NTT DATA presents Open Innovation Contest 12.0

Italy

The Open Innovation Contest is an important part of NTT DATA’s Open Innovation approach, that values the collaboration with universities, clients, and startups to build a more sustainable society through technology innovation.
In this edition, clients and startups have worked together to design a solution to specific challenges, to be evaluated by a jury composed by venture capitalists, representative of Italian universities, and journalists.

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Challenges and Finalists

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  • Challenge 1
    SUSTAINABLE & THINKING CITY
    [Details]
    The challenge is to propose a solution or PoC of a B2B/B2B2C service that, thanks to IoT and AI, can exploit the different available data, allowing a bidirectional communication between the systems (i.e. sensing and/or actuating) and adding value to the urban environment as a whole. The service could be used by citizens, municipalities or agencies that take care of the security of the city.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: TIM
    Startup: Latitudo 40
    [Startup Overview]
    By offering easy access to satellite imagery, Latitua 40 provides simple information to understand our planet from above and make faster, better decisions.
  • Award
    Challenge 2
    EXTENDED REALITY ENTERPRISE METAVERSE
    [Details]
    The challenge is to propose a solution or PoC where the Metaverse could help enterprises to extend their business. Remote working, improving business operations, digital-only products are some opportunities that the Metaverse could offer to Enterprises. Remote XR Collaboration with simplified Interactions, XR Customer Self Caring, Digital twin (also Human Digital Twin) interaction, could be some of the user scenarios involved. Cloud XR streaming as architecture evolution and AI as a common tool.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: TIM
    Startup: AnotheReality
    [Startup Overview]
    AnotheReality uses augmented, virtual and mixed reality for business training, business and entertainment.
  • Challenge 3
    BE SAFE, BE HEALTHY
    [Details]
    The challenge is to develop a technological ecosystem that allows monitoring and follow-up of people with high risk of developing a chronic disease or people with diagnosed chronic disease. It is intended to avoid the onset of a chronic disease or to detect early chronic disease and slow / stop disease progression, which has a direct implication not only in the well-being of the person but also in the sustainability of health systems. On the other hand, the project also seeks to increase the awareness of chronic disease to promote healthier lifestyles.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Generali
    Startup: Olive Diagnostic
    [Startup Overview]
    Olive Diagnostic has developed a consumer remote diagnostic product that, by providing information about your health, guides people to support and create healthier lifestyles.
  • Challenge 4
    MORE THAN MOBILE
    [Details]
    Radio access network towers are among the most pervasive technological infrastructures in developed countries. A capillary mobile radio access (the outcome of decades of heavy investments by telecom operators) is available not just in cities and towns, but basically covers the whole territory – including remote rural areas. Admittedly, the topology (e.g. the “density of nodes”) of such a network has been specifically designed for mobile communications. Nonetheless, the potential of radio access towers is huge (because of their spread and resource equipment – power, core network connectivity, best positioning for access) and still largely unexplored. The challenge is then to explore the use cases of such an existing infrastructure in the view of their further, novel usage for the “smart road” scenario, in which the infrastructure can be used in order to offer new and disruptive smart mobility services, and the “smart land” one, using the AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) technology stack.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: INWIT
    Startup: Bluetentacles
    [Startup Overview]
    Bluetentacles develops a hardware and software system to monitor irrigation systems, providing concrete solutions for the ecological conversion of agritech.
  • Challenge 5
    TRUST MY CALL
    [Details]
    The challenge is to propose a PoC that, taking into account the different digital communication channels through which a banking institution may contact their customers, ensures that the identity of the calling institution is transferred in a clear, trusted and non-modifiable way. The solution must address the different types of frauds (phishing, vishing, smishing,…), which are continuously evolving. By means of the appropriate technologies, the solution will guarantee the truthfulness of the information received by the customer of the institution, preventing her / him from providing data to any non-certified scammers.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Banco BPM
    Startup: PicUp
    [Startup Overview]
    PicUp has developed a solution that increases response rates and improves customer experience by adding a personalized message and image to outbound B2C calls.
  • Winner
    Challenge 6
    MOBILITY RISK DETECTOR
    [Details]
    Starting from a set of aggregated and anonymized data coming from our connected vehicle fleet, the challenge is to create a solution to dynamically predict risks of accidents and thefts in a certain location (road, zip-code, region...) and at a certain period of time. The solution shall identify and detail what other external data sources impact the risk prediction (completely up to the start-up to identify meaningful data sets) and make use of innovative technologies for data processing (typically AI based). The solution shall be tested and validated in a limited geographical area; however, it shall be scalable and not limited to the area itself.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Vodafone Automotive
    Startup: Fusionbase
