Meet the winners of 'Mobivation 2016', Panasonic's Smartpone Open Innovation Challenge

Students of IIT Roorkee emerged as overall winners of Mobivation 2016, Panasonic's Smartphone Open-Innovation contest, thereby winning cash prize worth Rs 1 lakh and Panasonic smartphones.

Initiated in the month of August 2016, the contest invited innovative ideas from students enrolled full-time in IIT Delhi & Roorkee, DTU Delhi and NSIT Delhi in areas of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Innovation in Hardware and Software in terms of Smartphones (Android Platform).

The winners for the Panasonic Open-Innovation contest in the Software category were Shubham Goyal, Chirag Maheshwari and Rahul Babbar, team CodeSquad from IIT Roorkee. Students of Delhi Technological University, Prempal Singh and Pranav Gulati team Genesis were winners of the Hardware category. The category winning teams also received a cash reward along with Panasonic smartphones and commendation certificates.

The innovation projects were reviewed by a jury comprising of Product Experts, Technical Masters & Marketing Connoisseurs having vast experience in their respective fields. Judges scored each team on a scale of 1 (Poor) to 10 (excellent). All the submissions were adjudged on the criteria of their innovativeness, feasibility, usability, relevance and overall impact on masses.

“The winners were selected from over 218 nominations. We are grateful to IIT Delhi & Roorkee, DTU Delhi and NSIT Delhi students for these exceptional ideas. Panasonic believes in the power of innovation and we allowed teams to think creatively and outside-the-box, be innovative and inventive in their approach. Our Panasonic Open-Innovation contest aimed to help these students relate concepts they learn in the classroom to real world, which can further motivate them to look deeper into specific concepts instead of merely studying what is required. Such initiatives help students to understand the industry’s requirements as well as push their own boundaries to come up with innovative solutions.” said Pankaj Rana, Business Head – Mobility Division, Panasonic India.

He added, “Some of the ideas shared during the contest were so innovative that we have decided to implement them in the next series of Panasonic Smart Phones.”