Thanks to the superb performance and extreme dedication of the team, the release [of this tool] has gone without a hitch.

One of the highest levels of volunteering is when a company helps by providing its own expertise. We are grateful to the staff at EPAM that, through their expertise, needy people, supporters and users of our services are now getting much easier access to the information they need.

The quality of every presentation and project was by far the highest so far, and the difference in the scores was not as great as what we typically see in our own hackathons. So congratulations to everybody are well-deserved. This is actually a very important hackathon for us. It’s not just a reason to come over to Minsk and visit you guys. This is a very interesting time for Edmunds because we are starting to take things like machine learning, and neural nets, and bots and AI and apply them in different ways to improve the experience on our websites. And what’s interesting is the reason we chose bots for this hackathon. We are now engaging with consumers more in a mobile messaging context than ever before. Not only are we having to build for the desktop user and the mobile user; now we have to learn how to develop messaging native interfaces for our shoppers. And that is completely different. So this is all terrific learning. And one of the things we always appreciate about you guys when we come over here is how much you actually know about our business. It is really amazing and we are very grateful for that. That is what makes EPAM and our teams there such good partners.