Sprint’26
R O U N D 1 — P R O B L E M S TAT E M E N T
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT CASE COMPETITION · ADOBE × IIM AHMEDABAD · BANGALORE · CALCUTTA · LUCKNOW · FMS DELHI · SPJIMR
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M E E T A D O B E S T U D E N T S P A C E S
Adobe Student Spaces
is an AI-powered study hub built into Acrobat, helping students turn their class materials
into flashcards, quizzes, study guides, podcasts, video summaries and more, and all grounded in information from
users’ own documents and content. Launched in April 2026 and shaped by collaboration with students at
universities worldwide, it reflects Adobe’s broader mission to power how people learn, create, and grow through
digital experiences. (
https://acrobat.adobe.com/studentspaces/home
)
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W H Y I N D I A , W H Y N O W
India is home to one of the largest and most ambitious higher-education populations in the world. They are
diverse in language, intensely exam-driven, and increasingly mobile-first and AI-curious. For a global platform like
Student Spaces, India is not just another market to localize for, it is an opportunity to shape what daily,
indispensable study habits look like, and at a scale that very few markets in the world can offer.
Businesses and products that win in India today do so by deeply understanding local learning behavior, trust, and
context, while building for genuine scale. The opportunity for Student Spaces is to move from early promise to
becoming the platform that India’s students return to, every day.
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R O U N D 1 — W H A T T O S U B M I T
FO R M AT
One single-slide solution, submitted as
a .pdf.
I D E N T I F Y
Add a slide footer:
Team Name_Phone Number of
Team Leader
A DVA N C E
Shortlisted teams dive deeper into
their idea in the rounds that follow.
Adobe Student Spaces
https://acrobat.adobe.com/studentspaces/home
SPRINT’26
· IIM A · B · C · L · FMS · SPJIMR
T H E C A S E
Innovating for India:
Powering How India Learns,
One Student at a Time.
India is one of the world’s largest, most ambitious, mobile-first and AI-curious higher-education markets —
a chance to shape what daily, indispensable study looks like, at a scale very few markets on earth can offer.
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T H E M A N D A T E
10M+
T H E T A R G E T
higher-education students,
every month, in India
So, what does it take to make Adobe Student Spaces the
default learning platform
for
10M+ higher education students every month in India? Devise the product strategy to
scale the platform and evolve it to be a
hub for daily student activity
.
