On Campuses, Firenze for this year is being kickstarted in selected universities. This year the universities invited so far are: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, New York University, Ohio State, U of Michigan and Duke. Other universities that want to be...

Today, sitting in Ann Arbor, Michigan and realizing Firenze is over, is a bit hard to digest for me, no more group meetings in Ross School of business, and looks like a thing of the past. But memories which I gathered from this whole journey of Firenze...

From the last 20 students (All university champions) who were flown to Seattle for competing (and collaborating) with each other over this wkend of Mar 20 th & 21 st . As with all great innovations which is done in periods of crisis, several curveballs...

Seth "blueshoes" Thomas, taking over the graphic designer role that Emily Kent played for the first half of Firenze 2010 came up with the design for the US$20K check that will be given to the winning team on Sunday Mar 21st. As is obvious the check...

Blogging at 330AM is a sure sign of Jet lag or insomnia. In my case a bit of both as I return from a 3 day trip to india - which as anyone knows is a 20-23 hr journey atleast including transit time from the westcoast through europe. In other words when...

Took a while to upload but here is the NYU Finals Photostream On Left is the team that won the finals at NYU and is being flown to Seattle for competing with the other universities.

The photostream from the finals at Cornell University.

Team Exclaim: FIRST PLACE Jiandong "Tony" Hu Shweta Grampurohit Pallavi Damera Graham Siebe Team Lifestream (not pictured): SECOND PLACE Stephen Minarsch Shalina Sheikh Bajracharya...

Pavan was the university lead/contact for running Firenze|BXT at michigan and here is his photostream

A picture is worth a 1000 words - what is a photostream worth? Here is Tyler's essay on how the Firenze Finals went at Carnegie Mellon. Leveraging videoconferencing from the CMU's tepper School, here is Tyler in vintage Firenze merchandise circa 2008...

And so remain the Last 20. 4 Students across each of the 5 universities are partying the night as I type this knowing that they are Firenze|BXT 2010 university winners, prepping for their final showdown at Seattle (and Redmond) in 9 days. These...

Midway through Firenze, I had the good fortunate and terrible flight schedules to accompany Creative DIrector David Wykes and Executive Producers Georg Petshnigg and Paolo Malabuyo at Michigan/Carnegie Mellon, Cornell/NYU and UW respectively. The innovation...

Natural User interface for entertainment and social media... Sound familiar? here is an interesting take on it: http://www.gesture-cube.com/

From an outsiders point of view what looks to be a PostIt Party was actually the NYU teams hard at work. Microsoft employees, lead the NYU team in an innovation workshop, to help them think their briefs…

After a silent 2009 NYU really kicked it up a notch with the new Year. NYU in under a week was able to pull together 8 teams, 2 student leads and have a kickoff event. Okay the pizza might have been the draw…

Starting this monday, some members of the innovation/incubation teams at Microsoft will be flying to teh east coast running innovation workshops on the 5 university campuses in the country. The schedule for this travel goes like this: Monday...

As of this week we have managed to have 152 students from over 16 schools across 5 universities participating this year. All universitites were given the option to ask questions and discuss their briefs with Microsoft. Some of the universities took...

Firenze BXT involves designers - and most of designer work is based on inspirations (As do the other disciplines if you think about it). So here are some pointers :) Thomas Valcke , a designer living in Belgium, has decided to put his...

The competition part of Firenze kicks off on Monday (1/18), when problem statements will be shared with University Student Leaders who have completed the necessary pre-reqs. By the looks of the smiling faces of CMU Student Leaders Jaquana Miles (Business...

Our talented In-house designer, the lovely Emily Kent designed the Firenze tshirts (American Apparel) which have been sent to the various universities over this wk. Also sent to the various student leads today have been the boring (but highly necessary...

The High-Tech Club at Cornell is leading the charge to spread the word and garner interest. We have students participating from five schools – College of Architecture, Art and Planning; College of Engineering; School of Hotel Administration; College of...

Finally we got Audio rights to publish the version of the launch video we actually wanted to publish! The video was initially done to this music with lots of influence from the Twilight movies - especially the bit where you see Ponte Vechchio from the...

Being up at 244am on a weekday is obviously a result of work or insomnia, both not great choices. A little trolling on the internet to got me to interesting places on CMUs work on Firenze! First i saw Tyler Peterson's presentation for the High tech...