When innovation, development, and research meet

Data protection and increased legal requirements are often seen as a challenge for online retailers. Here we want to create opportunities and solutions. Five e-commerce companies, four regional tech companies, and five researchers from the University of Borås collaborated for six intensive weeks.

Customer service innovation with AI. Here we took on the challenge of making the much-hyped, but difficult to understand, accessible and understandable to more people. Above all, we wanted to make AI, in the form of language models, useful to the four companies participating in the Innovation Sprint.

The theme was “Socially Sustainable Borås” and the competition took place 16-17 May 2024 at the University of Borås. In total, 32 teams of three to six people took part. The teams chose the programming technology themselves and had 23 hours to create a prototype.

The brief was to create the best digital solution on the theme of “The Sustainable Digital Society.” Borås Tech Challenge premiered on 11-12 May 2023 at the University of Borås. A total of 30 teams took part and came up with creative solutions.