Submitting your Techcelerator application

1. Provide a clear description of the customer need to be met, the proposed solution and its value proposition and the customer's ability/willingness to pay for the product or service (describe the market niches, primary/secondary markets, first customers, etc).
2. Quantify the target market size and a description of any risk associated with your chosen market.
3. Provide a description of the proposed competitive advantage in the marketplace.
4. Identify the novelty of your solution and the deep technologies being deployed in succinct, non-technical language.
5. Propose a solution that can be developed into a working prototype leveraging UTS facilities and research by the end of the program.
6. Affirm that the intellectual property is owned by the student(s) of the project and has described how the IP is distinctly different, including the student’s room to operate in the market.
7. Demonstrate that customer validation has been undertaken or is planned (fieldwork, survey results, customer contacts or testimonials, pilots, etc).
8. Provide a four-month project plan with identified milestones.
9. Provide a well-estimated, well-described budget, sub-divided by each milestone/month with expense subtotals for each month and a grand total.
10. The project has a well-described business model including the marketing channels and alliance partnerships.
11. Demonstrate the values, mindsets, experience and skills of the student(s) align with the solution being proposed.
12. Your pitch video is professional and persuasive and covers the following:
    • Introduce yourself, your project name and the deep technology you will deploy.
    • Describe your customer, market size and value proposition (Why should we care? What is the ‘pain/gain’ point?).
    • Describe how your solution is original and significant.

• No target market specified or (size (#/$/sectors) or ability to pay, current spending habits or demographics.
• No unmet need or value proposition was specified.
• No analysis of competition or how this solution will be unique/different.
• No proposed business models were offered (business to consumer, business to business, business to enterprise).
• No description of first customers, potential partners for pilots, or evidence of traction or plan for customer validation in milestones (eg fieldwork, survey results, customer contacts, pilots, etc).
• Poorly identified or detailed tech development steps (milestones/costs).
• The scope is not feasible or unrealistic for a 4-month period.
• No budget is provided or the budget is not detailed or connected to the project plan.
• Students do not own their IP on the project proposed; there was very little room to operate or the product proposed was in direct competition with existing products/services.
• Tech identified was not related to a UTS tech infrastructure or research strength.
• Team skills and or team expertise are not well connected to the problem being solved or are not communicated (participants don't communicate their ‘why’ effectively).

Video content

1. Introduce yourself and your project
   What is your name? What is the name of your project? What is the deep tech area your project is utilising?
2. Explain your value proposition
   What is the problem you are solving? Who has the problem? How is your project solving the problem?
3. Explain how your solution is original and significant
   How is this different to what exists at the moment? What is the significance of this solution? Convince us of its importance, and potential impact.

Creating the video

• Native files cannot be uploaded. Please submit a share URL instead.
• Students are welcome to use a movie/editing/presentation program of their choice, but a share URL must be uploaded into EOI form.
• Common video editing programs include PowerPoint, iMovie, and Windows Movie Maker.
• UTS students can also access Kaltura Capture. The site includes tutorials on how to create videos. UTS IT Support can help if you need assistance with using Kaltura Capture.
• UTS LinkedIn Learning Tutorials offer excellent guides on how to edit videos with a range of software. Log into UTS LinkedIn Learning and type “editing videos” into the search bar.
• Save your file using the following naming convention: First Name_Last Name_Student Number_Video