Mumbai: Capgemini consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced the ‘go live’ of its Innovators Race web series. From today viewers can follow the weekly episodes of the global innovation competition at www.innovatorsrace.com.
For the next five weeks teams of students from some of the best IT and business universities around the world, will present their creative solutions to real business challenges faced by global brands of today. Straight after the 5th episode viewers will have one week to cast their votes online for their favorite proposal.
The top two highest scoring teams will then get to work developing a prototype of their solution, to be presented on the grand finale episode which will be available to view from the 18th April.
Competing in this web series are the winning teams from the UK, Netherlands, France, Brazil, India and North America. Each took part in local heats where they were set real business challenges 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).
The country champion teams will now showcase their winning solution on air, to scoop the ultimate prize of seeing their creation be brought to life in Capgemini’s flagship Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco along with $25,000 USD in cash.
Once the winning team reaches Capgemini’s San Francisco Exchange, their innovation journey will be documented right through to the fruition of their winning solution. This film will be available to view online during the Summer of 2016.
The “Innovators Race” series will be broadcast on the web at www.innovatorsrace.com. It will also be featured on CNN International’s “2020 Visionaries” Hub athttp://money.cnn.com/technology/2020-visionaries/, where the technology visionaries featured in this CNN production will also be seen interacting with some of the most inspiring students from Capgemini’s Innovators Race.
Capgemini has a global network of nine innovation spaces, known as ‘Exchanges’, where organizations are able to immerse themselves in the understanding, experimentation and application of all aspects of emerging technologies, as well as address the business disruptions confronting them and their industries
‘2020 Visionaries’ is a series of short animated films that each showcase an innovator and the technology they are inventing or using in a different way. The films will air as highlights in commercial ad breaks on CNN International and on the CNN International microsite alongside Innovators Race episodes
