According to The Siasat Daily, Dubai-based flydubai announced on March 1st its second Air Travel Hackathon in association with Hyderabad-based tech startup HackMania. The Hackathon, which is supported by the E-Cell of IIIT-Hyderabad, will be held at the IIIT campus in Hyderabad. In addition, flydubai will for the first time organise a boot camp webinar prior to the Hackathon to provide young developers with information about airline technology.
The Hackathon will focus on developing products for enhancing air travel and customer experience. The applicants will be selected based on their knowledge of the coding language and their past experience of participating in a Hackathon, Ramesh Venkat, Chief Information Officer at flydubai, said.
The Hackathon will start at 09:00 (IST) on Saturday March 25 and will end at 16:00 (IST) on March 26 and will be held at the same venue. Developers can register by March 22 on Hackerbay.co and those who are shortlisted to participate in the Hackathon will be notified by SMS and email.