Collaboration Comes Full Circle

The collaboration round presentations are underway right now! The atrium is buzzing with students in suits and spectators who've come out to show their support. After 30 hours of competition, this is the final lap for these talented students.

13 teams are presenting their work to two Ericsson judges, with just four minutes to explain how their app will revolutionize either the health care of energy industry using mobile + broadband + cloud technologies.

The ideas presented were limitless! Here are just four examples of the creative solutions these innovative teams came up with in just four hours:

• Team 1 proposed that patients will no longer need to interact with doctors physically. With their app. patients could diagnose themselves, send their symptoms to the cloud and then doctors can access this information and prescribe medicines proactively. Pretty cool huh?
• Team 2 recommended developing an end-user app. that would smartly manage your energy consumption using Facebook as a platform! The app. would offer real-time data and allow users to remotely manage facilities.
• Team 5 focused on the nonprofit sector, suggesting an app. that would broker communications across language and expertise barriers to enable doctors in more disadvantaged locations to offer more accurate diagnoses, in a real-time format. Think Doctors Without Borders meets social media.
• Team 6 outlined an app. where all users would have their medical data pre-stored on their phones. This app. would automatically share this information with doctors offices, saving 15-20 minutes of patients' time to fill out forms, omitting data errors and streamlining the healthcare paperwork system.

This is just a snapshot of the 13 amazing ideas presented. With just four minutes to get their ideas across, it was a scramble to explain it all to the judges. Some students studdered from sleep deprivation, and others thrived off the adrenaline, delivering flawless presentations.

Thank you to Georges Antoun of Ericsson and Mike Lawson of BU who helped judge their hard work during the collaboration round!