 Thank you and good afternoon to all of you and like Professor Fartak explained in the beginning, we will be going ahead with this plan of action and we have lined up certain talks which will be focused around the topics of first of all what is hackathon, secondly how to prepare for the hackathon, what to do and what not to do during a hackathon and some of the experiences. Now, since all of you are eager to know about hackathons, we thought we will start with someone of your age group and of your experience, so that you will relate to this particular situation the most. We have with us coordinator of E cell of IIT Bombay, he is a student of computer science of IIT Bombay and his name is Gautaman, please come. So, welcome Gautaman, there are students from various parts of the country and there are teachers and there are remote centers which are engineering colleges essentially. So, we want you to share with all of them your experience as a coordinator of hackathon. Good afternoon everyone. So, myself Gautam Erkonda, I am the web manager of Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Bombay. So, every year we have a flagship event in January that C-Summit and we will be conducting a hackathon every year in during E-Summit. So, it has been three years we are conducting hackathon and I want to share my previous experiences since I am the coordinator of hackathon during E-Summit from the past two years. So, first let me tell you what is hackathon, just on a lighter note it is an event where various programmers, entrepreneurs, designers, everyone meet together at a place and at a place typically lasting for several days or weeks sometimes and starts building out their ideas in a shorter termination actually. So, it is not really about software itself. These days we are having hardware hackathons too where they will be provided all the hardware kit and they have to build up show up with a minimum viable product something kind of. So, hack itself mean something related to exploring and programming etcetera something new innovation kind of thing. So, like this sorry to interrupt you, but there was this one important question what people are asking is it about hacking? Nothing related to hacking like we can have some hackathon on hacking to, but hack is just something exploring and innovation some kind of programming. So, just to repeat what Gautam was telling all of you. So, this thing is about solving a particular problem. So, the hack word is used here in a different context and so people had mailed us actually and asked us whether this will be something about ethical hacking or something. So, just to clarify that this is not about hacking in general, but this is about it is a combination word of a marathon and getting a hack done for something. So, it becomes hackathon right go ahead. People are so curious about ethical hacking. So, from participant perfect perspective what all things they get by participating in hackathon I want to just tell you those things. So, they this will be a good opportunity to build some very cool stuff that to during most of the hackathons generally happen during weekends. So, it would be great to win some cash prizes and all that stuff during make some money over weekends. And I think that will be a very good opportunity for you to meet very new people from various areas various sectors and like this happens generally during hackathons. Why do not you just show them maybe a video which can explain like how does things happen showing a small video. So, we have this video. So, hackathon general the procedure starts with registration. So, it is about team formation. So, the team formation may be done previously or else during hackathon 2. So, then you register with a team. So, then ID cards will be distributed to everyone and all that stuff and then people start let and people start with some kind of keynote session. So, there will be some very good speakers over there who give just who will be there to motivate you like they will explain you what is hackathon and all that stuff and then they will explain you what is the problem statement on all that stuff and there will be some chief guest to motivate you. So, there will be some keynote speakers and chief guest to explain what is hackathon and to motivate you people then. Basically they will discuss the problem maybe. The keynote speaker will be motivating kind of motivation then there will be some person who will be explaining problem statement. Then you actually start. Then you actually start and there will be a timer running on for you people. So, people work throughout days and nights and it will be around 3 to 4 days generally minimum generally it will be for 48 hours. So, and now you you discuss in the groups. Yeah, you will be discussing in the groups and that you have to start coding. Right, you have to basically start coding. And then you will get food some awesome food. Some awesome food, right. And at midnight. Midnight you will be that only one lamp is on there which means that only this floor is working on. Yeah. So, in between there will be some other speakers too and some to kind of to crack jokes and to keep entertaining you. And there will be somebody dosing of catching up from sleep. Yeah. But basically the group is continuously working. Yeah, exactly. For those 48 hours. Yeah. There is no time when the entire group is off. Yeah, exactly. That is the main point actually. Right. So, you will be provided with mentors and judges too. So, mentors will be roaming around all the time. Okay. So, you can the whole group cannot sleep at a time actually. Okay. So, then the timer is running. And then it's over. Then you present. Yeah. And then you will be given an opportunity to pitch your ideas. And a minimum viable product should be presented. And the winners will get Yeah. Okay. Great. Good. So, I think the main motive of hackathons is like to avoid destruction. So, I think you can build a productive from your room too. Right. And you can get mentors and judges and all of them in your room too. But it's all about focus. You have to focus on your work. So, you have to create an atmosphere where you can work at a place and that competitive feel you can get it in hackathons. That's the major part of hackathon actually. Okay. And you'll be what was your experience like for the past years for hackathons? How many people came? What was the last year's levels? Yeah. So, last year, there were around 300 people who registered for hackathon. Okay. Out of them, we shortlisted around 170 to 180 people based on their ideas. So, we asked their problem kind of not exact. So, we had a general problem statement actually. Okay. So, it was effective billion. You can come up with any problem statement that will affect a billion people. Okay. So, they presented their idea earlier during the registration. Based on that, we shortlisted them. Out of 300, we selected around 170 people and they enjoyed the whole hackathon actually. So, there were people coming up with various ideas. I can... So, I'll explain you one idea that was very crazy actually. Okay. So, you have a beacon kind of hardware thing which actually delivers a message based on your GPS location. Okay. So, they actually came up with the idea where the whole attendant system can be used with a beacon. Oh. So, when the professor will have an app where he get... And each one will be given a beacon. Okay. So, he had to put it in his pocket as soon as he enters the class. Okay. Obviously, 3D GPS system, all this should be used. Okay. 3D coordinate. As soon as he enters the class, directly the attendance will be given to the professor. Okay. So, that was one... So, that was one very crazy what you remember out of the hackathon. Yeah. Okay. I think... Anything else you want to... Very successful startup from hackathons actually. One slope, the other one is pragma, high pass. There are many successful startups actually. So, these days to get into a startup to... For starting up, you need not have much time actually. So, it can be from a hackathon itself. Okay. So, you need... You just need 48 hours to start up actually. Right. So, that's awesome actually. Right. So, you have to focus in hackathons. That's what professor also mentioned that you can just use this as a base. Yeah, exactly. So, actually mentors will be acting as an idea validation platform for you. So, instead of going to some other people, you can have your mentors as idea validation platform and your judges as some kind of investors. Revivers and reinvestors. So, treat these people as... Yeah, investors and... Okay. Okay. Fine. Good. So, even this year we are conducting a hackathon during our e-summit on 28th and 29th of this month. So, if you want to register, you can register it. Okay. So, maybe we can keep that link up for people so that they can have a look at it. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Gautam. Thank you for giving this... Right. Okay. Thank you.