Mobile Future Forward - Student Paper Contest

Student Paper Contest

To create the future, we must first be capable of imagining it
- Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad,
Competing for the Future, 1994

The Event

It was the most satisfying experience of my career. The contest and the Mobile Future Forward summit made me reevaluate my research and career from a fresh perspective.

- Lun Huang, Phd Student - Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology,
2010 Mobile Future Forward Student Paper Contest Winner

Being selected as one of the winners of the contest presented me with an absolutely enriching experience. The most exciting part of the experience was the opportunity to interact and network with top industry leaders from all major mobile companies.

- Smruti Parichha, Grad Student - Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside
2010 Mobile Future Forward Student Paper Contest Winner

Mobile Future Forward is an executive summit attracting some of the most influential minds who are shaping the mobile industry. The experts and visionaries from around the globe will discuss the mobile industry 2-5 years forward, envision what the user experience and use case scenarios look like, discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities in the journey to that vision.

The Contest

The best student paper contest is open to universities and research institutes around the world. Your task is to help us imagine new technologies, new experiences, new applications and services, new use cases, new business models of the mobile future. The paper can be on a specific technical or business subject within the mobile industry from mobile teleportation to fuel cells to a new enterprise collaboration tool and everything in between. The idea is to let your imagination fly without any restrictions and dream of what's possible in the next 5-10 years. Papers can be about technical solutions to the most pressing problems, about new revenue models, about your vision of how mobile will be used in the future, etc. Paper length: 1000-1500 words.

The Prize

Authors of the top two outstanding papers will get a paid trip to attend the conference and mingle with the who's who of the wireless industry. Winners will also be eligible for more prizes. Please send in your entries by July 15th, 2011 to contest@mobilefutureforward.com including a copy of your current student ID. Use of graphics and illustrations is encouraged. While an indication of interest is not required, it is appreciated. A panel of industry experts and executives will vote on the best papers. They will be ranked on originality, ambitiousness, creativity, depth, and clarity of vision. The goal of the contest is to bring out and reward the best thinking from the leaders of tomorrow.

2010 Student Paper Contest

Lun Huang of Illinois Institute of Technology and Smruti Parichha of University of California, Riverside wrote the top two winning papers respectively and were invited to meet with the senior executives in the mobile industry and attend the Mobile Future Forward Executive Summit. Our thanks to all the students who participated, the judges who helped us pick the winners, and Intel for supporting the contest. See details here.

For more Info, please contact contest@mobilefutureforward.com