Featured Guest — Cillers World Class Hackathons Podcast
🎙️ My guest feature on the Cillers World Class Hackathons PodcastWe explored how structured mentorship can transform hackathons and celebrated the incredible people and communities who have shaped my journey.
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🎙️✨ Thrilled to announce an incredible milestone—my feature on the Cillers World Class Hackathons Podcast with Per Lange is now live on Spotify! 🌟 🎧
🎧 Check out the episode here:
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Episode Highlights
⭐️ My hackathon journey, including events like the Google Cloud AI Hackathon, Open Source Hackathon, and Harvard’s 2024 CS50 Puzzle Day.
⭐️ Reflections on iCodeGuru and mentors like Sir Zafar Shahid, PhD Shahid, and Sir Rizwan Ghaffar, who expanded my vision.
⭐️ Winning strategies for hackathons: ideation, prototyping, storytelling.
⭐️ Insights from leaders like Michael Lively (timestamp 33:03).
⭐️ My experience as an AI Hackathons Champion at lablab.ai, joining 10+ hackathons—including building the Paul Graham Founder Mode AI app with Simon Olson (timestamp 47:45).
⭐️ The importance of structured mentorship in hackathons.
⭐️ Highlight of Equalist, a Chrome extension my team (Anushka Pote, Iqra Zafar, Akansha) built at the Google AI for Impact Hackathon organized by Hack2Skill.
⭐️ Gratitude for Sir Zubair Zafar at iCodeGuru (timestamp 51:37).
💬 This episode is full of stories, strategies, and practical insights—I’d love to hear your thoughts after you listen!
