Congratulations to the winners of the Thomson Reuters Global RegTech Startup Competition!
1st Place: SurchX (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
2nd Place: PrivacyCheq (York Haven, Pennsylvania, USA)
3rd Place & Audience Award Winner: AplyID (Auckland, New Zealand)
The inaugural event was hosted by Thomson Reuters on October 29, 2019. For more information visit the competition site here.
UPDATE: The 2019 Innovation Challenge has closed. Stay tuned for Winner(s) to be announced in December 2019!
The 2019 PILOT Innovation Challenge Prompt:
Build an AI character that can have conversation with individual viewers, listeners, or consumers. Broadcasters should be able to define and train the character’s personality.
For Official Rules and more information, click here.
2019
Thomson Reuters hosted its inaugural global RegTech competition for early stage startups in the legal, tax, and regulatory space.
2018
The 3rd annual PILOT Innovation Challenge called for all creative thinkers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to accelerate broadcast innovation.
2018
NAB PILOT launched the inaugural PILOT Pitch Prize for early stage startups that will help broadcasters innovate and better serve their communities.
2018
10 winners were awarded a total of 300,000 USD in the the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, where student entrepreneurs were asked to solve the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems.
2017
The 2nd annual NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge awarded 3 winners a total of 75,000 USD. Creative thinkers were asked to find unconventional ways for broadcasters and other local media to serve their communities.
2017
Verizon challenged developers and gamers to make game play rewarding through the FreeBee Perks Video Game Innovation Challenge.
2016
The NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge awarded 3 winners a combined 45,000 USD. The PILOT Innovation Challenge called on creative thinkers to submit ideas on how to leverage technological advances in order to produce, deliver and display engaging content.
2016
AARP awarded 4 authors who are dedicated to innovate social security policy with development and support in the AARP Policy Innovation Challenge.
2015
In the 3rd Verizon Powerful Answers Award, 6 million USD total was awarded to the 12 winners. The winners were tasked with solving problems in emergency response, smart cities, smart ag, and connected health.
2014
The 2nd Verizon Powerful Answers Award celebrated 4 top companies with a 1 million USD prize each, and a total of 6 million USD in prizes went to innovators in the fields of education, healthcare, sustainability, and transportation.