Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) in partnership with NASSCOM CoE announces the launch of 2nd Edition of Enterprise Innovation Challenge to identify impactful solutions from startups to address the problem statements identified by Novartis, Diageo & Wipro.
The theme for EIC-2 is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and CoE intends to map the progress and discuss more inventiveness in the services and strategies. This platform psyched up to bring industry experts, researchers, academia, startups, and government under one roof to discuss the pressing opportunities and challenges framed by the implementation of ESG!
NASSCOM CoE’s Enterprise Innovation Challenge-a first-of-its-kind initiative dedicated to spurring the industry engagements and developing collective capabilities to solve real-world challenges using technology-based innovations. The core objective of EIC is to exercise the innovations brought about by the Indian entrepreneurs and endorse the sustained engagement between Enterprises & Innovative Startups.
This season of EIC envisages discussing the keynotes and use cases concerning Green IT & Cloud, Workplace Analytics, Supply chain sustainability, carbon –offsetting, and so forth. They are looking forward to the participation of great leaders and promising startups from across the verticals and understanding their views on ESG.
Scope of Work
The solutions by the interested entities will be used to augment, improve and scale the ESG issues defined by the enterprises. The technologies solutions for The Enterprise Innovation Challenge would be broadly categorized into the aforesaid three (03) major thrust/ focal areas, as provided by Enterprises.
Expected Outcomes
Through the successful execution of this Challenge, solutions will be identified as per the problems statements provided by participating enterprises. The development, deployment, and integration of these solutions will be the primary outcome that will be benchmarked and assessed to evaluate the outcome of the Challenge.
- Application to enable traceability of assets available at sites and also transfer of assets between sites. This is to ensure easier physical identification of fixed assets.
- Computer vision-based road and driver analytics platform to reduce vehicle accidents and vehicle breakdown and improve the distribution process compliance and reduce food safety risk
- In-transit breakages of Packed bottles leads to unwanted supply chain losses adding to operational overheads. Reduction in same would lead to bottom-line improvement.
Eligibility Standards
- Indian Tech start-ups, MSMEs, Companies, LLPs registered in India under the Companies Act can apply. The entity must have 51% or more shareholding with Indian citizen or person of Indian origin should be domiciled in India.
- Further to encourage participation from academia and industry, participating teams not mandatorily registered as Companies/ startups/ MSMEs/ LLPs can also apply for the Enterprise Innovation Challenge for Supply Chain. However, the teams making it to the Stage-2, will be required to apply for registration as Indian Startups/ Company/ MSMEs/ LLPs. It will be expected that by the time of selection at the final stage, necessary registration has been completed.
For more information, visit https://www.coe-iot.com/eic/2nd-edition/