About the Challenge
To foster technology-led innovation and seamless passenger experiences, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) — operator of Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (BLR Airport) has partnered with Microsoft India for the ‘BIAL Genie Hackathon’ to develop an app using Microsoft Azure. The hackathon invites professional developers, data scientists, data engineers and hackathon enthusiasts to participate in this challenge and design innovative solutions that will improve the end-to-end passenger experience at BLR Airport.
This hackathon consists of 3 phases:
Idea Phase
Participants can register on this hackathon page and submit their ideas. These submissions must contain solutions to the problem statements that are added in this phase. This is an online phase.
Prototype Phase
Participants shortlisted in the first phase will be invited to build a functioning prototype based on their shortlisted Idea. This is an online phase. It is mandatory to use Azure services while building your prototype. Free Azure credits will be provided to the teams that are shortlisted for the prototype phase.
Grand Finale
The top teams from the Prototype phase will be invited to present their solutions to the BIAL jury at the grand finale.
Timeline
Start – 27 October 2021
Ends – 21 January 2022
Winner announcement – 24 January 2022
Reward
Winner and runner up will be awarded cash rewards of INR 1.5 lakhs and INR 1 lakh respectively.
Participants can register here.
