eChai Ventures and Sooryen Innovation Labs are hosting the first edition of – eChai 10Hour Hackathon – to bring together developers , designers, professionals, and entrepreneurs to build mobile apps and/or any project/mvp that you wanted to build in 10 hours, compete for cash prizes, meet the community and develop skills, interact with other domains experts and to get an eChai experience.

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Sooryen Technologies is a premier digital transformation services company that help our clients design and build solutions to meet their business aspirations. We have extensive expertise in the e-commerce, fin-tech and managed solutions space - delivering exceptional solutions to meet our clients need and optimizing their business bottom-line. Sooryen has offices in the New York Metro area, Silicon Valley, India and Dubai. For more information, visit http://sooryen.com/

eChai 10hour Hackathon is the program for you :

- If you always wanted to build that app but was waiting for something to happen.

- If you are looking for that technical co-founder for your business ideas, come here, build your team , build prototype, compete with others and learn a thing or two of working with your potential co-founder.

- If you want to be part of the movement to make Ahmedabad the hub for technology innovations and hacker culture.

- If you are professional and want to build awesome stuff which might not have tried otherwise or want to showcase your skills to the community.

- If you are a student and want to meet mentors, test your skills with peers, gain knowledge pursue excellence.

Judging Criteria :

- The apps and/or projects built at eChai 10hour Hackathon will be judged by the team of experience jury having greater experience in Building highly successful mobile apps and/or ventures.

- Various factors would be considered in judging your apps and/or projects, whether it’s a novel idea or not, practicality, creativeness, simplicity, is it solving a problem or not , what would be the potential impact or the opportunity for the same.

- We would prefer you to attempt to build the  new App and/or project at eChai 10Hour Hackathon, but it doesn’t restrict you not to bring your existing app and/or project. The Apps and/or projects being built from scratch at eChai 10Hour Hackathon will get more preference unless and until you significantly improve your existing App and/or project during eChai 10Hour Hackathon , basically you’ll be judged on the things you built at eChai 10Hour Hackathon

Schedule :

Date : 8th May 2015, Sunday time : 8 am to 10 pm.

8 am – 9 am – Registrations

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Idea Pitches and team formations.

10.00 am - 8 pm - Building the App and/or MVP ( Experts ranging from App Developers to Business Domain Experts UX designers will be there to guide teams)

8.00 pm - 10.00 pm - App and/or MVP Demos and Award Ceremony followed by Dinner

Prizes :

Jury's Choice Award Prize Money : Rs. 5000

People's Choice Award :

All the participants, partners and stakeholders will be putting in the money which they believe that the eChai App Challenge is worth for them – for example some participate may feel the the event was worth Rs. 500 – they he/she can put in money in the envelope which will be provided at the venue. For some it will be Rs. 100 or for some it will be Rs. 1000. All the money collected in this way will go as prize money for People’s Choice award category. All the participants, partners and stakeholders will mention their top-3 teams – based on the most number of votes- top team will be announced and the winning team will be awarded the People’s Choice category.

Other Important Details :

eChai 10 Hour Hackathon is monetary free to participate but you’ll have your fill in the form to get your confirmation of participation.

Maximum 4 members are allowed in a single team

You are supposed to bring in your devices ( laptops, phones) and internet connection will be provided.

You’ll be provided with infrastructure support and continuous sips of Chai / Coffee :-)

You’ll have to manage your lunch and dinner on your own. However we’ll help you get good deals either from our food partners.

For sponsorship and partnership opportunities contact Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder & Salesman, eChai Ventures on +087338 38470 or [email protected]