Federal Bank, IBM and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi have announced an interactive online hackathon, the ‘IBM Challenge’. The hackathon offers students an opportunity to learn new cognitive computing skills and solve real-life business problems using IBM Watson APIs on the IBM Cloud platform. The hackathon is a part of Research Showcase 2017, an annual event exhibiting the research and development work from premier educational institutions in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) region. In 2016, this event had attracted over 500 students. The theme of the IBM Challenge is online customer engagement where students will be tested to create a solution that would help banks provide their customers with a superior banking experience. Students will have the unique opportunity to learn how to build an application using a range of Watson Artificial Intelligence technologies such as Watson Conversation, Speech to Text and Text to Speech and more with access to tools via the IBM Cloud platform.
