Academia brochure

About Digital Nurture (DN) Technoverse 2024 Hackathon

Themes: Gen AI, IOT, Cybersecurity, Digital Assurance & Software Testing

Digital Nurture Technoverse 2024 hackathon aims to engage young talent in tech to provide a
platform for 2nd and 3rd year students to collaborate, innovate and showcase their problem-
solving skills.

Through this hackathon, participants will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and
develop creative solutions using Gen AI, IOT, Cybersecurity , Digital Assurance & Software
Testing to real-world challenges.

We firmly believe that diversity and inclusion is essential for generating unique perspectives
and invite you in our mission of achieving 50% women participation in this hackathon.

Registration criteria
• Registration is exclusively for selected partnered colleges
• Each team can register with a maximum of 4 members
• Each team should have 50% women representation
• Attending the design thinking awareness session by cognizant experts is mandatory post
registration
• High level use cases across few industry domains provided by Cognizant can be used or teams
can create their own use cases based on the hackathon’s themes – Gen AI, IOT, Cybersecurity,
Digital Assurance & Software Testing
The DN Technoverse 2024 journey
This journey will start with registration phase followed by a design thinking awareness session
aimed to enable participants in ideation and developing prototype based on design thinking
principles. It will conclude with a final pitch at the grand finale as shown below*:

Registration (07-May to 14-May)

Maximum of 4 members per team with a minimum of 2 women participants each to
register

Idea submission (16-May to 23-May)

Submission of problem statements and solutions in the ideation template
provided by Cognizant (Virtual round)

Idea Evaluation (24-May to 02-Jun)

Submitted ideas will be evaluated based on the criteria and
weightage provided by the leaders (Virtual round)

Developing & Submission of MVP (03-

Jun to -1-Jul)
Shortlisted teams will develop a Minimum
Viable Product (MVP) or Prototype of the
solution. Mentorship support sessions will
be provided (Virtual round).

MVP Evaluation (04-Jul to 20-Jul)

Submitted MVPs will be evaluated
based on the criteria and weightage
provided by the leaders

MVP pitch to the jury members

(21-Jul to 01-Aug)
Teams from MVP stage will present
their solutions to the jury members

Announcement of Winners and Felicitation in

Cognizant Facility (08-Aug)
Top teams to attend the felicitation ceremony at Cognizant
facility in Hyderabad. Announcement of top 3 winning teams
and special awards
* Timelines provided are tentative, stay tuned to your e-mail for further details on the same.
What is in it for colleges?
Cognizant is opening the opportunity to
participate in DN Technoverse 2024
Hackathon to select partnered colleges. We
have exciting rewards to give away to the
teams that make it to the finals. Colleges also
get an opportunity to connect with
practitioners from Cognizant. They gain
valuable experience of working on real
business problems.
What’s in it for Cognizant?
We are looking to expand our network of
innovators and technology experts from
academia, to continue partnering with us.
Academia partners have always been an
important part of our ecosystem and this
hackathon will help take it to the next level.

How to register for DN Technoverse 2024 hackathon?

Registration link will be shared post the launch call with select partnered colleges, kindly do not extend
the same with any other colleges. Post registrations, details on the steps ahead will be communicated.
Use cases
Teams are allowed to choose any one of the use cases or explore
domains of their interest and create use cases relevant to the
current industry trends

High level use cases across few industry domains

Financial services Education

• Financial advice and virtual assistants
• Fraud detection
• Market analysis and investment
• Insurance Advisory and Claims Services
• ESG in banking
• Virtual branch
• Skill profiling and benchmarking
• Personalized learning plan for Skill building
• Learn On The Go wearables to drive learning goals
• Faculty teaching technology catalyst
• Education for all

Healthcare Retail
• Symptoms triaging and health • Customer support and virtual assistants
information
• Sentiment analysis of customer reviews
• Patient engagement and support
• Product recommendations & automated shopping
• Proactive, holistic family wellness
• Marketing campaign optimization
• Health Insurance Advisory and Claims
Services • Sustainable products and circular economy
• Drug adherence monitoring • Supply chain optimization
• Sleep disorder treatment assistant

Sustainability Gaming

• Better Yield in Agriculture • New gaming experiences

• Energy Consumption optimization • Game-based learning and training
tools
• Game based story telling
Unleash
innovation!
For further queries please write to
TechnoverseAPTS2@cognizant.com