SHENZHEN, China, HONG KONG, NEW
YORK, Jan. 16, 2015
/PRNewswire/ -- WeChat, the leading social communications platform,
has teamed up with the China Europe International Business School
(CEIBS) to jointly hold the INNOVATEChina 2015 competition which
gathers MBA students from around the world in a bid to identify
innovative and creative business plans.
Since 2008, the competition hosted by CEIBS has brought together
world-renowned entrepreneurs and investors to work with students
from international business schools in developing ground-breaking
ideas for business and society.
This year CEIBS is collaborating for the first time with WeChat
to host this competition which asks students to incorporate
features from the WeChat platform into their business plans.
The students' business plans can leverage the multi-dimensional
communications capabilities of the WeChat platform to conceptualize
new ways for people to communicate as well as deliver meaningful
impact on their lives.
Six shortlisted teams will be invited to Shanghai, China to attend the competition
finals where the top three winning teams will be determined. The
overall winning team will receive a grand prize of US$10,000. Anyone can participate but 50% of team
members must be current students or alumni from an accredited MBA
program.
WeChat will also bear the expenses of all flights and
accommodation for the shortlisted teams that attend the
Shanghai finals.
A roadshow encompassing some of the world's finest education
institutions is taking place to showcase the competition and foster
discussion with students and innovative business leaders.
The roadshow has already stopped at Stanford and Harvard in
the US, with CEIBS in Shanghai due
to host the final event on January
18. Speakers include leaders from WeChat and pioneering
companies like Ubuntu, Flipboard, Caesars Entertainment, OTT Hub
Business at Nexmo and SAP.
The competition is now open for submissions with the initial
deadline for entries on January 25,
2015. All business plans and entry videos must be submitted
at the "We Win With WeChat" website: www.wewinwithwechat.com
The six shortlisted finalists will be announced by early
February and will join a mentoring program with the judges to
further develop their business plan concept. The finals event in
Shanghai will take place on
March 22, 2015.
Further details of the competition and the full competition
guidebook can be found at the "We Win With WeChat" site.
About WeChat
WeChat envisions and innovates new ways for people to connect,
communicate and share. A mobile social communication app designed
for smartphone users, WeChat is the world's fastest growing social
app with hundreds of millions of users internationally. WeChat
empowers users in fun and dynamic ways, by bringing together
messaging, social communication and games in one seamless,
interactive experience, with comprehensive privacy and security
settings that can be tailored as needed. WeChat is available free
to download on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and Windows
operating system.
Learn more about WeChat and download the app
at www.wechat.com
Dive into the world of WeChat through Chatterbox, WeChat's
blog: http://blog.wechat.com
Watch cool videos on WeChat's official YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/WeChatVideo
About CEIBS
CEIBS is mainland China's
leading business school, with three programmes globally ranked by
the Financial Times. Its vision is to become the most
respected international business school by linking East and West in
teaching, research, and business practice and by promoting
China's social and economic
development through high-impact knowledge creation and
dissemination.
CEIBS was established on November 8,
1994 in Shanghai. Based on
its own campus in the Pudong district of Shanghai, the school is a not-for-profit joint
venture established under an agreement between the Ministry of
Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC, now called The
Ministry of Commerce) and the European Commission. Today,
CEIBS also has offices and operates programmes in Beijing, Shenzhen and Africa.
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