I applied on the 5th of April and received my endorsement for Exceptional Promise on the 19th of April. Thanks to everyone here, most especially @Francisca_Chiedu. Your posts and comments were of immense help. I learnt a whole lot throughout the process.
The final list of documents I submitted:
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Recommendation Letter 1 - Founder of digital tech non-profit and Professor of Machine Learning.
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Recommendation Letter 2 - Assistant Professor and Research Chair in Computational Neuroscience field. He has been my academic mentor.
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Recommendation Letter 3 - Serial Entrepreneur, founder of 3 tech companies and Former CISO who I connected with during a tech conference.
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CV
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Personal Statement
10 pieces of evidence:
MC: Internationally recognised award for excellence in the digital technology sector.
MC: Evidence of speaking at high-profile digital technology sector event with reference letter from the global Founder of the Machine Learning non-profit of 30k+ members.
MC: Evidence of leading the growth of a non-profit edtech organisation to train 10k+ students across 100 countries with reference letter co-signed by 3 senior executives.
MC: Evidence of assessing the work of others in the research community through peer reviewing of journals and conferences.
OC2: Open-source project at a UK AI research institute with Github commit and published work.
OC2: Evidence of mentorship at two non-profit organisations. One is a structured program where I designed an AI coursebook, disseminated across secondary schools in the UK. The second was a mentorship role in a remote internship program on applications of AI and IoT in Agriculture.
OC2: Evidence of speaking at sector-leading events.
OC4: Letter of support from research supervisor, a Professor of Intelligent Systems.
OC4: Evidence of peer-viewed presentations at two conferences.
OC4: Merit based-awards, excellent academic achievement, and research scholarship awards.