Pitch The Future Winners
The wait is finally over! We’re delighted to announce the global winners of Pitch the Future.
Over the last 8 weeks, the judges poured over almost 300 innovative ideas from participating Shell Eco-marathon teams to decide on the 13 regional winners. After a competitive pitch process; where these 13 teams presented their ideas as possible solutions to real-world energy challenges to a live panel of industry experts, and a thrilling public vote, the final scores are in!
Watch the video below to find out which four teams won each respective challenge, plus a special recognition prize from our host, Colin Furze; and read on to learn more about each winning team’s innovative ideas.
Watch Colin introduce the winning teams and their innovative ideas
Title: Shell Eco-marathon / Pitch the Future / Winners Stories
Duration: 3:13 minutes
Description:
Colin Furze announces the winners in five categories of the Pitch the Future competition, with a brief overview of the winning ideas.
Winners Stories / English Transcript
[Background music plays]
Fast energetic instrumental music with a strong beat.
Introduction
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White and yellow horizontal lines speed across a turquoise background. A small Shell logo is centred at the top of the page. Words appear in white against the turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
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A video inset appears centred against a turquoise background, framed by white lines and yellow dots. The words Pitch the Future, #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon appear underneath the video. This background stays throughout the video. The video shows Colin Furze in his workshop. He is wearing a short-sleeved shirt and tie, and tools are visible on the walls and workbenches behind him. He speaks enthusiastically.
Colin Furze
Wow, we really did see it all in Pitch the Future, from apps to clever cars, there was a whole host of brilliant ideas and teams battling it out.
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132 teams.
Colin Furze
It started with 132 teams.
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Five game changing ideas.
Colin Furze
It ended with five game-changing ideas.
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A split screen appears with four panels. A smaller fifth panel overlays them in the centre. The panels show previews of each of the five winning ideas. In the four larger panels are seen an animated driver's view of a car, a PowerPoint slide with a diagram, geese flying in a V formation, and an industrial scene with tall cranes against a sunset. The small panel in the centre shows a small white car. These pictures are replaced by representatives of the winning teams. They smile and wave.
Colin Furze
Let's get into the first of them.
Decarbonising the Home
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Colin in his workshop.
[Text displays]
Decarbonising the Home with Shell Energy
Colin Furze
E4 UFSC from Brazil took top prize in the Decarbonising the Home Challenge.
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A large central panel displays a video montage. Colin is shown in a small inset in the upper right corner. An industrial scene showing a large crane silhouetted against a sunset, as it slowly gets darker. A shot looking up towards the sun through tall pine trees. An aerial shot of a loading dock, with several trucks at loading bays, arriving and leaving. An engineer in a high-visibility vest stands inside a partially completed building, flipping through blueprints.
Colin Furze
They thought about the environmental impact of construction. Where do the materials come from? How is everything put together? How much more efficient can construction be, if managed more effectively?
[Video Footage]
A view of the home page of a website, showing a stylised drawing of houses and commercial buildings. A large button labelled Let's Build dominates the page. Another page appears, showing a location selection dropdown box. Another page appears showing a list of possible construction materials for Sao Paulo. The list scrolls.
Colin Furze
Could we use less natural resources? Well, yeah, it could be possible, based on a new website the team proposed.
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
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The clever part
Colin Furze
Select what you're building, and work out the most efficient way to construct, from sourcing materials, to the transportation, and everything else in between.
[Video Footage]
The website reappears, showing a page with the text, you selected aggregates. Scrolling down, we see a diagram showing different aspects of aggregates.
Colin Furze
Build the home of your dreams, and do it in the most efficient way. Win-win.
Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
[Text displays]
Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions with Microsoft.
Colin Furze
Alamat UP from the Philippines won the Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions challenge.
[Video Footage]
Video montage with inset window showing Colin. Driver's point of view of a stylised car, with a fuel gauge visible on the windscreen. A green leaf appears below the fuel gauge.
Colin Furze
They thought, how can we save fuel while reducing CO2 emissions?
[Video Footage]
Stylised drawing of a city street lined with tall buildings, seen from above. A stylised mobile phone is beside the drawing of the city.
Colin Furze
Well, with their new Cero app, of course.
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Colin in his workshop.
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The smart bit
Colin Furze
It cleverly maps out the most efficient route, and also provides fuel saving tips for driving.
