PLDT, Smart "Startup Innovation Challenge" Launched - Search for the Next Game Changer
The challenge is open to innovators, visionaries, and start-ups nationally. It aims to recognize innovative ideas that offer solutions to problems, from the basic to the most glaring ones, in the country today.
“Despite the challenges the country faces today, we see a very healthy and creative community of developers and programmers that only need the right opportunity and support to get their ideas flying and hopefully contribute to nation-building,” said PLDT Head for Innovations Lab and Ecosystems Partnerships Kristine Dara Ever Juan.
“Despite the challenges the country faces today, we see a very healthy and creative community of developers and programmers that only need the right opportunity and support to get their ideas flying and hopefully contribute to nation-building,” said PLDT Head for Innovations Lab and Ecosystems Partnerships Kristine Dara Ever Juan.
Under Smart City, solutions may vary from utilities, transportation, public safety, and emergency response, while Workplace of the Future covers collaboration, business efficiency, and process automation.
Solutions in the Healthcare category may help improve COVID-19 response, and hospital services efficiency, while Smart Home can range from security, home automation, and energy management.
For Education, ideas on operations, learning, and gamification, while Sustainability could provide alternative solutions that impact on the environment, society, and governance.
“Partnership with the Startup community is always high up in my Enterprise Innovations strategy: because startups bring energy, drives, passions, and out-of-the-box ideas to solve complicated problems. Some startups capture the megatrend technologies like AI, IoT, 5G, Cloud, automation, wearables, and big data to reshape the future, while others look into solving sustainability problems through next-generation technologies. We at PLDT Enterprise, wish to bring the PLDT group closer to our Filipino startup community through PLDT & Smart Startup Innovation Challenge, and hopefully one day together with these startups, we can collaborate, co-develop, and co-market,” said VP & Head of PLDT Enterprise Innovations & IoT Business Development Melvin Jeffrey Chan.
Interested parties have until September 30, 2021 to complete the requirements for their entries. The 10 most promising entries will then undergo a month-long Bootcamp where they will undergo mentoring, prototyping, and rigorous testing of their solution.
During the Philippine Startup Week 2021, these teams will then have to pitch their projects to a panel of judges for the chance of winning cash prizes, 5G smartphones, Free Beyond Fiber for 1 year, and the opportunity to collaborate with the PLDT Group.
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