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Verizon Powerful Answers Award 20141 million dollars to startups in education, healthcare, sustainability and transportation

Jeff Medaugh

Verizon Product Marketing

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Powerful Answers Award 2014

Healthcare Education

TransportationSustainability

The world’s biggest problems deserve even bigger solutions. That’s why we’re awarding millions of dollars in prizes for ideas so big they have the power to change everything.

www.powerfulanswersaward.com

AWARD

Innovative Solutions Wanted:Accepting applications starting April 3, 2014.

Submission deadline June 30, 2014.

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• Design goal: find and fund startups with game-changing technologies applied to hard problems

• 4 categories, prizes are awarded to top startup in each category

• Education• Healthcare• Sustainability• Transportation

Powerful Answers Award

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• Anytime, Anywhere Learning– How can you make education fun and relevant to a student anytime and anywhere with

solutions that enable mobility for educational tools?

• Student & Teacher Analytics– How can students and teachers learn and benefit from the smart collection and analysis

of such data while enabling advanced educational performance metrics?

• Collaboration & Gamification– With mobile and social solutions, how can you enable educational collaboration and find

ways to gamify learning that augment educational interactions?

Education: Key categories

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• Personalized Medicine– Smart analytics and recommendations for medicine and/or actions in either professional

or self-service models.

• Communications & Care Coordination– Bring the power to the patient by enabling them with their own data and the ability to

communicate in real-time, and in a secure and intuitive way with healthcare professionals and doctors for immediate diagnosis and treatment. 

• Active Living / Wellness– What solutions can help enable and encourage active lifestyles and, find smarter ways to

capture and interpret your activity data, leading to more targeted relevant changes to better your health and wellness?

Healthcare: Key categories

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• Green Energy– With today’s advanced technology, how can renewable energy be harnessed for

maximum usage with minimum waste? And how can we preserve or reduce consumption of natural resources?

• Energy Efficiency– How can we create smart ways to reduce energy consumption by finding efficiencies with

technology, communications, data and other analytical solutions?

• Smarter Living– How can we create more efficient homes, enabling smart food production, distribution of

clean water, cleaner methods for urban areas. What solutions enable data capture that can be interpreted into useful and efficient actions applicable to an individual’s daily life?

Sustainability: Key categories

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• Smarter Driving– Can your Dashboard be smarter than your phone? How can you/your vehicle operate and

communicate with the world around it to create safer, smarter solutions for transportation?

• Urban Solutions– With an increasing global population, Urban Sprawl is creating traffic problems never

before seen. How can technology and communications reduce traffic, waste and other hazardous conditions in Urban areas thus transforming them into cleaner more efficient habitats?

• Logistics– How can digital and mobile technologies better connect the physical world and help

transport people/goods from point to point in the most efficient way possible?

Transportation: Key Categories

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• Winner: $1,000,0001 winner per category

• Runner-Up: $250,0002 runners up per category

• Free access to technology and infrastructure (mobile SDKs, cloud services, business plan advice, venture capital networking)

• You must “declare” a category and sub-category when entering.

Details

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Submit your idea

April 3 to June 30

Semi-finals July 15 to Aug 15

Finals Oct 20 to Oct 31

Timeline

Winners receive coaching, resources in addition to money

Winners receive awards at CES in Las VegasIn January 2015

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• Pay close attention to the sub-categories. Transportation is a new category

• Think globally, your solution should be useful in more than one country or region

• Best if your solution leverages some Verizon technology – cloud services, mobile networks, internet of things, big data/analytics

• Study the 2013 winners (on website) for good ideas

Hints for Success

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