Graduates, undergraduates, and post-graduate students across the country have been invited to submit innovative ideas for using technology to transform India. Accenture, in partnership with Yahoo! India, has launched the fourth season of #Innovation Jockeys: The hunt for India’s most innovative minds.

The aim is to discover home-grown innovators since innovation is needed to reignite industry sectors, and the way forward is disruptive innovation. This year’s contest is to focus on disruptive technology innovations related to the themes ‘Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things’ and ‘Digital Application Marketplace’.

The programme provides a platform to budding innovators to showcase their ideas. In the previous three seasons, the programme drew over 7,180 idea submissions from over 900 campuses, and more than 125,300 newsletter sign-ups from students at more than 1,000 colleges across India.

Raghavan Iyer, Managing Director, Technology Delivery and Innovation Council lead for Accenture in India, said the programme aims to discover India’s next generation of innovators, “young people with drive, passion and creativity who will make a difference in the way businesses and society function.”

This year’s contest winners will be selected by a renowned jury, consisting of Ravi Gururaj, Chair-Product Council and Member-Executive Council, Nasscom; Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Unni Aravindakshan, Vice-President-Production Engineering and Head, Yahoo! Software Development India; Raj Dam, Founder, QuizWorks; Vinay Gupta, CEO, Via.com; Nandini Vaidyanathan, CMD, CARMa Venture Services and Alok Goyal, Partner at Helion Advisors.

Each member of the winning team is to receive a trip to Accenture Technology Labs, San Francisco, a Lenovo tablet and an Apple iPhone 6. Winning entries for each category will also receive an Apple iPad and a Pebble Smart Watch. The five most popular ideas will win an Amazon Kindle, the company has said.

The deadline for submitting entries is September 20. The winners will be announced on November 6 in Bengaluru.