Call for Applications: Ready, Steady, Go! Learning Expedition Program for Artists and cultural Professionals

Call for Applications: Ready, Steady, Go! Learning Expedition Program for Artists and cultural Professionals

Get ready to ignite your imagination at the World AI Cannes Festival – the globe's largest gathering of industry leaders and AI innovators."

Are you a startup at the forefront of AI innovation? WAICF is searching for dynamic startups capable of captivating our audience with unique and immersive AI experiences.

Winning at WAICF is your opportunity to shine. Secure a stand at the festival and elevate your company's visibility, network with key industry figures, engage with the media, and present your innovative AI solutions to a crowd of tech enthusiasts. Your gateway to making a significant impact in the AI community awaits at WAICF!

Why join WAICF?

To increase awareness of your company

To network and meet business partners

Communicate with the press and journalists

Present your solutions to AI enthusiasts

Choose from 4 categories

Beauty/Wellness & AI

Enhancing beauty, skincare, and overall wellness, redefining the beauty and wellness industry

Sports & AI

Develop innovative AI solutions addressing challenges in sports performance, analytics, and engagement

Robotics & AI

Revolutionizing automation, manufacturing, and various industries

Augmented Reality / Gaming / AR-VR & AI

Transforming augmented reality, gaming, and virtual reality experiences, pushing the boundaries of immersive entertainment.

Guidelines

The WAICF AI Startup Challenge is open to all startups at any stage of their journey, from early-stage innovators to well-established pioneers, ready to showcase their unique approach to integrating AI in their respective fields, and to provide an entertaining experience to the visitors of the WAICF. Meeting the following criteria:

Relevance

Feasibility

Wow effect

Entertainment

Objectives

The WAICF AI Startup Challenge aim to determine the most innovative Artificial Intelligence projects having a positive impact on society or the planet and rethinking the standards among all the candidates.

The objective is to value the diversity of the projects realized in the field of Artificial Intelligence in order to reward and highlight the most audacious for a better world, the most original, and especially the most innovative.

The innovative nature, the positive component of the AI project as well as an application project that has reached, at least, the first stage of deployment (Minimum Viable Product*) are the three strong points of a good application.

*Minimum Viable Product: a "test" version designed very quickly and

with a minimum of budget to obtain, from the target customers, a maximum of feedback to improve the product.

Eligibility Criteria

To ensure a fair and high-calibre competition, we extend our invitation to startups globally, with a particular focus on those operating within:

France

Europe

The Middle East

North Africa

This challenge is open to startups at any stage of their journey, from early-stage innovators to well-established pioneers. Participants must represent a legally registered startup, ready to showcase their unique approach to integrating AI in their respective fields.

Challenge Categories

In this year’s challenge, participants have the opportunity to showcase their projects in one of the following categories:

Sports & AI

Beauty and Wellness & AI

Robotics & AI

Gaming and Augmented/Virtual Reality in AI

These categories have been carefully selected to cover a broad spectrum of AI applications, offering participants the chance to demonstrate their expertise in a field that best aligns with their project’s core focus.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions are the bedrock of the competition. Participants are required to present a 5 to 10 page pitch deck in pdf that encapsulates the essence of their AI project.

Your presentation should include:

Highlighting the innovative nature of the AI (automated, assisted, augmented, autonomous...)
Highlighting of the positive component of the AI project This should be accompanied by answers to our curated questionnaire,

Relevancy : Explain the relevance of your project within the WAICF objectives

Feasibility : Describe the set-up of your booth, how feasible it’ll be for you to present your project at the WAICF

Wow effect : Describe the Wow nature of you project

Entertainment : Describe how entertaining your project is and how it’ll attract WAICF visitors

And by a video / mock-up / visual of your project.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Call for Applications: Ready, Steady, Go! Learning Expedition Program for Artists and cultural Professionals

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