<div>The first phase of Yes Bank Transformation Series Edition 4 received a phenomenal response with over 10,500 teams and 16,000 students participating from international and domestic colleges including Yale University, University of North Carolina, Asian Institute of Management Philippines, IIMs, ISB and XLRI amongst others. The top 30 teams of premier business schools, chosen after rigorous evaluation and deliberation by the Yes Bank leadership, now fight for their place in the top 13 who will reach the next phase of the challenge.</div><div><br>In line with this year's concept of "Innovation Lab", the advisory council, comprising captains of the industry, along with Yes Bank's leadership team reached out to the participants of top campuses in the country. Last week the Campus Rounds were conducted in IIM B, IIM K and ISB Hyderabad. The resounding participation of students and active involvement of the members of advisory council created a dynamic platform for crowd sourcing of breakthrough disruptive ideas.</div><div><br>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><strong>CAMPUS BYTES…</strong></div><div><br><strong>IIM Bangalore</strong></div><div>Bangalore has emerged as India's start-up hub, putting 'disruptive innovation' in national spotlight. Hence at IIM B, the hopes were high… as the Jury and members of the Advisory Council looked forward to some of the best of innovative solutions to the case challenge.<br> </div><div>After a stimulating presentation by the top 3 teams, brainstorming Q&A session by the Jury and rigorous evaluation, Team Technovators emerged as the Transformation Series Campus Winners of IIM B. The team members Pranav Raheja, Divyesh Dixit and Suryaansh Makked impressed the Jury with their focus on disruptions like NFC payments and aggregate m-wallets was key to them emerging as campus champions.<br> </div><div><strong>ISB Hyderabad</strong></div><div>The next stop for the Transformation Series Jury and members of the advisory council was Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. The sheer quality of participation received from the students here, had made this a much sought after Campus Round. The presentations and the interactive discussion on solutions proposed, kept the jury on the edge of their seats. </div><div>Kamal Karthik V, Shantanu Pendse, Keshav Khosla - members of Team Chanakya, became the Campus Winners of ISB. Their comprehensive inputs across payments, digital banking and m-banking helped them emerge as the champions.</div><div> </div><div><strong>IIM Kozhikode</strong></div><div>Our quest to discover the brightest young innovators took us to the campus of IIM K. In the lush green campus of Kozhikode, the Jury came face to face with some of the most innovative solutions. Kaushik Chandrashekhar's team Belfort Juniors was chosen the Campus Winner after he impressed the judges with his extensive research and coherent inputs on disruptive strategies.<br> </div><div><strong>Mentoring The Young Minds</strong></div><div>One of the unique aspects of the fourth edition of Yes Bank Transformation Series was the innovative use of social and digital media to interact and engage with the student community. The idea was to reach out to the student community in the language that they converse in; at the places they frequent the most - social media. Through a targeted social and digital media campaign, based on the theme of innovation and use of technology the initiative managed to reach more than 300,000 students across the world. <br> </div><div>For more on the innovation competition, log onto: <a href="http://www.transformationseries.in/" target="_blank">www.transformationseries.in</a></div>
