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

Applications closed