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---
title: "DataFest in Pictures"
---

## **Day 1: Friday, 4th April 2025**

### Day 1, 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Meet & Greet

![Day 1, 5:00 pm: Teams come prepared with their laptops](images/datafest_in_pictures/day1_1.jpg)

![Day 1, 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Team members meeting each other & their mentors](images/datafest_in_pictures/day1_202.jpg)

### Day 1, 6:00 - 7:30 pm - Opening remarks & Keynote speech

![Day 1, 6:00 - 6:15 pm: Opening remarks from Prof. Jiping Wang, Department Chair](images/datafest_in_pictures/4.jpg)

![Day 1, 6:15 - 7:00 pm: Keynote address from Sanchit Tiwari, Principal at QuantumBlack (AI by McKinsey)](images/datafest_in_pictures/5.jpg)

![Day 1, 7:00 - 7:20 pm: Teams introduce themselves](images/datafest_in_pictures/6.jpg)


![Day 1, 7:20 - 7:30 pm: Mentors introduce themselves](images/datafest_in_pictures/7.jpg)

### Day 1, 7:30 - 8:30 pm: Problem statement

![Day 1, 7:30 - 8:15 pm: Prof. Arvind Krishna (faculty) introduces the problem statement](images/datafest_in_pictures/8_new.jpg)


![Day 1, 8:15 - 8:30 pm: Prof. Arend Kuyper (faculty) provides some tips & tricks](images/datafest_in_pictures/9.jpg)

### Day 1, 8:30 pm: Competition begins!

![Day 1, 8:30 - 8:45 pm: Student organisers explain the logistics & rules](images/datafest_in_pictures/10.jpg)

![Day 1, 8:45 pm: Teams begin working on the competition](images/datafest_in_pictures/11.jpg)


## **Day 2: Saturday, 5th April 2025**

### Day 2, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm: Networking with Capital One

![Day 2, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Capital One information & resume review session](images/datafest_in_pictures/12.jpg)

![Day 2, 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Networking over lunch](images/datafest_in_pictures/12_new.jpg)

### Day 2, 2:00 - 9:30 pm: Workday

![Day 2, 2:00 - 9:30 pm: Teams working with their mentors](images/datafest_in_pictures/14.jpg)

![Day 2, 2:00 - 9:30 pm: Team working in their own preferred space](images/datafest_in_pictures/15.jpg)

## **Day 3: Sunday, 5th April 2025**

### Day 3, 9:30 - 11:30 am: Wrapping up presentations

![Day 3, 9:30 - 11:30 am: Faculty advising students on their presentation](images/datafest_in_pictures/18.jpg)

![Day 3, 9:30 - 11:30 am: Mentors walking around and providing feedback](images/datafest_in_pictures/19.jpg)


### Day 3, 11:30 - 11:45 am: Presentation submisson

![Day 3, 11:30 - 11:45 am: Team making last-minute updates to their presentation before submission](images/datafest_in_pictures/16.jpg)

![Day 3, 11:45 am: Team celebrating their hard work & learnings after submission](images/datafest_in_pictures/17.jpg)

### Day 3, 1:00 - 4:30 pm: Presentations

![Day 3, 1:00 - 4:30 pm: Teams presenting their analysis](images/datafest_in_pictures/20.jpg)

![Day 3, 1:00 - 4:30 pm: Teams answering judges' questions post their presentation](images/datafest_in_pictures/21.jpg)

### Day 3, 5:00 - 6:30 pm: Panel discussion

![Day 3, 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Panel discussion on *Careers in Data Science*](images/datafest_in_pictures/22.jpg)

![Day 3, 6:00 - 6:30 pm: Panelists answering student questions](images/datafest_in_pictures/23.jpg)

### Day 3, 6:30 - 7:30 pm: Felicitation & Awards

![Day 3, 6:30–7:15 pm: The Department Chair felicitates the panelists, mentors, judges, and organizers. At this moment, Lila Wells, Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company and panelist, is being felicitated.](images/datafest_in_pictures/24.jpg)

![Day 3, 7:15 - 7:30 pm: DataFest winners!](images/datafest_in_pictures/25.jpg)