IMPHAL, March 29: Hackfest Manipur, an employment and community platform for IT educated youth of Manipur concluded today. The festival was held since yesterday at NIT campus, Takyelpat.
One of the organising committee members, Fisher Laishram said around 250 applicants participated in the Hackfest and presented their innovative ideas in group of three each in front of the juries.
The juries include Cubeten founder H Joyremba, Data Scientist Accenture & speaker NASCOM K Rahul Dev Sharma, CEO Inginet Mumbai Tabita Denes, COO/ Co founder Inginet Mumbai Joseph Awungshi.
He said the main objective behind the Hackfest is to promote and render job opportunity for the youths of the state. He said that the state has adequate youths who are good in IT knowledge but they do not have enough job opportunity due to lack of exposure.
He said that the programme was conducted jointly by ten IT Companies of the state and has been incorporated with New York based `Challangpost`™ and Bangalore Base Company `Ohcampus`™.