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DESCRIPTION:Datathon 2023 was co-organized by the University of Peradeniya\
 , the University of\n\nColombo School of Computing\, the University of Mor
 atuwa\, and the University of Jaffna.\n\nThe event was organized through t
 he collaboration of several key partners\, including Lanka\n\nEducation an
 d Research Network (LEARN)\, the host of APAN56\, the Sri Lanka Associatio
 n\n\nfor the Advancement of Science\, and the IEEE Computer Society Sri La
 nka Chapter.\n\nDatathon also benefited from the invaluable contributions 
 of three exceptional student\n\nsocieties: the Hackers&#39; Club of the Univer
 sity of Peradeniya\, CompSoc of the University of\n\nColombo\, and the ACM
  Student Chapter of the University of Moratuwa.\n\nThe event received spon
 sorship from Fortitude as the silver sponsor\, along with Future\n\nLabs\,
  CodeGen\, and KochaSoft as bronze sponsors. Additionally\, Datathon was g
 enerously\n\nsupported by Hatch Works (Pvt) Ltd\, who served as the ecosys
 tem partner and provided\n\nthe event venue. Micro Rewards played a vital 
 role as the digital certificate partner.\n\nIn the initial phase of event 
 organization\, invitations were sent to the following higher\n\neducation 
 institutions to form teams.\n\nTertiary Education Institute School/Faculty
 /Department\n\nAsia Pacific Institute of Information Technology -\n\nInfor
 matics Institute of Technology -\n\nNational School of Business Management
  -\n\nSabaragamuwa University Faculty of Computing\n\nSri Lanka Institute 
 of Information Technology -\n\nUniversity of Colombo University of Colombo
  School of\n\nComputing\n\nUniversity of Jaffna\n\nDept. of Computer Scien
 ce\n\nDept. of Computer Engineering\n\nUniversity of Kelaniya Dept. of Com
 puter Systems Engineering\n\nUniversity of Moratuwa\n\nDept. of Computer S
 cience and Engineering\n\nIT Department\n\nUniversity of Peradeniya\n\nDep
 t. of Computer Engineering\n\nDept. of Statistics and Computer Science\n\n
 Tertiary Education Institute School/Faculty/Department\n\nUniversity of Ru
 huna Dept. of Computer Science\n\nUniversity of Sri Jayewardenepura Facult
 y of Computing\n\nUva Wellassa University Dept. of Computer Science and In
 formatics\n\nProvided rules and regulations:\n\n● The Datathon was a 24-
 hour event which started at 12.00 noon on 22nd August\n\n2023 and ended at
  12.00 noon on 23rd August 2023.\n\n● Teams\n\no Each team comprised fou
 r members.\n\no The members were from a cohort of 3rd year students and ab
 ove of the\n\ninstitute.\n\n● A panel of judges evaluated each solution 
 based on the following criteria.\n\no Creativity\, Innovativeness &amp; Idea r
 epresentation [30%]\n\no Usefulness &amp; Practicality [20%]\n\no Efficiency [
 10%]\n\no Business value [20%]\n\no Completeness [20%]\n\n● Teams were e
 valuated throughout the Datathon on 3 occasions. The following was\n\nthe 
 initial evaluation plan (On the day of the event\, the following counts we
 re\n\nadjusted to align with the number of participants in the event).\n\n
 o First round evaluation - To select 20 of 40 teams\n\no Second round eval
 uation - To select 7 of 20 teams of round 1 + 3 wild card\n\nteams (A wild
  card is a selection of a team from the teams that did not make\n\nthe sho
 rtlist)\n\no Third round evaluation - To select 4 of 10 teams of round 2 +
  1 wild card\n\nteam\n\no The finalists were evaluated based on a 10 minut
 e presentation and the\n\nChampions\, 1st runner-up\, and 2nd runner-up te
 ams were selected.\n\n● Prizes were awarded as follows.\n\no Champions R
 s. 100\,000.00\n\no 1st Runner-up Rs. 60\,000.00\n\no 2nd Runner-up Rs. 40
 \,000.00\n\n● Certificates of participation were awarded to all particip
 ants.\n\n● Team members were advised to be within the event premises fro
 m registration till\n\nthe end of the event.\n\n● Team members were advi
 sed to only use their original ideas\, codes\, processes and\n\nprocedures
  for the datathon\, and not to obtain third party help.\n\n● Mentors onl
 y guided the teams and did not support the development of the\n\nsolution\
 , data analytics or business insights in any manner.\n\nCo-sponsored by: L
 anka Education and Research Network (LEARN)\, Sri Lanka Association of Adv
 ancement of Science\n\nSpeaker(s): Kapila\, Oshada\, Suresh\n\nHatch Works
 \, 14 Sir Baron Jayatilaka Mawatha\,\, Colombo\, Sri Lanka\, Sri Lanka\, 0
 0100
LOCATION:Hatch Works\, 14 Sir Baron Jayatilaka Mawatha\,\, Colombo\, Sri La
 nka\, Sri Lanka\, 00100
ORGANIZER:shashikaieee@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:APAN56 Datathon 2023
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/398404
X-ALT-DESC:Description: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Datathon 2023 was co-organized by the Univ
 ersity of Peradeniya\, the University of&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Colombo School of Computi
 ng\, the University of Moratuwa\, and the University of Jaffna.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Th
 e event was organized through the collaboration of several key partners\, 
 including Lanka&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Education and Research Network (LEARN)\, the host 
 of APAN56\, the Sri Lanka Association&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;for the Advancement of Scien
 ce\, and the IEEE Computer Society Sri Lanka Chapter.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Datathon als
 o benefited from the invaluable contributions of three exceptional student
 &lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;societies: the Hackers&#39; Club of the University of Peradeniya\, Co
 mpSoc of the University of&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Colombo\, and the ACM Student Chapter o
 f the University of Moratuwa.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The event received sponsorship from 
 Fortitude as the silver sponsor\, along with Future&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Labs\, CodeGen
 \, and KochaSoft as bronze sponsors. Additionally\, Datathon was generousl
 y&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;supported by Hatch Works (Pvt) Ltd\, who served as the ecosystem
