 I have a couple of talks lined up now where we will we will be talking about another experience of conducting an hackathon. So let me just call the next speaker Professor Kumarishan was going to come here and talk about it. So I would like him to share his thoughts about the and the experiences about conducting this hackathon. Good afternoon everybody it is it is a pleasant surprise to meet you all at this time and we came to know about this presentation couple of days back and we quickly put together our experiences. We are going to give you overall picture of what we have done as a part of conducting this make it India hackathon. If you have any doubts or anything we can always we can always get in touch with us. We will give you our mail IDs and other links you know like where are the where we have our final entries and like other other talks everything we can give you the links and you can go through it. I would say this was a great experience for us as organizers and I wish everybody could go through this experience at some point in their life you know. So I shall start about giving the overall idea. So when hackathon was told to us know we have to conduct hackathon we were like we used to conduct different kinds of hackathons here you know typically for computer science exercises or in IDC industrial design center we conduct design hackathons where we talk about creative methods etc. But this time it was for all over India engineering students and whoever could participate could participate that was the idea it was open to everybody. So we wanted to touch everybody and like know make them feel related to this whole exercise. So the whole thing started with finding out what are the main important issues that they can relate to everybody can relate to and can they make a difference. All of us have ideas and can that idea be implemented or realized that was the overall intention. So we started with motivating students we sent a lot of flyers to different colleges and we asked them do you want to change anything in your city. Right immediate thing that they see right like transport water issues and energy issues these are the three things that we thought everybody would be interested in addressing these issues and here in IIT Bombay we have pretty prominent centers which deal with research issues in these three areas energy water and transportation. So we took our strength and we wanted to add more to it and we wanted more people to participate in this hackathon. So we organized these question papers that itself was a big exercise for us know we almost four departments we got together we fade up the question paper and we sent it across to people and the second thing that happened was the preparations in conducting or accommodating all of them like about 150 participants came from different places different colleges and there were quite a lot of entries that came in more than 150 I guess and we had to shortlist all of them that was another big task we had to set up our own evaluation committee and we all work towards finding the best solutions best proposals and these are the we had to have very strong evaluation criteria as well and we had to people should know how a problem is being analyzed. So we pretty much made it available to everyone to see you know like these are the criteria that we are looking for. The first thing that we concentrated was the strength of the team the team is the team capable of doing realizing their solutions their ideas within the given time like say three days three days is the hackathon time but they spent seven days with us in pre-preparation and post-preparation post hackathon time then we looked at their proposal and its potential impact can it be realized and what is the scale of the realization can it reach across India or is it only specific to one particular zone or region and the novelty of idea is just run of the middle idea or people have come up with something interesting in terms of probably the technology that is being used or the cost or anything else and we also looked at the people whether they can actually they understood the technology in these days you know you know like it is very easy for people to say yeah just create another app no that is not we are looking for not we are looking for we are looking for something more hardcore you know do the people know what they are talking about then the robustness of the solution robustness primarily it comes from the simplicity and implementability you know we are talking about like far away places remote places where there is no reach of technology can the solution still function without you know even if there is any small hitches can it be sorted that was the another criterion of course viability viability in terms of finance or like no even implementability all that counts and the use cases do they really define address the problem cover the defined problem that is the of course obvious but important step that we have to find out and of course design how everything is put together to address the anthropometric or like human needs in this Indian context and of course we we didn't of course we cannot control the judges judges have their own discretion so these are the short listing criteria we used for the first 150 problems and we brought it down to about 30 teams later I will be showing a movie where we will be showing the numbers and like no how people actually participated in the whole event it's a short movie about three minutes all of you can look at it and we want to make it more of an immersive it was a very immersive intensive intense experience people came seven days they all stayed with us in the campus only and we don't we didn't want to make it more of a very formal pressurized event or anything but you know we have we all had quite a lot of informal talks with the students students lived here actually it was there was no time given morning they start and it goes on until the evening you know and evening we had like a couple of cultural events people could approach anyone even