Challenging Minds Start-up Competition
How does it work?
Challenging Minds is the competition hosted by Minds & Tech that aims to recognize innovative start-ups using artificial and/or collective intelligence to solve problems or bring value to society.
A panel of experts will evaluate each participating start-up in order to select the 5 most promising projects which will be invited to come to Minds & Tech. Not only will it be the opportunity to network and obtain media coverage, but also to pitch the projects to the audience on the same stage than world-class speakers, technology experts, and other leaders of their respective fields (pitch in English).
Finally, Minds & Tech will end with the Challenging Minds Award Ceremony by collectivizing the audience into a ruling that will recognize the Brightest AI/CI Mind of the day.
The Brightest AI/CI Mind will receive a complimentary visit and lunch at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Aside from this, the great value of the award lies in the visibility and international prestige which follows when winners are recognized by the MIT CCI as innovative leaders in their areas of work.
Do you own a startup within the artificial or collective intelligence industries?
Is your startup ready for the challenge?
Want to be part of Minds & Tech and receive the visibility you deserve?
Applications: Closed – Evaluations Under Progress – Release of the 5 selected start-ups very soon!

Minds & Tech is proud to present the 5 winners who will present their technologies on stage this upcoming October 9th.
Challenging Minds Judges 2019
Here is the list of judges and experts in the tech ecosystem that have worked alongside us throughout this process to make this competition possible.

Elena Zafra
Project Leader and Coordinator, MIT Technology Review´s Innovators Under 35

Cédric Giorgi
Founder, French Startupers Network

Andrea Carafa
Design Thinking Scholar, Stanford University

Marta del Amo
Edtor in Chief, MIT Technology Review in Spanish

Julius Akinyemi
Founder & CEO, UWINCorp - The Mobile Commodity Exchange & Entrepreneur In Residence - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fabrice Testa
Board Member, Luxembourg Business Angel Network

Cedric Maloux
CEO, StartupYard

Koray Karakaya
Innovation Lead, Philips HealthWorks

Virgile Brohart
Digital Economy Project Manager, Toulouse Metropole

Henry Lane Fox
Co-Founder & CEO, Founders Factory

Romain Fonade
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Systems, Transports Intelligents - Toulouse Métropole