<div>The second phase of the Yes Bank Transformation Series got off to a roaring start in the first week with great response from IIM B, IIM K and ISB Hyderabad. In the second week the focus shifted to IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow, XLRI Jamshedpur, IIT Delhi and NMIMS Mumbai.</div><div> </div><div>After a rigorous online round in which they competed with 10,500 teams from colleges across the world, the stage was now set for these campuses to enthrall our jury with their out-of-the-box ideas.</div><div> </div><div>Launched in 2010 Transformation Series provides a platform for aspiring young leaders across the world to acquire innovative thinking, creative skills and apply their acumen and creativity to real world challenges.</div><div> </div><div>The aim is to engage the brightest young minds from the best universities across the world to come-up with breakthrough disruptive innovations which could transform the financial services industry – a rapidly evolving and critical sector of the Indian economy.</div><div> </div><div><strong>CAMPUS BYTES</strong>…</div><div> </div><div><strong>IIM Indore</strong></div><div>Indore, has emerged as an epicenter of business in central India. One of the most active participants in the Transformation Series.. IIM Indore was the next stop in the campus round-up.</div><div> </div><div>The quality of presentations, from research to innovation roadmaps to financial data to back their suggestions – IIM Indore impressed the jury thoroughly with their detailed analysis of the case. After several rounds of deliberations, team YESCrows – comprising of Pulkit Jain, Anirban Pramanick and Sidharth Mahajan was declared to be the campus champions. Their focus on key digital innovations and the ability to map a clear roadmap, thrilled the jury and the team is a frontrunner for a spot in the Grand Finale</div><div> </div><div><strong>IIM Lucknow</strong></div><div>From Indore, the campus challenge moved to Lucknow, in one of India’s finest management schools at IIM Lucknow. If IIM I was all about structured and planned presentations, IIM Lucknow brought the round to life with some absolutely out-of-the box ideas.</div><div> </div><div>Living up to their name, Team Swaggers backed with their focus on big data and analytics took the crown of Campus Champions. Vartika, Vasu and Tuhin, a team of dreamers fascinated by the ‘Batsuit’ are now in the race for the Grand Finale.</div><div> </div><div><strong>XLRI Jamshedpur</strong></div><div>Our quest to discover the brightest young innovators led us to the picturesque XLRI Jamshedpur. One of India’s oldest B-schools, XLRI lived up to its billing of being among the best in business.</div><div> </div><div>NFC payments, facial recognition, wearables.. Ideas flew in thick and fast, backed by sound reasoning. It took several minutes of deliberation for our jury to pick “Team Invincibles as the Campus Champions. Divya, Ashish and Abhas were among the very few to focus on digitization in the SME space and are now in a great position to make the Grand Finale</div><div> </div><div><strong>DMS IIT Delhi</strong></div><div>From Jamshedpur to the heart of the country in Delhi, the next stop for the Transformation journey was IIT Delhi.</div><div> </div><div>An hour of presentations, ideation and discussion later – Kaushal, Konark and P.Prudhviram from DMS IIT Delhi emerged Campus Champions from IIT Delhi</div><div> </div><div><strong>NMIMS Mumbai</strong></div><div>The spotlight shifted to Mumbai, and the youngsters from NMIMS were ready to impress. The presentations from NM stood out with their focus beyond payment innovations into other aspects of banking which could be disrupted using digitization.</div><div> </div><div>Tania, Bhavesh and Pratik from Team Three Wise Bankers emerged Campus Champions, and given their out-of-the-box ideas stand a great chance of making the finals</div><div> </div><div><strong>MENTORING THE YOUNG MINDS…</strong></div><div>The meet the mentor sessions continued with Kunal Shah, Founder & CEO, Freecharge and Arvinder Gujral, Director APAC BD, Twitter spending an hour each to mentor the students via Twitter.</div>
