AWS AI CHALLENGE
Join AWS AI Challenge To Get Up To $100,000 AWS FREE Credits & Business Support!
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This edition of AWS AI Challenge powered by Amazon Web Services is dedicated for EMEA startups with best AI solutions that will receive infrastructure & technical, marketing and sales support!
Challenge Masters
Challenge Finalists
Participation Benefits
Up To $100,000 AWS credits
Levels of up to $10.000 for all registered startups, $25.000 for Finalists & $100.000 for Top 10!*
*AWS Activate Program rules must apply
AWS Connections
Invitation to AWS Connections program referring Startups to AWS Enterprise Customers for Top 10 companies
AWS References Program
Introduction to AWS Customer References Program supporting marketing and promotion for all Finalists
VC Community
Access to AWS Challenge Venture Capital community for all Finalists
Pitching Session
Live online pitching to international investors for Top 10 Startups
NVIDIA Inception Program
Participation in NVIDIA Inception Program & remote access to NVIDIA DGX system for 2 weeks for Top 10 Startups
Timeline
Sep 21, 2021
Kick-Off Webinar
Sep - Oct 2021
Office Hours
Nov 3, 2021
Applications close
Nov 16, 2021
Challenge Finalists and Masters
Nov 23, 2021
Pitching Session
Evaluation Criteria
Applicants should develop Artificial Intelligence use case, solve a real problem and implement a real business solution. All projects will be evaluated by the business and technology specialists according to:
Innovation
Business support
Sellability
Complexity
World changer
AWS Data Analytics*
Finalists Selection Criteria
- Projects with Artificial Intelligence use case, solving a real business problem
- Projects using at least 1 of approved AWS AI Services: SageMaker, Forecast, Personalize, Textract, Rekognition, ComprehendMedical, Translate, Lex, Polly, Transcribe, Comprehend, ElasticInference, Kendra and CodeGuru
- Companies having 1) an MVP working on AWS infrastructure, 2) ready product on AWS or 3) projects migrated on AWS before October 29th (CONTACT US for special migration program, e.g. with FREE credits & custom support)
Masters Selection Criteria
- Projects have to meet Finalists selection criteria to be considered as Masters
- 10 out of all Challenge Finalists with the highest score will get a status of the Challenge Masters
- *AWS Data Analytics usage is not required, however, it is an opportunity to get additional 10 points during the jury assessment and be selected as Top 10.
The approved AWS Data Analytics Services are as follows: Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon ElasticSearch, Amazon Quicksight, AWS Glue DataBrew, AWS Glue, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon S3 Glacier, AWS Glue
Challenge Documentation
KICK OFF WEBINAR
EMEA AWS Startup Hub
Consolidated in one place all EMEA wide resources for startups.
EMEA AWS Startup Loft
Every startup must to be there! Source of events, webinars, office hours and ask an expert section.
EMEA AWS Startup Academy
Series of events and content for startups to answer technology and business questions.
AWS Activate Program
Everything you need to know about credits, rules, financial engineering. Please read it through!
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VC Partners
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