Joyful Diversity with AI
Diversity is key to innovation. A more diverse, inclusive and equal world is a more joyful world where creativity can emerge & new ideas can flourish. What are your ideas to build trust & equality, to promote inclusiveness & diversity? Accelerate the cultural transformation at the BMW Group & drive the mind-set shift in society - with the integration of intelligent AI solutions! Support the BMW Group and its employees to shape a joyful working environment & an inclusive communication. Together with passion we can make a difference for a better future.
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✅ Completed 🏁 Winner Congratulations to Bias Busters & X-Force!
🏆 Prize Prize pool of EUR 5,000 + funding and collaboration programs + joint paper
🌎 Scope International - open to participants from all over the world
What’s in it for you?
If you're still not convinced, we have plenty of incentives to finally convince you:
- Prize pool
By participating in this challenge, you have the chance to win an attractive prize money. The winners of each challenge will receive EUR 4,000, and EUR 1,000 will be awarded for second place.
- Social Media prize
Your social media activities will also be rewarded! Share your steps, processes, and progress with us, post about the ekipa events, the challenge providers and our collaboration. In the final event, one team from the entire AI & Data Science program will be honored with the Social Media prize of EUR 500.
- Impulse paper
In order to give the developed solutions, the greatest possible appreciation and attention, all solutions of the final teams will be published in a joint paper of all initiators.
- Exclusive events
If you are selected as one of the three final teams from the qualification phase, you will have exclusive access to our ekipa Innovation Bootcamp and Final Event. In these you will not only pitch your solution to an expert jury, but you also receive coaching sessions, listen to interesting keynote speakers and have the opportunity to network with representatives from businesses and politics as well as other innovators.
- Coaching and mentoring
Mentoring sessions with a representative from one of the world's most successful manufacturers of premium automobiles and motorcycles and improve your innovation - how does that sound?
- Collaboration opportunities
There are further cooperation opportunities with the BMW Group after the challenge is completed (see below).
How can a potential collaboration after the challenge look like?
BMW Group intends to provide promising teams with the opportunity to further develop their ideas and solutions. During the elaboration phase, the challenge finalists will work together with the BMW Group on their approaches and discuss their interests in possible further steps:
- The best solutions will get the possibility to be tested within the BMW Group, hence the participants will get the chance to test the real-world applicability.
- Based on the testing results, through UAT testing, user study feedback, further collaboration could be defined, e.g. opportunity to create contacts for a possible internship, Bachelor / Master Thesis or even a full time job.
- Start-ups can be recommended and connected to BMW Start-up Garage