The Tech Next Challenge returns for its 8th edition. This year the spotlight will be on startups using autonomous intelligence to shape the next era of work.
For the first time, our challenge tracks map directly to how Accenture goes to market. That means every finalist gets a direct path to the Reinvention Partner that is best positioned to bring their solution into live client conversations, pilots and scaled deployments.
AI agents that detect, decide, and respond to threats autonomously across the enterprise attack surface.
Identity and access management built for a world where both humans and autonomous agents are first-class actors on the network.
Open-source security tooling reimagined for agent-native enterprise environments and the new threat surfaces they create.
Securing AI and GenAI workloads, plus continuous autonomous adversarial testing of enterprise defenses.
Self-optimizing cloud operations, financial operations, observability, and intelligent compute orchestration.
Data cleaning, unification, governance, virtualization, knowledge graphs, and synthetic data — infrastructure that runs itself and feeds autonomous systems.
Modernizing legacy estates into AI-native architectures, plus large language model operations (LLMops) and ModelOps backbone for production AI.
Foundation model infrastructure, inference optimization, graphics processing unit (GPU) and AI chip innovation, and workload orchestration.
Tokenized infrastructure, decentralized compute markets, and economic primitives for AI-native enterprise systems.
Agentic systems for record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, continuous close, and treasury.
AI for financial planning & analysis, scenario planning, working capital optimization, and real-time performance intelligence.
Autonomous controls testing, continuous audit, and tax and regulatory reporting.
Platforms that help the CFO move from reporting the past to autonomously deciding the future.
Domain-specific AI for Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, Telecom, Media, Energy, and Public Services.
Agents that stitch across traditionally siloed enterprise functions to run end-to-end business processes.
Enterprise-grade AI platforms and orchestration layers that make the entire organization agent-ready.
AI-led customer experience, contact-center agents, voice AI, and next-best-action systems that handle customer journeys end-to-end.
Generative and agentic systems for creative production, campaign orchestration, audience intelligence, and growth experimentation.
AI agents for B2B and B2C sales productivity, pipeline management, service resolution, and customer success.
Agent-led storefronts, conversational commerce, dynamic pricing, and autonomous personalization engines.
Physical AI, robotics, smart assets and self-operating industrial environments.
AI-driven, resilient and adaptive end-to-end supply chains.
Connected, continuously evolving and AI-embedded products.
AI-native design and engineering.
Simulation, digital twin–driven.
Agentic systems for talent acquisition, onboarding, performance, rewards, and employee service.
AI-led upskilling, personalized learning paths, and continuous capability development at enterprise scale.
Platforms defining how humans and autonomous agents collaborate — supervision, handoff, trust, and accountability.
Tools to reimagine roles, drive AI-native change, and design the employee experience for an agent-augmented workforce.
You are an early or growth-stage startup building defensible, technology-led innovation.
You solve enterprise-grade problems, not consumer or prosumer use cases.
You build solutions for autonomous AI, physical systems, infrastructure or operations.
You are headquartered in India, or have an Indian co-founder or established India operations/engineering in India
You have paid engagements — pilots or deployments — already delivered to enterprise clients.
The Challenge unlocked enterprise conversations that would have taken years to open on our own.
Join the 8th edition of the Accenture Tech Next Challenge
and take your solution into the heart of enterprise transformation.