All participants are invited to carefully read the challenge and its Regulations, which can be found below in the Attachments section, before submitting a solution.
Please note that this Challenge is managed in collaboration with Leading Edge Only (hereinafter “LEO”), Enel S.p.A.’s challenge program partner.
BY SUBMITTING A SOLUTION, YOU AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPT THE ATTACHED REGULATIONS, IN ADDITION TO THE TERMS OF USE OF THIS PLATFORM.
Explain your proposal clearly in English, attach documents (max 5 files, 35MB total size, ZIP, JPG, PDF format) if needed.
ELIGIBILITY
THE CHALLENGE IS RESERVED TO ALL THE LEGAL ENTITIES WORLDWIDE WHICH: (i) QUALIFY AS COMMERCIAL COMPANIES (“SOCIETÀ COMMERCIALI”), I.E., COMPANIES FORMED BY ONE OR MORE PARTIES (EITHER NATURAL OR LEGAL PERSONS) WITH THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AIMED AT THE PRODUCTION OR EXCHANGE OF GOODS OR SERVICES, IN ORDER TO GENERATE A PROFIT; AND (ii) ARE NOT PART OF THE ENEL GROUP.
For the sake of clarity:
- Universities and physical persons are not eligible for the present Challenge;
- The “Enel Group” means Enel S.p.A. and all the companies directly or indirectly controlled, for the purposes of Article 2359 of the Italian Civil Code, by Enel S.p.A. while such control is in place.
The employees of Enel Green Power S.p.A., Enel Grids, Enel X Global Retail and Enel S.p.A. who are involved in the organization and management of the Competition or who have access to the Open Innovability Portal back office, as well as their spouses or partners and their relatives up to the fourth degree, are not eligible for participation in this Challenge.
Furthermore, the spouses, partners and relatives up to the fourth degree of the employees of Enel X Global Retail and Enel S.p.A. who have worked or currently work in the technical sector of satellite generative AI solutions are not eligible for the participation in this Challenge.
Challenge, reward, IP rights and deadlines
This is a call for Partners Challenge; the participants will need to submit a written proposal which will be evaluated by the Challenge Owner with the goal of establishing a collaborative partnership.
This Challenge does not require Intellectual Property (IP) transfer. However, sometimes the Challenge Owner company requests that certain IP arrangements be made, should a partnership be formed.
All proposals received will be evaluated based on the afore-mentioned KPIs and the winning proposal(s) will receive the following:
- A reward between a minimum of $5,000 USD and a maximum of $10,000, based on the extent to which the proposed solution meets the afore-mentioned KPIs; and
- the chance to negotiate a collaboration agreement with Enel in a PoC, in which your solution could be tried out on a specific database and tested on the real-world Enel scenario
The challenge winners shall guarantee up to 3 months trial license for free, to deep dive on additional use cases. There will be no IP transfer.
The proposals will be admitted until March 4, 2025 and the evaluation process will start after this date. (This deadline could be postponed).
Late submissions will not be considered.