Elisa AI Vision Challenge 2024

“With AI, we can build solutions that seemed like science fiction a short time ago”

The Elisa AI Vision Challenge 2024 aims to advance the use of AI in Finland, raise intriguing conversation about the topic, and inspire current and future professionals. What does a modern and sustainable AI-assisted future look like?

The competition will be officially launched on 15 October, 2024. On that date, the detailed instructions of the competition will be published on this page. The competition is organized in cooperation with Microsoft.

The development of artificial intelligence has opened unprecedented opportunities for using technology in interaction. We can use future visions to concretize and narrate desired scenarios of the future, and then target these scenarios systematically.

We challenge students, companies, and startups to participate in developing visions for the future. We want to encourage the participants to contemplate and create unique and innovative visions of how AI could enhance and transform the interaction between customer and organization, as well as within the organization.

Assignment

Theme of the competition

Smart services – the opportunities of AI in future customer and organizational interaction

Everyday, we deal with online stores, government agencies, healthcare providers, and grocery store checkouts. Similarly, within an organization, sales collaborate with invoicing and marketing, which affects the profitability of business operations and reflects on the customer experience.

Develop visions based on the following questions

What would a modern and sustainable AI-assisted future look like?
How will artificial intelligence change daily interactions in the future?
How will future encounters between people and organisations take place?
How will people use AI to communicate and collaborate within organizations in the future?

First phase: pre-assignment

The competition invites individuals or teams of up to 5 people to portray, in the form of a story, how AI has the potential to revolutionize customer experience and/or collaboration within organizations.

The story needs to contain concrete examples that describe how artificial intelligence could revolutionize different types of interactions in a world where technological advancements have no limits. Explain the events that occur before, during, and after the interaction. Focusing on the technology itself is not necessary. Instead, describe the capabilities or support that the technology would provide in the background to bring your vision to life.
In the entry, analyze the potential impact of the vision on customer experience and/or an organization's operations.
Choose a suitable format for your entry, such as a PowerPoint presentation, a video, or a more innovative format. Note that all entries must be submitted in a digital format.

After the first phase, 8 to 15 entries will be selected for the second and final phase. Those selected will have two weeks to complete their entries based on the jury's feedback before the winners are selected. The winners will be announced in an award ceremony on 11 December.

The Participant shall remain the owner of all intellectual property in the Participant's Vision, and the ownership shall not be transferred to Elisa in any way. However, the Participant grants Elisa a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, sublicensable, worldwide right to use and allow third parties to use the Visions produced for the competition in Elisa's internal and external communications and marketing.

Schedule

15 October, 2024
Competition is launched
10 November, 2024
Deadline for competition entries
18 November, 2024
Shortlisted candidates are announced
11 December, 2024
Award ceremony and announcing winners

Evaluation criteria and prizes

Evaluation criteria

Innovativeness: How innovative is the vision?
Impact: What is the potential impact of the vision on customer experience or organizational efficiency?
Presentation: How clear and descriptive is the presentation?

Prizes

An overall sum of 5,000 euros will be distributed among 3 to 6 winning teams.

All teams selected for the second phase of the competition will receive an invitation to the award ceremony where the winners are announced.

Still have questions?

Detailed instructions for participating will be published on this page when the competition is officially launched on 15 October.

If you have any questions about the competition, you can reach us at aivision@elisa.fi.

Microsoft is Elisa's official partner in the competition.