Tenth session of International ICAN Innovation and Entrepreneurship competition and Red Valley Beach Cup vr/ar industry competition launched

July 21, 2016, jointly sponsored by Nanchang Government and the International Ican Union and other institutions 2016 tenth international Ican Innovation and Entrepreneurship competition vr/ar industry competition and the first Red Valley Beach Cup vr/ar innovation and entrepreneurship competition in Haidian District, Beijing Zhongguancun Venture Street officially announced. The contest together with well-known competition brand Ican co-organized, divided into registration, preliminary and final three parts, the fixture for three months, for the national and overseas Chinese innovation and entrepreneurship of college students entrepreneurial team and social entrepreneurship Project, the ultimate winner will have access to well-known mentors, support policies and venture capital and other aspects of support.

Figure: The tenth session of the International Ican Innovation and Entrepreneurship competition and Red Valley Beach Cup vr/ar industry competition started

The competition by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and other as the guidance unit, by the Nanchang government, Ican International Alliance, the Ministry of Education Innovation Method Teaching steering Committee, China Intelligent Hardware Association, and other co-sponsored by the Red Valley Beach District, Nanchang Group Municipal Committee specific contractor. Competition to "focus on VR, the future of Wisdom" as the theme, divided into colleges and social groups, the participants are mainly for the major universities and colleges of electronic and computer related professional students and teachers, software application development team, AR/VR technology entity startup companies and overseas outstanding entrepreneurial team and companies.

Photo: Shengwei, Secretary of Nanchang Youth League, the theme of the conference

As the organizer of the contest, Wu Changjin, Deputy Secretary-General of the Nanchang municipal government, said, "We hope that the contest will be held to promote the national outstanding students and start-up enterprises and the Nanchang VR industry base for seamless docking, give full play to the Nanchang" 159 "Industrial planning advantages, promote and strengthen the vr/ar areas of political, production, learning, research, Combined with the organic combination. ”

Figure: Nanchang Government Deputy Secretary General Wu Changjin

Nanchang Red Valley New District Party Work committee Secretary Liang Zhou said, "Nanchang Red Valley New area of Vr/ar industrial development policy is to learn from other virtual reality industry base policy and combined with the actual development of Nanchang, is the national urban VR industry to support the largest policy, and can be implemented." This fully shows that Nanchang has determined to build China's Nanchang virtual reality industry base. ”

Figure: Nanchang Red Valley Beach New Area party committee Secretary Liang Zhou

The overall head of the contest, ICAN competition Organizing committee Secretary-General Yu China, said, "With the first Red Valley Beach Cup vr/ar innovation and entrepreneurship competition, to enable more excellent students and start-up enterprises to understand the Nanchang to establish a VR industry cluster confidence and favorable conditions, so that the first Red Valley Beach Cup vr/ The AR Innovation and Entrepreneurship competition has become the banner and benchmark for the establishment of VR base in Nanchang, attracting a group of excellent talents and projects to the development of Nanchang. ”

Figure: General manager of the contest, Ican, Secretary of the organizing committee, Yu Zhonghua

ICAN Contest Chairman Haixia Zhang said, "as experts in the field of vr/ar, in fact, in academia long ago has begun to engage in related research, vr/ar application can be unlimited expansion." This game not only allows more people to explore the application of vr/ar, can let more innovative entrepreneurial students realize their dreams, but also can let Nanchang, let Red Valley beach more beautiful brilliant. ”

Figure: Professor of Peking University, President of ICAN International League Haixia Zhang

During the final of the Red Valley Cup vr/ar Innovation and Entrepreneurship competition, the 2016 Vr/ar start-up training camp and Vr/ar Summit Forum will be held.

The first Red Valley Beach Cup vr/ar innovation and entrepreneurship competition is mainly divided into three stages of registration, preliminary rounds and finals, and more than 200 teams are expected to participate in the competition. All eligible teams from now until August 31 through the designated website (http://submit.ican-contest.org/index.php/Home/User/ login.html) Online registration and submission, after the first round of the selection from the university group, the social group to select the technical category, the application of each of the top 10, a total of 40 projects into the final. The final will be held in Nanchang in mid-September 2016, when each team will compete in the form of live demonstrations and on-site pleadings, which will eventually be selected by the jury. The winning team had the opportunity to participate in the national finals of Ican industry in Beijing in October.

In order to ensure the fairness and authority of this contest, the organizing committee will appoint professional judges to work together for the evaluation of entries, including professors of senior related majors, well-known vr/ar software manufacturers and equipment suppliers, VC experts and well-known technical experts in the industry.

The contest has a total prize of 1 million yuan, which is used to reward the winning teams of each group. In addition, Nanchang 1 billion Yuan VR industry fund and the introduction of the IDG, Hong Tai Fund, the creation of a total win fund and other capital, for the outstanding team to obtain equity investment opportunities. In order to encourage the outstanding team to enter Nanchang, the competition Organizing Committee will actively promote the landing team to enjoy the Nanchang VR industry base construction of various preferential policies.

about Ican Contest

The Ican competition, which began in 2007, was launched by Peking University and gradually became an international competition for innovation and entrepreneurship led by the government and operated by the private sector. The competition is mainly perpendicular to the internet of things and intelligent manufacturing field, aiming at more than 10 fields such as intelligent hardware, robot, UAV, Vr/ar and so on. In the past 10 years, the competition adhering to the "self-confidence, perseverance, dream" concept, attracting more than 20 countries around the world to participate in nearly 100,000 contestants, covering more than 400 universities nationwide, affecting millions of people. In China's 2025 and Industrial 4.0 era, the ICAN competition will be active for scientific and technological innovation and manufacturing enterprises to cultivate a group of "artisan spirit" of innovative high-tech talent, while discovering and nurturing a number of high-quality entrepreneurial projects on the ground hatch.