Every year, the UT Engineering school hosts the Global Idea to Product Competition, which was founded and run by ATI friend, Dr. Steven P. Nichols. This year three ATI Directors participated as judges: Isaac Barchas, Executive Director, Bart Bohn, Director of IT & Wireless, and Aruni Gunasegaram (that’s me), Director of Operations. As usual it was a fabulous event with many exciting student companies with great university technology participating.
An overview of the event was written up on The Daily Texan at Contest Promotes Marketable Ideas.
Fifteen teams from 19 universities and eight countries presented their inventions and marketing strategies at the seventh annual Idea to Product Global Competition over the weekend at UT.
The winners are listed on the Global Idea to Product Site and are as follows. You can also view videos of the presentation from links listed on their site. I’m happy to say that the team I coached from Purdue/Indiana University called Glucago won one of the first place prizes. And Bart Bohn coached the Keio University team that took 1st place in another category.
Cockrell School of Engineering Global Championship
1st place - Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho/ Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa/Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
2nd place - Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Sweden
3rd place - University of Colorado at Boulder
McCombs School of Business Global Championship
1st place - Purdue University/Indiana University
2nd place - Texas A&M University
3rd place - COTEC, Portugal
Technology Entrepreneurship Society Global Championship
1st place - Keio University, Japan
2nd place - Illinois Institute of Technology
3rd place - Penn State University
Tags: aruni gunasegaram, bart bohn, idea to product, Isaac Barchas, steven nichols
