Past events & Award winners

Hack Award 2019

Building upon the past line-up of “Digital Health”, “Travel Tech”, and “Smart City”, this year we are adding “Sports Tech” and “Food Tech” to the themes covered in our entrepreneurial idea & business model competition, the Business Plan Contest.

Overview

Date　

March 13th (Wed.), 2019, 15:30-17:00

Award winners

Gold

NIRAMAI Health Analytix Private Limited / India

a software to detect breast cancer with examinationradiation-free, non-touch, not painful and works for women of all ages

Silver

No new folk studio Inc. / Japan

the world’s first Smart Shoes Platform which analyzes various kinetic data from your feet such as walking, running, kicking, jumping and dancing

Bronze

Fooyo

app for tourists including smart navigation, smart itinerary planer, smart passbook, and dynamic suggestion system

O-BIC Prize

Acumen Research Laboratories

a prototype manual assay test kit as an early “red-flag” indicator of sepsis

The Past Winners

Award 2018

Gold

Dot watch (Eric Ju Yoon Kim / South Korea)

the world’s very first, mass-producible,micro-braille actuator

Silver

Eye control (Tania Suares / Israel)

A new wearable and affordable solution for "locked-in" patients

Bronze

Remo (Haruumi Shiode / Japan)

Let "Remo" take control of your air conditioner and save energy with convenience and comfort

Carbyne (Iris Hermon / Israel)

multi-national emergency communication platform for public safety

Other

  • BLOODHERO (Joselito Barquez / Philippines)
  • Oui reward (Ugo Weyl / France)
  • Yiyuan (Dr. Zhili Wu / China)
  • Travelio (Christie Amanda / Indonesia)
  • BackTech (Kimiko Motoyama / Japan)
  • protectiq (Sergey Shayakhmetov / Russia/UAE)

Award 2017

Gold

Docquity (Indrranil Roychowdhury / Singapore)

Asia's fastest growing network for medical professional

Silver

Holiday-Sitters (Ela Slutski / Holland)

top-quality, fully-vetted babysiters who speaks your language that is as easy and reliable to book as a hotel room or restaurant reservation

Bronze

MARUI Plugin (Max Krichenbauer / Japan/Osaka)

a plug-In for Autodesk Maya that allows you to do your modeling and animation work in VR

Other

Award 2016

Gold

Pawnhero (David Margendorff / Philippine)

an online pawnshop where anyone can submit a pawn request anytime, anywhere

Silver

podaris (Nathan Koren / UK/London)

a powerful tools for proposal development and feasibility studies that let you create transport plans

Bronze

shipwise (Alexander Malov / Spain)

The faster, easiest way to book & manage your international freight shipments

Other

Award 2015

Gold

mclinica (Farouk Meralli / Philipine)

digital networks of pharmacies all over Asia

Silver

BLAZE(Blaze is now Beryl.) (Emily Brooke / UK/London)

Lazer light to make cycling safer

Bronze

Up Performa (Shuhei Yamada / Japan/Osaka)

wearable device of player tracking system

Other

  • Smart Checkups (Didier Vermeiren / Germany/Berlin)
  • Cashboard (Robert Henker / Germany/Berlin)
  • M SQUARE　LLC (Miwa Jojo / Japan/Kobe)
  • Cofame (Kanji Noguchi / Japan/Osaka)
  • INGAGE Inc. (Tetsuya Wada / Japan/Osaka)
  • DigitAddress (Wang Wei / Japan/Osaka)
  • Stamp (Opie Lopansri / Thailand/Bangkok)

Award 2014

Gold

Waygo Inc. (Ryan Rogowski / USA/California)

point and translate, no internet required

Silver

TransferGo Ltd. (Dvilinskas Daumantas / UK/London)

Transfer service to send money completely FREE with real exchange rate and no transfer fees

Bronze

StudyPact Ltd. (Tobias Hoenisch / Japan/Tokyo)

Crowd funded motivation platform for self studying

Other