The Innovators Methodology
To be registered, companies must pay an entry fee of €2,500 per each solution they want to present.
If companies wish to participate in The Genesis Hackathons 2025, they can pay a registration fee of €2,900 (this registration fee allows them to register a solution in The Innovators 2025 and participate in The Genesis Hackathons 2025).
Companies can present up to 3 innovations in the following areas:
Up to 3 innovations are allowed. Companies will receive a guide “Welcome pack” of how to make the best from the research.
The Registration phase of The Innovators 2025 is very simple. Here are the steps:
- Email HQ@rocco.group to be registered.
- Companies pay the registration fee.
- They receive the welcome pack which contains a guide explaining how to make the best from the initiative.
- The registration phase closes on the 1st December 2024.
- Participant Companies will showcase their innovations in a recorded presentation from February 6th to 7th.
- The voting phase will start on the 7th February.
After the showcase, the videos of the presentations will be available to facilitate the voting.
The voting phase starts on 7th February 2025 and will close on 16th March.
- They will enter the Voting survey
- They will select the innovation they think is the best, and rate it on a set of KPIs
- They will also provide a brief statement on why they think this is the best innovation
- Although both vendors and MNOs can vote for the participant solutions, they cannot vote for themselves
- The 3rd, 2nd and 1st place solutions will be announced at the Visionaries Gala on May 20th and the teams involved will receive awards for their solutions.
- The following week, a free industry report “The Innovators 2025” will be published for the industry to review the innovations.
This approach will identify the most innovative companies in our industry and allow us to see which of them are really working on R&D and making a difference to the industry.The report will cover an analysis of the Top innovative Vendors and MNOs in the Roaming, Interconnect, Messaging and Fraud & Security areas of the Telecom industry and it will feature the solutions ranking.
About The Innovators
- Notification through all our channels of your entry into the project.
- The sessions where participants present the innovation will be recorded.
- The recorded video presentations will be played at the Showcase sessions that take place on the 6th and 7th February 2025. Presenters will join the Showcase to answer the questions from the audience.
- Video presentations from the Showcase sessions will also be added to this page.
- Notification to all our audience about the Innovative solutions for them to vote.
- After a first round, the best performing solutions will be shortlisted to present live at Genesis 2025.
- Listed on roccogenesis.com as a speaker at Genesis 2025.
- Free attendance for 1 speaker at Genesis May 2025 to present the idea to the audience.
- The Visionaries’ gala, our awards ceremony on 20th May.
- Free Report for the industry to review.
In essence, given that the telecoms industry is full of brilliant people (as shown by the ROCCO IOO) that come up with new ideas and innovations, is important to give the credit where it is due. Moreover, while recognising the contribution of vendors and MNOs, ROCCO is also able to reignite that spark our industry needs to put INNOVATION back on the centre stage.