Alt Hack – Chennai edition gives impetus to IBC Media’s Internship Program for student developers in Web 3 & emerging technologies

(*3*)L-R – Abhishek Pitti, Founder & CEO, IBC Media with Dr M Jayaprakasan, CEO, Naan Mudhalvan on the finale day of Alt Hack Chennai

Chennai, 4th April 2023: India’s main Blockchain and Web 3.0 training pioneer, IBC Media’s Alt Hack – Chennai edition, a 3rd in the collection, concluded efficiently at Anna University, Guindy not too long ago. The 8-day on-floor training boot camp, performed in affiliation with the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil Nadu Skill Board, was a part of the IBC Internship Program designed particularly for student developers to transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 seamlessly and subsequently construct their future in this house.

From a complete variety of registrations of 2716 college students from Tamil Nadu, 560 distinct college students participated offline in IBC Alt Hack – Chennai. Out of which, 354 college students forming 118 groups will get business internships from international corporations like Polkadot, Chingari and Unique Network. The remaining college students will take part in the IBC Online Education Program for business internships.

The full-cycle coaching program was holistic in its method, facilitating college students from throughout the town to avail free training and certification, sensible studying, enterprise ideation course of and steering from high mentors in the sector to assist them be conversant in Web 3.0, Blockchain and different new-age technologies, give you related enterprise issues and solutioning, and grow to be business-prepared professionals. At the identical time, IBC Media’s affiliation with the Tamil Nadu Skill Board additional augmented this system, making it a big alternative for college students with advantages like grants, excessive-paying jobs and alternatives to deliver their Web 3.0 concepts and MVPs to profitable outcomes.

In the 8 days of the training boot camp, the scholars have been educated in related facets of Blockchain and emerging technologies in addition to Web 3.0-associated careers by IBC Media together with key thought leaders in the business by way of impactful and worth-pushed classes.

Furthermore, IBC Media’s headline sponsor, Polkadot – a flagship mission of Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies, which facilitates a completely-useful and consumer-pleasant decentralized net – gave college students an outline of the Polkadot atmosphere structure and its useful ecosystem. Online audio system from Polkadot included Bill Laboon (Head of Education and Grants at Web3 Foundation), Abhishek Shah (Polkadot Application Engineer at Parity Technologies), Ben Greenberg (Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Parity Technologies) and Urban Osvald (Developer Relations, Engagement Team Lead at Parity Technologies).

With a large response in phrases of student participation, Alt Hack – Chennai witnessed 1789 new concepts and proposals using Web 3.0 and Blockchain generated. 14 groups with the very best concepts have been chosen, and 3 profitable groups have been declared. The profitable groups have been awarded certificates by IBC Media.

Meanwhile, the ultimate day of the hackathon occasion additionally noticed the presence of revered Dr M Jayaprakasan (I.S.D.S., CEO – Naan Mudhalvan), together with delegates from main engineering faculties in Tamil Nadu carefully related to Alt Hack – Chennai. The on-line speaker line-up included main minds from the Web 3.0 and Blockchain business, reminiscent of Dr Prakash Kamraj (Lead Blockchain Architect from Chingari) and Urban Osvald from Parity Technologies. An immersive panel dialogue on “How does upskilling in emerging tech profit each recruiters and expertise?” was a part of the agenda, and the panelists included Ms Mathi Vathani (Associate Vice President, Tamil Nadu Guidance Cell) Professor Senthil Kumar (Vice Principal, Saveetha Engineering College), Mr Pritam (Chennai DAO), Mr Mohan Raja (Director of Touchwork Designs Pvt Ltd), and Mr Vignesh Babu (Co-founder of Print 2 Block), with Praveen Thakur (COO, IBC Media) because the moderator.

Respected Dr M Jayaprakasan, I.S.D.S. (CEO – Naan Mudhalvan) stated “IBC Media is saying a complete of 150+ Grants, amounting to INR 48 Lakhs for it to be distributed amongst 118 groups from throughout the State of Tamil Nadu who participated in IBC Alt Hack – Chennai on floor program. Successful completion of their internship will make them eligible for making use of for IBC Startup Pitch Competition with grants value over INR 80 lakhs.”

Abhishek Pitti – Founder & CEO – IBC Media, stated, “There is an pressing want to bridge the large talent hole in the world of emerging technologies as they’re step by step penetrating virtually all spheres of our lives. Also, upskilling college students in the business was essential to additional strengthen India’s IT workforce. Alt Hack – Chennai was a step in this course because it introduced collectively business consultants, educators and HR professionals on the identical web page to chart college students’ careers in the tech house. I’m joyful that this edition was successful and look ahead to many extra such editions in the long run.”

The future is predicted to be Web 3.0 and Blockchain-based, and bearing this in thoughts, IBC Media will embark on one other initiative – Superverse Tamil Nadu – a DAO group in collaboration with the Government of Tamil Nadu to upskill college students and tackle the dearth of such a talented workforce in India.