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A stylised mobile phone to the right, with a closeup of its screen showing driving statistics to the left.
Colin Furze
So users can save money and minimize emissions, too. Brilliant.
Decarbonising Road Freight
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
[Text displays]
Decarbonising road freight with Shell Lubricants.
Colin Furze
DTU Supermileage from India were victorious in the Decarbonising Road Freight challenge.
[Video Footage]
A series of slides with technical drawings showing details of onboard carbon capturing and utilisation.
Colin Furze
They thought they could make deliveries more eco-friendly through a combination of three core features.
[Video Footage]
A series of slides with technical drawings explaining carbon capture from exhaust.
Colin Furze
Optimising the supply chain, reducing emissions from vehicles and onboard carbon capture from exhaust.
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
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The magic moment.
Colin Furze
Focusing on just one of these, their idea is to use silica to capture CO2 from the exhaust system. Inspiring. Everyone doing their own carbon capture.
Electric Vehicle Battery Charging
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
[Text displays]
Electric Vehicle Battery Charging with Shell Recharge.
Colin Furze
For electric mobility, Ecocar Unicamp from Brazil claimed top spot.
[Video Footage]
Video montage plays with a small inset showing Colin in the top right corner. A stylised drawing of a person's head and shoulders is surrounded by symbols representing time, CO2 and efficient routing.
Colin Furze
Their unique approach tackled how to make batteries work to their best efficiency, and give drivers the most stress-free journey.
[Video Footage]
A slide titled Ecotrip shows, with a stylised road. Over the road, icons showing cars at an electric charging station, a lightning bolt, and a power plant are superimposed. These are replaced by the words, we are ready, let's go, with yes and no buttons beneath.
Colin Furze
The new Ecotrip app is about making travel as efficient as possible.
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
[Text displays]
The bright spark.
Colin Furze
It calculates temperature and traffic density and works out the best route.
[Video Footage]
Stylised route markers with the words from Rio de Janeiro to Toronto, then replaced by a screen reading, we arrived, about the sustainability of the trip, followed by a list of statistics about the trip. The screen scrolls to show the data.
Colin Furze
And there we are, range anxiety gone.
Colin's Choice Awards
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Colin in his workshop. He is now wearing a dark suit jacket, and a glitterball is hanging from the ceiling behind him.
[Text displays]
Colin's Choice Awards with Colin Furze.
Colin Furze
Ah, but we're not done yet, nope. There is time for one more award. Colin Furze's Choice award.
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Colin laughs and preens his tie. He then reappears in his workshop without the suit jacket and glitterball.
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Nature's answer to travel
Colin Furze
AlecTED from Turkey took the Colin Furze Choice award for the most innovative idea.
[Video Footage]
Video montage plays. A dense forest is seen from above. A flock of geese flying in a V formation.
Colin Furze
They turned to the natural world for inspiration, looking at the V-shaped pattern flying of birds.
[Video Footage]
Seven cars traveling on a three-lane road in a formation. All the cars are white except the lead car, which is red. The cars reshuffle and the red car swaps with one of the white cars which takes over the lead.
Colin Furze
They took this idea and applied it to how we drive in traffic, reducing the drag and emissions.
[Video Footage]
A sphere representing a global energy grid spins in the background. In the foreground, three mobile phone screens are shown, one with a login page for Echelon, one showing a small map and some menu options, and the third showing a route map with directions. Cut to a driver's view of a road ahead, which shows an enhanced display highlighting other vehicles and features of the road.
Colin Furze
Add in a new app called Echelon, where data and other technology tell cars where to drive to create these V-formations, creating the most efficient drive.
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop.
Colin Furze
It will be hard to do in practice, but you never know, this is where the future could be.
Conclusion
[Video Footage]
Colin in his workshop, the camera zooms in for a closeup.
Colin Furze
What a great competition. Some excellent ideas from our teams, helping us to make our energy usage more efficient. Find even more info on the Pitch the Future competition on the link below.
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Colin is replaced by a turquoise screen, with horizontal white and yellow lines speeding across. Words are displayed in white.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Audio]
Shell jingle plays.
[Graphic]
Shell logo.
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© Shell International Limited 2020
Pitch the Future Winners
In this challenge students developed an innovative concept to help lower energy use in the home, without compromising people’s comfort or convenience.
