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GRID 12

Can you believe it's time for our twelfth 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. As we gear up for the this one, we bring you some extra fun pre-GRID with a bunch of presentations and workshops during our brand new Innovation Fest.

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.

Productivity

Becoming more productive can never be a bad thing, whether it's our users our or our employees. So this time let's focus on enhancing your own work and empowering our users to be more productive with AI, automation, performance, digitalization or any other way our resourceful GRIDers can think of.

Consider it guidance of focus, not a limitation!

September 5 -
October 8

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 member1 )
  • 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.)
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October 8
09:00 CEST

2. Development

Opening Ceremony

Firing the starting gun. Getting the ball rolling with the kick-off whistle. Commence innovating. There are so many fancy words to ornament the simple fact that this is where GRID12 starts. Come and be a part of it through the live event or in person, munching the delicacies served at the traditional Breakfast for Champions Innovators.

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  • 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 demo day schedule will be announced on October 11
  • Breakfast for Innovators returns! On every GRID day, including Demo Day, breakfast will be served between 8:30-9:00 in the GraphiCAFE. Good food, great coffee, fellow innovators.
October 13
20:00 CEST Demo presentation submission deadline
October 14-15
9:00 - 14:00 CEST

3. Demo day

  • Demo presentations: on October 14 (Monday) and October 15 (Tuesday), between 9:00 – 14:00 (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 between the next day
  • Breakfast for Innovators: Demo day breakfast will be served between 8:30-9:00 in the GraphiCAFE. Good food, great coffee, fellow innovators.
  • The demo day schedule will be announced on October 11


Demo Day Business Session (October 14)

You will not be able to watch the demos without registering, so please use the register button here or the link in the calendar file, it takes only a few seconds and the meeting will appear in your calendar automatically afterwards.

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Demo Day Technical Session (October 15)

You will not be able to watch the demos without registering, so please use the register button here or the link in the calendar file, it takes only a few seconds and the meeting will appear in your calendar automatically afterwards.

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October 17
16:00 - 16:45 CEST

4. Evaluation & awarding

The judge panel will evaluate all demo presentations and awards 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.

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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.

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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

Software Success and Product Success colleagues 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.