CMR University to host India’s largest and first-of-its-kind ‘Design Thinking Day’ in Bengaluru

Bengaluru (India), thirteenth March, 2023: CMR University (CMRU), one in every of Bengaluru’s main personal universities, is all set to host its annual flagship occasion, ‘CMRU Design Thinking Day’ (DTD) at their Lakeside Campus in Bagalur on Friday seventeenth March 2023. Taking it to the following degree, this 12 months CMRU is organizing a first-of-its-kind competitors ‘CAUSE 2023’ – A Global Open Innovation Challenge, in which 750 groups from 90 establishments have registered to take part from throughout 10 nations. Dr. David Kusuma – President, World Design Organization (WDO) & Senior Vice President of Product Management & Innovation, Oregon Tool, USA would be the Chief Guest; Prof Uli Weinberg – President, Global Design Thinking Alliance (GDTA) and Professor & Director – School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany and Shri Venkat Venugopal – R&D Site Head & Director Engineering, Schneider Electric, India would be the Guests of Honour for the Inaugural Ceremony.

CMRU, via its Common Core Curriculum (CCC), was India’s first University to make design pondering a compulsory course for all its Undergraduate and Postgraduate applications throughout all its School of Studies with impact from the educational 12 months 2021-22. To encourage design pondering in all faculties and faculties throughout the globe, the ‘CAUSE 2023’ Innovation Challenge has created a world platform to encourage all college students to provide you with progressive options to real-world issues that they deeply care about aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) utilizing the design pondering course of.

A complete of three,000+ members from 10 nations have registered to take part in ‘CAUSE 2023’. Out of the 750 groups, solely 60 groups will probably be chosen for the ‘Solution Showcase’ spherical of the Challenge. At the ‘Solution Showcase’ spherical, the 60 chosen groups will pitch their initiatives’ options to a Jury. Only 6 finalists chosen from the ‘Solution Showcase’ spherical will additional get a possibility to pitch their options to a Superstar Jury in the ‘Ground Zero’ spherical, which is the finale of the ‘CAUSE 2023’ Innovation Challenge. The jurors, composed of business leaders, changemakers, subject material specialists, and enterprise funders, will determine the Final winners of the ‘CAUSE 2023’ Innovation Challenge.

On this event, CMRU’s Department of Common Core Curriculum (DCCC) can be inaugurating a MakerSpace on the Lakeside Campus, an in-house innovation lab that promotes ‘Learning By Doing’, to present a devoted area for college kids and professionals to work on their progressive initiatives; and will give out its first ‘CMRU Innovation Award’. The structure of the ‘CMRU Innovation Award’ is a big a part of the Design Thinking Day ‘Cause 2023’. The award is a humble means to acknowledge, respect and have fun the successes of people and teams who’ve made vital contributions in their respective fields and been instrumental in reworking lives. The award additionally goals to present a supply of inspiration for all college students who aspire to turn into future innovators.

India’s largest design pondering competitors on seventeenth March 2023 goes to be a giant day for all of the design thinkers to discover and take part in giant numbers. It may even be streamed LIVE.