To achieve a good degree of visibility for Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, and also to achieve adoption by the developer community, Microsoft teamed up with HackerEarth to create a unique, fully virtual hackathon.
The event carried Microsoft Azure branding and threw down the gauntlet for developers everywhere to contribute their ideas and solutions in line with five unique themes. 2 months, 9600+ registrations, and 75 final prototypes later, HackerEarth had organized and executed one of the biggest virtual hackathons ever and helped solidify Azure as the go-to cloud platform in the minds of thousands of developers.
During the course of the challenge, participants had the opportunity to attend a webinar by Aaron Bornstein, Senior Cloud Developer Associate, Microsoft.
They also had the opportunity to attend an Ask Me Anything session with Ashish Sahu, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft, and Nandeesh Swami, Azure Rapid Response, Microsoft.
In addition, to these activities, community connects were organized, and a slack channel was maintained too.
9620 participants and 8708 team from across 36 countries and over 20 companies.
Ideas
Prototypes
Winners
Out of a total 159 teams, 101 teams indicated the Azure services they used.
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