by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
A multi-stage challenge that turns industrial generative AI ideas into peer-reviewed papers. Travel grants for winners.
The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society challenge is open to anyone from any background. Teams develop early-stage generative AI ideas for industrial settings, such as predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, energy optimization and responsible generative AI, through three milestones with mentorship. Shortlisted teams are announced in early January 2027 and project work runs from January to May 2027. Accepted teams present at the IRAI 2027 conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 17-20 November 2027. Prior academic writing experience, IEEE membership and a finished project are not required.
Open to anyone from any background.
$9,000
Travel grants: USD 2,000 for each of the top 3 teams and USD 1,000 for each of the next 3.