Opportunity brief
Overview
Krixov presents: AI for Operational Intelligence Case Challenge
Build Real. Showcase Skills. Unlock Opportunities.
About the Challenge:
BUILD2RISE 2026 is an online, idea-based case challenge organized by Krixov. It invites college and university students to analyze real-world operational challenges and propose innovative, practical, data-informed, and responsible AI-enabled solutions.
Participants will select one problem statement, analyze its root causes, define the intended users, design a feasible solution, and present their idea through a structured presentation. The challenge focuses on problem-solving, analytical thinking, product innovation, data-driven decision-making, and responsible use of AI.
Whether your strengths are technology, business, analytics, design, operations, research, or communication, this is an opportunity to showcase your thinking and present an idea with real-world potential.
Event Overview:
- Event name: BUILD2RISE 2026
- Theme: AI for Operational Intelligence
- Format: Online
- Competition type: Idea / Case-study presentation
- Duration: 72 hours (3 days)
- Problem statements: 6
- Participation: Individual or team
- Team size: 1–4 members
- Eligibility: Currently enrolled college/university students from any discipline and academic year
- Submission format: PDF or PowerPoint presentation
- Rounds: One submission and evaluation round
- Registration deadline: 15-11-2026 (11:59 PM)
- Challenge start: 16-11-2026 (12:01 AM)
- Submission deadline: 18-11-2026 (11:59 PM)
- Organizer contact: campus@krixov.com
Rewards and Recognition:
BUILD2RISE 2026 is designed to help students showcase their ideas, strengthen their portfolios, and explore potential career opportunities.
1st and 2nd Place — Top 2 Teams:
- Internship opportunities
- Consideration for professional recommendations
- Winner recognition
- Opportunity to showcase projects and solutions
3rd, 4th, and 5th Place — Next 3 Teams:
- Consideration for professional recommendations
- Recognition among the top-performing teams
- Opportunity to showcase projects and solutions
Other Eligible Participating Teams:
- Digital Certificate of Participation for eligible teams that complete the required participation and submission process.
Important Reward Terms: Internship opportunities and professional recommendations are subject to eligibility, evaluation, availability, and the organizer's applicable selection process. They are opportunities for consideration, not a guarantee of an internship, employment, or recommendation. No cash prize is being advertised in this listing.
Problem Statements:
Participants must select exactly one of the following six problem statements.
Problem Statement 1: The Broken Handoff Problem
Problem:
Work is often delayed when tasks move between departments or team members without complete information, clear ownership, or a defined next action.
Challenge:
Design a solution that identifies incomplete handoffs, detects missing information, prioritizes tasks at risk of delay, and recommends actions to improve coordination.
Expected solution:
A workflow-management concept, intelligent checklist, handoff-risk dashboard, or another practical solution.
Success measures:
Reduced incomplete handoffs, less rework, clearer ownership, and shorter resolution time.
Problem Statement 2: The Invisible Cost Detector
Problem:
Businesses may overlook avoidable operational costs caused by repeated work, unused software licenses, duplicate purchases, and recurring delays.
Challenge:
Propose a transparent system that identifies potential waste, ranks opportunities for investigation, and estimates possible savings using clear calculations.
Expected solution:
A cost-intelligence dashboard, expense-analysis system, duplicate-purchase alert, or related concept.
Success measures:
Better visibility into cost drivers, more reliable identification of potential waste, and transparent savings estimates.
Important requirement:
Participants must distinguish confirmed waste from uncertain opportunities. Estimated savings must not be presented as guaranteed savings.
Problem Statement 3: Trust Before Automation
Problem:
AI systems may generate misleading answers when they use outdated documents, conflicting policies, or unverified information.
Challenge:
Design an AI-assisted system that answers questions using approved documents, provides source citations, detects conflicting information, and escalates uncertain cases to a human reviewer.
Expected solution:
A source-grounded AI assistant, policy-verification workflow, or document-conflict detection system.
Success measures:
Higher factual accuracy, appropriate source coverage, reliable conflict detection, and responsible handling of uncertainty.
Important requirement:
The proposed system must not invent policy rules or present unsupported answers as verified facts.
Problem Statement 4: Material Shortage Decision Support
Problem:
Shortages of essential materials can disrupt business operations when inventory levels, demand forecasts, safety stock, and supplier lead times are not considered together.
Challenge:
Design a decision-support solution that identifies materials at risk of shortage, estimates when stock may run low, and recommends suitable actions based on available information.
Expected solution:
An inventory-risk dashboard, reorder recommendation tool, shortage-warning system, or supply-planning concept.
Success measures:
Earlier shortage warnings, better-prioritized purchasing decisions, and fewer avoidable stockouts.
Important requirement:
Participants should explain the assumptions behind forecasts and recommendations rather than treating predictions as certain.
Problem Statement 5: Quality Intelligence System
Problem:
Unusual production patterns may indicate an increased risk of defects, but quality teams may struggle to identify which production batches require further investigation.
Challenge:
Design a system that detects unusual patterns in production data, flags potentially high-risk batches, and recommends evidence-based investigation steps.
Expected solution:
A quality-monitoring dashboard, anomaly-detection concept, or batch-risk prioritization system.