Winner: E4 UFSC from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lead Judge: Colin Crooks, CEO at Shell Energy
“What a fabulous Pitch the Future, with all the entries, the creativity, the new technologies, how to get people thinking about what they can do to help in the energy transition. So, really well done to all the teams for your passion, dedication, creativity and delivery.”
In line with Microsoft’s 2030 carbon negative ambition, the challenge here was to design a prototype for tracking passenger vehicle CO2 emissions, with the aim of reducing emissions.
Winner: Alamat UP from University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines
Lead Judge: Alex Robart, Energy Industry Strategy Leader, Microsoft
“This is by nature a very global problem and it was really exciting to see all the innovative ideas that people brought to the table, many of which I ultimately think will be adopted in the future.”
Teams developed concepts to help decarbonise road freight transport without compromising customer expectations of distribution and delivery.
Winner: DTU Supermileage from Delhi Technological University, India
Lead Judge: Mansi Tripathy, Vice President Commercial Lubricants APME, Shell
“The entries were very impressive, both from the point of thinking as well as the energy that they brought to the competition.”
With EV usage growing, students planned an all-electric drive relevant to their region, showing how current battery technology could be optimised.
Winner: Ecocar UNICAMP from the University of Campinas Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Lead Judge: Joerg Wienke, Vice President Global Retail Marketing, Shell
“What was really impressive to see was the creativity and innovation coming through, all the digital models and algorithms used, and some really impressive presentations as well.”
A special prize which all teams were entered into using Adobe Creative Cloud, recognising creative submissions that exemplified digital literacy skills.
Winner and Runner-Ups:
- 1st place: DJS Miles
Decarbonising the Home with Shell Energy
- 2nd place: Galway Energy Efficient Car
Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions from Vehicles with Microsoft
- 3rd place: GARUDA UNY ECO TEAM
Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions from Vehicles with Microsoft
Lead Judge: Mark Andrews, Strategic Development Manager, Higher Education (EMEA), Adobe
“We were universally impressed by all of the submissions. Each submission brought something different and highly original.”
A special recognition award presented to the team who most inspired our Pitch the Future host, Colin Furze.
Winner: AlecTED from TED University, Turkey
“I was looking for an idea that was completely unexpected, with some real ‘out of the box’ thinking. To apply what you’re seeing in the sky and apply it to traffic, is really good thinking.”
Watch the Full Awards Ceremony
On Thursday, December 10, 2020, the Pitch the Future global winners were announced on the Shell Eco-marathon YouTube channel.
Colin Furze, our host of the virtual awards ceremony was joined by Norman Koch, Global General Manager Shell Eco-marathon, and a panel of judges to announce the winning teams.
Watch the virtual awards ceremony below and relive the moments our winners found out they had made Shell Eco-marathon history, by becoming the first ever Pitch the Future global champions.
Watch the Pitch the Future Awards Ceremony
Title: Shell Eco-marathon / Pitch the Future / Awards Ceremony
Duration: 16:31 minutes
Description:
The virtual awards ceremony for the Pitch the Future competition as part of the 2020 Shell Eco-Marathon.
Pitch the Future Awards Ceremony / English Transcript
[Background music plays]
Energetic instrumental music with a strong beat.
Introduction
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Title screen shows with white text on a turquoise background. The Shell logo is centred above the text.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future Awards Ceremony. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
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Parts of a stylized car track show in the upper left and lower right corners, giving the impression that the track is surrounding the screen. This background is used throughout the video. White numbers appear in the middle of the screen counting down from five to one.
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop. Tools are visible on the walls and workbenches behind him. A glitterball hangs from the ceiling, and Colin is wearing a suit jacket and tie.
Colin Furze
Glitterball, check. Suit jacket, check. It must be time for the Pitch the Future Award Ceremony.
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A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
[Text displays]
Colin Furze, YouTuber and Inventor.
Colin Furze
From over 100 teams around the word, only 13 of them made it through the grand final, where they pitched their game changing ideas to our esteemed panel of judges. The pitches have been completed; the scary stuff is over. Now, it's down to the nail-biting time of announcing the winners of each category. But before we announce them, joining me on this is the man, is the myth, is the, can I say it? Yep, the legend that is Shell Eco-Marathon's Norman Koch. Hello, Norman.
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Closeup of Norman Koch with a bookshelf behind him.
