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Competition Rules and Important Notes

Team Formation

Each team must consist of 2–5 members and designate one team leader as the primary competition contact. Each participant may join only one team; duplicate registration is strictly prohibited.

Submission Requirements

All preliminary-round materials must be submitted online. Offline supplementary submissions and late submissions will not be accepted. Applicants may submit either a Project Proposal or a Demo Video.

Project proposal:
PDF format, no larger than 20 MB, with no word limit. It must include seven sections: needs analysis, industry pain point, solution design, technical approach, business logic, implementation plan and team introduction. Encrypted files, obstructive watermarks and split submissions are not permitted.

Demo video:
2–5 minutes, MP4 format and at least 1080p. The video must be free of watermarks and obstructive subtitles, and must clearly demonstrate product functionality, core innovation and the intended application scenario. A PPT-only screen recording without a live or functional demonstration will be considered invalid.

File naming:
Use the format [Track + Team Name + University].

Late, incomplete or non-compliant submissions will be treated as a voluntary withdrawal from the preliminary round.

Intellectual Property and Originality

Originality:
All entries must be the team’s original work. Plagiarism, misappropriation, alteration of others’ work, or duplicate submission is strictly prohibited. Verified violations will result in immediate disqualification and public disclosure of the violation.

Ownership:
Copyright in each entry remains with the participating team. Dida Holdings will have priority rights to discuss cooperation and the implementation of outstanding entries. Dida Holdings may not commercially sublicense the work without the team’s authorization.

Project eligibility:
To protect fairness, entries that have already been commercialized, formally launched or approved, patented, or awarded in another competition are not eligible.

International Support for the Paris and Shenzhen Divisions

Support for European participants:
Teams competing in Europe may receive an official competition invitation letter for visa applications. The organizing committee will also provide overseas schedule guidance, venue-access support and bilingual on-site assistance.

Bilingual competition system:
The European division will support English-language pitches and Q&A, together with English competition rules, challenge briefs and judging criteria, ensuring consistent standards across both locations.

Coordinated judging:
Both locations will be overseen by the same judging committee, with shared data and scores and no location-based scoring differences.

Fees and Compliance

Participation fee:
Entry is completely free. The competition does not charge registration, judging or pitching fees.

Violations and penalties:
Late submission, false registration information, unauthorized team-member substitution, presentation cheating, malicious infringement or similar misconduct will result in disqualification from both the competition and awards, with the violation recorded and disclosed.

Withdrawal:
A team that chooses to withdraw must submit a written request. Unexplained absence from a pitch session will be treated as automatic withdrawal and will result in the loss of eligibility for this year’s competition.

Track Selection Guide

The Business Track focuses on industry models, value-chain restructuring and commercial-opportunity insight; the Technology Track focuses on intelligent-agent architecture, technical implementation and agent-product development; the Cross-Sector Innovation Track focuses on interdisciplinary integration, scenario-based pain-point resolution and implementation-ready innovation.

Cross-disciplinary projects may select the track they consider most suitable. The organizing committee will review and, where necessary, reclassify submissions to avoid track overlap or conflict.