iPANEL: Summer Camp Innovation Challenge

“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem,
and a big idea turn into an innovation.” ― Dean Kamen

The basis of every innovation is a deep understanding of a problem domain, differentiation between customer needs and wants, and finally knowledge in the solution space. Rapid advances in ICT in last few decades expand the solution space and its application to almost any problem domain. However, packaging those solutions to a product or a service that will fulfil customer needs is still a challenge faced by numerous companies. That said, having a solution or a technology does not imply having a product as well.
With this innovation challenge, SoftCOM conference gives an opportunity to student participants of this years Ericsson Nikola Tesla Summer Camp to turn their project outcomes and findings into an innovative idea and win a valuable prize. Only several ideas will be selected and pushed to the finals, where the authors will have to present their ideas at this iPanel in front of their colleagues and experts. Their ideas will be voted on, where students with the best ideas will be given valuable prizes.

1st Place: GOLD iAward certificate – Wireless around-ear headphones

2nd Place: SILVER iAward certificate – External SSD USB 3.1

3rd Place: BRONZE iAward certificate – Wearable Activity Tracker

Moderator:

Toni Mastelic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d., Split

Toni Mastelic is a researcher at Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d., Research department. He did his bachelor and masters studies in Computer Science at the University of Split, FESB, Croatia, where he received his Bachelor degree in 2009, and Master degree in 2011. Afterwards, he worked as a research and later on as university assistant at Vienna University of Technology, where he pursued his PhD. Finally, he received his PhD degree in 2015 at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology.