<div><strong>By Arshad Khan</strong></div><div> </div><div>The first phase of the fourth edition of Yes Bank Transformation Series witnessed participation from 10,100 teams and 16,000 participants from premier business colleges across the world including Yale University, University of North Carolina, Asian Institute of Management Philippines, IIMs, FMS, XLRI, and S P Jain among others.</div><div> </div><div>The transformation series aims to provide the brightest young minds with an "Innovation Lab" for crowd sourcing breakthrough ideas which could transform this fast-evolving and critical sector of the Indian economy.</div><div> </div><div>Students participating in the event are given a challenge to analyse the dynamic environment of the financial service industry and chart out a strategic roadmap involving digital innovation in financing and payments for Professional's Bank of India (PBoI).</div><div> </div><div>To affirm the position of Transformation Series, an advisory council comprising of eminent personalities from across the world has been convened. The advisory council of Yes Bank Transformation Series comprises of Bibek Debroy — economist, member-NITI AYOG, Arvinder Gujral —director (APAC), Twitter, Sanjay Swamy — managing partner, Prime Venture Partners, Vikas Agnihotri — director, Goggle India, Chaitanya Kamat — CEO, Oracle Financial Services, Vipul Parekh — Founder, Bigasket.com among many.</div><div> </div><div>A total of 45 teams will be chosen basis rigorous evaluation for the upcoming campus rounds across India. After multiple rounds, the advisory council and senior Yes Bank executives, will extract the top 10 teams for the jury round. The jury will ponder on the proposed solutions by the teams and decide on the three winning teams.</div><div> </div><div>The three winning teams will receive prize worth Rs 5 lakhs and pre placement interview opportunity with Yes Bank.</div>