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Judges Training Presentation
Anniversary Challenge
For Us, By Us
Youth
Unemployment
2019 Judge
Orientation Program
The Hult Prize is
the world’s biggest
engine for the launch of
for good, for-profit
enterprises emerging
from university.
In nearly a decade, with over 2500
staff and volunteers around the world,
the movement has deployed more than
$50M of capital into the sector and
mobilized more than one million young
people to re-think the future of
business as it continues to breed
disruptive innovation on college and
university campuses across 100 plus
countries.
Hult Prize teams come from
different backgrounds with one final purpose:
to change the world.
+1,000 Universities
+100 Countries
The winning teams of each of our more than 1,000 OnCampus events around the world
will have the opportunity to choose from one of our 25 Regions to showcase their idea
live on a global stage. From Boston to Shanghai, Dubai, Toronto, San Francisco, Tunisia,
London, Egypt, Lagos, Mexico, Nairobi, Quito, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore,
etc. Our Regional Program selects the teams that will have the chance to live the
experience of our Global Accelerator and be one step closer to the million dollars.
Winning teams from each of our 25 regional finals from
across the world will have the chance to join the Hult
Prize Accelerator Program at the Ashridge Castle, in
the U.K. A global ecosystem of business leaders,
mentors, investors, and corporate partners help forge a
path for our students to become entrepreneurs and
support their development for life. Our network opens
doors to capital, mentorship, marketing, business
development, customer acquisition, and talent
recruitment.
HULT PRIZE GLOBAL
FINALS AT THE
UNITED NATIONS
Each year, the Hult Prize team issues a big bold
challenge aligned with a large market opportunity
inspiring students from over 100 countries to
solve it’s greatest problem. 100,000 begin the
journey, the top 50 get incubated in our castle in
the U.K. and the top 6 teams pitch for USD$1
Million in startup funding at the United Nations
Headquarters in New York.
Agenda
• Understand the Problem
• Explain the Process &
Review judging Criteria
• Share post-event steps
Meaningful Job
Offer a minimum of 10 hours
per week of employment.
Must create positive social
impact—“purpose”.
*Work can be in the form of direct employment or the creation of a pathway to employment
*Global Youth is defined as those aged 15-35 and can be located in any country.
Teams are able
to launch ventures in any sector, Impact Centered
but fundamentally need to be ✓
✓
Tackle humanity's greatest challenges
Offer better availability and affordability
impact centered, market driven ✓ Improve quality and better reliability
1/5th
of youth globally is neither employed,
engaged in formal education,
nor involved in training.
Over the decade since we founded the Hult Prize, the global
prospects for youth employment have gotten worse. The
youth labor force participation rate and the youth employment-
to-population ratio have both fallen in the past decade.
Poor Public
Policy
Lack of
Skills Cronyism,
Favoritism, and
Corruption
Technological
Disruption
Lack of
Lack of Confide
Mobility nce Macro
Disruptions
Learning: Creating pathways
to meaningful work through improved skills.
Models for
Creating: Identifying and activating
Impact entrepreneurs through profitable
business models
Your impact will be greater if you have a
plausible strategy to reach disconnected
youth—that is, those currently not in the
workforce, in formal educational programs, or
receiving training.
Falafel Inc.
(created in response to the 2017 Hult Prize Challenge by
prize founder Ahmad Ashkar) is actively seeking to employ
refugees in its expanding chain of restaurants;
Successful
Like eBay, Alibaba linked buyers and sellers on an
online marketplace, but the motivation for Alibaba was
different: Alibaba focused on surfacing productive
Models for
capabilities that had previously been hidden.
Impact
Kroc’s success rested on two fundamental skills: The
first was finding, inspiring, and training franchise
owners. The second was creating a business model
Your impact will be greater if you have a based largely on rental income from franchised
plausible strategy to reach disconnected locations, which made his franchising operation not
youth—that is, those currently not in the just sustainable but highly profitable.
workforce, in formal educational programs, or
receiving training.
Understand the problem
Explain the process
Review judging criteria
Share post-event steps
Social enterprises
uniquely deliver business
returns and social impact
By connecting people, goods, services, and capital, Hult Prize
Social enterprises are mission oriented and serve some of the
world’s toughest challenges. These business are also created
to be sustainable. In other words, they earn more in revenue
than they pay out in costs.
Understand the problem
Explain the process
Review judging criteria
Solutions should be game-changing Share post-event steps
and positioned to impact entire Generating more decent jobs that provide a living wage, social protection and
ecosystems worker rights is the best way to promote the three components of sustainable
development: economic growth, social cohesion and environmental sustainability.
At present there is a critical job shortage in most SIDS.
-United Nations on the Sustainable Develpoment Goals
BEST
SOLUTIONS
Disruptive
UNIQUE AND GAME
Broad Reach
System Impact
CHANGING
REACHO ECOSYSTEM
IMPACT
You are here to
pick the right
solution
to a difficult
challenge!
Agenda
• Understand the Problem
• Explain the Process &
Review judging Criteria
• Share post-event steps
Campus finals consist of one or more pitching
rooms depending on the number of teams
participating, and may include a final round
ROOM 1 ROOM N EACH ROOM
Notes
PRELIMINARY ROUND
MORNING
Up to 10 3-7 judges
Audience/ Guests Depending on the number of
pitches
Startups participating teams, a University could
Moderator
Optional
Timekeeper
have one or more pitching rooms
AFTERNOON
6 mn pitches
Up to 10 4 mn Q&A We don’t recommend University
pitches 30 mn deliberation campuses schedule more than 10
(optional) pitches per session (judges/ etc need
breaks)
Top 6 Teams
Depending on their budgets and
number of teams participating,
FINAL ROUND
EVENING
privately,
immediately following the last
presentation; you will have 30
minutes to pick a winner
PROCESS
1.List all teams on a flipchart.
2.Each judge gets 2 votes. Votes must be
used on different teams.
3.Consensus to be reached on top 3
teams.
4.Discuss in groups of 2 judges around
the top 3 selected teams, then as a group.
5.Vote again, ranking the top 3. Each
judge gets 1 vote.
6.Select the winner based on consensus.
Understand the problem
Explain the process
Review judging criteria
Share post-event steps
Keep in mind
• Select the very best startup that you believe is bankable,
disruptive, and has a pathway to market.
• Winning team will get a chance to compete at the regional
• Teams will need to be able to work together to implement
their solution; this is not just a competition for good ideas.
• Do not penalize a team because they are just getting
started or you think they are too far along. We are seeking
the most disruptive ideas, not a specific phase of
company.
• There may be qualitative elements to presentations that
are difficult to judge; try to articulate what these are – it will
help identify what makes a team special.
• You are all a part of this jury because you have valuable
experience to help select a winner; diverse experience is
what makes this interesting!
Understand the problem
Explain the process
Review judging criteria
Share post-event steps
Score up to 5
points in each category
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