Reliance - The Ultimate Pitch 3.0

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At the end of 2017, Reliance had thrown open 'The Ultimate Pitch 3.0' Challenge 2017-18 to the leading B-school students to judge their ingenuity in entrepreneurial skills and their innovative ideas.

The Ultimate Pitch 3.0 was held between 8th Dec'17 to 14th Feb'18 that was open for the students across 40 B-schools. The Ultimate Pitch 3.0 was held in three stages- Campus round, Zonal round and Grand Finale round.

With the Campus launch, the individuals or teams with a maximum of 5 members were asked to upload a 3-minute video pitching their idea either on the Jio Chat App Reliance – The Ultimate Pitch Channel or on the web portal on or before 12th of January 2018. The entries were judged by the jury on the basis of 5 different parameters also called as “Code to Success”, which were:

1. Does the idea challenge conventional wisdom?
2. Is the idea futuristic?
3. How practical is the idea?
4. How scalable is the idea?
5. Does the idea have a Business Case?

Campus Finals were held across 21 on-ground campuses and the participants from 19 wildcard colleges took part in the 4 Zonal Finals which was conducted digitally. One winner and one runner-up team or individuals were selected from each zone to participate in the grand finale round.

25 shortlisted finalist teams or individuals from the campus and zonal rounds got an opportunity to be a part of the GenNext Mentorship, where they were mentored and prepared by the senior leaders of Reliance for pitching their idea in the best possible way during the Grand Finale. View the details of Reliance The Ultimate Pitch 3.0 here.

Participants had an awesome experience during 2-day immersion period at Reliance. Students spent their first day at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai to get to know more about the organisation and its work life. On the second day, the students got an opportunity to elevate their pitch in a video of 4-minutes followed by a Q&A session of 3-minutes. The participants had the privilege to discuss their ideas with senior leaders of Reliance on 14th of February 2018. The winning candidates got a coveted opportunity to meet the Chairman and the Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, Shri Mukesh D. Ambani.

The team Yoddha from Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune won the first prize followed by the team Neuron from IIM Ahmedabad as the first runner-up and the team AsaanGrow from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai grabbed the second runner-up position. View the complete list of winners here.

The winning team received an amount of 4 lakh rupees and the first runner-up was awarded 2 lakh rupees. Both the teams were taken on a trip to Jamnagar Refinery of Reliance and were given  Pre-placement Interview. The second runner-up team received an amount of 1 lakh rupees with PPI from Reliance.

As per the responses received on Unstop (formerly Dare2Compete)Awards, The Ultimate Pitch by Reliance was favoured by students of the B-schools as one of the top 20 the Most Prestigious B-School Competitions of the Year 2018.

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