Tagbilaran City, Bohol — The DASIG Central Visayas Consortium has launched the Flip the Script: Reverse Pitching Challenge in Bohol, inviting innovators, startup founders, students, researchers, professionals, and aspiring changemakers to develop solutions for real-world community and industry problems.
The initiative follows the successful Cebu leg of the program and aims to encourage innovation by focusing first on identifying challenges before creating solutions.
A Different Approach to Innovation
Unlike traditional pitching competitions where participants present their ideas first, the Reverse Pitching Challenge begins by presenting actual problems gathered from communities, government agencies, industries, and citizens.
Participants are encouraged to study these real-life concerns and develop practical, sustainable, and market-driven solutions that can create lasting social and economic impact.
The organizers believe that understanding the problem first leads to more effective and meaningful innovations.
Opportunity for Startups, Students, and Researchers
The challenge is open to a wide range of participants, including startup founders, university students, researchers, professionals, innovators, and individuals interested in solving community and industry issues.
Through the program, participants will have the opportunity to better understand the needs of communities and businesses while creating solutions with strong market potential and social value.
The challenge also allows innovators to connect with government agencies, industry partners, and members of the regional innovation ecosystem.
Collaboration Among Government and Innovation Partners
The Reverse Pitching Challenge is organized by the DASIG Central Visayas Consortium in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
The collaboration aims to strengthen innovation in Central Visayas by encouraging solution-driven ideas that address real challenges faced by communities and industries.
Encouraging Sustainable and Market-Driven Solutions
Organizers emphasized that many of the best innovations begin with a clear understanding of existing problems. By reversing the traditional pitching process, the challenge hopes to inspire participants to create solutions that are relevant, practical, sustainable, and capable of making a positive impact.
Interested participants are encouraged to review the list of identified challenges and submit their proposed solutions through the official registration platform provided by the organizers.