[Text displays]
Norman Koch, Global General Manager Shell Eco-Marathon, Shell.
Norman Koch
Thank you, Colin. Really, your introductions are too much. But before we kick off, I just want to thank all of the students that entered submissions. You've made Pitch the Future very special indeed. With everything else going on, it's been a challenging year. Plus, we've gone virtual for the very first time. The way the teams approached the challenges has been truly astounding, and we were all very, very impressed. Let's get into our first award.
Decarbonising Road Freight Award
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A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
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Split screen showing Norman on the left, and a box with the shell logo and the name of the award to the right.
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Shell Lubricants, Decarbonising Road Freight.
Norman Koch
This is for the Decarbonising Road Freight challenge with Shell Lubricants. The short list of teams in the category were DTU Supermileage from India, Galway Energy Efficient Car from Ireland, and Eco Octano UFPR Electrico from Brazil.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Norman Koch. Cut to split screen showing six members of DTU Supermileage. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
DTU Supermileage.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four members of Galway Energy Efficient Car. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
Galway Energy Efficient Car.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing six members of Eco Octano UFPR Eletrico. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
Eco Octano UFPR Eletrico.
Norman Koch
So, let's see a brief recap.
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A closeup of an animated gear and cog apparatus, showing a red button and a 3D box tilted at an angle. The Shell logo and the name of the award are written on the box.
[Text displays]
Decarbonising road freight transport. Shell Lubricants.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing three DTU Supermileage team members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide titled road-map, divided in three parts showing a sequence capturing, regeneration, utilisation.
DTU Supermileage team member
This part of the idea created by us is basically divided into three simple steps, the first is capturing, the second is regeneration, and the third is utilisation.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four judges.
Judge
Thank you very much. Great presentation. A lot of ideas.
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The stylised car track background shows. The name of the team appears in white text.
[Text displays]
Galway Energy Efficient Car.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four Galway Energy Efficient Car team members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide titled the solution is displayed. On the slide is an animation showing a 3D model of a truck illustrating modifications made.
Galway Energy Efficient Car team member
We added aerodynamic wheel covers to all of the wheels, and we added vortex generators to the rear of the trailer to control the weight.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four judges.
Judge
Great pitch. I love your proposal, and the way you have looked at it from an end-to-end perspective.
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The stylised car track background shows. The name of the team appears in white text.
[Text displays]
Eco Octano UFPR Eletrico.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing three Eco Octano UFPR Eletrico team members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide titled AI Features is displayed. On the slide is a cartoon robot with arrows going out to different subject areas.
Eco Octano UFPR Electrico team member
The AI uses the cleanest and safest transportation method available.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four judges.
Judge
Lots of different solutions there for decarbonization.
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A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
Colin Furze
Great stuff, and some exceptional thinking. Fingers crossed to all of you. Now to our judge. Please welcome Mansi Tripathy, Vice President of Commercial Lubricants at Shell, to give the award.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Mansi Tripathy.
[Text displays]
Mansi Tripathy, Vice President Commercial Lubricants APME, Shell.
Mansi Tripathy
Hi Colin. On behalf of the panel of judges, I am very excited to be presenting the award today. I must say that the entries were very impressive, both from the point of thinking, as well as the energy which they brought in to the spectrum.
[Video footage]
Quick montage of split screens showing the three finalist teams. They have expressions of anticipation.
Mansi Tripathy
To announce today's winner for the Decarbonising Road Freight Transport challenge from Shell Lubricants, DTU Supermileage from India.
[Text displays]
And the winner is.
[Video footage]
Spit screen showing six members of the DTU Supermileage team. They are celebrating, raising their arms and punching the air. Emoji icons showing various faces, hearts, thumbs up, and clapping hands rise up from the bottom of the screen, reminiscent of a balloon release.
[Text displays]
DTU Supermileage
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
Colin Furze
Unbelievable, great work from everyone, and very well-deserved winners.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Norman Koch.
Norman Koch
Fantastic, well done. So many solutions put forward, and I am particularly interested in how the CO2 capture could be made a reality. Thanks again to all the teams. I hope to some of these in action one day.
Tracking and Reducing Vehicle CO2 Emissions Award
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A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Video footage]
Split screen showing Norman Koch to the left, and a box with the Microsoft logo and the name of the award to the right.
