PITCHING CONTEST 2023 - SPARKING INNOVATION AT LINE VIETNAM

On December 18, 2023, at the LINE Vietnam office, a pitching contest taken place by Developer Relations x HR department under the chairmanship

of Mr. Jeon Je Eon (JJ) - Director of LINE Vietnam.

Teams participating in this competition (from left to right): FE Dev 2, App Dev No 1 and iNERDs

With the preparation and coordination of many teams, especially the Developer Relations and Human Resources Dept., the contest taken place

successfully with enthusiastic responses from the competing teams as well as the audience at the office as well as via Company's Zoom channel.

Through the process of receiving registration as well as advising to the competition teams, the Organizing team and the Board of Judges found that

the quality of the competition teams was quite good.

The judges of the competition: JJ (center), next (from left): Robby, Paul, Jun and Mr. Ryan

Because there is no big difference in the quality of the teams' exams, to make an accurate and fair assessment, our judges must not only

focus on listening the presentation of teams but also questions to evaluate the skills of each team according to the criteria set by the Organizers.

JJ is focusing on listening to the team's presentation to ask questions

Not only the judges, but also the audience were quite focused on the teams' presentations.

Giám khảo Robby đến từ bộ phận Testing đang đặt câu hỏi cho đội thi

Judge Robby from the Testing department is asking questions to the team

Judge: Jun

Judge Paul - from the Delivery team

Judge Ryan - from Server Dev team 1

Ms. Pink - our MC

Dan - a member of the Organizers is also an enthusiastic audience with quite difficult questions for the competing teams

In this contest, even though it is in the busy year-end coding period, the contest organizing committee also received registration from a total of 3 teams.

First is the App Dev team. No 1

From left to right: Vincent (Thi), Harley (Hieu), Fiin (Phong), Jonas (Trien)

Vincent is representing the team presenting to the jury and the entire audience.

The remaining members of the team are extremely focused to provide necessary additions and assistance to teammates or take turns presenting

each section.

After Vincent's session, there was Fiin's presentation

Jonas is focusing on the best content of the competition to the entire audience and the jury

Harley is presenting the AI ​​Solution section to the Judges

After the main presentation, to better understand the idea and score other skills on a scoring table, the judges will ask the App Dev No 1 team a few

short questions.

In this short Q&A session, team members take turns assigning answers. In addition to the judges, the audience also participated in asking questions.

The audience and judges were highly focused during the Q&A session

Harley is answering the Judge's questions

It's Fiin's turn

The team's presentations were so attractive that they continuously received questions from the judges and the audience

Next is the competition of FE Dev 2 team

FE Dev 2 (from left to right): Jason (Son), Ted (Khanh), Long, Mark (Quan), Chop (Quang) and Tue

At this time, Vu Tue - the 6th member of the competition team - was busy in a meeting so he was not in the photo.

Everyone who follows the blog post to the end will see Tue's picture.

Back to the FE Dev 2 team's presentation:

First is the introduction of the presentation topic as well as the team members.

The team members were all eager and happy to bring quality content to the jury.

Chop is introducing each team member participating this time.

After that, Chop introduced the idea of ​​the competition to the jury and the watching audience.

After that, Long was assigned to present the next part

Chop lectures the remaining presentation part

After the FE Dev 2 team's competition, there was the iNERDs team's competition.

Team iNERDs consists of 4 members, including Daniel who participated in the presentation via Zoom online.

The remaining members include (from left to right): Hoang Phuc (Feddor), Vu Valentino Bao Ngoc (Kevin) and friend Quang Vinh (Nicolas)

Kevin is presenting about the topic that the team is participating in this exam

Next is Fedor's turn

And Nicolas is presenting

Fedor and Kevin participated in answering questions from the Judge in the Q&A section.

After answering, the members also listened attentively to the Judges' comments.

Perhaps because the competition was so exciting, time passed quickly, the day went by quite quickly.

After the contestants' test, there will be a scoring and consultation session with the jury before giving the final results.

Everyone in the audience is looking forward to the final result

Compared to the jury, the audience seemed equally nervous

In particular, one of the things that made the event a success beyond expectations was the enthusiastic participation of the audience.

While waiting for the results, let's take a look at some images of the audience participating in asking questions of the contestants in the Q&A section.

In the audience, there was Mr. Danny from the Human Resources department watching.

Mr. Ninh is also a member of the Organizing Committee and has valuable advice contributing to the success of the event.

Next are Binh and Loc from the Server Dev team

Next is Vu (Testing team) and Viet (FE Dev 2 team).

Loc (Lucky) is participating in asking questions to contestants in the Q&A section.

Mr Ninh (Danny) is also asking some questions to contestants

Mr. Tan Bao (Server Dev 2 team) also had quite difficult questions for candidates.

Other questions from Hoang Minh (Server Dev 1 team) to our contestants

Dan - a member of the Organizing Committee - is inviting the audience to participate in a fun quiz with prizes in this program?

Theo anh chị em thì đáp án nào chính xác ?

In the audience, we also catched the enthusiastic cheers of Gigi (App Dev team), Phong (App Dev team), and Huan Huynh (Server Dev 1 team).

After completing his competition, Quang (Chop) also participated in asking other teams in a short question and answer session.

Dan is showing the last question in the Quiz section, which answer do you think is correct?

The contest taken place successfully, the audience was resting and waiting for the results from the Organizers

[ Behine the Scenes ]

While waiting, let's take a look at some Behind the Scenes moments - untold stories - of the competition!

The organizing committee is helping the competition team set up to display the exam on the TV screen when streamed via Zoom - serving online audiences.

Our English MC - Pink and Dan - member of the Organizers

The audience took photos to check in at the competition - looking toward to next year's season 2 competition or what?

Viet is asking for members of the FE Dev 2 exam team to compete next year

Without making the audience wait too long, after an hour of impartial scoring, the jury also sent the results to the Organizing Committee for announcement.

The results received support from the audience as well as the entire jury, contributing to the success of the contest, since its first organization.

The first prize went to team iNERDs.

Overcoming geographical difficulties when Daniel had to present online, but with the efforts of all members, the team successfully won the Champion of the

competition. Congratulations to the iNERDs team once again. Let's look back at the Champion's coronation moment.

The Champion team was honored to be awarded by JJ (Mr. Jeon Je Eon) - Director of LINE Vietnam

Next, the 1st Runner-up award went to App Dev No 1 team

The team was honored to be awarded the 1st Runner-up prize by Mr. Jun and Mr. Park

Mr. Paul and Mr. Robby presented the 2nd Runner-up prize to team FE Dev 2

As promised to everyone, the FE Dev 2 team's award photo was full of members,

including Tue, who after the meeting participated in receiving the award with the team.

Although there were minor shortcomings, overall the contest was a success.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, the Developer Relations team would like to sincerely thank :

JJ (Mr. Jeon Je Eon) - Director of LINE Vietnam is also a member of the jury

Jun, Ryan, Robby and Mr. Paul - members of the Judges

Mr Ninh (Danny), Ms. Nga (Jade), Ms. Hoang Anh, Mr. Thanh - the Organizers from the HR department (Human Resources)

Ms. Pink, Mr. Dan, Ms. Emielie & Mr. Harry - the Organizers from the Developer Relations department

Mr. Phúc Khang - Official photographer of the event

Jason (Thanh Son) - the "secret" photographer from the audience - provided some behind-the-scenes photos of the competition.

From Developer Relations with love - see you next season

(From left to right: Pink - Emielie - Harry and Dan)

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