young apps developers are the key drivers for bdapps. We are indeed privileged to be able to work with you all through this National Appstore. I thank the ICT Division and the telecom regulator for helping us to take bdapps to all corner of the country,” Rajeev said.

“I thank the Robi management for lending their expertise in this matter. I am very confident that bdapps, with the active participation of the young apps developers, is going lead the country towards Smart Bangladesh,” Palak said.

In total, 5,000 app developers participated in the competition divided into 2,000 teams. Prior to the National level Hackathon, five regional level Hackathons took place in Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Khulna, and Sylhet, where apps developers from all over the country took part.

At the end of the regional Hackathons, 36 teams were provided month-long online mentorship by 15 renowned IT firms. Then the 36 teams competed at the National level Hackathon on November 4-5, at the end of which, 10 best teams were identified as winners of the competition.

Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Managing Director Bikarna Kumar Ghosh and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) President Russell T Ahmed were also present at the event.

Startup Bangladesh, BASIS, PreneurLab, Creative IT, Miaki, BdOSN, hSenid, Shikhbe Shobai, JCI Dhaka West and Bangladesh Innovation Forum were the partner organisations of the National Hackathon.