“Hack to the Future,” a coding competition organized by Vakıfbank, was held on Friday, April 28, at Vakıfbank’s headquarters in İstanbul. While many teams, with themes from social responsibility and sustainability to digital banking user experience and design and new-generation customer communication to innovative products and services, participated in the event, only 12 teams qualified for the finals.
There were five awards in the following categories: “Best MVP,” “Best Social Enterprise,” “Most Innovative Technological Solution,” “Best User Experience Design” and “Most Global Solution.” Bilkent University senior computer engineering students Sebahattin Utku Sezer, Lara Fenercioğlu and Bedirhan Sakinoğlu (from left to right) won the “Best Social Enterprise” award for their project, “Mutrivia.”
“Mutrivia” is an artificial intelligence-supported competitive mobile quiz about cultural activities that was developed for banks and for encouraging participation in cultural activities. The project addresses a common problem that mobile banking applications face: not having a loyal user base. Moreover, most banks do not sufficiently encourage customers to participate in cultural activities; thus, the aim of “Mutrivia” is to allow users to collect aMuse points that they can then use in cultural activities. The quiz is integrated into the bank’s mobile application.
