Participants win N59m at Zenith Tech Fair

The Zenith Hackathon (Zecathon), a team collaboration and workflow management platform that provides synergy, task planning, messaging, and payments, has emerged as the overall winner at the Zenith Tech Fair, taking home the grand prize of N20 million.

The first runner-up, Skill Up With Kahdsole (SUWK), a social-tech startup that provides an end-to-end platform for learning technical and vocational skills to empower young people, won N15 million, while the second runner-up, Tribapay, a payment processing gateway that allows for cross-border payments and transactions in Nigeria and Ghana, won N10 million.

The three winners won the prizes with a mentorship programme with Seedstars.

Other finalists who won N2 million each include Edupoint, Joovlin, Frootify, Izesan Limited, Natal Cares, Plychain.io, and Niteon.

In his welcome address at the Zenith Tech Fair held in Lagos on November 23 and 24, 2023, the Group Managing Director/CEO of Zenith Bank Plc, Dr Ebenezer Onyeagwu, expressed his excitement for the Hackathon, saying it was the high point of the event.

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Onyeagwu said: “We have deliberately kept the best for the last. The high point of today’s event is the Hackathon. This is where we have the opportunity to see the immense creativity and talent in our youth as they come up with different innovative ideas.

“The good thing about the Hackathon is that the pitches you see presented are completely different from the ones we have seen before and we intend to make it far more elaborate as we hope that as we go into the future, we should be able to bring back winners where they can tell the audience their journey and how they have progressed so far.”

The two-day event, which was described as a huge success by participants, featured presentations on the leading technological innovations that cut across different aspects of life such as Artificial Intelligence, Contactless Payments, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, FinTech, Data Analytics, Financial Intelligence, and communication technologies, with the keynote address, “Artificial Intelligence – Application and Bias“, delivered by renowned IT Specialist and Managing Director for Huawei Technologies, Nigeria, Chris Lu.

The event also featured a welcome address by the Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc, Dr Ebenezer Onyeagwu, among others.

The Star