OUR INSPIRATION


Zunaid Ahmed Palak

State Minister
Ministry of Posts,
Telecommunications & Information Technology

OUR ADVISOR TEAM


Sonia Bashir Kabir

Managing Director at Microsoft

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Professor,
SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Dr Hasan Sarwar

Professor at United international university
Director At EduSoft

Abul Khair Patwary

Chief Advisor Women In Digital
Chairman Patwary Trade International
Mayor Ramgonj, Lakshmipur

OUR MENTORS



Rezwana Khan

Having more than 13 years of practical experience in the Information Technology and Services Industry. Has remarkable experience to work with Ban She wants to ensure services through ICT with optimum way. Her expertise include strategic planning & growth, technology upgrade, team building and change management.


Nasima Akter Nisha

Nasima Akter Nisha started plotting her own thoughts to work on women empowerment, youths’ potentials and gained experience of corporate affairs. With the stepped into entrepreneurship, Nasima Akter formed another branch of Reverie Corporation Limited in UK. Her company has many Mobile Games & Apps.


Saima Rahman

Sayma Rahman is managing Global Partnerships in GrameenPhone. She has 10 years of work experience in Telecommunication. she won the award of ‘Top Progressive Woman Leader’ in 2016. And her project ‘Mobile Connect’ won GSMA Founder Award at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016.


Jannat Ul Fardoush Hira

Jannat Ul Fardoush Hira is a graphic designer who’s heart beats for the creative aesthetic. She is making social media ads, print works like (poster magazine, banner, brochure, etc), web designing and banners. She is struggle to deliver the most effective solutions at the highest of standards


Md. Tajdin Hassan

Winner of South Asia Digital Media Awards 2017, Tajdin is a bold but a thoughtful leader who has brought a vision of change. Currently working as "Head of Marketing" in The Daily Star, the leading English daily of the country. He is a passionate driven leader of marketing technologies.


Shohan Rahman

Shohan Rahman is a Sr. Software Engineer, and passionate about mobile apps and game development. Working on both iOS and android platform for last 3 years. He is passionate to learn new technologies as well as mentoring and helping others in their programming career.


Imran Ali

Imran Ali is in IT field for more than 10 years, he is also CEO and founder of Dynamic Hubs. Digital Marketing is one of his works of expertise and working with various local & multinational companies.


Shah Md. Arafat Hossain

Currently working as Sr. Web Developer at GraphicPeople. He is fully capable of making a fine use of the cutting edge tools and technologies including Photoshop, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap etc.


Hadi Habib

Hadi Habib is a Lead Application Architect at Harriken. He is a full stack over developing and architect level programming and so on. He has around 8 years of experience in the software industry.


Ahmed Niaz Morshed

Ahmed Niaz Morshed is a Digital Production & Game Design Specialist, equipped with multidimensional industry oriented skills built over 8+ years, has successfully been into Project Management, Digital Production, Leadership, Software Engineering, and Game Design. Team Rapture, under his mentorship in 2011, came out to be the national champion of Microsoft Imagine Cup Bangladesh and won the People’s Choice Award in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in New York, USA.


Md. Asad-Ur-Rahman Nile

He is veteran development practitioner with professional experiences in Bangladesh, India, Germany and Nigeria, specializing in ICT4D, m4D, M4P, private sector development, grants management, public service reform, partnership management and communications.He also was instrumental in design and deployment of multiple ICT based solutions for MSME's in Bangladesh and Nigeria. At present he is engaged as a consultant for the World Bank funded LICT Project.


OUR JUDGES


hasan

Dr Hasan Sarwar

Professor at United international university
Director at EduSoft

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Rajeeb Tarafder

Director IT - AdPeople WorldWide Dhaka,
Network infrastructure & Server Administration,
Cloud solution, IT Consultant
Bangladesh Outsourcing/Offshoring

razon

Raihan Razon

Product Owner
Bangladesh Information Technology and Services Previous
SELISE rockin’ software (Secure Link Services Ltd.)
AdPeople Worldwide
Epsilonn Technologies Ltd

nila

Samira Zuberi Himika

Serial Entrepreneur, Campaigner,
Communications specialist
GIGA TECH


nila

Towhid Hossain

Secretary General,
Bangladesh Association of Call Center & Outsourcing (BACCO)

solaiman

Solaiman Shukhon

Former Head of Business at Aamra Smart Solutions
Former Market Research Manager at Banglalink

