BizzIT Final Competition: Last Step to the Trophy
COMPFEST 14, Depok — Five teams of three went to the final of Business IT Competition (BizzIT). It was held offline on Saturday, October 29th at the new building of Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Indonesia and Sunday, October 30th 2022 at the Ministry of Industry Building of the Republic of Indonesia. Let’s check out the excitement!
Day 1 — Mentoring
The event started with an opening from MCs, Dylan and Raffi, after the reregistration of the finalists. The first mentoring session was from Heri Fauzan, Cloud Solutions Architect & Infrastructure of Accenture, who gave a material session about “Cloud Computing and Business Insight”.
Heri started with an explanation on cloud solution architect. As the theme of BizzIT, Heri also mentioned the business perspective on technology and vice versa. He pointed out several examples of technology transformation that has been conducted successfully and the mindsets behind it. Cloud computing discussion won’t be complete without mentioning XaaS (Anything as a Service). Heri gave some explanations with examples, some of the things he explained are network, IoT, AI/ML, and data. The session continued with Q&A with the finalists.
The day continued! The second mentoring is from Vincent Oktavian Kaulika, CEO of AturKuliner.
Vincent stated, “technology is not equals to solution. It is the combination of people, process, and technology.” He also explained about XaaS landscapes in software, platform, and infrastructure. To prepare the finalists for their study case, Vincent explained about design thinking, a more procedural approach to ideation. He said that “good ideas come from thinking ‘magically’ and with technical know-how,” then shared how to get those two. This mentoring session ends with Q&A.
Day 2 — Present your work!
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The actual final began! The last day started with the reregistration of the finalists and continued with a technical meeting of the final. The day’s agenda is pitching. It will be conducted privately for each team with the judges. With the same study case, each team will present their work for fifteen minutes, followed by Q&A and feedback sessions from the judges for eighteen minutes.
The first team to do the presentation is Minions team, continued with Mumbay Tech, then Chemisthree Consulting Group (CCG) as the third. The Ecstatic team presented their work before being closed by The A-Team’s presentation. After that, the judges evaluate each team and negotiate the winner.
The Winners: Chemisthree Consulting Group (CCG)
Finally, the winner is announced and it is the CCG team consisting of Gary, Marsellius, and Felicia from UGM. We had the opportunity to interview them.They shared the joy of their victory. According to them, the study case is quite challenging and they mentioned how they learned so much by participating in this competition. They stated that this competition helped them to elaborate on some skills such as time management, critical thinking, and problem solving.
We also had the chance to interview one of four BizzIT judges, Irving Hutagalung, Country Engineering Lead at Microsoft. Irving shared his view about how Information Technology (IT) is already an important part of business. The implementation is just different based on requirements. According to him, the implementation of IT in business in Indonesia is good enough. It is because our people are conscious of technology and flexible so the implementation is rapid. Lastly, he hoped that the young generation of Indonesia would keep innovating and not hesitate. “If you want to go to the startup world, don’t be afraid to fail. Your innovation can be anything, if it doesn’t work, you just need to create something new,” he stated.
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