Pegasystems, the software company empowering digital transformation at the world’s leading enterprises, announced the winners of the Pega Community Hackathon 2020 – Pega’s first hackathon open to its global community of developers. The six-week event attracted more than 750 registrants and 75 final projects focused on helping organizations navigate the COVID-19 crisis with better customer and employee experiences.
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Angelo Mermiklis, a UK-based developer, https://secure.cbonline.co.uk/won Best in Show with the highest score for his ‘V for Volunteer’ omni-channel application that connects employees with open volunteering opportunities in their organization. Just a year after certifying as a Pega Certified Systems Architect, Angelo used Pega’s AI, case management, collaboration, mobile, and chat capabilities to beat out a talented field of individual and team competitors. Other prize category winners included:
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- The Runner Up Award to the srcLogic team for ‘Pyra‘ – Receiving the second highest score, the seven-person team from srcLogic created a web-app to give employees a platform to suggest and vote on new ideas that could impact change in their organization.
- The Inspiration Award to Cognizant team for ‘Empathia’ – Given to the top submission that addresses worldwide pandemic problems, the Cognizant team’s solution minimizes communication gaps between organizations and employees during a crisis.
- The Innovation Award to Ajanthan Arulananthar for ‘DX API Doc Gen’ – Awarded to the best solution that helps employees work efficiently in the pandemic, Ajanthan from Virtusa created a time-saving Pega component for generating documents dynamically from Pega applications.
- The Community Choice Award to the student team from Chennai Institute of Technology for ‘Feed the Need’ – Eight students from CIT won for the highest public vote total with an application that connects people in need to critical resources and donations.
A panel of Pega judges evaluated submissions based on their level of innovation, real-world impact, and execution. Both professional developers and coding novices submitted projects using Pega Platform™, the market leading low-code application development solution. All award winners will receive cash prizes, with Best in Show also winning free passes to PegaWorld iNspire 2021.
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