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1st Place Nedbank N*ovation: Ctrl + Alt + Cloud 2025

Issued by Otinga.io

This badge recognises the first-place team at Nedbank N*ovation: Ctrl + Alt + Cloud 2025 — a two-day, in-person hackathon held at Nedbank H-Block in Johannesburg and powered by Otinga. Under the theme of Nedbank Intelligent Hyper-Automation, cross-disciplinary Group Technology teams deployed their own cloud infrastructure and turned real banking challenges into working prototypes. The winning team delivered the standout solution, judged through live demos and Q&A on client or employee "wow", speed-to-market feasibility, cost-to-serve impact, and sustainability at scale. Their prototype earned the highest combined score across every criterion. This badge reflects strong engineering, sharp cloud thinking, and the ability to move from a bold idea to demonstrable business value in two days.

Recipient: Cicilia Mthai
Issued On: Aug. 28, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
Certificate ID: ff0a3c79-a352-45ec-9042-92c085ada034

Earning Criteria

  • Top-Ranked Solution
    • Delivered the highest-scoring prototype at Nedbank N*ovation: Ctrl + Alt + Cloud 2025, judged on innovation, technical quality, user experience, and real-world relevance to Nedbank Intelligent Hyper-Automation.
    • Selected as the overall winning team across a competitive field of cross-disciplinary Group Technology teams.
  • Excellence Under Pressure
    • Built and submitted a fully functional prototype during the two-day, in-person build, with overnight hacking permitted.
    • Produced the complete deliverable set — a working prototype, a pitch deck of ten slides or fewer, and a two-minute explainer video — before the submission deadline.
  • Cloud-First Engineering
    • Deployed and configured their own cloud infrastructure, drawing on AWS and Azure credits and solution-architect support.
    • Built against Nedbank data and API sandboxes, with an architecture designed to be scalable and compliant.
  • Business Impact and Feasibility
    • Addressed a real challenge from the NIHA tracks with clear personalisation, speed-to-market feasibility, and cost-to-serve impact.
    • Demonstrated a solution built for sustainability and scale beyond the hackathon.
  • Commanding Final Presentation
    • Delivered a confident live demo and Q&A to the judging panel in the auditorium.
    • Articulated technical decisions, business value, and next steps persuasively under questioning.
  • Overall Excellence (1st Place)
    • Achieved the highest combined score across all four judging criteria.
    • Set the benchmark for cloud-native hyper-automation within Group Technology.