Success measures:
Earlier identification of unusual patterns, faster investigations, and improved prioritization of quality checks.
Important requirement:
The solution must distinguish unusual patterns from confirmed defects and must not assign blame without supporting evidence.
Problem Statement 6: Customer Operations Intelligence
Problem:
Unusual patterns in product returns and warranty claims may indicate recurring customer issues, product defects, or operational weaknesses.
Challenge:
Design an analytics solution that identifies meaningful patterns, estimates potential business impact, and prioritizes corrective actions.
Expected solution:
A customer-operations dashboard, returns-analysis system, warranty-trend monitor, or customer-issue prioritization tool.
Success measures:
Improved visibility into recurring issues, better prioritization of investigations, and more informed corrective-action decisions.
Important requirement:
Participants should explain the evidence behind their findings and avoid treating correlations as proof of causation.
Eligibility and Participation:
- The challenge is open to currently enrolled college or university students from any discipline and academic year.
- Beginners, intermediate participants, and advanced participants are welcome.
- Participants may register individually or in teams of 1–4 members.
- Inter-college, inter-specialization, and interdisciplinary teams are allowed.
- Team members may belong to different academic streams, branches, or specializations.
- Each individual or team must select exactly one of the six problem statements.
- Participation and submission will take place online through the designated event process.
- Each individual or team must submit one final presentation for its selected problem statement.
- Participants are responsible for ensuring that registration details, team details, and submissions are accurate and complete.
- A participant may be part of only one team and may submit only one final presentation.
Submission Requirements:
Submit one PDF or PowerPoint presentation containing approximately 6 - slides.
Your presentation should cover:
- Problem understanding — Define the problem, its root causes, affected users, and current workflow.
- Proposed solution — Explain your idea and how it addresses the selected problem.
- Data and assumptions — Present relevant evidence, sample data, or clearly stated assumptions.
- Workflow or system design — Include a flowchart, solution architecture, sample dashboard, interface mock-up, or illustrative output where appropriate.
- Feasibility — Explain how the solution could be implemented, including the proposed technical or analytical approach.
- Impact — Identify expected benefits and define measurable success indicators.
- Risks and limitations — Address uncertainty, data quality, privacy, bias, responsible AI, implementation risks, or other relevant safeguards.
- Implementation roadmap — Outline the next steps required to develop, test, and evaluate the solution.
- References and contributions — Acknowledge relevant sources and explain each team member's contribution.
No working code, live deployment, or functioning prototype is required. Judges will evaluate the quality of the idea, reasoning, feasibility, evidence, originality, responsible design, and expected impact.
Participants may use organizer-provided resources, publicly available references, or clearly identified assumptions where appropriate. Any external data, assumptions, images, frameworks, and references must be properly cited.
No confidential, personal, or proprietary company data may be used in any submission.
Judging Criteria:
All submissions will be evaluated using a common 100-point rubric.
- Problem understanding and relevance: 20 points
- Solution clarity and user workflow: 20 points
- Feasibility and technical/analytical approach: 20 points
- Evidence, dataset use, and reasoning: 15 points
- Measurable impact and evaluation plan: 10 points
- Originality and differentiation: 10 points
- Presentation quality and responsible design: 5 points
- Total: 100 points
Judges will consider the practicality of the proposed solution, clarity of reasoning, quality of evidence, originality, responsible use of AI, and potential real-world impact. Coding complexity is not required and will not be a prerequisite for evaluation.
Rules and Guidelines:
- Participants must select one problem statement from the six available challenges.
- All submissions must be original and prepared specifically for this competition.
- Plagiarism, copied presentations, and misrepresentation of another person's work are not permitted.
- External references, datasets, images, frameworks, and other third-party assets must be appropriately acknowledged.
- Participants must disclose material use of AI tools and remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, and quality of their submissions.
- Do not include personal, confidential, or proprietary company information in any submission.
- Any estimates, forecasts, assumptions, and claims must be explained and supported wherever possible.
- Submissions must follow the specified presentation format and be uploaded before the official deadline.
- Incomplete or late submissions may be disqualified in accordance with the organizer's announced rules.
- Participants are responsible for entering correct registration and team information.
- Internship opportunities and professional recommendations, where offered, are subject to the stated eligibility and selection conditions. They are not guaranteed outcomes.
- Any updates or clarifications will be communicated through the official event channel.
- The organizer's published event rules and evaluation process will govern participation and judging.
Why Participate?
BUILD2RISE 2026 is an opportunity to:
- Showcase your problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Explore practical applications of technology, AI, and business intelligence.
- Strengthen your project portfolio through a structured solution proposal.
- Collaborate with students from different colleges and specializations.
- Earn recognition for strong ideas and presentations.
- Be considered for the internship and professional recommendation opportunities described above, subject to applicable conditions.
- Receive a digital certificate of participation if you meet the eligibility and submission requirements.
Whether your strength is technology, data analysis, business, design, operations, or research, you can contribute to developing a meaningful solution.
Your Ideas. Your Skills. Your Next Opportunity.
BUILD2RISE 2026 — Build Real. Showcase Skills. Unlock Opportunities.