www.iciciappathon.com from February 16 to March 1,2016. The names of the shortlisted candidates will be announced on March 4, 2016. The selected candidates will be given access to the APIs hosted on the IBM Bluemix platform on March 5, 2016. By March 27, the participants need to submit their working prototype using the virtual banking and financial services APIs. A participant can create more than one apps. Three winners will be shortlisted by a team of eminent jury from finance and startup ecosystem after evaluating the submitted prototypes on five criteria that include uniqueness, functionality, business potential, user experience and scalability. After the evaluation, the finalists will be announced on April 7, 2016. The Grand finale will be held at the ICICI Bank Headquarters in Mumbai in mid of April 2016. The top three winners will win prizes from a pool of over Rs 20 lakh along with a potential engagement opportunity with ICICI Bank. The winner takes home Rs 10 lakhs, the first runner up nets 7.5 lakhs and the third price gets a reward of Rs 5 Lakhs from ICICI. There are also additional rewards from the program partners and IBM cloud along with other opportunities. They will also be given a chance to be mentored by the event partners. Additionally, winners of the ‘ICICI Appathon’, who apply to the ‘10,000 Startups’ of NASSCOM will get a fast tracked entry into it. Two members of the winning team shall also have access to the network and co-working community of 91springboard across India.
