Dish TV India Concludes Grand Finale
Team Git Init from DTU claims the first position after a grueling 30-hours
marathon
Unique products and
solutions designed by talented teams for greater customer experience
by Shrutee K/DNS
India: Dish TV India Limited, world’s largest
single-country DTH Company, held the 30-hour Grand Finale of India’s first and
largest M&E and Broadcasting industry hackathon ‘Dish-a-thon’ on June
23-24 2018 at CoWrks, Gurugram. 30 plus teams competed in a thrilling battle of
innovation, creativity and technical skills for over two days to resolve
challenges and come up with constructive solutions to advance digital
transformation for great customer experience. This also included a grueling
round of live demo and Q&A session with judges from Dish TV India. Team Git
Init from DTU claimed the top position with Teams Voicebox and Zodiac finishing
as the first and second Runners up, respectively.
The winning teams created solutions like easy
accessibility of DTH without using a remote, foolproof ready-to-use lead
management system and AI enabled video commerce platform prototype. Dish-a-thon,
powered by IncubateIND, was a unique hackathon aimed at inviting disruptive
ideas covering path-breaking technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI),
Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Big Data and witnessed
spectacular participation of more than 1000 talented teams of young innovators,
startups, students, developers, designers and data scientists across India.
Gracing the finale with his presence, Mr. Anil Dua, Group Chief Executive Officer,
Dish TV India, said, “We received overwhelming response from all over India
and we are thrilled with the success of Dish-a-thon. The innovative solutions
designed by the top teams are pointers to the direction that technological
advancements in Media & Entertainment industry will take. We are excited
with the grand finish to our industry-first initiative and will work on these
innovative ideas to turn them into revolutionary real-world solutions for the
benefit of customers and the industry, as a whole.”
Talking about the solutions created during
Dish-a-thon, Mr. V K Gupta, Chief
Technical Officer, Dish TV India, said,
“We are delighted to see participation from designers, developers,
professionals, students and wizards from all over the country to create the
future of M&E and Broadcasting industry. The teams used diverse themes in
addition to their own disruptive ideas. These critical solutions based on
absolute creativity will definitely have a wide impact on the entire industry
and help us in further transforming and upgrading the television viewing
experience for our customers.”
Delighted at the grand finale, Mr. Sukhpreet Singh, Corporate Head –
Marketing, Dish TV India, said, “As an
industry-first initiative, Dish-a-thon accomplished wide scale and depth while
encouraging the nation’s brightest minds to innovate and drive digital
transformation in DTH industry. The grand finale, beaming with the enthusiasm
of participants, was a fitting culmination to a successful competition sowing
the seeds for future disruptions in the industry.”
Excited on the strong
partnership with Dish TV India, Samkit
Sharma, Co-founder of IncubateIND said, “We are proud to partner Dish TV,
the pioneer in DTH industry in the inaugural year of Dish-a-thon. Dish TV has
always been at the forefront of development with its path-breaking initiatives
and the most receptive brand that has imbibed innovation in its culture. We are
sure that some of the ideas that have come from this Dish-a-thon will be found
useful by the leadership team of Dish TV."
Dish-a-thon was open for individual team of
developers and startups. Dish TV, along with IncubateIND, shortlisted more
than 30 teams for the 30-hour open-format grand finale. During the grand finale, participants got an opportunity to interact
with industry experts and work with mentors to co-create and co-develop. The
winners were recognized through certifications and cash rewards and also stand
a chance to start a strategic engagement with DishTV. Before this, the first grand finale took place in Bangalore
on June 16 & 17, 2018 with Team CoDish from Hyderabad claiming the title. Please visit dish-a-thon
for further details.
About Dish TV India
Limited: Dish TV India Limited is India’s largest
direct-to-home (DTH) Company with a subscriber base of more than 23 million.
The Company is part of the Essel Group, an Indian multinational business
conglomerate having diverse business presence across Media, Entertainment, Packaging,
Infrastructure, Education, Precious Metals, Finance and Technology sectors.
Dish TV India Limited owns multiple individual brands like Dish TV, Zing and
d2h under its umbrella. The company benefits from multiple satellite platforms
including NSS-6, Asiasat-5, SES-8, GSAT-15 and ST-2 and has a bandwidth
capacity of 1422 MHz, the largest held by any DTH player in the country. Dish
TV India Limited has on its platform more than 655 channels & services
including 40 audio channels and 70 HD channels & services. The Company has
a vast distribution network of over 4,000 distributors & around 400,000
dealers that span across 9,450 towns in the country. Dish TV India Limited is
connected with its pan-India customer base through call-centres that are spread
across 22 cities and are equipped to handle customer queries 24X7 in 12
different languages. For more information on the Company, please visit
www.dishtv.in
Applicants can fill the Dish TV Recruitment 2018 through Official website.
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