Swiss Re, in partnership with IBM has announced its plan to host India’s first innovation hackathon event exclusively for the reinsurance industry. The two day event, scheduled on 30 – 31 January, 2016 at Workbench Projects, Bangalore, aims to provide participants with an opportunity to develop user-based apps, utilizing data science, and harnessing cognitive technology from IBM Bluemix suite to address the growing needs of the insurance industry.
Themed My Personal Risk Advisor, the purpose of the challenge is to enable individuals or small business owners to assess their total risk profile and learn about various product offerings. The hackathon is open to students and developer community – all those who aspire to design technology and aims to encourage developers to create innovative applications that can be integrated with digital solutions.
Alok Kumar, Managing Director, Swiss Re Bangalore said
The world, today, is rapidly changing and to keep pace with the risk landscape, we need to continually innovate around how we offer risk protection products. Through this hackathon, we are creating an innovation platform that reinforces our long-standing commitment to bring out new and improved solutions that directly addresses real-world business challenges for the insurance industry.
An entry free competition, the hackathon is a team-based event. The participating teams will go through a short-listing and selection process. Teams can register on the Swiss Re registration site and submit their idea, post which organizing team will notify the short-listed entries.
The last date for online registration is 20 January, 2016. The winners will be rewarded with exciting cash prizes and also be considered for an exciting career placement at Swiss Re Bangalore office.
About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk-taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend. For more information about Swiss Re Group, please visit Swiss Re