Week #8: The Pitch

1. Technical Demonstration

On the monday after the challenge delivery, the team got the opportunity to showcase the implemented solution to the professors from both course units.

As our project contained many features and topics to cover, our inspirator, professor Tiago Pinto, advised the team to prepare and organize our presentation in a way that every topic was covered and well detailed, giving the other professors a good idea of what was developed in the past few weeks.

As a result, the demonstration went very well, with the professors not only praising the solution, saying that it was very interesting and relevant to our domain, as well as our presentation, with professor Jorge Coelho particularly praising how it was organized and presented to them.

2. Demo Day

Demo Day. An event that professor Carlos Ramos has been talking about since the first day of the course has finally come.

Its was an opportunity for teams to share their ideas and solutions with the AI community and get recognition for their work.

Every one of the 10 projects were very interesting in their own ways, given the different domains that each team worked with.

The team believes that its pitch went rather well, with our point getting across and with people seeming interested in the potential of the solution to grow and evolve.

3. Challenge Retrospective

All in all, the team believes that the challenge went very well, with a very interesting and feature complete solution being delivered, with great potential to be improved and evolve into a solution used by companies worldwide.

From the professors’ side, the team got praised for its work and the solution for its relevance to the retail market/domain.

With future challenges, the team commits to not only keep the same degree of quality, but go even further, pushing each member’s capabilities to their limits and deliver a solution that every retail company in the world would want to use.

About the course and the methodologies used, the team enjoyed the constant challenge and pace of the project, as tiring as it was. As an improvement to the current methodology, the team would like to see more interaction between the teams, at ISEP or at the blogs, as it believes that communication and collaboration is key to develop stronger projects that take MEIA’s name to new heights.

Now, onto the next challenge!