A huge thank you to the students, our industry mentors, judges and BIMA’s Creative Council for facilitating the week and taking part. You made it a memorable and successful first event.
20+ students from a diverse range of disciplines and four different universities – Greenwich, Goldsmiths, Brunel and Manchester Met – were mixed into teams and on Monday and given a brief to answer about online safety and security in the new age of AI.
The teams worked on their answers to the brief throughout the week, reconvening on Friday to work on with their mentors on the final pitch presentations. We saw five innovative and forward thinking pitches from digital identification platforms to apps tackling cybersecurity unawareness.
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CyberBuddy🏆
Congrats to Noa, Afiya, Khadeer, Eni and Shannon!
The team won over the judges with their comprehensive answer to the brief. They identified their problem, that although many young people use AI in their daily lives, very few understand how to use it safely. Their solution is CyberBuddy, a mobile app designed to make learning safe AI use, and online data protection simple, safe and accessible. Users can play mini-games such as ‘deep fake hunter’ where they can earn points and customise their CyberBuddy.
Congratulations to the team and their mentor for all their hard work
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This was the pilot of our NextGen programme and we look forward to expanding it into more cities next year. If you’re a university or agency eager to get involved for our next one, please register your interest HERE.
Thanks again to all our students, judges and mentors that took part and made this week such a great experience.
For more information visit the BIMA NextGen page and for any inquiries please contact jamie@bima.co.uk.