AI Industry Challenge

The AI Industry Challenge is a hands-on workshop for university students, recent graduates and early professionals who want to understand how AI is applied beyond casual prompts and generic outputs.

You will work on a realistic workplace problem, use AI to examine information, develop recommendations and present your thinking.

You will also receive a behind-the-scenes demonstration of selected AI tools and workflows used internally by us.

Registration Deadline

Registrations for the AI Industry Challenge will close on Wednesday, 5th August 2026 at 9:00 pm IST, or earlier if all available places are filled.

Using AI is easy. Applying it well is different.

Many students have used AI to write assignments, summarise information, generate ideas, prepare presentations, improve their CVs or answer questions.

But workplace problems rarely arrive as simple prompts.

You may need to:

1. understand an unclear problem and work with incomplete or unstructured data;

2. identify patterns and design a repeatable AI workflow;

3. verify whether outputs are reliable and exercise your own judgement;

4. communicate a recommendation that others can trust.

The challenge

You will receive a realistic industry-style brief involving a problem such as:

• understanding customer or audience conversations;

• analysing feedback;

• evaluating a market opportunity;

• recommending business actions;

• developing an AI-assisted research or content workflow.

You may be given a company or organisational context, supporting information, a clear objective, practical constraints and/or an expected final deliverable.

Your task will be to use AI to understand the problem, develop a response and explain your reasoning.

Challenge Awards and Recognition

The AI Industry Challenge is not only an opportunity to learn - it is also an opportunity to demonstrate how you think, apply AI and communicate a solution.

The three highest performing participants will receive:

1. First Place: ₹3,000 Challenge Award - The winner will also be featured through the British Alumni Network platform, including selected digital and community channels.

2. Second Place: ₹2,000 Challenge Award

3. Third Place: ₹1,000 Challenge Award

Certificate of Participation - AI Industry Challenge: Every eligible participant who attends and completes the workshop will receive a certificate of participation. The certificate will recognise participation industry-style AI problem-solving experience.

Experience selected in-house AI tools

As part of the workshop, participants will receive a practical demonstration of selected AI tools and workflows used internally.

The purpose is not merely to show another AI application.

It is to help you see how organisations combine:

"a business question + information + automation + AI + verification + human judgement"

to create a repeatable working process.

How the workshop works

You will begin by approaching the problem using your existing AI knowledge and produce a reliable recommendation to the business challenge.

By the end of the AI Industry Challenge, you should have a clearer understanding of:

• how AI is used on structured workplace problems;

• how organisations build AI workflows;

• why problem framing matters;

• where human judgement remains essential;

• how AI can support research, analysis and content creation;

• how practical AI capability can be demonstrated through projects;

• how AI may apply to your academic field or career direction.

The purpose is to help you experience the difference between:

“I have used AI.”

and

“I applied AI to a structured problem, reviewed the output and can explain what I did.”

Who should attend?

The AI Industry Challenge is designed for:

• students and recent graduates;

• job-seekers;

• early professionals;

Participants may come from different disciplines.

What should you bring?

Please bring:

1. a charged laptop;

2. your laptop charger;

3. access to an AI tool;

4. a notebook, if preferred;

5. curiosity and willingness to participate.

Internet-access information and any additional technical requirements will be communicated before the workshop.

Frequently asked questions

Terms and Conditions

• Please carry a valid ID proof with you.

• Images and Videos taken of the guests during the event will be used for public relations or publicity purposes, as well as on our website. If you are not comfortable with the same, please inform us at the start of the event.

• Security procedures remain the right of the organisers/management.

• The sponsors/hosts/organisers are not responsible for any injury or damages occurring due to the event.