Sri Lanka, March 19 -- Sysco LABS recently partnered with the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) as the Platinum Sponsor of SLIIT CODEFEST 2024: AI Sprint.

The event offered students a platform to demonstrate their artificial intelligence (AI) competencies and engage with complex, industry-relevant challenges. For the first time in the event's history, Sysco LABS introduced an AI-theme to proceedings, requiring teams to resolve real-world problems within the trillion-dollar, global foodservice industry using AI.

The finale event, held on the SLIIT university premises, brought together a total of almost 200 participants, who competed in teams of 10, with 19 teams out of 156 registered teams making it to the finals. S...