The 8th Shanghai Youth AI Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition's AI+ Application Entrepreneurship Practical Track and the 1st Shanghai Yanyuan Dishui Lake Collegiate AI+International Startup Challenge Finals concluded in the Shanghai Lingang Special Area on October 18th and 19th. This competition was jointly organized by the Youth Daily, the People's Government of Nanhui New Town, and Peking University International Sci-Tech Innovation Center at Lin-gang Special Area, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (PKU-IICSH). It was co-organized by the Communist Youth League Working Committee of the Lingang Special Area, the Youth League Committee of Nanhui New Town, INNO-YES Incubator, Yanyuan Fund, INNO-YES Zhidao, OneSyn, Lingang Science and Technology Innovation City, and China Telecom Corporation Ltd. Shanghai Branch. Additionally, Huawei's Computing Product Line provided special support with Ascend AI development boards, and Alibaba Cloud provided special support with AI cloud computing. Liu Deying, the director of School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, PKU, Zhang Yun, the Party Secretary and Director of the Youth Daily, Jiang Jing, the Director of the Party and Mass Work Department of the Lingang New Special Management Committee, Sun Xiaohe, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Nanhui New Town, Cao Yang, the Executive Deputy General Manager of the Lingang New Area International Investment and Development Company, Shen Zhen, the General Manager of China Telecom Corporation Limited Shanghai Lingang New Area Branch, and Wang Yu, the Executive Director of PKU-IICSH and the founding partner of Yanyuan Fund & INNO-YES Incubator, attended the final project presentation.
The final lasted for two days, featuring a 36-hour closed "entrepreneurship hackathon" for teams to iterate their products and plan marketing strategies. Teams also had the opportunity to exchange and showcase their projects at the "Co-creators Market". The final results were presented through project presentations.
The competition invited experts from Huawei, Alibaba Cloud, Shanghai Telecom, PKU-IICSH, and OneSyn to form the technology innovation review panel. Experts from The Division of High-tech Industries and Science and Technology Innovation, LSAA, Data Division, LSAA, Youth League Committee of the Lingang Special Area Management Committee, the AI Committee of CyberSecurity Association of China (CSAC), and the Lingang Science and Technology City formed the policy and education review panel. Experts from Yanyuan Fund, the Lingang Special Area Fund, and INNO-YES Zhidao formed the investment and incubation review panel. Three groups jointly formed an expert review panel to provide business, technical, design, and operational guidance to the participating teams during the finals.
Wang Yan, Director of Huawei Ascend Chip Products
Cui Yuanzheng, Senior Operations Expert of Alibaba Cloud Tianchi Platform
Song Meng, Manager of Tian Yiyun Shanghai Solution Center and AI Innovation Expert of Shanghai Telecom's Intelligent Computing
Li Neng, Assistant Director and Director of PKU-IICSH
Lin Yilun, CTO of OneSyn
Pan Pengdan, the Artificial Intelligence Committee of CyberSecurity Association of China
Wu Zhaochun, Assistant to the Director of Lingang Science and Technology City Company
Du Peng, Managing Director of Yanyuan Fund
Wang Zhihao, Investment Manager, Investment Management Department of Lingang Special Area Fund
Cao Jipeng, General Manager of INNO-YES Zhidao
In addition, the competition is recruiting a public jury from the society, which, in combination with the professional jury, will jointly select the first, second,
third prizes and excellence awards of this competition. They are as follows:
First Prize Project:
Xingnian Zhiwang – A thinking construction tool supporting human-machine collaborative thinking
Second Prize Project:
Ear – An AI Voice Digitization and Creation Platform Supporting Creators in Building Digital Identities
GuanJian Intelligent Analysis —— A Leader in Customs Commodity Classification Empowered by Large Models
Third Prize Project:
VocalBuddy Word Friend Planet: Your Exclusive Learning Partner
Divesee Qian Du —— Chinese Rapid Auxiliary Reading Engine
Vibrant Motion——A Group of Wearable Devices Supporting Home Group Exercise
Merit Award Project:
Yanxi AI Customer Service System — Personalized Recommendation Drives Commercial Conversion to New Heights
Silver Hair Warms New Life——An AI Intergenerational Mutual Assistance Platform for Empowering the Elderly's Value and Supporting Scientific Parenting
German Doubao - An Innovative AI Language Learning Platform for a Wide Range of Users
Tangyi Bao – An AI Health Companion Supporting the Full-Process Closed-Loop Management for Diabetic Patients
The "Yanyuan International Innovation and Technology Competition" is a comprehensive service platform for international innovation and technology projects and talents in the early stage, focusing on hard technology fields, which is the flagship project of the INNO-YES. It consists of two competition series: Series A-Industrial Innovation and Technology Competition and Series B - Youth AI+ Entrepreneurship Competition. This year's competition, as the first appearance of the INNO-YES International Innovation and Technology Competition Series B in Shanghai Lingang, combines the opening and operation of the "INNO-YES International Youth AI Entrepreneurship Training Base" and leverages the resources of investment institutions such as Yanyuan Fund to create an integrated AI+ international entrepreneurship ecosystem service platform that includes "competition, training, incubation, investment, and exhibition". This has stimulated the innovative thinking and entrepreneurial enthusiasm of the participating college students and promoted the application of AI technology in various fields. Subsequently, the training base will remain open and provide long-term support of 3 to 6 months for the participating teams to help them improve their products and business models. At the same time, the platform will evolve into an open "AI Nomad Community", widely attracting individuals and teams with common entrepreneurial ideals to join, and assisting outstanding AI entrepreneurship projects to grow vigorously.
The 1st Shanghai Yanyuan Dishui Lake Collegiate AI+International Startup Challenge, based on the INNO-YES SynNovator AI intelligent body development platform, set up six vertical tracks including AI social interaction, AI education, smart tourism, smart home, smart city, and smart commerce, as well as a self-defined "6+X" track. Since the recruitment began in June this year, it has attracted over 200 teams and 700 participants from top universities at home and abroad. According to the practical requirements of the competition, 103 teams were finally confirmed to enter the competition's online community. The members of the participating teams come from many well-known universities at home and abroad, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, University of Southampton, and the five universities in Lingang, among which 18 are from Shanghai and 30 are from outside Shanghai (including overseas). Each team proposed several innovative and valuable solutions for the application of "6+X" AI+ vertical scenarios.
It is worth noting that a considerable proportion of the non-technical background students participated in this competition. Students from different disciplines such as science and engineering, humanities, social sciences, and medicine, based on the general technology development platform and community communication platform provided by this competition, took their first step in AI entrepreneurship under the guidance and training of experts and teachers, gained valuable entrepreneurial methods and confidence, and also found like-minded and highly imaginative and executive partners. They will continue to pursue their dreams with the support of the resources of the INNO-YES.
The training base provides contestants with training and guidance in business, technology, and art.
In addition, this competition has set up the "Most Popular Award", which will be selected online through the SynNovator mini-program starting today. All awards will be presented at the award ceremony on November 8th.
Before the project presentation, the "Innovative Lingang·Youth New Forces-100 Youth Visits to 'Lingang Innovation City' Series of Activities" was launched. The Communist Youth League Working Committee of the Lingang Special Area will organize young people to participate in innovation and technology competitions, visit enterprises and parks, and have dialogues with industry experts in the following 100 activities, making friends with like-minded partners and jointly drawing the blueprint for the future.