[Text displays]
Microsoft, Tracking and Reducing Vehicle CO2 Emissions.
Norman Koch
Our second award for the Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions from Vehicles challenge with Microsoft. The teams who were short listed were Alamat UP from the Philippines, AlecTED from Turkey, and Ecocar from University of Alberta, Canada.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Norman Koch. Cut to split screen showing six members of Alamat UP. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
Alamat UP.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing five members of AlecTED. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
AlecTED
[Video footage]
Split screen showing six members of University of Alberta Ecocar. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
University of Alberta Ecocar.
Norman Koch
Let's see how they did.
[Animated sequence]
Large red button shows in the middle of the screen with a 3D box and a 3D gear. The Microsoft logo shows with the name of the award.
[Text displays]
Tracking and Reducing Vehicle CO2 Emissions with Microsoft.
[Animated sequence]
The stylized car track background. The name of the team appears in white.
[Text displays]
Alamat UP.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four Alamat UP team members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide titled tutorial mode is shown. On the slide is a mobile phone showing Eco-driving tips.
Alamat UP team member
Helpful tips, how to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing five judges.
Judge
Help me understand how you're thinking about the mapping component in particular.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four Alamat UP team members.
Alamat UP team member
The main map that we will be using is Azure Maps, which is part of Microsoft's cloud service.
[Animated sequence]
The name of the team appears in white against the stylised car track background.
[Text displays]
AlecTED.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four AlecTED team members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide shows titled entering procedure from Echelon Community. Three cars on a road are shown.
AlecTED team member
The main purpose of the Echelon concept is decreasing the total amount of carbon dioxide emission.
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
Colin Furze
Great idea, looking up at a flock of birds, and thinking, wait a minute, why don't we all drive like that?
[Animated sequence]
The name of the team appears in white against the stylised car track background.
[Text displays]
University of Alberta Ecocar.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing two University of Alberta Ecocar team members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide showing three mobile phone screens showing a map, a route finder, and some line graphs. Cut to split screen showing the two team members.
University of Alberta Ecocar team member
Much like popular navigation apps, the user will enter their destination before their trip, and Eco tools choose the most efficient route.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing five judges.
Judge
That was a better pitch than a similar type of technology that I saw from a professional company in Europe, recently.
[Animated sequence]
A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
Colin Furze
Fingers crossed for all the students. Now, please welcome Alex Robart, Energy Industry Strategy Leader from Microsoft to announce the winning team.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Alex Robart.
[Text displays]
Alex Robart, Energy Industry Strategy Leader, Microsoft.
Alex Robart
Hello Colin. First of all, I'd really like to thank Shell for giving us at Microsoft the opportunity to participate in such a phenomenal program. This is by nature a very global problem. It was really exciting all the innovative ideas that people brought to the table, many of which, I think will ultimately be adopted in the future. So, thank you to everyone for allowing us to participate. We're excited at Microsoft that we had so many people who chose to submit and present for us. So, thank you.
[Video footage]
Quick montage of split screens showing team members from the three finalist teams. They all have expressions of anticipation.
Alex Robart
With that, let's get to the exciting part. The winner of the Tracking and Reducing CO2 Emissions challenge with Microsoft is the Alamat UP team from the Philippines.
[Text displays]
And the winner is.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing six members of Alamat UP team. They are celebrating, raising their arms and punching the air. One of them holds a sign saying UP fight. Emoji icons showing various faces, hearts, thumbs up, and clapping hands rise up from the bottom of the screen, reminiscent of a balloon release.
[Text displays]
Alamat UP.
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
Colin Furze
Unbelievable. Great work from everybody, and very well-deserved winners.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Norman Koch.
Norman Koch
Congratulations also from me. Smart technology is just so important in our daily lives, and has such a potential for the future. It would be fantastic to see these ideas come to fruition.
Decarbonising the Home Award
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A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Video footage]
Split screen showing Norman Koch on the left and a box showing the name of the competition on the right.
[Text displays]
Shell Energy, Decarbonising the Home.
Norman Koch
Time for the third challenge. Decarbonising the Home with Shell Energy. The teams who were shortlisted are Team H2Polito from Italy, Team Kaizen from India, and Brazil's E4 UFSC.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Norman Koch. Cut to split screen showing six members of Team H2Polito. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
Team H2Polito, Molecole Urbane.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing six members of Team Kaizen. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
Team Kaizen.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing six members of E4 UFSC. They smile and wave.
