Company: MakerVerse, Founded by Siemens.

Objectives:
• Deep Dive into User Pain Points and Validate Assumptions: The aim was to comprehensively understand the pain points and challenges faced by users.
• Improve and Enhance User Experience: Recognizing the significance of a seamless user experience, the existing UI required optimization. We aimed to foster customer loyalty and satisfaction by delivering a delightful interaction.
• Identify New Opportunities and Product Areas: Identified unmet users’ needs and challenges, framed in the form of opportunities to get ahead of competition.
• Implemented Product Discovery as a Continuous Process: Set internal tools, processes, guidance and knowledge-sharing for establishing Discovery as an integrated process of product development

Company: Cambridge Innovation Center, Tokyo

Objectives:
• In-Depth Insights about a specific problem area: Understanding and deep-diving into the personalised learning space, from high-level problem area, to focused problem framing, focusing on tailored learning obstacles, challenges and pain points.
• Understand the application of genAI and LLM Models for addressing the identified problem: identifying, testing and iterating on several applications of genAI and evaluating the effectiveness and accuracy.
• Hackathon-Powered Fast PoC Iterations: Collaboratively transforming the identified problem into conceptual solutions and PoC within a single-day hackathon, in collaboration with the genAi startups from CIC.

Company: TeamLiftr

Objectives:
• Test and validate PoC of the potential solution with low investment: Testing and validating a PoC of a potential unified framework for assessment of tech companies of any size, tech stack and maturity.
• Focus on understanding key areas for improvement in tech organizations: The main objective was to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and pain points of tech leaders in today’s dynamic and fast-changing tech companies.

Company: SEO Optimise (Stealth Mode)

Objectives:
• Understand current User Pain Points and Validate  Assumptions: Analyze common problems users face with current SEO tools, particularly those related to user interface and advanced search features
• Identify Opportunity gaps for New Solutions: Discover unmet, changing needs in the fast-paced and dynamic SEO world and suggest an innovative and different approach to enable competitive advantage and advanced capabilities to the end users
• Proposing a Basic Prototype: Develop a preliminary version of the new SEO tool concept, considering both different target personas, from experts and beginners