    [Startup Overview]
    Fusionbase enables companies to create better products and services faster through a platform that provides analysts and data scientists with datasets that contain various types of data in compliance with GDPR.
  • Challenge 7
    PREDICTIVE MANUFACTURING
    [Details]
    The challenge is to propose a solution that, using data sent by IIoT sensors available in the plant, leverages ML technology to build a predictive model able to detect the anomalies in the production process of a component and predict the occurrence of a scrap event in advance, in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible and a) minimize the occurrence of scraps, improving efficiency and sustainability of the production process b) minimize the human intervention on the production stations.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Marelli
    Startup: Mipu Predictive Hub
    [Startup Overview]
    Mipu Predictive Hub has a portfolio of services, training and technologies in energy optimization and predictive maintenance.
  • Challenge 8
    CYBER-CARS IN AN HYPERCONNECTED WORLD
    [Details]
    The challenge is to propose a solution that continuously analyzes real-time data from the CAN bus to create a model / digital twin of the vehicle architecture, defining a “baseline” traffic and behavior – after adequate learning time - and being able to detect the behavior anomalies that may be generated by a cyberattack and/or a malfunction in one or more of the cars components. The solution should work for any car architecture, and it should be able to model CAN bus architecture digital twin without any additional information on the vehicle design. After completing the learning phase, it should be possible to run the solution either in a cloud environment or in an embedded system. Data collection from CAN Bus and data streaming to the proposed solution/platform is out of scope. Implementation of the algorithm on embedded systems is out of scope (but feasibility should be granted at least).
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Marelli
    Startup: C2A Security
    [Startup Overview]
    C2A implements IT security solutions that give the automotive industry visibility and control over the measures necessary to protect connected vehicles.
  • Challenge 9
    SHAPE YOUR OWN FUTURE
    [Details]
    The challenge is to design a PoC that, based on information about company employees and on positions needing adequate coverage inside the company, helps HR to discover talents, design paths for their growth, assist them in achieving the new roles and eventually support them in fulfilling their potential. People will be able to interact with the system, which will analyze their skills with respect to the aimed role, assess them through the help of e.g. guided interviews and role-plays, and will suggest ad hoc coaching paths. The solution will also help in achieving a continuous assessment of people’s adequacy for the new role, suggesting training as needed and coaching them in adapting to changes in their role as they become necessary.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Chiesi
    Startup: Algo AI
    [Startup Overview]
    Algo AI can automatically identify soft skills in candidates from the very first steps of selection, to help you identify the resources with the greatest potential by going beyond the simple CV and providing you with a proven assessment from top HR experts.
  • Challenge 10
    SPEAK TO ME
    [Details]
    The challenge is to propose a solution that, basing digital and emerging technologies such as Natural Language Processing, provides a common omnichannel user experience to a service provider call center. The solution should handle the introductory steps of the user’s request (first actions on a mobile app, as well as the first minute of the call), and should rapidly assess its nature and degree of urgency. Additional side-information carried by the caller beyond the explicit contents (dependent by the chosen channel – e.g. distress in the voice, frequent mistyping) should also be analyzed, either to classify the request as “emergency”, “urgent”, or simply “angry”. On a more business-oriented side, this assessment can also provide profiling details about the caller, helpful for the operator, or for later customer analysis.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Italgas
    Startup: indigo.ai
    [Startup Overview]
    Indigo.ai is a conversational platform for designing and creating chatbots, scale AI applications and analyze conversation experiences by providing an end-to-end service.
  • Challenge 11
    GUARDIAN ANGELS
    [Details]
    The challenge is to devise a solution to remotely track outdoor work sites, through “sensors” (either general-purpose ones, e.g. webcams, either fixed or mounted on drones – or domain-specific ones) and innovative technologies for data processing (typically AI based). Likewise, proposed ideas can be either generally applicable to a wide range of outdoor activities, or specific to a particular use case for which continuous tracking and monitoring is considered valuable. In any case, the solution should be respectful of the workers’ privacy (GDPR-compliant). Proposed ideas will also be ranked against their ease of deployment and portability, since monitoring can be assumed to be made randomly on different sites using the same resources.
    [Customer and Startup Names]
    Customer: Italgas
    Startup: Sensedat
    [Startup Overview]
    Sensedat offers a comprehensive workplace health and safety system through its proprietary platform, which analyzes clinically relevant indicators collected with medical devices.
Winner: The customer-startup pair of Vodafone Automotive and FusionbaseHorizontal Award Winner: AnotheReality

EMEA Pitch Day

Date and time 24th May, 2022
Venue IULM University

CONTACT

If you have any question about the EMEA contest, please contact:
NTT DATA Italia
Fabrizio Zirra, Senior Innovation Manager
E-mail : Fabrizio.Zizza@nttdata.com
Valentina Giorgio, Innovation Specialist
E-mail : Valentina.Giorgio@nttdata.com
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