[Text displays]
E4 UFSC.
Norman Koch
Let's see a brief recap.
[Animated sequence]
Animation of gears and cogs with a red button near the top. The Shell logo is shown with the name of the contest.
[Text displays]
Decarbonising the Home, Shell Energy.
[Animated sequence]
The name of the team appears in white against the stylised car track background.
[Text displays]
Team Kaizen
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four Team Kaizen members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A title slide is shown which reads Shell Eco Marathon 2021 Global Virtual League, Pitch the Future, Decarbonising Home with the Shell and Team Kaizen logos. This is replaced by an animated slide showing the process of a carbon filter working with an HVAC unit.
Team Kaizen team member
We embrace the idea of green home AC unit is retrofitted with a special carbon filter, and carbon dioxide is extracted.
[Video footage]
Closeup of Elvin Nagamootoo.
[Text displays]
Elvin Nagamootoo, Head of Product - Shell Energy, Shell
Elvin Nagamootoo
Well done, great presentation. A really diverse range of solutions.
[Animated sequence]
The name of the team appears in white against the stylised car track background.
[Text displays]
Team H2Polito, Molecole Urbane.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing four Team H2Polito members in small insets at the lower part of the screen. A larger box above shows excerpts from their pitch. A slide filled with rows of simply drawn houses shows. Most are brown but a few are highlighted in blue. The words installed in all the dwellings are superimposed.
Team H2Polito team member
They systems will deliver better performance and greater savings in a huge variety of ways.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing five judges.
Judge
What can I say, I would have loved to listen to you even longer.
[Animated sequence]
The name of the team appears in white against the stylised car track background.
[Text displays]
E4 UFSC.
[Video footage]
Closeup of a member of E4 UFSC.
E4 UFSC team member
Our idea consists of a website that helps the user to make smart and conscious decisions about the house they are going to build.
[Video footage]
Split screen showing five judges.
Judge
It's very focused and single-minded. Very refreshing and inspiring in equal measure.
[Animated sequence]
A yellow stylised car track forms an arch above the Shell logo. A small aerodynamic car is on the track. Words show in white against a turquoise background.
[Text displays]
Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
[Video footage]
Colin Furze in his workshop.
Colin Furze
Love those, and some great presentations, too. Fingers crossed for all of you. Now, let's welcome Colin Crooks, CEO of Shell Energy Retail, to announce the winning team.
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Colin Crooks, CEO at Shell Energy, Shell Energy.
Colin Crooks
Hey, Colin, how's it going? Good to see you again. What a fabulous Pitch the Future, all the entries, the creativity, the new technologies, how to get people thinking about what they can do to help in the energy transition. Really well done to all the teams, your passion, your dedication, creativity and delivery really shone through.
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Colin Crooks
And now, the winner of Decarbonising the Home with Shell Energy is E4 UFSC from Brazil.
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And the winner is.
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E4 UFSC
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Colin Crooks
Congratulations, team, [non-English].
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Colin Furze
Unbelievable. Great work from everybody. Very well-deserved winners.
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Norman Koch
I liked the way all the teams looked at this in different ways, and in terms of the winning idea, starting from the building and redefining how our construction industry works could be a major opportunity.
Electric Vehicle Battery Charging Award
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Shell Recharge, Electric Vehicle Battery Charging.
Norman Koch
Last but not least, it's the fourth and final award for Electric Vehicle and Battery Charging with Shell Recharge. The teams who were shortlisted are, ETA from India, Ecogenium from Germany, Ecocar Unicamp from Brazil, and CCE Collective from the US.
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ETA.
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Ecogenium.
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Ecocar Unicamp.
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CCE Collective.
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Norman Koch
Let's see another brief recap.
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Electric Vehicle and Battery Charging, Shell Recharge.
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ETA.
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ETA team member
Information will further help the user to reduce his or her range anxiety.
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Tommaso Volpe, Global Motorsport Director Nissan and Infiniti, Nissan.
Tommaso Volpe
How do you manage the randomness of the journey? There is always a randomness element, like in racing, by the way.
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Ecogenium.
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Ecogenium team member
Our idea in one sentence is optimise for a lifetime, not just for a journey.
