Competition Timeline
Competition Timeline
Team Formation & Development (February-August 18, 2025)
To participate in CIC Asia, work on forming a team at either your university or among universities. Work with the university's faculty fellow to gain feedback on your project. If your team is working with a faculty fellow, the fellow will coordinate interest to the CIC organizers. For teams from other universities, your interest should be pre-cleared by the CIC organizers by contacting us at cic@gatech.edu with your project overview.
Submission (August 18, 2025)
CIC Asia invites students to submit projects addressing broad social and global concerns within the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Additional references to associated SDG targets and IPaT research concentrations are welcome.
Competition Submissions
The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) Asia invites students to submit projects addressing broad social and global concerns highlighted through the competition’s areas of interest. Student projects are submitted electronically. Team submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, August 18, 2025.
Judging Process
The judging process will include:
Round 1: First Round Judging (All Teams) - August 25 - September 9, 2025
The first round of judging will be a preliminary review of submission materials by domain expertise and judges with industry experience. This group of judges will determine the CIC semi-finalists.
Semi Finalist Announcement - September 16, 2025
The CIC planning team will contact selected semi-finalists as well as provide feedback to all teams via email by September 16.
Round 2: Semi-Finalist Virtual Pitches - September 17-25, 2025
Selected semi-finalist teams will conduct a 10-20 minute pitch virtually with a small group of judges. Utilizing the first round feedback from judges is encouraged.
Perfect & Submit Final Round Projects - September 30 - November
Finalist teams will be assigned a mentor who will work with the team and the faculty fellow to continue developing the project for the final round.
Gala (December 1 in Kuala Lumpur)
CIC finalists conduct their final round pitch and answer questions from a panel of judges with expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation during an in-person gala event. Winners will be announced at the end of the event.
Follow us on Facebook or Twitter or check back here in November for additional details about the finalist judging process.
Have questions?
If you have any questions regarding the CIC event and wish to contact us, please feel free to send an email to us at cic@gatech.edu.
