 Friends, hackathons like these are great for youngsters, participants great access to state of the art technology for the solution of global problems. And they have to do it in a time frame. Participants can taste their ideas, their innovative skills and I firmly believe that the solutions found in today's hackathons are the start-up ideas for tomorrow. We in India have been doing the smart India hackathon for the last few years. This initiative brings together government departments, people associated with industry and all premier industries. We incubate, fund and hand hold solutions from the smart India hackathon and try converting them into start-ups. On similar lines, I hope that NTU, MHRD and AICT will jointly explore the possibility of creating ventures on ideas from this joint hackathon.