though they were in the there's split in teams they could meet the mentors anytime they needed right from our very senior faculty members and they felt at home that was the that was the feeling we wanted to give and we pretty much achieved that and within IIT IIT Bombay and across colleges and other institutes professional institutes we had collaboration in this industrial policy and promotion council from government of India CII and other IITs like IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee all this Roorkee's all this all this colleges also participated actively pretty much actively and made this reality actually this was the first hackathon that happened when our prime minister Modi announced of a make in India plans so this hackathon was a part of a part of the main event which was main exhibition make in India exhibition held at Bandra Kurla complex in Mumbai so we had the final date of the exhibition announced so we had to catch that deadline and coming to the first day of hackathon it all started with our director professor Devank Kakkar giving us on motivational talk and to all the students about the purpose of this hackathon itself and how innovation can impact various fields that was a pretty emotional not emotional motivational talk for everyone and followed by professor, professor Fater he gave us another very important talk I would suggest everyone to go through that in the links that we share later he talked about the principles of professional professionalism cardinal principles and we as even mentors and faculty members we found it very very useful it was a long talk it was about an art talk but he pretty much touched everybody everybody's intrigue you know like how to get out of the rat race and become a true winner what is the meaning of being a winner that is what he discussed about I would request everyone to go through that talk that was pretty much phenomenal and another thing was even in the way we started the hackathon we did not make it like you know very formal event where people go and light up the year or anything we everybody actually flew airplanes paper airplanes we gave a simple sheet of paper and with creases in it people had to make their own paper planes and they had to launch it literally you know that's it a very nice informal but very refreshing participatory field to the whole hackathon and interestingly it was taken over at every stage of hackathon we had a lot of talks by our faculty members and external faculty members who came and I think the most important part of hackathon was the knowledge dissemination and most most most students do not have access to such esteemed faculty members talks or like you know to meet them in person. We had professor Kaviariya first to come and talk about Iyentra initiative I am sure most of you must have participated in Iyentra robotic competitions that are being held every year then professor Kannan came and talked about many foresee based initiatives in IIT Bombay he is the person behind Aakha's tablets etc and professor Krithi Malaram Amritham who was the chief of our hackathon event he came and talked about smart energy and we have a separate lab here smart energy informatics laboratory so we he presented a lot of his ideas and about energy saving and later professor Baput he came and spoke about industrial design so we have so much of technology and other ideas that we have engineering solutions how do we make it more accessible to humans how do we make it more human you know he spoke about product design and industrial design primarily about design he is our faculty at industrial design center IIT Bombay then we have Mr. Castro who came and talked about smart cities followed by professor Tom from IIT Bombay he spoke about intersections of design and design of signalized intersections basically it is about transport and the last one was professor B Ravi what does it make to make in India that was an where that was a very very inspiring talk and like I said please do go through that it is a he he he has been working on various medical devices frugal medical devices and introducing new technology high technology in medical fields in a frugal way. Please do go through that talk and we have a lab here you are welcome to come anytime and have a look at the other book also either on web or in person you can come and later we had Surya Chakraty talking about again transportation Mr. Vivek Kali who was talking about smart and sustainable water resources and Arpita Mandal faculty at IIT Bombay she spoke about hydrology in Anthropocene and later professor Narayanan from Sitara Center for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas they came and discussed another interesting project called Million Soul Project which is a solar lamp so far they have distributed about 1 million solar lamps across India that is another very interesting flagship project and we had Mr. Krishnakumar who came and spoke about intelligent transportation systems and Jain Krishnagar he spoke about SAP it was it was a talk about cloud platform and how it can help in large scale projects we shall share you some of the pictures of people giving talks these are professor Krithiram Amritham who is talking about smart energy professor Fatak who is talking about cardinal principles of professional and this is professor Biravi who is talking about what does it take to make in India and coming to the working of hackathon we had a huge mentor team we had a lot of PhD students and other faculty members who came and who are working with our hackathon teams in a very close scale you know pretty much they lived over there you know in the whole hackathon area so these are the glimpses of hackathon happening you know we had booked about five different seminar halls and these areas we had completely dedicated to them we had all the machines and components left in front of them they could choose whatever they want and they can walk around see other people what they are working on interact with them so this casual interaction was the most