Renault Nissan Open Innovation Challenge – India

The objective of this programme is to identify and partner with growth-stage startups working on innovative technologies that can advance and impact the Automobile sector.

Focus Areas

Generative AI in Automotive Sector

• Vehicle design & development
  • Lightweighting
  • Prototyping
  • Design optimization
• Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
  • Sensor fusion design ride
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Advanced decision reasoning chains
• Predictive Analytics
  • Synthetic data for rare defects
  • Realistic fault scenarios for testing and training
  • Personalized recommendations for car owners
  • Detection and diagnosing faults or anomalies in a car
  • Plant maintenance optimization
• Conversational AI
  • Gamification
  • NLP
  • Customization & Personalization
  • Road side assistance

What is in it for startups?

• POC (RNTBCI finalized use case) grant for INR 10,00,000 for the top 4 start-ups.
• Extended paid POC development based on the project scope.
• Mentorship provided by the delegates from top multinational automobile corporations.
• A chance to pitch in front of the global leadership of Renault and Nissan.

How do you benefit from this challenge?

• Stand a chance to get a grant fund of INR 10 lakhs for a dedicated POC finalized by RNTBCI
• An opportunity to execute a paid proof of concept (PoC) with the global leaders of the automotive industry
• Get curated mentorship and intensive learning sessions from the leading domain experts at Renault and Nissan through to the final pitch day
• Gain exclusive access to state-of-the-art design and product development resources
• Get a chance to pitch to the RNTBCI leadership network and gain visibility within the automobile ecosystem

Eligibility Criteria

• Growth-stage startups, from across India, innovating with new-age tech solutions that impact the automobile sector in the above-mentioned focus areas.
• Each startup team must have at least 1 full-time employee. A full-time employee is defined as a person that maintains standard business hours working on the technology or venture (at a minimum, Monday through Friday, 9 am-5 pm).
• Start-ups working on a product or technology that is novel in nature and is available off-the-shelf and addresses the problem statement are eligible to apply or take part.
• The product or technology the startup is offering for consideration represents original ideas wholly-owned with the freedom to use or is licensed by the team.
• Off-the-shelf ideas and ideas generated during scouting belong to start-ups. OEMs have the opportunity to license them from the start-up. Whereas ideas generated during PoC stage after OEM collaboration belong to RNTBCI.

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