TechGig Geek Goddess 2018: Culmination of a mega 95-day coding contest
TechGig Geek Goddess, India’s largest coding event for women, culminated in Bengaluru recently. The event saw a massive participation of more than 68,791 women technologists. This mega code competition concluded with a glitzy award ceremony held at The Den hotel where the efforts of all participants were celebrated with applause.
Snehlata Mishra was crowned ‘TechGig Geek Goddess 2018’ and she took home the winner’s trophy, merit certificate and a cheque of Rs 1,50,000.
TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 marked the fourth edition of the flagship event to celebrate the genius of women programmers in India. This edition was presented by American Express. Goldman Sachs, an active investor in India, was the title sponsor for this edition.
Geek Goddess is hosted by TechGig – India’s leading IT learning platform which has more than 3.2 million technologists onboard. TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 was launched in August when women technologists from all walks of life were invited to share their ideas and codes in different programming languages at the contest. From fresh graduates to senior leaders - women coders from all backgrounds and experience level participated in this edition enthusiastically. Most participants were from Bengaluru, followed by Chennai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. In this season C, C++, C#, Java and Python were among the most preferred programming languages.
The finale day celebrations also marked a Women Disruptors Conference, which saw full house participation from the finalists. This conference saw more than 25 women technology leaders from companies such as IBM, Oracle, Capgemini, Dell IT, Microsoft, Verizon, Juniper, Wipro, ThoughtWorks India, Intuit, PayPal, Accenture and others, exchange their ideas and opinions on diversity and women representation in the IT companies. India’s first specially-abled IAS officer Ira Singhal, and known author Anvita Bajpai too graced the conference. These leaders had gathered to share their success mantras with the aspiring technologists. The winners of TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 were announced after the conference concluded.
Other than the title honour, eight more winners were declared in other categories.
1st Runners-up - Sushmita Nikose
2nd Runners-up - Karishma Aggarwal
3rd Runners-up - Ayushi Agarwal
4th Runners-up - Neeraja Tokekar
Machine Learning Theme Winner - Nithya
Machine Learning 1st Runner-up - Nandana Kudeti
IoT Theme Winner - Sri Harini
IoT 1st Runner-up - Reema M