important part of hackathon it is not that you sit in one place and like you know you work like a machine and get out no you go interact with others you learn from them and see what is their approach towards the problem we encourage this interaction quite a lot nobody was sitting in this place for more than 15-20 minutes you know they were going around and seeing everybody else that guy looks very serious again and before hackathon started we gave them set of tutorials and you know how to work on various aduinos and other open source hardware and software and students we had taken to all the labs in CDIIT and they could see how IIT is doing things and pretty much we taught them lot of new techniques this was very enriching for the students and they could we saw some of the students actually who had never worked on aduinos and other platforms they came they saw it and they were intrigued and they incorporated these devices in their projects we were quite surprised to see that and this is professor Bopat who is talking about product design and this is during the talks this is our team and here actually we had a small cultural event also in the evening people came we all sat together we discussed all our faculty members also came and joined there was a small competition there was a winner announced and people came sang and like no dance this made a huge difference the next day actually or the days which came after this people lost their inhibitions people were very free to talk to each other people knew each other quite a lot there was no there was more of a personal connection that happened after this event this cultural event so I would suggest if you are having such a serious hackathon there has to be a de-stressing area also and this informal exposure that leads to a lot of interesting chemistry amongst the students chemistry as in like you know how they operate and discuss and we had some foreigners from University of Edinburgh they also came they were quite interested to solve Indian problems and they came they gave couple of their products and it was quite refreshing for us to see them working with the rest of the team and I will show you some of the pictures of products developed by as a part of hackathon the previous one was this one is for the energy efficient louvers there is an interactive road system it is just a mock-up proof of concept prototype and finally we came to jury judging we did not take it very lightly even though all of us were pretty much involved and like we could see their progress we had some eminent professors from other institutes and other countries also and they came they were they were they were the part of the jury panel and nobody could believe students could come up with so much of hard work and like the quantum of work in such a short period of time they had they had to face a lot of difficulty in choosing the best one amongst the other entries all the entries and the jury panel actually brought in the serious note to the whole hackathon when people came to know such and such very serious jury members are there they could see okay our work is being evaluated by such very senior professionals and they took it seriously of course people are pretty much tensed before the announcement and interestingly this guy actually won a prize so I shall show you a two minute movie that is how hackathon at the campus it got over and we chose the finalists then we had a very large scale prize giving ceremony that happened at mmod grounds at and we chose six finalists from that is two from each stream that is like transportation energy and water there was a winner and there was a runner up this is the place huge stage we had professor krithi welcome the guests and professor kakkar and sudarshan ayangar they chaired the whole event and Mr. P. R. K. Murthy who is the director of mmod who came and professor Mr. Ajay Kumar Bhatt director of systems mmoc and professor B. K. Chakravati they chaired the whole event it was about a thousand-seater hall and we announced the winners I am not getting to the details of this yeah Harsh Gupta and Irbai Ferwani who are from V.K. Ananda Education Society Institute of Technology Mumbai they won in water and runner up was won by Nikhil Bharadwaj and Pranav Bharadwaj then transportation we had people from Satyam Sahu Anuj Singh and Anurag Thamar from Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology Kasiabad they won and runner up was by Shruj Patel and Vishwam S3, Krupal Sharma and Kinjal Prajapati from SEPT Ahmedabad and energy we had Ashrin Gandhi and Saurabh Anand from IIT Kanpur which was runner up in this energy category was Sanjay Kumar from VIT and Shiv Kumar from Karpoom College of Engineering Coimbatore and we had an interaction with the students after post hackathon and we took their feedback and like know where it can be improved etc and you know what they felt about it more everybody said like no it was very inspiring for us to come to IIT and work with such eminent minds and that inspiration what we gave is something like we are know we felt quite satisfied with and the winner or losers there was no winner or loser as such but everybody was happy at the end of it those who won the competitions or who had participated they came it was a complete immersive experience for them and that intensity in which they worked on the given subject that is something they everybody found are very useful so to conclude it what I would say is like you know finding the right problem giving it to them and giving the infrastructure to them to realize you know however small it is you know if they can come up with the solution I think that would motivate them to take bigger risks in the future this is an attitude that we give it to them you know you can you can you solve a big problem with small steps that is the whole idea in this pretty much this is the end of it so if you have any questions or your you can you can just shoot it up we will share our mail IDs with you and whatever help that you need please do contact us anytime thank you