Focusing on Global Health Innovation, 3rd International Collidoscope Challenge Concludes Successfully!
发布时间：2021-03-18
On March 9th 2021, the 3rd International CollidoscopeChallenge (ICC for short) hosted by FISF EMF
concluded successfully. This year, 80 students from 33 universities worldwide gathered to
discuss global health issues and launch a storm of innovation. With improved
university coverage and a higher level of internationalization, ICC has
presented a more diversified and globalized trend.
This time ICC
focused on the topic of “Global Health Innovation”, and has attracted
applications of thousands of students from universities at home and abroad. Finally,
80 students stood out and were able attend this year’s ICC competition. With
improved university coverage and a higher level of internationalization, ICC
has presented a more diversified and globalized trend. Competing students come
from 33 world-famous universities on four continents, majoring in arts, science, engineering, business, medicine and a
variety of other subjects. The universities include the
University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, London School of Economics and
Political Science, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological
University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern
California, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University and Renmin University of
China.
During the four-day
competition, students went from being strangers to friends, experienced a series of brainstorm and cooperation, and accomplished
their first innovation plan in life under the guidance of experts in various
areas. The plan covers health problems concerning people of all ages, genders
and regions. It also pays attention to food innovation, health management,
medical services and some other new areas of health innovation, fully
reflecting the innovation vitality and social responsibility of contemporary
world youths. Let’s look back on the splendid four days together!
Day 1 Opening
At the opening
ceremony, Professor Jiajia Hou, Director of FISF EMF program, represented the
school in welcoming students from 33 universities worldwide. Hou informed that
in order to cultivate the innovative thinking of contemporary university
students and strengthening international exchanges and cooperation in youth
innovation, FISF organized International Collidoscope Challenge (ICC) for 3
years in a row. He encouraged students to make full use of the ICC platform by developing
new inspirations, communicating with other students worldwide of different
backgrounds, simulating the innovation procedures of the program and making
friends with the same interests and ideals.
Professor
Jiajia Hou giving a speech to welcome all the students
In the ice-breaking
portion, competing students were divided into 20 teams and each team presented
a team introduction on the video. With creative team names and diversified ways
of introduction, each team succeeded in impressing.
Industry Sharing
After cheers and
laughter from the ice-breaker, Allan Chou, Founder of RAIDiCal Fund and Visiting
Lecturer at FISF, officially announced the opening of the ICC topic this time.
Chou stated that the ICC campaign is aimed at enriching contemporary students’ global perspective of innovation,
and cultivate a true innovative thinking through a series of international
cooperation and practices. It’s noteworthy that this year’s topic, “Global
Health Innovation”, is closely related to “ensuring the life health and living
health of people of all ages”, the third point of the UN Sustainable
Development Goals, and is one of the major public concerns in the post-epidemic
period.
Lecturer Allan
Chou giving his speech
The first guest to
speak was Ms. Shuman Liu, Co-founder and Chief Cultural Officer of STARFIELD, a
leading plant-based meat brand in China. As an environmentalist, she shared the
story of establishing STARFIELD, which provides plant-based meat that tastes
exactly the same as real meat so that consumers’ behavioral cognition can be
unconsciously influenced and their eating habits changed. And this can also
profoundly affect conservation of water resources, biological conservation and
alleviation of world hunger.
Ms. Shuman Liu
sharing her story of brand establishment
The second guest to
speak was Mr. Huazhang Xu, Founder of Joyberry, a new yoga apparel brand. He shared
the determination process of the brand orientation with the attendees. This
process “integrates product user portraits with user problems and develops new
product concepts” so as to build emotional connections with users. Mr. Xu also
showed some pictures of Joyberry products, and emphasized the significance of
product sustainability. He mentioned that product sustainability doesn’t just
come from the natural materials that are durable with no deformation, but is
more about transferring the initial idea to users of being passionate towards
life.
Mr. Huazhang Xu
sharing the determination process of his brand orientation
The third guest was
Dr. Gunjan Bhardwaj, Founder of Innoplexus, an AI platform for drug discovery
and research renowned worldwide. He introduced the application background of
Innoplexus. By promoting an innovative blockchain platform, the medical
information and data are integrated and processed from being jumbled and
closely connected into the knowledge map of the largest scale in medical
industry. This map can help life science companies to evaluate drug feasibility
more effectively. For example, Innoplexus made great contributions to the joint
research and development of therapeutic drugs for COVID-19 in Europe.
Dr. Gunjan
Bhardwaj introducing the application background of products
The last guest to
share was Crusoe Zhang, Performance Management Director of NIKE. Crusoe talked
about the source of NIKE’s innovative concepts, wishing to advocate exercising
and help people who exercise gain constant improvement. He said innovation originates
from actual needs of customers. According to different consumer behaviors, the market
focus will also change. For example, depending on the social need of exercising
consumers, NIKE has set up an online sports community where people can discuss
sports equipment, acquire more professional exercise guidance, and enrich their
interpersonal relationship by taking part in offline communication campaigns of
the community.
Crusoe Zhang
sharing the innovative concepts of NIKE
In the following
round-table portion, students actively posed questions to the five guests upon
the current situation of industrial development, the market strategies during
startup, challenges encountered many other problems. The atmosphere was
cheerful and lively.
