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ABB HackFest 2022
Your way to a world class
data science team
John Armstrong Rupesh Khare
Global Head, Corporate Financial Global Head, Advanced Analytics
Planning & Analysis & Artificial Intelligence
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Well positioned across global markets
ABB is a leading global technology company
that energizes the transformation of society
and industry to achieve a more productive,
sustainable future.
Employees Countries Revenues
~105,000 ~100 ~$29 bn By connecting software to its electrification,
motion, process automation and robotics &
discrete automation portfolio, ABB pushes
the boundaries of technology to drive
performance to new levels.
Europe Americas AMEA
~$10.5 bn ~$8.7 bn ~$9.7 bn
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ABB India: 100+ years presence with unique confluence of business, GBS & AIC
Established platform in India to drive next level growth for ABB Group
5 Manufacturing locations
25 Manufacturing plants
Maneja, Nashik Faridabad Faridabad 21 Divisions
Vadodara
5 Sales offices
Vadodara
Peenya, Nelamangala, Head office,
Bengaluru Bengaluru Bengaluru
Nashik
7500+ Colleagues
Mumbai
Head office, Sales and
AIC GBS Bengaluru branch offices
Whitefield, Hebbal, Bengaluru
Bengaluru Bengaluru Key manufacturing R&D
locations center
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Learn about the Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AA&AI) team:
The Bengaluru-based AA&AI team is led by
Rupesh Khare as a part of the Financial Planning Team of professionals: Diverse background:
• Data scientists • Statistics
and Analysis CoE function at ABB • Pricing analysts • Mathematics
• BI analysts • Finance
• Domain experts • Engineering
The team supports ABB businesses across the • Economics
• Management
globe with the data science skills, methods,
framework and products required to mine Tools and technolo- Project Portfolio:
gies: • Machine learning
valuable insights that transform their business • Python • Deep learning
• R
operations and assist with strategic decision • Azure Cloud Services
• Artificial Intelligence
• Visualization
making • Alteryx, Snowflake
• Visualization • Automation
- PowerBI
- Dash, Streamlit
AA&AI is driven by the ABB values of Courage, • PowerAutomate
Care, Curiosity and Collaboration in everything Experience Analytics services:
• Analytics services and products
7+ years of average
they do analytics experience • Manufacturing
• Supply chain and operations
• Product and pricing
• Marketing and sales
• Finance
• Digital academy
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ABB HackFest 2022
Your way to a world class data science team
ABB is organizing a data science hackathon across prestigious colleges in Bangalore to
identify and provide lucrative data science internships to talented final-year students.
The hackathon will take place over 2 weeks
The top shortlisted candidates will be offered a paid six-month
internship at ABB starting from January 2023
The chosen candidates will receive a monthly stipend of INR 25,000/-
for the duration of their internship
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ABB HackFest 2022
Your way to a world class data science team
Eligibility criteria:
Candidates in their final year of college and available for a six-month internship between
January – June 2023
Individuals with a keen interest in data science
Individuals open to operating from Bengaluru during their internship;
Hybrid mode of work with two days a week in the office
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ABB HackFest 2022
Your way to a world class data science team
Application process:
To register, click on the following link and submit our details: https://forms.abb.com/form-57278/form
Address the problem statement with the mentioned timeline and send your solution to: [email protected]
Selection criteria:
Your solution will be evaluated based on model robustness, accuracy, novelty and approach to the solution
The top finalists will be invited to present their solutions at our ABB office in Bengaluru
Awards:
The top shortlisted candidates at the end of ABB HackFest will be offered a paid internship opportunity with
the Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence team at ABB
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ABB HackFest 2022
Your way to a world class data science team
Timeline:
09/12/2022 16/12/2022
Announcement Finalists’ presentation January - June 2023
of finalists at ABB Internship at ABB
26/11/2022
07/11/2022 Hackathon submission
Hackathon webinar deadline 16/12/2022
Winners declared
8/11/2022
Hackathon begins
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ABB HackFest 2022
Your way to a world class data science team
Business problem:
Anamika Sharma, Global CFO of Unknow Inc, a USD 45 billion manufacturing company is reviewing five quarters’
(Q3 2022 to Q3 2023) Total Order Forecasts for five major countries (Canada, China, Germany, Italy and USA) submitted by her
Financial Planning team. She is not quite convinced about the business outlook the team has projected for her.
The team has simply captured the total order trends of the last few months and predicted the order inflow. Anamika knows that
given Unknown Inc’s majority of the business comes from the units producing Earth Moving equipment, the total orders inflow is
highly dependent on micro and macro-economic indicators and also does not follow a clear trend and seasonality. Another aspect
of the complexity is the inflow of very large orders which disturbs the trend of base orders (Total Order = Base Orders + Large Orders).
She invites you to assist her and has shared 42 months of Total Orders data for the five countries.
Material available Assessment criteria
• Zipped document containing: • Accuracy of the forecast
▸ Jupyter Notebook (.html format) • Descriptive analysis
▸ PY file • Modelling approach
• Submission file containing forecast values for all the countries in the following • Overall coding style
format - Date, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, USA. The final submission file
should be in .csv format with 6 columns ordered as mentioned
