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The Program That Flips Innovation Upside Down

Most innovation fails by solving the wrong problem. CIE Spark is a mandatory Problem Validation Sprint that trains PES University students to find, validate, and fall in love with problems before building solutions. Spark focuses exclusively on problem discovery and validation — solution-building is reserved for the follow-up program, CIE Ignite.

Spark → Ignite: The Complete Innovation Journey

Semester 3: CIE Spark — Master problem discovery and validation. Semester 4: CIE Ignite — Build and pitch solutions for validated problems.

Success Stories

Student ventures born from CIE include PocketCoach, Epicure Robotics, SmartChakra, Aalap.ai, Zeru, Draft42 and Authify. Industry partners like Intel, MathWorks and Agropak engage with Spark teams for strategic innovation.