Opportunities to innovate, traditionally, have been concentrated in India’s urban centres and metro cities, leaving young innovators spread across the larger area of the geography with limited access to structured problem-solving and mentorship.
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow’s Design Thinking Workshops, conducted across 100 cities in 2026, are helping bridge that gap by introducing students to a structured innovation process. As participants move through each stage of Design Thinking, they develop skills that extend well beyond the competition.
1. Human-Centric Problem Solving
Every meaningful innovation begins with understanding people before building technology. At Government Degree College, Baramulla, Zamin Anayat Lone discovered this while working through the empathize and define stages of Samsung’s Design Thinking framework. Instead of jumping to an AI solution, he examined emergency response gaps and community needs before shaping an AI-powered SOS application around a clearly defined problem.
2. Applying STEM to Real-World Challenges
Traffic congestion is becoming a growing concern in rapidly urbanising towns such as Bhiwadi. During the ideate and prototype stages, Veeru Kumar Verma from MSME Technology College explored how AI and real-time information systems could improve parking management. The exercise demonstrated how STEM concepts become more meaningful when applied to everyday challenges.
3. Entrepreneurial Thinking
Good ideas rarely succeed without guidance, mentorship and opportunities to test them. Through Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, students move beyond ideation into an innovation ecosystem that includes mentorship, incubation at FITT, IIT Delhi and incubation grants worth INR 2 crore for the top four teams. For Mohammad Atif from Kongu Engineering College, Erode, this shifted entrepreneurship from a classroom concept to a structured journey.
4. Collaborative Mindset
At New Era School, Ghaziabad, Disha Garg and Rashi Sharma learnt this by working through empathy mapping, stakeholder analysis and iterative problem-solving together before developing an AI-enabled application for India’s digital delivery ecosystem. The process reinforced the importance of building solutions through shared perspectives.
5. Purpose-Driven Innovation
The most valuable outcome of Design Thinking is learning to measure success by impact rather than novelty. At Shoolini University, Solan, Class XII student Mahek focused on solving a specific community challenge instead of pursuing an abstract idea.
By taking the methodology to inspire structured innovation in young innovators residing beyond the metro cities, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is expanding access to entrepreneurial skills that prepare young innovators to address real-world challenges.
