MUMBAI: TO THE NEW Digital recently organised a Tech-a-Thon, a programming event for the programmers and hackers community. The two-day event was co-sponsored by Aarvee Idealabs (LoudShout) and ShopClues.

Tech-a-Thon witnessed participation of 10 teams working 48 hours at a stretch to develop applications from scratch on different technology platforms including Grails, Node.js, MongoDB and Android. The winning team was from TO THE NEW Digital, which created an interactive chat application called Ping that offered features like messaging, video chat and video conferencing.

The winners were picked by a panel of industry experts like ShopClues.com CEO and co-founder Sanjay Sethi, TO THE NEW Digital CEO Deepak Mittal and e-commerce architect Amitabh Misra.

“We are really proud to co-sponsor Tech-a-Thon. This is a great initiative to enlighten this exciting ecosystem and bring together the tech community in order to explore new opportunities. This not only brings out news ideas but also some promote entrepreneurship,” said Mittal.

The event also had different workshops and sessions on niche technologies given by industry experts like Adobe director of engineering Ankush Sharma, Microsoft developer solutions architect Vivek Goyal, and B2B Startup founder and CTO Vangapelli Santhosh Kumar.