The round-table stage
Day 2 Innovation
Workshop
Having listened to
the speeches of the first day, each team started to think about their own
innovative orientation. To help students systematically grasp the method and
logic of innovation and entrepreneurship, Lecturer Allan Chou taught students
through an applied innovation workshop that gave students various thinking
methods and practical techniques such as Design Thinking. The workshop
contributed to building business logic and will help students get a better
business start with well-designed innovation plans.
Day 3 Mentoring
Session
In the middle of
the competition, the mid-term test came, reviewed by Five entrepreneurial
mentors from Joint Innovation Center of Amazon Web Services (AWS), namely Yan
Shi, General Manager of Joint Innovation Center of AWS, Shuang Bai, Founder of
Transflow, Emily Cheung, Founder of Shake to Win, Antony Chen, Founder of
Protostar Education, and Jerry Wu, Founder of OAKARY. They listened carefully
to the business plan presentations of each team, and offered many precious
suggestions on the creativity, business modes, feasibility and presentation
ways. They also made a preview of the final pitch to be carried out on the next
day.
Day 4 Final Pitch
On the last day of
ICC, 20 teams spent as long as three and a half hours on Final Pitch, and were
scored and questioned by Michael Sung, Associate Professor of Practices at
FISF, Jiasong Huang, Managing Director of Ansibao Investment, and Lecturer
Allan Chou. Students’ innovation plans closely followed popular social issues,
involving a wide range of events. Some teams noted the mental psychological
pressure in modern society, and proposed to help people better control physical
health by detecting emotional changes with smart devices; some teams
concentrated on female health, wishing to design a brand of hygienic articles
for menstruation that better understands females needs, costs less and is able
to win the recognition and trust from female consumers. Other teams emphasized
the significance of healthy living conditions to physical health, aiming to
build the most comfortable living environment system by means of using a smart
device and data analysis. Their creativity and wonderful performance were
highly praised by the three judges.
Closing Ceremony
After the final pitch,
ICC came to the closing ceremony. Charles Zhang, Deputy Dean of Academics and
Professor of Finance at FISF, delivered a speech. He shared his reflection on
career selection, and provided three considering factors: Ability, Importance
and Motivation. He claimed that a person’s value should not be determined by
the amount of money that he earns, but the importance of the position he holds,
the value he creates for the world, and the motivation to maintain long-term
development. He encouraged students to keep in contact with others acquainted
during the ICC and march forward hand in hand in future study and development
to find development directions suitable for themselves.
Professor Charles Zhang delivering his speech
The campaign came
to a highlight at the awards ceremony. The judges and program teachers presented
trophies and prizes for team awards and individual awards. In the end, the
“Trending” team consisted of four students from Peking University, Chinese
University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University and Nankai
University won the first prize with their innovative plan of helping manage the
mood of depression with big data analysis and a smart wearable device. With the
cloud group photo stage after the award-giving ceremony, the ICC campaign this
time reached a successful conclusion.
After a quick four days, the cloud ICC came to an end.
Let’s see how the competing students feel about the campaign!
It was an amazing
opportunity to be a part of ICC2021. Despite it being virtual, it was very well
organized and I was able to learn a lot from the speakers and mentors. It was
also very interesting for me to learn from my peers, especially since I was not
from China. I hope to be able to attend ICC in person one day!
——Dionne from National
University of Singapore
Though the event
was held online, I was immersed in each stage the teachers designed. In this
four-day journey, the four of us on the team grew from complete strangers to
full of tacit understanding of each other by the end. This is quite a marvelous
experience. Notably, the mentoring session was a great help to me, enabling me
to have a clearer understanding of the structure of the business plan and
improve my business mind. I expect to see my friends again in real life in the
future!
——Student Qiu from Peking University
There are so many
good memories in ICC! What impresses me most is the excellent tutoring and
wonderful teammates. All those panels, lectures have given us so many insights
and helpful advice. People here all full of passion, energy, knowledge that
really inspire me and demonstrate to me how business operates. I am also
grateful to meet my teammates who share the same interest in business as well.
A huge thank-you to ICC. Hopefully I’ll come back again some day!
——Student Jiang from Fudan University
ICC has been an
incredible experience and it was such a pleasure to work with students around
the world. I have definitely learned a lot from the experience and would
recommend others participate in the program. A huge “thank you” to the ICC teams that
made this event possible!
——Heidi from University
of Melbourne
I'm so grateful
that ICC gave me this chance to get in touch with innovation and
entrepreneurship. From this activity, I realized that only innovative thinking
is not enough. More important is the process to transform thoughts into actual
products, as technology can only benefit human life and progress when it’s
turned into fruits. This time we discussed global health problems. I have met
with many collisions of ideas with many friends and thus broadened my vision.
ICC will also influence my future study and life, bringing new thoughts and new
directions. I will forever remember and cherish this experience.
Student Fan from Xi'an Jiaotong
University
FISF EMF
At last, we’d like
to express our sincere thanks to the following collaborators supporting us in
this campaign (in no particular order)
Looking
forward to see you in ICC 2022!