Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) Challenge 2022: Launch Event
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Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) Challenge 2022: Launch Event: Stages and Timelines
Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) Challenge 2022 Live Launch Event
Interact with Amazon Business Leaders and National Finalists of ACE Challenge 2021 and learn everything you need to know to ace the Challenge!
All that you need to know about Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) Challenge 2022: Launch Event
Amazon is back with the 12th edition of its Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) Challenge 2022. This is your chance to Innovate, Strategize and Build on impactful solutions for the Earth's most customer-centric company.
The live launch event will give you an opportunity to hear senior business leaders demystify Amazon's peculiar ways and share the secret sauce. Learn how diverse ideas enable scalable solutions for Amazon’s large customer base and how this can help you ace ACE Challenge 2022.
Note:
- The registrations on this website are only for the Live Launch Event. For the ACE Challenge 2022, students must register separately on the main competition website post the launch event. The registration for the same will open at 6:00 PM, 29th July 2022.
- Students are requested to register for the event using their official college email IDs. First-year students who have not received their official college IDs can register using personal IDs (validated by their Placement Committee).
- PPO-holders are not eligible to participate.
Eligibility: This competition is open to both first and second-year students pursuing the flagship full-time MBA program from the following institutes
- Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, New Delhi
- Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore
- Indian School of Business (ISB)
- Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon
- National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai
- Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJSOM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
- SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
- Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune
- Xavier School of Management (XLRI)
The competition is also open to students pursuing PGPX program from the following institutes:
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
Wild Card Campuses:
In addition to the colleges mentioned above, first and second-year students pursuing the flagship two-year full-time MBA program from the following institutes can participate as wild card entries:
- Delhi School of Economics (DSE), New Delhi
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Department of Industrial and Management Engineering (DIME), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
- Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
- Department of Management Studies (DoMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
- Department of Management Studies (DoMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee
- Goa Institute of Management (GIM), Goa
- Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM), Chennai
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Amritsar
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bodh Gaya
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Jammu
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi
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Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sirmaur
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Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Tiruchirappalli (Trichy)
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Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur
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Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Visakhapatnam
- Institute of Management, Nirma University (IMNU), Ahmedabad
- Institute of Management Technology (IMT)
- Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat
- Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai
- K J Somaiya Institute of Management (KJ SIM), Mumbai
- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Bengaluru
- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Hyderabad
- Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Indore
- Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai (We School)
- Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune
- Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (SIOM), Nashik
- Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), Pune
- T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal
- Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
- Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar
Join us for the live launch event with:
- Srikant Sree Ram - Director, Amazon Fresh
- Deepti Varma - HR Leader, APACMEA International stores
- Varsha Pandia - Director Finance, Asia Pacific & Japan Sales, AWS
- Abhijit Kamra - Director, Smart Commerce by Amazon
- Himanshu Tiwari - Sr. Manager, Biz Ops, SP-APAC, Student Programs
- Nitya Mohta - AFBP, Program Manager
- Payal Tambey - AFBP, Program Manager
- Devavrat Mahajan - AFBP, Product Manager
The session will include:
- Fireside Chat with Amazon leaders
- ACE Challenge 2021 experience sharing by finalists
- Q&A with the Amazon team
Save the date and mark the time for Friday, 29th July 2022 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM! You can attend the session by clicking on the Join button at the time of the event post registration.
Important dates & deadlines?
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29 Jul'22, 06:00 PM IST Registration Deadline
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29 Jul'22, 06:00 PM IST Launch Event
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