Dhaka, April 20 -- Bangladesh's first-ever Datathon competition, aiming to build capacity and talent in the field of data science and machine learning, concluded successfully on Saturday.

A total of 84 data scientists and data engineers took part in the 24-hour competition in 21 teams.

The event was organised by Robi. Google was part of the event as the cloud partner and Axiata Analytics was the technical support partner.

The two-day competition started on April 19. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak attended the prize giving ceremony as the chief guest.

Robi's Managing Director and CEO Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, along with members of senior management, were also present at the event held at a city hotel. Robi's Head of Corporate Stra...