Bangalore boys win Capgemini’s Global Innovators Race Competition

Capgemini, one of the world’s driving suppliers of counseling, innovation and outsourcing administrations, declared the victor of its global Innovators Race competition.

The victors – third year Computer Science and Engineering understudies from BMS College of Engineering Bangalore, Ankit Agarwal (22) and Chirantan Mahipal (20), known as group ‘Technetium’, took home the primary prize, alongside $25,000 in real money, for their thorough e-learning stage intended to get training to all India.

“We are on cloud nine,” said Agarwal. “We based our e-learning platform on our own experiences and the challenges that we faced during our education. We also wanted to overcome the country’s issues of multiple languages and minimal connectivity. We are now totally focused on making our solution live, and an educated India a reality.”

Next on the Anvil

The duo will travel to Capgemini’s San Francisco Exchange in June, where they will work with Capgemini’s experts to bring their solution to life.

Their innovation journey will be filmed right through to its fruition and will be available for viewing online, later this year.

Participants had to design solutions to real life business challenges set by global brands.

‘Technetium’ was asked by Reliance Jio to create an innovative learning platform, where teachers and students can connect without cultural or lingual barriers. ‘Natura Ready’ was asked by Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura to suggest a digital mobile solution that brings Natura’s business development consultants closer to consumers.

The panel

The main two groups, voted into the last by people in general, showcased their manifestations to a board of industry masters containing Lanny Cohen, Capgemini’s Global Chief Technology Officer; Mark Thompson, International Editor of CNN Money; and Dan Bieler, Principal Analyst at Forrester.

The judges scored proposition on innovation and development, possibility, innovativeness and creativity, and maintainability. After the underlying pitch, every group then partook in a Q&A session.

The journey

After competing in heats at a local level, Technetium took part in Capgemini’s international Innovators Race web series, broadcast during February and March 2016, where the winning teams from the UK, Netherlands, France, Brazil, India and North America each showcased their creative solutions to real business challenges set by six major brands: Barclays (for the UK), AccorHotels (for France), Natura (for Brazil), Reliance Jio (for India), Openbaar Ministerie – the Netherlands’ public prosecution service (for the Netherlands) and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (for North America).

An online public vote then followed to determine the two finalist teams.

Date: April 19, 2016

Source: The Hindu