SMEs and StartUps: Register for the Capgemini Innovation Challenge before July 27

Capgemini Innovation Challenge: The Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE) is Capgemini’s global platform. It leverages a framework for action, a network of exchange locations, and a high-performance engagement experience together with a broad community of designers, technologists, sector experts, business and technology partners, academics, research organizations and startups.

The AIE is designed to enable enterprises to discover relevant innovations and to contextualize and experiment with them within their specific industry. Thus, Capgemini’s innovation space in Mumbai supports the above innovation mission, and is partnering with AGNIi & Startup India to launch an innovation challenge.

Who can participate in the event?

The challenge asks Startups or SMEs or Entrepreneurs with highly innovative technologies, business models that can solve the mentioned challenges to apply. The product/service should at least be in any of the following stages -

• Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

• Proof of Concept (POC)

• Deployed solution which requires further scaling up

Further, it does not include innovators and startups with Market Ready Products.

The problem statements

1. Safe Mobility (SafeMaps)

The first problem statement is to make a mobility solution that will help women to know the safe/unsafe zones across different locations in any Indian city. According to the challenge, the solution should also enable women to update it based on experiences as well.

It should:

• Crowdsource information on safe and unsafe areas in a particular city
• Leverage publicly available data to augment crowdsourced information
• Also, highlight unsafe zones to public authorities and assist with intervention
• Ensure user authentication and verification to prevent frivolous elements from hijacking it
• Further, the solution should be scalable, easy to use, and must be compatible across different devices (phone/tablet/PC)
• Individual data privacy should not be compromised

2. Climate Fixathon (FarmCast)

The second problem statement is to make a "crop prediction model that will allow farmers to switch crops before climate change will hit them".

It should:

• Allow farmers to find the best adaptation mechanism for climate change
• Make the plant damage risk assessment possible simplifying and improves decision making for farmers.
• Allow a user to model and visualize different climate scenarios virtually
• Further, the product should be scalable, easy to use, and must be compatible across different devices/platforms
• Theoretical models or constructs without an implementation plan and lack practical application

How to register?

You can apply for the challenge here.

Timeline for the Capgemini Innovation Challenge

Last date to apply is July 27. Results will be out on August 15.

Prizes in the Capgemini Innovation Challenge

The prize for this challege is non-fiscal. Winners will get an opportunity to virtually collaborate with Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange for 6 months. They will further co-create and refine the solution (support would include infrastructure, technology guidance and mentoring, licenses and hardware to build the solution). They will also have access to Capgemini client network (dependent on context and relevance). Capgemini will support them through marketing and publicity.