Byte Academy x Startupbootcamp FinTech Festival Hackathon
About: Byte Academy, the first FinTech coding bootcamp together with leading accelerator Startupbootcamp FinTech and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have teamed up to throw a kick-off hackathon, first ever week-long Singapore global FinTech Festival and celebrate Byte Academy’s Singapore launch.
Save the date now and tweet us @byteacademyco x @sbcfintech #BAxSBCFinTechHack to gear up
Developers, entrepreneurs, designers, business minds and creatives will team up to create FinTech solutions.
The Challenge: Participants will choose from challenges that are also being solved in the 10 week Global Hackcelerator in five areas. These are: Fraud (6,9,12,30), Compliance (11,13,15, 95), Efficiency (8,20,43,94,99) Insurance (22,31), Financial Inclusion (39, 41). Numbers link up to hackcelerator problem statements.
Tentative Schedule:
- Friday Evening, November 11 - Registration, welcome, and networking event
- Saturday, November 12 - Sunday, November 13 - Teams hack away with visits from mentors, food and more
- Sunday, November 13 - Hackathon concludes, each team pitches to the judges and audience members.
- Tuesday, November 15. Global Hackcelerator Demo Day where the 1st place winning team will be recognized in the main ceremony
Prizes: Team and individual prizes, cash prizes, Byte Academy scholarships, more. Stay tuned.
About Byte Academy: Byte Academy is a leader in industry-oriented education with courses in software development, FinTech (financial technology), Data Science, blockchain and MedTech (medical technology). Byte Academy established the first FinTech coding program in the world and the first Python software development bootcamp in New York City. Community and career services are emphasized in its program. Byte Academy is headquarted in New York City with its Asian campus anchored in Singapore.
Byte Academy is proud to partner on Singapore's FinTech Festival and will be holding "Byte Learning" workshops daily during the event.
About Startupbootcamp FinTech: Launched in 2014, Startupbootcamp FinTech is the leading FinTech accelerator, and the only programme of its kind to attract such wide industry support. Based in London, New York and Singapore, its partners include MasterCard, Thomson Reuters, Accreditation@IDA, Intesa Sanpaolo, DBS Bank, RHB Bank, CIMB Bank, PwC, ThinkZone, Infocomm Investments, Jungle Ventures and Pix Vine Capital, as well as an extensive mentor and alumni network from more than 50 countries across the globe. The accelerator offers FinTech startups access to world class industry expertise during an intensive three month programme. At the end of the programme, startups pitch at Demo Day to more than 500 investors and individuals from financial services.
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