Unifi, staying true to its #khabarbaik spirit recently organised its first ever hackathon to tap into the young creative talents to create brilliant ideas to resolve pain points and enhance the service experience of unifi customers. The 24-hour, non-stop hackathon challenge was successfully organised at Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya with over 110 local and foreign talented students from 13 public as well as private universities nationwide.
Unifi’s call for creative geniuses among university students in this hackathon received participation from a total of 27 teams from various local universities. The participants joined as groups of three to five members with different backgrounds of expertise and came together to build innovative and practical digital solutions within a 24 hour timeframe. The teams were tasked to ideate and develop innovative digital solutions, which can be adopted and implemented by unifi.
“As an integrated telco and the enabler of Malaysia’s digital aspirations, unifi is always listening and looking for ways to improve our services and processes so we can serve Malaysians better. We are committed to bringing #khabarbaik to address our customers’ pain points and what better way to do so than through the best young talents who are also our customers. With that, we can create and adopt new solutions to meet their needs better. It perfectly fits TM’s brand promise, “Life Made Easier”. We are committed to deploying the ideas from the winning teams, hence, the winners are rewarded with an exclusive opportunity to work with the unifi digital team, sowe could together, roll out the solutions quickly to the market.”
Moharmustaqeem Mohammed, Acting Executive Vice President, unifi
In the end, ten winning projects were shortlisted to demonstrate their presentation to the panel of judges. After grueling coding exercise and much anticipation from the participating teams, the top three teams, which were the Fast Data team from Asia Pacific University, the Green Phoenix team jointly from University of Malaya/Taylor’s University and the RGB team from University of Malaya, were selected as grand winners. The judging was based on their abilities to build exciting digital solutions aimed at enhancing unifi customer experience. The key winning factors included innovation, originality and design whilst measuring the technical ability of each team.
The 3 Grand Winners for unifi Hackathon 2019 took home a cash prize of RM10,000 each and an opportunity to incubate with unifi team to deploy their solutions to solve real-unifi challenges.
