Marna Garage enters the second round of the IBM Watson Build Challenge

On July 9, 2017, the IBM Corporation announced the 16 selected Latin American ideas to move on to the second phase of the Watson Build Challenge, where companies linked to technology and innovation from all over the world met, Marna Garage being the only chosen by Venezuela. Marna Garage is a division of Marna International, an international innovation and application design consultancy, that helps its clients in the new era of business, transforming organizations through IBM Design Thinking, Bluemix and Watson.

 

IBM Watson Build Challenge is a global competition where companies take on the challenge of creating innovative cognitive solutions that can take the market and begin the transformation for themselves and their customers. In the challenge, companies will benefit from learning how to use IBM Watson to build cognitive product or service by applying Artificial Intelligence.

 

More than 1,300 business partners attended 36 workshops around the world, and 399 ideas were received from 314 business partners. Of these, 102 ideas worldwide and 16 are from Latin America that go to Phase 2.

 

With only 10 weeks to complete Phase 2 of the Watson Build challenge, these 102 business partners must now take their innovative ideas and create a working prototype of their solution in order to turn the imagination into reality.

 

Pitch by the finalists

 

During the third phase of the competition, the finalists must submit their prototypes to the panel of judges in New York. At this stage, 1 Champion will be selected in each of the 7 geographies represented, in addition to 1 Global Champion.

 

These business partners are actively working with IBM Bluemix, Watson's digital innovation platform and API, and have cognitive specialists, including mentors from the IBM Technology Academy. The champions will receive:

 

Recognition at the IBM global event in Vegas in 2018.

Think article, placement in the cognitive newsroom.

Promotion of the winners; As part of the award, the winners will have extensive marketing and promotion benefits from IBM, such as prominent participation in global IBM events, the publication of the application in the IBM Marketplace and the Bluemix Catalog, among other benefits.

 

IBM Watson is a computer system of artificial intelligence that is able to answer questions formulated in natural language, developed by the US corporation IBM. It is part of the DeepQA research team project, led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. It is named after the founder and first IBM president, Thomas J. Watson.

 

Latin America present

 

At IBM Latin America we are highly committed to developing Watson's capabilities among Latin American developers.