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Design the Vision - Nemetschek Design Division Innovation Days

For the first time our GRID event is opening its doors to all the Nemetschek Design Division brands. Any idea is welcome, this is our shared space to explore, experiment, and connect.

Nevertheless, we're encouraging you to focus on what can drive the future: cross-brand collaboration and agentic AI. Collaboration sparks innovation beyond boundaries, while agentic AI opens new possibilities for intelligent design systems that act and adapt alongside us.

Let’s design the vision of our next chapter, together.

GRID 15

Can you believe it is already our fifteenth Innovation Days? Looking back, it's pretty awesome to see how far we've come – from the firework of ideas at the first GRID to the regular bonanza of new concepts and solutions. And we're not stopping.

Innovation is in Graphisoft’s DNA. It is our innovations that will shape our company’s future, therefore we need to excel in our efforts to inspire great ideas and support their realization.

GRID - Graphisoft Innovation Days – is an ideation and innovation challenge that gives you the opportunity to come up with - and implement your ideas, pushing your limits. Any idea that solves a customer pain point, improves an internal process or demonstrates an emerging technology is welcome in the challenge.

April 1 -
May 4

1. Ideation & team-up

  • Using Jira, throw in ideas
  • Get comments and evaluations on your ideas, while in turn you can evaluate others’ ideas
  • Invite members to your team, join teams of other ideas
  • Apply „Team formed” transition to your idea when you are done with setting up your team
  • Make sure that you have joined the chosen teams and you are listed among the team members (if you want to work alone on your idea, make sure that only you are listed as a team member)
  • Browse ideas
  • As soon as you have an idea-seed or people in the team, enter it to Jira! This information is great help to the organizers (demo day time management, goodie orders, etc.)
Add your idea
May 5
09:00 CEST

2. Development

  • Design and create the solution / prototype with the team. You are not required to fully complete development, starting the first phase of a larger scope project is enough
  • You should be able to demonstrate at least the solution concept of your idea (and a UI design, if relevant)
  • You have 4 workdays for development. If needed, you may work on your solution during the weekend
  • The schedule of the demo days will be announced on May 10
May 8
20:00 CEST Demo presentation submission deadline
May 11-12
9:00 - 13:00 CEST

3. Demo day

  • Demo presentations: on May 11 (Monday) and May 12 (Tuesday), between 9:00 – 13:00 (subject to change depending on the number of projects)
  • Join the meeting at least 10 mins before your presentation is scheduled, in order to be prepared
  • Present your idea in maximum 5 minutes: the problem, it’s impact and the solution concept
  • The presentation can be a video uploaded here in this format. After uploading make sure you set "Share the link with People in Graphisoft SE" in Sharing settings!
  • Even better if you can demo with a prototype (or show the UI design)
  • Share your learnings and conclusions as well
  • The judge panel might ask you a few questions (max. 3 minutes)
  • Audience’s favourite voting will take place after the end of the second demo day
  • The demo days schedule will be announced on May 10
May 13
16:00 - 16:45 CEST

4. Evaluation & awarding

The judge panel will evaluate all demo presentations and will recognize excellence wherever it is clearly visible with special awards. No idea should be withheld by self-censure for not having enough "contest winning potential".
All teams will have the opportunity to get feedback on their evaluation.

5. Follow up

Ideas will be sorted by the Innovation Driver team. If your innovation is selected for further implementation, you will get dedicated time to work on your GRID project. It can happen in several ways:

  • Innovation Council will decide which ideas have the opportunity to continue as an innovation project.
  • Mature ideas that can be completed within a reasonable time (1-2 sprints) may be supported by a PO and get dedicated time for the implementation between GRIDs.
  • Ideas not mature enough can continue on next GRID.
  • If the time needed for the completion of the idea cannot be foretold, it can continue as a "spike" on next GRID.
  • SPARK-s may be used for continue a promising GRID project during the year not only for shining in a new idea.
  • Remaining ideas will be closed.

Got questions?

In Teams join the GRID O365 team channel to ask questions about the challenge and to review others’ discussion.

Join GRID O365 on Teams

History

About

Innovation

Innovation is in Graphisoft’s DNA. We can be proud of our achievements, meanwhile we should always seek new, maybe even disruptive ways

  • to serve our clients with more value-adding products / services,
  • to improve our internal operations and
  • to experiment with new technologies or business models

GRID - Graphisoft Innovation Days – is an ideation and innovation challenge that gives you opportunity to come up with- and implement your ideas yourself or in a team, or join a team working on some great idea. Any idea that solves a customer pain point, improves an internal process or demonstrates an emerging technology is welcome in the challenge.

Goals

We believe that Graphisoft’s success lies in the hands of it’s creative people. It is our innovations that will shape our company’s future, therefore we need to excel in our efforts to inspire great ideas and to support their realization.

GRID is an opportunity for you to launch and work freely on your own idea, to try out new technologies (on a use case that delivers benefits to the user), develop yourself in yet unknown skills, and push your limits.

Winners of the challenge are awarded, with further recognition in case the project is carried on for implementation.

Participants

Product Function and R&D colleagues of the Nemetschek Design Division may participate automatically.

Other functions are also invited to join a team, but should get approval from their manager first.

Anyone can join and watch the live Teams events of the demo day and the awarding ceremony.