Targeted Student

Current undergraduate and postgraduate university student.

Eligibility

Each university can only submit one application. Cross-university team member(s), both undergraduate and postgraduate students, from the following universities are welcome. However, the Team Leader’s university will deem to represent his/her university for the competition:

• The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK)

• Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

• The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK)

Entry Requirements

• Participants must form a project team of 2 to 4 students and submit the application form by 23:59, 29 December 2023 (Friday). (Participating project teams DO NOT need to submit proposals in the application stage).

• At least 50% of their teammates should sign up for all the workshops and activities lined up. The attendance may affect their chance of being shortlisted/will be shown in the marking sheet.

• Each project team may submit ONE entry only.

• The entry must be the students’ own work demonstrating their innovative concept, creative design/modelling, as well as its practicability and impact.

Submission

• The entry shall be a proposal outlining a FinTech and ChatGPT innovation project, which may be in the form of an advocacy event, a start-up, a collaboration with NGO(s), an enhancement plan for an existing project, etc.

• The proposal should illustrate the following content: – Need or problem identification – Existing solution(s) (if any) – Proposed solution(s) (including format, timeline, operation details, budget, expected difficulties and solutions, etc.) – Expected impact to the beneficiaries and/or an organisation.

• Each team has to submit a proposal with the following requirements: – MUST be in Powtoon or PowerPoint format – Maximum 30 slides for PowerPoint or 5 minutes for Powtoon – Any text, images and videos can be included – Should be in English – Submitted electronically via the Proposal Submission Microsoft Form by 8 March 2024 23:59 (Friday).

Assessment Criteria

• The judge panel reserves the right to shortlist the participating project teams for the Pitching Competition.

• Each (shortlisted) project team must send at least one member to attend the Pitching Competition to compete for the awards.

• A panel of judges will be appointed to assess the entries based on the following criteria:

  • Innovativeness (25%)

  • Relevance and impact (25%)

  • Proposal write-up (30%)

  • Presentation (20%)

Announcement of Results

• The results will be announced shortly after the Pitching Competition at the Award Presentation Ceremony.

• The awarded project teams must attend the Award Presentation Ceremony to receive the awards.

• The organisers reserve the right of rescheduling the date of the Award Presentation Ceremony depending on the situation.

• The decision of the judge panel is final.

General Terms, Confidentiality and Intellectual Property

• The organisers reserve the right not to accept any application submitted in response to this Competition and the right to interpret, amend, supplement the terms and conditions in the guidelines.

• The organisers reserve the right to disqualify any team that violates the rules, conditions or spirit of the Competition. In case of any dispute, any decision made by the organisers shall be final and conclusive.

• All materials submitted must be original work and must not contain any unauthorised use of copyrighted or proprietary materials of any person or entity. Any form of plagiarism will result in automatic disqualification. Use of thoughts or work of another source must be properly referenced.

Project Categories

Your innovative FinTech x ChatGPT project can fall into one of the following categories:

• Wealth management and investing

• Lending and financing

• Personal finance and budgeting

• Insurance

• Payments and money transfer

• PropTech