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Judge
There is a lot of deep understanding of human insight, and I think they've nailed that point very well.
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Ecocar Unicamp.
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Ecocar Unicamp team member
Our solution is an app that creates personalised routes selecting charging points and assimilating the environmental impact of the trip.
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Joerg Wienke, Vice President Global Retail Marketing, Shell.
Joerg Wienke
The different dimensions to deliver the most sustainable trip, I think that was really well done.
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CCE Collective.
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CCE Collective team member
The system can calculate and bring up an efficient route that takes into account factors such as temperature and population of a city.
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Christina Mallon, Global Head of Inclusive Design and Digital Accessibility, WPP.
Christina Mallon
It was just really simple, and I think that's always behind a really great idea.
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Colin Furze
Blimey, some real food for thought. Glad I'm not picking the winner. Good luck to you all. Now, let's welcome Joerg Wienke, Vice President of Global Retail Marketing at Shell, to announce the winner.
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Joerg Wienke, Vice President Global Retail Marketing, Shell.
Joerg Wienke
Hi, Colin, thank you very much. What was really impressive was to see the creativity, to see the innovation coming through all the digital models, algorithms used, and really impressive presentations as well.
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Joerg Wienke
The winner in the category, Electric Vehicle and Long Distance Travel with Shell Recharge, is Ecocar Unicamp from Brazil.
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And the winner is.
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Split screen showing six members of the Ecocar Unicamp team. They are celebrating, raising their arms and punching the air. Emoji icons showing various faces, hearts, thumbs up, and clapping hands rise up from the bottom of the screen, reminiscent of a balloon release.
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Ecocar Unicamp.
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Joerg Wienke
That was really great to see, and a well-deserved winner. Congratulations to the team in Brazil.
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Norman Koch
Excellent, well done. Again, as with some of the other challenges, smart technology is such an incredible tool that we can use to drive forward real change.
Special Guest Dean Aragon
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Colin Furze
That's the four challenges done, and what a competition. But before we get into the next set of prizes, I'd like to introduce a special guest, Shell's Global Head of Brand, Dean Aragon.
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Dean Aragon, CEO Shell Brands International and Global VP Brand, Shell.
Dean Aragon
Hey, Colin. Yeah, a lot of the entries were mind-blowing. I'm really, really proud of these young teams' ingenious thinking. The innovations, the progressive thinking, how they think of the entire ecosystem. But also, the creativity with which they presented their entries, their presentations. Each of the teams really understood the humanity of the people, the people that a lot of these technologies, a lot of these innovations are supposed to serve. Full marks on that one as well.
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Colin Furze
Oh, yeah, totally, couldn’t agree more. The future is definitely in capable hands.
Digital Literacy Awards
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Digital Literacy Award with Adobe.
Norman Koch
Coming up now, we've got the Digital Literacy Award with Adobe.
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Colin Furze
Over to Mark Andrews, Strategic Development Manager at Adobe Education, with our three winners.
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Mark Andrews, Strategic Development Manager, Adobe Education.
Mark Andrews
We want to thank all of the teams for entering this challenge. At Adobe, digital literacy is the power to use digital tools to solve problems, to create innovative projects, and enhance communications. It's my pleasure to announce the winners of the Digital Literacy Awards with Adobe. In third place, we have Garuda UNY Eco from Indonesia.
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Footage of the Garuda pitch is shown. A live narrator appears on screen next to a stylised small red car with a driver leaning out of the window. Symbols indicating wireless connectivity surround the car. The car is replaced by text, driver's suggest warning. The live narrator flashes from the right to the left of the screen, and a small cartoon car carrying overhead luggage appears next to a large phone screen displaying the CO2 SDA app. Speech bubbles are used to call out items on the phone display. The car and phone screen are replaced by an animated hand holding a pen, which draws a graph showing fuel consumption.
Mark Andrews
The Garuda Team's use of Illustrator to visualise system flows, XD to develop an app prototype, culminating with some impressive video production that utilise Premiere and After Effects to construct an engaging and polished pitch, which was super-impressive.
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Mark Andrews
In second place, Galway Energy Efficient Car from Ireland.
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Mark Andrews
Using Adobe XD to design and prototype their app, and then using Premiere to craft an evocative and powerful video presentation that used both stock and self-shot footage. This was coupled with a strong narrative and structure to communicate the problem and showcase their solution.
