The winners of the Next Great Innovator Challenge have been announced! This year's RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge Winners are Omega4 from Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. Congratualtions to all our finalists on an excellent job!
Here are the important dates for this year's Next Great Innovator Challenge.
September 22
Registration opens
October 31
Registration closes. We start accepting submissions.
December 5
Final day for submissions
January 9
Peer voting opens
January 21
Peer voting closes
March 5
Final presentations and judging
Over 161 teams from 24 schools registered - it was a challenge to choose the best submission. But with so many game-changing ideas proposed, we can definitely Year Three was a success!
The top five teams shared in $45,000.00 in prizes and presented their ideas to RBC executives. They've earned a reputation in the financial industry as first-class innovative thinkers - a reward that will pay off for their entire careers.
Past winners' innovations have gone already gone live. The runner-up submission of the first Challenge became RBC p2p, an acclaimed financial site by and for young adults, and we are currently testing Year Two's winning idea, VIBE personal banking workstation. Stay tuned for Year Three's winning innovations - we're working on them now.
That wraps up the third Next Great Innovator Challenge. But innovative thinking doesn't start and end on preset schedules. For a warm-up for next year's Challenge, and an idea of how we approach innovation at RBC, continue to use the resources in our Innovation Centre. Who knows what innovations you'll create next?