Hexathon 2023, a 24-hour Hackathon hosted by Hexagon, aimed at building sustainable solutions for a better future for the planet, announced Enigma and Strat Masters as the winners.
Over 1,600 teams, including startups, corporations, students, and Hexagon’s own employees, registered for the competition, and 163 of them qualified for the final event on April 29 and 30. Participants showcased innovative solutions across five tracks: Sustainable Energy, Environment, Manufacturing, Assets, and Green Tech Disruptors.
The judging panel included Erik Jofesson, President of R-evolution, Hexagon; M Srinivas Rao, CEO, T-Hub; and Prof Sireesh Saride, Chairperson, Greenko School of Sustainability & Climate Change, IIT Hyderabad.
Enigma, a team of third-year engineering students from CBIT, and Strat Masters, from Hexagon, won prizes for their innovative solutions. While Enigma developed an automated system to reduce energy waste, pollution, and waste generation in industrial processes, Strat Masters created a solution to optimise equipment maintenance in a plant.
The judges also announced five special recognitions for outstanding projects that tackled various issues, such as blockchain-based carbon credit tracking, construction design optimisation, AI-driven scrap management for plastic recycling, solar panel power monitoring, and optimised deep learning for defect identification in manufacturing.
Navaneet Mishra SVP & General Manager, Hexagon Capability Center India, said that Hexagon believes that sustainability is the planet’s greatest challenge and also the biggest business opportunity of the 21st century. Hexathon 2023’s theme focused on the same mission to inspire and empower the next generation of innovators. The winning teams were determined based on the fundamental criteria that promote sustainability, use of appropriate technology, building scalable and innovative solutions, as well as having financial depth, solving business problems, and hence having commercial viability.