{"id":48803,"date":"2022-04-18T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T03:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=48803"},"modified":"2022-04-18T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T03:48:37","slug":"25-teams-advance-to-next-level-in-smarts-innogen-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/04\/18\/25-teams-advance-to-next-level-in-smarts-innogen-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"25 teams advance to next level in Smart&#8217;s InnoGen 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) released the shortlist for the final selection round of Smart Prepaid Innovation Generation (InnoGen) 2.0. From the previous pool of 40 teams, Smart has advanced the top 25 teams to Phase 3 of the program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPhase 2 gave our innovators a \u2018mega\u2019 experience with lectures aimed at firming up their innovative solutions. What awaits next is a \u2018giga\u2019 experience that will scale up their ideas into working prototypes,\u201d said Stephanie Orlino, Head of Stakeholder Management at PLDT and Smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dubbed the \u2018Giga 25\u2019, the lucky innovators will receive the first tranche of the financial grant, as well as technology support from Smart, to help turn their proposed digital innovation into a minimum viable solution. The \u2018Giga 25\u2019 will also receive valuable guidance from the country\u2019s youth innovators in the mentorship sessions to further refine their projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The teams will be working to come up with a prototype of their project which they will present on Demo Day scheduled in May. The top teams will also receive additional awards from Smart. But the greatest reward for the \u2018Giga 25\u2019 is the opportunity to pitch their digital innovation to Smart executives, the Philippine startup community including venture capitalists, and to their fellow youth innovators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s Innovation Generation features projects from student-participants that tap wireless or digital technology to create opportunities for community development in the areas of disaster preparedness, education, environment, governance, inclusion, livelihood, sports, and tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart Prepaid InnoGen 2.0 demonstrates the application of ICT for development, in support of the Group-wide advocacy of PLDT and Smart to promote digital inclusion. The initiative also aims to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations&#8217; Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly UN SDG No. 4 on providing quality education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full list of the \u2018Giga 25\u2019 teams, visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SPPIGS2Giga25\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/SPPIGS2Giga25<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed the \u2018Giga 25\u2019, the lucky innovators will receive the first tranche of the financial grant, as well as technology support from Smart, to help turn their proposed digital innovation into a minimum viable solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[343,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-48803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}