Beeline: The winners of the "Hackathon" competition - the teams Lezoo, Iterate and Megista were awarded prizes

ArmInfo. At the Microsoft Innovation Center, the winners of the innovative ideas and 

programming contest Hackathon, awarded with the help of Beeline, were awarded prizes. As the press service of Beeline told ArmInfo, the winner - the Lezoo team received a cash prize of $ 3 thousand, and the Iterate and Megista teams that shared the second and third places received $ 1 thousand each.

According to the source, the Lezoo team within the framework of this 

competition developed a solution that allows not only to make group 

calls, but also to have simultaneous interpretation. The solution 

presented by the Iterate team will allow subscribers, viewing ads to 

collect points, which can then be exchanged for minutes of telephone 

conversations. And the developed product of the team Megista allows, 

based on the monitoring of the subscriber's data, to offer him the 

most advantageous tariff plan of this operator.

"For the business, digital solutions are the guarantee of the future, 

and it is very important that the tradition of development and 

application of such solutions is formed in Armenia." As a company 

representing the sphere of information technologies and 

telecommunications, we are clearly aware of the importance of digital 

solutions and contribute to their development in Armenia, "said 

Beeline in Armenia Andrey Pyatakhin.

After awarding prizes, Beeline Director General in Armenia Andriy 

Pyatakhin and Director of Microsoft Innovation Center in Armenia 

Artashes Vardanyan discussed the potential of the market with the 

winning teams to cooperate with them, further develop their developed 

products.

Note that the competition of innovative ideas and programming 

"Hackathon" was held on October 20-21 this year. in the Center of 

Creative Technologies "TUMO" with the assistance of Beeline and 

Microsoft Innovation Center. Of the teams submitting the application, 

25 were selected, 25 who were to develop experimental versions of the 

solutions within 24 hours and submit them for evaluation to 

specialists. As criteria for the title of the winners were determined 

the innovation of the idea and the degree of practical applicability 

of the work, which was completed in 24 hours.

We remind that "VEON Armenia" CJSC (Beeline trademark) belongs to the 

Veon group of companies, which is one of the world's largest 

integrated telecom operators. The group includes communications 

companies providing voice and data services based on a wide range of 

wireless and fixed-line technologies, as well as broadband Internet 

access to more than 200 million subscribers in Russia, Italy, 

Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia , 

Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The companies of 

the group provide services under the brands Beeline, Kyivstar, Wind, 

Mobilink, Banglalink and Djezzy.