$500K The Pandemic Response Challenge By XPRIZE and Cognizant

The Pandemic Response Challenge is a $500K, four-month challenge that focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict COVID-19 infection rates and prescribe Intervention Plans (IPs) that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies.

Today there are over 55 million documented COVID-19 cases and over 1.3 million deaths, impacting countries and territories worldwide. As vaccines are developed and countries implement recovery plans, regional authorities lack the ability to test “what if” intervention plans that optimize COVID-19 mitigation strategies while reducing the economic and social impacts.

XPRIZE and Cognizant have partnered to launch the Pandemic Response Challenge. The Pandemic Response Challenge will catalyze the development of data-driven systems to construct plans that regional governments, communities, and organizations can implement to minimize harm when reopening their economies. $500,000 in prizes will be awarded by XPRIZE to teams who develop prediction models that estimate daily COVID-19 cases with greatest accuracy and create prescriptive models that minimize infection cases and economic costs.

Winning teams will develop prediction models that estimate future numbers of daily COVID-19 cases with the greatest accuracy and will produce the best prescription models for Intervention Plans.

XPRIZE teams come from all around the world, in every shape and size. Teams can be comprised of university groups, high school students, startups and innovators, small to midsize companies, families or individuals. Registering to create or join a team, is one of the first steps you can take to help create a better future for all.