The IBM and Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad has launched Cognitive Entrepreneurship Challenge (CEC) wherein students and start-ups will be trained via interactive workshops on Cognitive based API on Bluemix. The Challenge will reach out to students and start-ups across India. Registration has already started from September 5, and the finale is expected to happen towards mid-November 2016. The participants will be evaluated and mentored by the IBM India Watson team. Students across all engineering and management disciplines can take part in this event.
CEC is part of Masterplan 2016 which is an annual competition held within IIM-A where students and startups build business solutions and win exciting prizes. The Cognitive track will be an integral part of Masterplan 2016. The main objective of CEC is to encourage young entrepreneurs and the student community to build business solutions around capabilities using IBM's Cognitive platform — Bluemix. Bluemix is a platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from IBM based on open standards and cloud to build, deploy, manage and run omni-channel applications like web and mobile, big data and other smart services.