VTU Hosts it's First Ever University-wide, State-level Hackathon and Introduces Students to Startup Life
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, is hosting India's Biggest Education Hackfest on October 16-17, 2015 at it's Belagavi campus in partnership with Talentspear.
- (1888PressRelease) October 08, 2015 - Education Hackfest hopes to bring together students, programmers, tech-experts, CEOs & founders. Participants will gain real-time experiences by working with latest technology and receive advice from experts. Winning prototypes may even get the opportunity of being developed for public use and receive seed funding to start their own companies, over and above receiving grand prizes. Top performers stand a chance to get hired too.
"Given our history of fostering innovation, we are very ecstatic to create an event that continues our long-standing commitment to support and groom the talents. We are proud to be at the forefront of this creative and entrepreneurship movement and to host this platform of innovation at VTU." said Dr. H. Maheshappa, Vice Chancellor of VTU, Belagavi.
"We are excited to work with the students of VTU, as they seek to innovate and address some of the major challenges in the 'Future of Indian Education System' to bring 'Digital India' and 'Make in India' a reality" said Mr. Sateesh Havannavar, Founder of Talentspear.
"We are creating a novel hackathon experience, Hackfest is different from other university hackathons instead of focusing on competition or prizes, Hackfest values participant experience, entrepreneurial ambitions, teamwork and storytelling." said Hackfest organizer and Industry expert Mr. Nayaz Ahmed, Fellow at VTU, Belagavi.
Hackfest will feature live blogging and other multimedia components to document the event and give the community a glimpse into the true nature of hackathons.
Twitter : ( @ ) educationhackfest | Facebook : www dot facebook dot com/vtuhackathon
Website : http://vtu.ac.in/hackfest | Event Contact : nayaz ( @ ) vtu dot ac dot in, +91-968-6680794
About VTU:
Visvesvaraya Technological university is one of India's leading and largest technological Universities. It has 200+ Affiliated Engineering colleges, 17 Autonomous colleges, 4 Regional Centres and a Constituent college where 400,000+ students are studying.
Web: www.vtu.ac.in | Phone: +91-831-2405468
About Talentspear:
Talentspear is a new age Talent-Matching Platform where prospective Job-Aspirants and Companies discover each other through Visual Matching Solution. Talentspear uses visual shapes to enable candidates to specify how they want to spend their time in their next job trole, while employers similarly specify the skills and interests needed for a job position.
Web: www.talentspear.com | Phone: +91-994-5126577
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