Dr. Who's Matt Smith hosted this Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2013 student technology competition in St. Petersburg, Russia. This year, three main prizes were awarded by Microsoft. Those prizes were awarded to the winners in the World Citizenship, Games and Innovation categories. These prizes of $50,000 each were won by teams from the U. K., Portugal and Austria.

The second and third place winners in these categories won $10,000 and $5,000 respectively. Portugal's Ana Ferraz claimed the World Citizenship award. Ana developed a system to quickly figure out a patient's blood type. Moreover, the system developed by Ana was inexpensive.

Second place was secured by Taiwan's Omni-Hearing Solution and Australia's Confufish Royale grabbed the third place.

Austria's Zeppelin studio grabbed the top prize in the games category for Schein. The game is a puzzle platformer. The second place was grabbed by Indonesia's Solite Studios and the third place was grabbed by France's Banzai Lightning

In the innovations category, Colinked out of the U. K. took the top prize for SoundSYNK. It is an application for a mobile phone to establish an "impromptu social network" by connecting phones through Bluetooth/Wi-Fi. DORA from Slovenia secured the second place, whereas Thailand's MYRA came in third.