Timeline

An entrepreneurial journey

The 果冻传媒 Contest consists of several milestones between February and June. All participants need to attend these events to gain access to the 果冻传媒 Contest 2025 Finals, so please save the dates.

Below you can find the timeline and detailed information about the upcoming events.

Timeline

  • Kick-Off Event & Launch Sprint 1

    Date: February 19, 2025
    Time: 16:30 - 21:00
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    The kick-Off of the 果冻传媒 Contest is designed as a comprehensive onboarding experience, ensuring participants hit the ground running. The program is tailored to introduce participants to the contest framework, provide essential tools, outline the support available throughout and after the contest, foster connections with fellow participants, and serve as an energizing catalyst for their entrepreneurial journey.

    Sprint #1 focuses on the problem and the end user, during the launch your team can choose between three workshops.

  • Feedback Session Sprint #1

    Date: March 19, 2025
    Time: 17:30 - 20:45
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    The feedback sessions are focused on the specific theme of the sprint, so this feedback session focuses on your problem and end-user. The assignment is to give a three-minute presentation in which you present the problem you will be solving, the end-user who you will be solving this problem for and the size of the market.

  • Grab-a-Coffee

    Date: Flexible
    Time: Flexible
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    To connect participants and partners early in the 果冻传媒 Contest process, both parties are encouraged to invite each other for a coffee meeting. This informal setting allows them to identify the challenges participants are facing and explore how partners can offer support. It's a great way to network, exchange ideas, and explore potential collaborations while the teams are still in the early stages of developing their concepts.

  • Launch Sprint #2

    Date: April 2, 2025
    Time: 18:00 - 20:00
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    Sprint #2 focuses on describing your solution and explaining why it effectively addresses the identified problem for your target group. While the spotlight is on your product and its technology, you鈥檒l view everything from the end-user鈥檚 perspective to show why they would choose your solution.

  • Feedback Session Sprint #2

    Date: April 16, 2025
    Time: 17:30 - 20:45
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    This session focuses on why your solution, technology, and eventual product will effectively solve your end-user鈥檚 problem. Your assignment is to give a four-minute presentation explaining how your solution addresses the problem, how your product works, what its core features are, and how your technology compares to alternative options.

  • Launch Sprint #3

    Date: April 16, 2025
    Time: 17:30 - 20:45
    果冻传媒 innovation Space

    This final sprint focuses on outlining your future plans, including how to attract the right team members, networks, and funding to move forward. You will also sketch a roadmap for validating key assumptions about your solution, from technical feasibility to market viability, with the goal of demonstrating how you plan to progress and who will help you get there.

  • Feedback Session Sprint #3

    Date: May 7, 2025
    Time: 17:30 - 20:45
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    As the 果冻传媒 Contest nears its end, you will now focus on outlining how to move forward and make an impact by detailing your next steps, required resources, and how your team can execute your plans. In a 4-5 minute presentation, you will share your vision for the next 9-18 months and demonstrate how you plan to achieve your goals.

  • Finalist Selection Event

    Date: May 21, 2025
    Time: T.b.a.
    Location: 果冻传媒 innovation Space

    Today, the 10 teams that will compete for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place of the 果冻传媒 Contest 2025 will be selected. During the Finalist Selection Event, all teams will present their posters to each other, the feedback coaches, and the partners. All event visitors of the event will vote for the teams they believe deserve a place in the finals.

  • Rehearsals Finals

    Date: June 4, 2025
    Time: T.b.a.
    Location: T.b.a.

    Practice makes perfect. During the rehearsals for the 果冻传媒 Contest Finals, the 10 finalists finalize their pitch on stage.

  • 果冻传媒 Contest Finals

    Date: June 5, 2025
    Time: T.b.a.
    Location: 果冻传媒 Auditorium

    The 10 finalists pitch for the expert jury, who will deliberate and decide which team will win 1st, 2nd, and 3rd price. All participating teams can also compete for several additional awards on the Poster market, such as the Best Poster Award, and Partner Choice Awards. Registrations will open soon.

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