Veon Armenia awards prizes to winners of Hackathon

YEREVAN, November 8. /ARKA/. Veon Armenia telecom operator (trading as Beeline) awarded today the winners of a Hackathon competition of innovative ideas and programming, held together with Microsoft Armenia Innovation Center on October 20-21.

The winner is the Lezoo team that received a prize of $3 thousand. It has developed an application that allows not only making group calls, but also receiving simultaneous translation of the conversation.
Iterate and Megista teams shared the second place, receiving  $1 thousand each. 

The application developed by the Iterate allows telecommunication users to accumulate bonuses for viewing video clips and use  them to pay for the call time. Megista team’s product allows, based on the analysis of the customer's data, to offer him/her the cheapest telecom tariff available at a given moment.

"Digital solutions are the key to further business development. We, as a company working in IT and communications sector are well aware of the importance of this and want to help the development of digital solutions in Armenia,’ Veon Armenia CEO Andrey  Pyatakhin said.

Director of the Microsoft Innovation Center in Armenia, Artashes Vardanyan, in his turn, noted that the products of the winning teams are based on the latest technologies and, with proper development and marketing, can become quite innovative and profitable products that will interest other telecommunication operators.

During the meeting, Pyatakhin and Vardanyan discussed with the winners the opportunities for further development of their products, potential markets and cooperation with the teams.

In all, 40 teams had applied, of which only 25 were selected, which, in the 24-hour competition mode, presented prototypes of their developments in the telecommunications field.

The goal of telecommunication Hackathon is to encourage young IT engineers to use the capabilities of modern technologies and to offer digital and innovative solutions.

Veon Armenia CJSC is part of Veon Group, one of the world's largest integrated telecom operators. It provides fixed and mobile services. --0--

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18:27 11/08/2017