Pegasystems Inc announced the winners of the third annual Pega Community Hackathon. The six-week event attracted more than 1,100 registrants of all skill levels sharing the ultimate goal of building meaningful apps that help solve real-world business and social problems that continue to emerge.
Participants used Pega’s visual and intuitive low-code development environment to build their solutions that help enable businesses adapt to rapid changes in an increasingly complex world. This year’s Hackathon had the most registrations to date with a 70 percent increase from the previous year.
A team of developers from IQZ Systems LLC received the Best in Show award for their Heal & Hale entry, a solution to improve employee mental health leveraging Pega’s chatbot, natural language processing, next-best action, and Pega Process AI™ capabilities. The easy-to-use offering helps users express their emotional state and guides them with intelligence-based recommendations on how they can prioritize their wellness.
Other prize category winners include:
A panel of judges evaluated submissions based on level of innovation, real-world impact, and execution. Entries ranged in developer experience from Pega professionals to students and recent graduates to citizen developers. All apps were built on Pega PlatformTM, Pega’s low-code platform for AI-based decisioning and workflow automation.
Award winners shared $24,500 in prizes and are prominently featured on Pega Community. The Social Impact Award winning Accenture team will have a donation made in their name to a Pega-approved charity of choice.
“The annual Pega Community Hackathon challenges diverse teams to think differently and solve problems in new ways,” said Stephanie Louis, senior director, digital client experience, Pega. “Submitting more entries than ever before, our ecosystem of partners, clients, and students created innovative apps that tackled some of the biggest challenges businesses face today. We congratulate the winning teams for their hard work and innovation, as well as everyone who submitted entries and took the opportunity to develop skills that will help increase the success of future Pega projects.”
“Supporting employees’ mental health continues to be incredibly important to employers and we wanted to create a solution to address that,” said Saravanan Pillai, COO, IQZ Systems “Pega’s low-code platform offers the right tools to quickly build an intelligent and personalized solution to help employees’ mental health – both for awareness and overall wellness. We are thrilled to receive the Best in Show award in this year’s Pega Community Hackathon and are grateful for the opportunity to participate.”