Two UGM undergraduate student teams won 1st and 2nd place at the Jenius Hackathon 2019 competition in Co.Creation Week held by Jenius BTPN Bank held on 23rd-24th February at the BTPN Tower, Jakarta.
1st place was won by the Night Login team consisting of Antonius Yonanda C.N. (Information Technology 2016), Faturahman Yudanto (Information Technology 2016), and M. Sulthan Farras Nanz (Management 2016) with Finasius Application products with Custom Vision technology to detect and label items.
“The application that my team created is Financial Assistance for Jenius or Finasius, which is an application to do financial budgeting by taking photos of goods or shopping receipts which will then be automatically identified with artificial intelligence technology called Custom Vision. Custom Vision works by identifying purchased items, its price range and lastly categorizing by its different type”, said Antonius.
He added, if expenditure exceeds the actual budget plan, Finasius will recommend to invest in BTPN products. “Our motivation is created because the lack of interest in millennial customers to invest and do budget plan, hence we make applications that can easily help them to do so,” he added. Antonius and his two colleagues prepared their ideas a month before the final competition, including designs making, repositories, and other preparations.
The stages of the competition they participated in began with proposal selection and executive summary sent online, then 30 teams were selected to qualify for the final round. In this round, each team is given 24 hours for coding to make the product according to the proposal they have submitted. Next, each participant did pitching presentation for 4 minutes in front of the jury in a closed manner. The jury will then decide 10 qualified teams for the Grand Final round to do pitching and demonstrations before the judges, participants and committee are openly selected.
“On the final day, our team was nervous because we wanted to do the kind of technology that is quiet difficult to implement. But in the last minute, it successfully implemented and we could continue with the finalization, “said Antonius. He explained, the assessment component in this competition includes the originality of ideas, solutions that solve the core of the problem, the technology used, the design of the display application and user experience.
In addition to the main news, UGM delegation also won the second place through the Grovesting team consisting of M. Reyzaldy Indra (Information Technology 2016), Jihaan Nadya A. (Information Technology 2016), Arya Bariz W. (Information Technology 2016) and Dharmawan (Economics 2016). This team won 2nd place thanks to their product called Chatbot which able to send information about shares in real time.
Source: Gloria/UGM