Iqbal Ahmed Fakhrul Hasan

Managing Director at
Divine IT Limited

nila

Achia Khaleda Nila

Founder, Women In Digital


OUR HONORABLE GUEST


palak

Zunaid Ahmed Palak

State Minister
Ministry of Posts,
Telecommunications & Information Technology

M A Awal

Member of Parliament,
Ramgonj, Lakshmipur

Abul Khair Patwary

Chief Advisor Women In Digital Chairman Patwary Trade International
Mayor Ramgonj, Lakshmipur

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Professor,
SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh


Dr Yasmeen Haque

Professor,
SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Mustafa Jabbar

Mustafa Jabbar

President,
BASIS

Farhana A. Rahman

Vice President
Bangladesh Association of Software & Information Services

Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat

U.S. Ambassador Of Bangladesh

Towhid Hossian

Secretary General,
BACCO

Sonia Bashir Kabir

Managing Director at Microsoft



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Program Schedule



Date(s) - 02/09/2017 - 14/10/2017
All Day

  • 3 August, 2017

    Application Receiving Start

    Application receiving is starting from 3 August, 2017. All participants can send their idea through us via online or offline way.

  • 7 September, 2017

    Application Receiving Close

    It is the time of closing the application receiving. On 7 Sep, after 1 PM no application will be received from applicants.

  • 8 September, 2017

    Projects Selection and Participants Invitation

    It is the time for application selection process and invite the selective group to represent their presentation of innovation.

  • 9 September, 2017

    Inauguration Ceremony, 1st Projects Presentation and Mentors Selections

    The Inauguration Ceremony will be held. The participants will represent their Projects in front of the selection board.
    Organizer will provided mentor for different group.

  • 15 September, 2017

    1st Mentoring Session

    Participants will get the proper mentoring session from our honorable mentors for their presented next presentation.

  • 16 September, 2017

    2nd Presentation of the Participants

    Participants will be present their 1st presentation of the innovative idea in front of our honorable mentors and Judge.
    Mentor and judge will select some good project for the next round.

  • 22 September, 2017

    Grooming Session Participants

    Participants will get the proper grooming session from our honorable mentors for their presented next presentation.

  • 23 September, 2017

    3rd Presentation Session

    On this Day, Participants will be present their 3nd presentation of the innovative idea in front of our honorable mentors.
    Mentor and judge will select some good project for the next round.

  • 30th September, 2017

    4th Presentation Session

    On this Day, Participants will be present their 4th presentation of the innovative idea in front of our honorable mentors.
    Mentor and judge will select some good project for the next round.

  • 7 October, 2017

    Pre-operational Presentation of the Participants

    Participants will be present their pre-operational presentation in front of our honorable mentors for the Final round.

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  • 13 October, 2017

    Final Presentation and Judgment.

    On this day, Participants will be present their final presentation of the projects and the final judgment process will take place.

  • 14 October, 2017

    Result Publishing and Award giving ceremony

    Participants will get the Results of their presented projects. And also a prize giving ceremony program will be held.

  • Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB)
    Address

Summary of
Digital Innovation Challenge 2017


32

Projects

50,000TK

Total Prize Money

15

Int. & Local Mentors, Judge

5

Special Judge


Digital Innovation Challenge for women 2017 is a competition, organized by “Women In Digital” together with some selected companies. The goal of this event is to encourage women for the Ideas development. It’s challenged not only about the development of apps, websites and online services but also provide real value of these development to the communities.

This competition program is aimed to make all women, think as an entrepreneur. It is worthy for those women who are interested in the field of digital innovation. The main purpose of our program is to motivate all talented and creative women (competitors) be act like startups or specialized as well as come up with revolutionary ideas or product for the digital challenges of the partner companies.

Competition duration will be for one (01) month. Contestants must be available in this time period and the judges/mentors will sit with contestant to guide them. According to the guidance contestant must complete the idea/project till the deadline.

Individuals (women) and groups around the country (Bangladesh) are eligible to participate as long as their ideas, applications, websites or services are designed to meet the contest criteria. The language of the prototype idea and all accompanying materials including the entry need to be in English or Bangla. The projects are not necessary to be finished. It can be simply a prototype too. For any type of queries about “Digital Innovation Challenge for Women 2017”, able to find at challengeinfo@widbd.com. Subscription of challengeinfo@widbd.com can keep ones update about the upcoming session.

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