  partner and provided&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;the event venue. Micro Rewards played a vita
 l role as the digital certificate partner.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;In the 
 initial phase of event organization\, invitations were sent to the followi
 ng higher&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;education institutions to form teams.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Tertiary E
 ducation Institute School/Faculty/Department&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-co
 nverted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/span&gt;Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technol
 ogy -&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Informatics Institute of Technology -&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;National Schoo
 l of Business Management -&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Sabaragamuwa University Faculty of Comp
 uting&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology -&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Univ
 ersity of Colombo University of Colombo School of&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Computing&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;
 p&gt;University of Jaffna&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Dept. of Computer Science&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Dept. of 
 Computer Engineering&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;University of Kelaniya Dept. of Computer Syst
 ems Engineering&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;University of Moratuwa&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Dept. of Computer S
 cience and Engineering&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;IT Department&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;University of Peraden
 iya&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Dept. of Computer Engineering&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Dept. of Statistics and 
 Computer Science&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Tertiary Education Institute School/Faculty/Depar
 tment&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/span&gt;University
  of Ruhuna Dept. of Computer Science&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;University of Sri Jayewardene
 pura Faculty of Computing&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Uva Wellassa University Dept. of Compute
 r Science and Informatics&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Provided rules and regulations:&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;
 ● The Datathon was a 24-hour event which started at 12.00 noon on 22nd A
 ugust&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;2023 and ended at 12.00 noon on 23rd August 2023.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;
 ● Teams&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Each team comprised four members.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o The member
 s were from a cohort of 3rd year students and above of the&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;institu
 te.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● A panel of judges evaluated each solution based on the fol
 lowing criteria.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Creativity\, Innovativeness &amp;amp\; Idea represe
 ntation [30%]&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Usefulness &amp;amp\; Practicality [20%]&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Eff
 iciency [10%]&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Business value [20%]&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Completeness [20%]&lt;
 /p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● Teams were evaluated throughout the Datathon on 3 occasions. T
 he following was&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;the initial evaluation plan (On the day of the ev
 ent\, the following counts were&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;adjusted to align with the number 
 of participants in the event).&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o First round evaluation - To selec
 t 20 of 40 teams&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Second round evaluation - To select 7 of 20 tea
 ms of round 1 + 3 wild card&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;teams (A wild card is a selection of a
  team from the teams that did not make&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;the shortlist)&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o Th
 ird round evaluation - To select 4 of 10 teams of round 2 + 1 wild card&lt;/p
 &gt;\n&lt;p&gt;team&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o The finalists were evaluated based on a 10 minute pre
 sentation and the&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Champions\, 1st runner-up\, and 2nd runner-up te
 ams were selected.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● Prizes were awarded as follows.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o C
 hampions Rs. 100\,000.00&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o 1st Runner-up Rs. 60\,000.00&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;o 
 2nd Runner-up Rs. 40\,000.00&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● Certificates of participation wer
 e awarded to all participants.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● Team members were advised to be
  within the event premises from registration till&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;the end of the e
 vent.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● Team members were advised to only use their original ide
 as\, codes\, processes and&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;procedures for the datathon\, and not t
 o obtain third party help.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;● Mentors only guided the teams and d
 id not support the development of the&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;solution\, data analytics or
  business insights in any manner.&lt;/p&gt;
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