It’s very simple. Just fill out the registration form with the required information, READ and ACCEPT the terms of the completion and submit your idea. That’s it and you are good to go.

No. Participation in the challenge is free.

Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan is open to both companies and to individual entrepreneurs who meet the eligibility criteria.

No. A designated representative of the company can register on behalf of the team.

There is no restriction on team size if you meet the eligibility criteria and have a great product proposal or idea.

Only one entry per company will be accepted for consideration. Submitting multiple proposals may lead to disqualification of the entrant.

The registrations for QTIC 2020 will close on 31 March 2020.

Upon registration of your idea, you will get an email acknowledging the entry. Follow up emails will be sent if any information is missing or if additional information is needed.

After submitting the proposal, you must send any changes to QITC2020@qualcomm.com . Whether your team will be allowed to continue in the competition with the proposed changes will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

You can send any updates or changes to your entry by sending an email to QITC2020@qualcomm.com

Yes. The company has full ownership rights to its ideas. All intellectual property arising out of this Qualcomm Innovate in Taiwan 2020 is the sole ownership of the company that is submitting the idea and eventually designing towards it. Please see the terms and conditions for more details.

• Products and Ideas must be focused on one of the specified domains – 5G, cellular connected IoT, machine learning, smart cities, or multimedia.
• Designs may be on any system on a chip (SoC) platform with a HLOS such as Android, Windows, etc. or open source Linux.
• Products should use our mobile technologies.
• Participating companies from Taiwan will only be judged based on the quality of the submission.
• Only one submission per company will be accepted. Multiple proposals from the same company will lead to disqualification.
• Preferably, participating companies should have established operations of minimum 6 months, although new companies and ideas will also be considered.

Yes. Qualcomm will answer/clarify questions from participants in a timely manner. Additionally, the shortlisted companies will be provided engineering support to help complete their project.

Yes. The company is ultimately responsible for their product development and is free to manage their resources in any manner they please.

For companies short-listed for QITC, it is recommended to select one of the following platforms to support their development efforts. These platforms are available through Thundercomm.

TurboX T55 5G SOM
The T55 SOM (System On Module) integrates Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X55 5G modem-RF system. The connection with AP is made through the high speed interfaces including PCIe, USB 3.1 or Ethernet . It can help to bring blazing fast connected devices to global networks.

TurboX T95 SOM
The T95 SOM (System On Module) is designed based on the Qualcomm® MDM9205 LTE Modem and purpose-built for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Snapdragon 865 Mobile Hardware Development Kit
The Snapdragon 865 Mobile Hardware Development Kit is a feature-rich Android development platform that is designed to provide an ideal starting point for creating high-performance mobile devices and applications based on the Snapdragon 865 Mobile Platform.

Qualcomm Robotics RB3
The Qualcomm® Robotics RB3 development kit supports the development of smart, power-efficient and cost-effective robots.

SD845 AI Kit
The Qualcomm® SD845 AI Kit is a powerful platform for developers to showcase their ML/AI algorithms running on the edge device.

TurboX C404/405 SOM
The C404/C405 SOM is built around the Qualcomm Smart Audio QCS400 SoC series with a powerful combination of superior sound quality, onboard Artificial Intelligence(AI) Engine and cloud-based smart assistant services.

TurboX SDW2500
Qualcomm® Snapdragon Wear™ 2500 SOM is designed for wearable devices, with an integrated sensor hub, low power location tracking, and 4G LTE modem, with support for Android.

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Shortlisted participants will be informed of their selection by Qualcomm and will be published on the website.

Qualcomm will consider every proposal based on its merits and a variety of factors such as innovativeness, utility value, market relevance, design compatibility with our chipsets/solutions, robustness of product design, time-to-market advantage and business potential.

The Jury panel will comprise of members from Qualcomm and the Industry. These are seasoned professionals who come with extensive industry and business experience.

If you have any questions, please contact us at QITC2020@qualcomm.com .

There is no specific template to submit your idea. Your idea may be submitted as a .pdf file or you may also share a link to a website or video of your proposal or demo.

We are always ready to help if such as situation occurs. Please email us at QITC2020@qualcomm.com indicating the issue and we will help you figure out a way to submit your idea.