Here are the steps you need to follow to participate:
No. The registration for the event is free.
To participate, you should be an employee of a company and you must use your organization’s business email in order to register. Individual participants are not allowed. You must register as a team along with your fellow team members.
A minimum of two and a maximum of six members can participate. The team members must be from the same organization.
No. This is a virtual event.
Each team is required to nominate a Point of Contact (POC) to whom all communications shall be addressed to. The POC must be a working member of the team and at no point shall leave the team without prior intimation to the organisers. For further details in this regard, please get in touch with us.
Please refer to the problem-statement section available in the FIDNOVATE website.
Please write to i2bfidnnovate@nasscom.com for any doubt or clarification.
A change in team will require a substantial reason, and can be done once on exceptional basis, post consultation with the organizing team at Fidelity and NASSCOM.
From the date of launch, you will have four weeks to submit your approach note. The teams qualifying for the next round will have ten weeks to build the AI model solution to the problem statement. There will be a midpoint check-in by the Core Team to get a sense of the progress made.
No. You can be a part of a single team only.
We will share a template with the selected participants. The participants will be required to use the template shared to capture information points to outline their approach.
There will be a panel of judges for evaluating the approach note the finale submission. While the information pointers outlined in the approach note template will form the basis, the evaluation criteria will be shared separately at the time of Reverse Pitch event.
All shortlisted teams will then be contacted by the organisers and further details on the main event will be shared. The final solution will have both quantitative and qualitative metrics as a part of the selection criteria. Evaluation criteria will be shared
Yes, your approach note can include any number of options, but there can be only one file uploaded.
For training the model, include companies listed on or before December 31, 2017, in any of the stock exchanges - NYSE, NASDAQ, S&P500, DJIA. Alternatively, if you feel strongly about your approach, feel free to specify it in your Approach note outline and we will be more than happy to listen and understand from you.
We are working on the approach and will inform on the process of sharing / uploading the solutions. More details to follow.
This is at the prerogative of the participants.
No, the cost for accessing such data will have to be borne by the participants. No costs incurred by the participants for FIDNOVATE, will be eligible for reimbursement.
Any publicly available or subscription-based data can be used to solve the problem at hand. The data used should be from a credible and reputable source and should be reproducible at any point of time of model evaluation. All data sources must be mentioned in the approach notes as well as in the final solution document.
You can use any programming language and recognized software that you are comfortable with. Please mention in the approach note about the programming language and software you intend to use.
Participants can use any platform to build their model. Local desktops/laptops, company HVD/VPN/Virtual Desktop, Cloud Platforms. But to qualify for final evaluation, you must be able to upload the codes on the platform created by the organizing team. So, plan accordingly based on your company’s protocols and firewall permissions.
Yes. Please state the assumptions that are followed throughout the different phases of the model.
This will be a participant’s prerogative
Yes, the algorithm will have to be submitted in fully working module.
A prototype is not a mandated output but will be a good-to-have from a finale showcase perspective.
Please refer to the T&C
The FIDNOVET judging panel will verify the outcomes based on the criteria and the presentation made during the Finale to adjudicate the winners. The evaluation criteria will be shared before-hand.
Framework you followed to solve the problem statement, uniqueness of your approach, outcomes of your algorithm along with the performance metrics.
The panel will comprise of Senior Leaders & SMEs from Fidelity Investments India and NASSCOM
Yes. Please refer to the prize money section of the FIDNOVATE website
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