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Mark Andrews
In first place, DJS Miles from India.
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Footage from the DJS Miles pitch is shown. An animated avatar narrator is at the bottom left of the screen. A house with cutaway to show a family in their living room is behind the avatar. On the right side of the screen are symbols for CO2 and radiation. The house and symbols is replaced by a stylised street scene of a town centre area, showing shopfronts and a sidewalk café. Traffic is passing in front of the buildings. The avatar gestures to different areas of the scene.
Mark Andrews
The DJS submission thoughtfully used motion graphics and avatar narration combined with well-crafted scripts that communicated the challenge and solution in a clear way.
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Mark Andrews
We were universally impressed by all of the submissions. Each submission brought something different and highly original.
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Colin Furze
Unbelievable. Great work from everybody, and very well-deserved winners. Dean, back to you for some final thoughts. Can't wait for next year, I expect.
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Dean Aragon, CEO Shell Brands International and Global VP Brand, Shell.
Dean Aragon
You know, Colin, I believe that this is what we need to keep on doing. I think Pitch the Future is now going to be a very important, if not a pillar, of the entire Shell Eco-Marathon ecosystem. Maybe we can also ask the students, what would they love to crack, in terms of solving today's energy problems or today's energy opportunities. I look forward to the 2021 edition of the Shell Eco-Marathon Pitch the Future. Watch this space.
Colin Furze Choice Award
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Colin Furze
Ah, but we're not done yet. Nope, there is time for one more award. The Colin Furze Choice Award.
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Colin's Choice Award
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Colin Furze
Now then, I was looking for an idea which was completely unexpected, some real out of the box thinking. The winning team, which I've chosen, is, drum roll, AlecTED from Turkey.
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AlecTED
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Colin Furze
What they had done, I thought was amazing. They'd looked up at the sky, saw how birds fly in a V-shaped formation, and they do this for efficiency. The first bird takes all the aero-impact, and then the ones behind it have a little bit of an easier job. They thought, we should do that when we're driving our cars. We should have the most aerodynamic car at the front, and then it tails off in different range, right up to a big boxy thing at the back. To apply what you're seeing in the sky, and put that down into traffic, that's really good thinking, that is. That is why you get the Colin Furze choice award.
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Colin Furze
But you don't just get it with me saying it. Oh, no. I've made you a special trophy. Check that out. That is going to be coming in the post all the way to you. Thank you very much. Now, back to Norman.
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AlecTED.
Norman Koch
Thanks Colin, and well done to AlecTED from Turkey.
Special Commendations
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Norman Koch
Before we close, there were a couple of teams that wanted to give a special commendation to. Firstly, Galway Energy Efficient Car from Ireland.
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Galway Energy Efficient Car.
Norman Koch
They were the regional winners of the Road Freight challenge, and received second place in the Adobe Digital Literacy Award, and managed to submit their ideas to all Pitch the Future challenges.
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Norman Koch
The team did a phenomenal job across all these categories they entered, and the scores were extremely tight. So, well done to the team. A lot of hard work there, and some amazing results for you.
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Norman Koch
Secondly, I wanted to call out a few teams new to Shell Eco-Marathon that go through the global finals, and gave us some incredible presentations.
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Ecogenium.
Norman Koch
Ecogenium from Germany.
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AlecTED.
Norman Koch
AlecTED from Turkey.
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CCE Collective.
Norman Koch
And CCE Collective from the US. This is the first time all three have participated in Shell Eco-Marathon. What a year to start, guys. Well done, teams.
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Ecogenium
Norman Koch
The judges also wanted to give a special recognition to team Ecogenium for such a creative and engaging presentation right through the competition. Fantastic job, team.
Conclusion
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Norman Koch
But as you all know, this isn't the end. We still have a range of virtual activities over the next six months. We will see which team becomes the new virtually global champion, and hopefully, we'll also see many of you back on the track in the summer of next year. It fills me with great pride that we have been able to continue learning together and even holding competitions during these challenging times. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the teams for their ongoing passion and dedication to the program. Let me wish everyone a happy new year, and I'm looking forward to seeing you all very soon.
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Colin Furze
There we go, over eight weeks of competition, 13 amazing pitches. Well done to all the winners. Of course, if you want to watch any of the pitches, just head to makethefuture.shell/pitch. And that was Pitch the Future.
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