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4th Munich Digital Innovation Award
As in the last years, DIGICON 2019 was looking for the most innovative company with a future-oriented concept. It enabled companies to present their innovations to a high-class audience, to convince them, and to come out as the winner of the 2019 award. There were several possibilities of how to participate: Either with an application to the Pitch Battle for the 4th Munich Digital Innovation Award, or for the special prize The Digital Picture. Nominated companies in the two categories KMU /start-ups and large companies participated in the DIGICON Pitch Battle for the 4th Munich Digital Innovation Award. The award was given to the most innovative of the participants, regardless of whether it was a young start-up, an established medium-sized company, or an international corporation.
Process
Future-oriented and innovative ideas or concepts were submitted until the 4th October, 2019. A renowned jury pre-selected the following eight nominees from all applicants:
Big companies
- Vodafone GmbH
- IBM & Siemens
- Stadtsparkasse München
- T-Systems International GmbH & Barmenia Versicherungs AG
KMUs / start-ups
- YouSport
- IS Predict Systems GmbH
- deepc
- rfrnz GmbH
The nominees competed at DIGICON in Pitch Battles. Each team had three minutes to convince the audience of their idea. Thereafter, members of the jury asked questions. The audience then voted to determine the winner. The following criteria were significant:
- Level of innovation / unique selling point
- Usefulness to the customer / market potential
- Feasibility
- Qualifications and experience of the team or submitting company
For questions or further information about the application process for the 4th Munich Digtal Innovation Award or The Digital Picture, please contact Ms. Tanja Zecca via mail under DIGICON-Award@digitaleweltmagazin.de or telephone under a +49 89 2180 9171.
Individual or legal persons, residents, or companies with headquarters in Germany are eligible for the awards. By submitting their applications, applicants agree to have their submitted documents and information made public in the frame-work of DIGICON, as well as in the on- or offline publications of DIGITALE WELT. Any legal claim on the award is excluded.
Jury
The jury of the 4th Munich Digital Innovation Award comprises renowned industrial and businesspersons. After presenting their concepts at DIGICON 2019, the candidates had to answer questions by the following jury members:
Robert Fröhlich
Managing Director,
IS4IT GmbH
Benno Rott
Managing Director,
Virality GmbH
Dr. Christof Schäfer
Business Operations Lead AirSense, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
The 2019 winner
The winner, deepc, received the award from Claudia Linhoff-Popien (Chairwoman of Digitale Stadt München e.V.) and Eva Puckner (Referat für Arbeit & Wirtschaft, City of Munich) for the The End to End Guardian AI for Healthcare. deepc will also be placed in the subsequent edition of DIGITALE WELT and communicated in the press. The award comes with a media volume of 10.000€ applicable in the platforms of the DIGITALE WELT.
Additional prize: „The Digital Picture (Das Digitale Bild)“
In addition to the 4th Munich Digital Innovation Award, the committee awarded the prize for The Digital Picture: Ideas of the future, visualized in a picture, whether photograph, graphic art or painting – there are no set boundaries to the imagination. The winner of the 2019 prize is Vodafone GmbH with their contribution Fusion of the real and digital world.
