HDFC Life Mobility Hack
1017 Registered
Allowed team size:
1 - 5
1017 Registered
Allowed team size:
1 - 5
Winners are announced.
idea phase
Online
starts on:
Dec 29, 2016, 06:30 AM ()
ends on:
Jan 15, 2017, 06:25 PM ()
Winners
1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Overview
Note: Shortlisted teams of HDFCLife mobility hack has been announced and an email communication has been sent to all the shortlisted teams regarding the same.
Are You Ready to Disrupt the Insurance Industry in just 24 Hours?
If you look around, technology is increasingly playing a huge role in our everyday lives, to the extent that new and revolutionary business models are being rolled out, led majorly by technological advancements. We have moved from all paper format to online, from cumbersome branch visits to self-service, and from intuitions to insights. But we don't want to stop here. We want to improve the way we serve our customers, we want a better way to sell our products, we want to design new products that our customers actually need. In each of these, technology plays a big role.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join the HDFC Life Hackathon to compete in developing innovative solutions to solve real problems and create great opportunities for differentiation.
So, put on your thinking caps and come up with ways of making Life Insurance interesting for people. You can create mobile themes, develop web apps or SDKs. We are changing the way we think in our organization and want you to be a part of driving this change.
And what's even better? You get to use the IBM Bluemix platform to build your product. Innovation is at its height with IBM Bluemix.
Bluemix is IBM's open platform for building enterprise applications tailored for your industry. Use our open source code on Bluemix, then pair it with services and apps to enhance and expand your application. With developer-centric compute models, instant access to over 150 services – including ones that facilitate modern architecture and delivery practices around mobile, microservices, DevOps and continuous delivery – Bluemix makes it easier to ship powerful, high-quality software every day.
Tech Tips
Our technology partner, Microsoft, has put together a set of handy tools to help accelerate your progress through this hackathon. You can, of course, use the tools of your choice. If you would like to receive free cloud credits worth $100, write to, write to indiaitpro@microsoft.com and mention the name of your team.
- Mobility challenge: Explore the Skype Developer Platform. Learn how to get started here.
- Design challenge: Try Visio Professional 2016 to create wire-frames & UI mockups. Learn how to get started here.
- Data Science challenge: From Machine Learning to Data Visualization, you have a variety of options:
- Azure Machine Learning Studio
- Cortana Intelligence Suite & Cortana Intelligence Gallery
- Power BI and Power BI Embedded
To learn how to add some “wow” factor to your project, attend the QuickStart session on 28th Jan by Gandhali Samant, Senior Tech Evangelist, Microsoft.
About Company
HDFC Life is a leading long-term life insurance solutions provider in India, offering a range of individual and group insurance solutions that meet various customer needs such as Protection, Pension, Savings, Investment and Health. Customers have the added advantage of customising plans, by adding optional benefits called riders, at a nominal price. As on November 30th, 2016, the Company has 29 individual and 9 group products in its portfolio, along with 8 optional rider benefits catering to a diverse range of customer needs.
We promote high integrity in business practices and shun short cuts and unethical practices, as we aspire to the most trusted company, the easiest to deal with and offer the best value for money. Since our inception, we have consistently focused on setting benchmarks in all aspect of insurance business.
HDFC Life continues to benefit from having a wide reach with 398 HDFC Life offices in India and 12,000+ distributor touch-points. The Company has a strong base of Financial Consultants.
HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited ('HDFC Life' / ‘Company’) is a joint venture between HDFC Ltd., India’s leading housing finance institution and Standard Life, a global investment company.
For more information, please visit our website, www.hdfclife.com . You may also connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn, and Google+.
Themes
Participants are free to build projects of their own choosing, not restricted to the below themes. The projects should be targeted at growing revenue, margin and differentiation for HDFC Life. Hacks will be purely judged on the basis of the technical competence combined with the business value being added.
May the best Hack win!
Design
DESCRIPTION
New ideas in the design are all around us. More apparent in the myriad of the mobile apps we use. Some are big and bold like Snapchat, and some are sober like Product Hunt.
We want a splash of new design in our health product. Go ahead.. let your imagination run wild! Design a fresh and awesome User Interface for the Health Product. It can be a mobile app UI or a web app UI.
You can download the product details from here:
http://www.hdfclife.com/iwov-resources/pdf/products/health/HDFC-Life-Easy-Health-Plan.pdf
BACKGROUND
An online user typically searches for and compares health plans. The number of users on mobile are increasing rapidly. We want to cater to these users so that the experience of discovery and interaction with the product is simple, non-intrusive and pretty intuitive.
CONSIDERATION
To qualify for the second round, make a few mock ups. Tell us how you will convert the product specs into design decisions, based on what will you make design decisions and which designs you would choose and why.
Mobility
Description
Create an interface which our call centre agents can use to engage, convince & collect payments from customers. During a tele-call with a customer, agents should be able to interact easily with customers & complete the sales end-to-end.
Background
Our call center agents would prefer a better solution for pitching and selling insurance then the traditional phone based model. Typical challenges facing such a tele-sales model are accuracy of data being captured while on the call, impatience with lengthy interaction and follow-ups.Suggest a solution for remote pitching and sales. Use a mobile app/web app, if needed. Please consider our savings plan "Uday" for crafting the solution approach - http://www.hdfclife.com/iwov-resources/pdf/products/savings/Uday-brochure-Retail.pdf
Consideration
Some of the important aspects of the interface that need to be considered are:-
a) The interaction session should be able to instill confidence in customer that he is interacting with HDFC Life
b) During the interaction with customer, the telecaller should be able to display/exchange pdfs or image files with the customer
c) Collect premium payment via UPI, Wallet, etc
d) Share a receipt to the customer & provide a unique interaction number for HDFC life
e) The evaluation parameter here would include UI/UX for the customer, call center agent and universality of the solution designed
Data Science
DESCRIPTION
Data has always been around us. Now it's getting logged and with new techniques in data science, it's becoming easier and faster to look at data from many different prisms.
We have a treasure trove of data which we constantly analyse and frame patterns. And a number of data sources are emerging in the public domain. We want to see what can we do with these data sets. Can we build better models? Can we build apps on top of these data sets? Or is there more we can do?
BACKGROUND
With advances in analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can better predict events like buying behavior and also visualize data in a more intuitive fashion. There are all kind of data sources, - where one lives, how much one travels, weather patterns, pollution levels, etc. Until now we have been looking at data from only an insurance point of view. There certainly are other factors that would have an impact on our industry. We want to know what these factors could be, which new models could be brought into play and how would they influence our operations.
CONSIDERATION
Following are the representative data sets. Explore and exploit many others available in the public domain.
https://data.gov.in/
http://www.mospi.gov.in/
Tell us how you can use this to build models (Preferably in R or Python) for us.
Prizes
Main Prizes
1st Prize
INR 150000
2nd Prize
INR 100000
3rd Prize
INR 50000
Help & Support
Please contact event admin
Test01 at priyanksharma@hdfclife.com
Test01 at priyanksharma@hdfclife.com
