A fintech hackathon run with BRB Bank and Amity University, supported by IT Community of Uzbekistan

2024

A month of building fintech

Hackcelerator ran offline for a full month. More than 200 teams worked on fintech products at Amity University and brought them to the demo day at BRB Bank.

Duration
One month
Teams
200 and more
Prize fund
300 million UZS
Format
Offline
Amity University Teams built their products offline, day after day
BRB Bank Demo and awards

Each cell stands for one day of the month the teams had. The exact dates of the programme were not published.

How it worked

A month at the university, a demo day at the bank

The whole programme ran offline. Teams built practical fintech solutions over the month and presented them to experts at the end.

Where the work happened

Amity University

Teams worked on their products on site throughout the programme, with the university as the base for the whole month.

Where it finished

BRB Bank

The final demo and the awards ceremony took place at the bank, where the teams presented what they had built to the experts.

The focus

Fintech, built in practice

Three things the programme was built around.

  • Fintech innovation
  • Practical product development
  • Collaboration between students, banks and industry experts

What IT Community did here

  • Volunteer support through the programme
  • Media and promotion support
  • Speakers and mentors for the teams
  • Event coordination

Students, a bank and industry experts spent a month on the same problems, which is the kind of collaboration the programme was built for.

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