The GT-RNOC Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) is an annual production of the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center. Teams of world-class student innovators from technical and business disciplines submit proposals for new converged services leveraging multi session visual and voice communication with relevant real-time information and media delivered over a variety of client devices and wired/wireless broadband networks. Proposals are evaluated for novelty, creativity, implementation prospects, and plausible commercial value.

Successful proposals become entries in the competition for seed funding, professional business plan consultation, and matchmaking with Venture Capital firms, or intrapeneuring with the competition's industry sponsors. It's a big win and not just for the "winners". Exceptional projects that are runner-up in a given year's CIC may continue their work in the next annual competition or, in some cases; they too may be funded for continued and uninterrupted progress toward commercialization.

• CIC Sponsorship is open to industry members of GT-RNOC.
• Members may choose Category or At Large sponsorship.
• Category sponsors are able to:
  • Define domains of competition
  • Participate in judging
  • Have IPR options regarding winning entries
  • Participate in the next phase of development and commercialization

In previous years, a predecessor to this activity was known as the IMS Research Competition. More information is available here.