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Passionate team nanolabLRC won the Grand Winner award of TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES 2019

Passionate team nanolabLRC won the Grand Winner award of TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES 2019

This is the 3rd year Leave a Nest conducted TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES on 18th May 2019 at QBO Innovation Hub, Makati, Philippines.

12 finalists were chosen out of 44 applications to showcase their core technology, business model and issues that they want to solve in front of the caliber judges from Leave a Nest, Mitsui Chemical Singapore R&D Pte. Ltd., Delightex Pte. Ltd., Brainsparks, DOST-UP Enterprise Center for Technopreneurship, Ideaspace Foundation, Nexus Innovation labs at De La Salle Lipa and QBO Innovation Hub. The finalists were from various backgrounds such as Agri Tech, Bio Tech, Deep Tech and IT.

Invited speaker Prof. Hidelisa Hernandez from The Fruitect Team was the grand winner of Tech Plan Demo Day in the Philippines 2018 shared about her experience and journey on Tech Planter program. She gave an energetic presentation together with encouragement words to the finalists. The Fruitect Team is working on development of fruit coating for shelf life extension of fresh fruits.

Keynote Speaker Prof. Hidelisa Hernandez from The Fruitect Team

This year, we introduced various awards from our partners. Passionate members from team nanolabLRC that working on nanomaterials electrode for electrochemical energy storage applications won Grand Winner prize. The winner received JPY 300,000 cash prize, return airfares and accommodation for 2 team members to join TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in SINGAPORE 2019 in the final regional round. Winner from Singapore round will be invited to join meeting in Tokyo Japan in March 2020.

Check it out the list of all winners below:

Grand Winner

Content: 300,000 JPY cash prize, round trip air tickets to Singapore and accommodation for 2 team members, and right to participate in TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in SINGAPORE 2019.
Team: nanolabLRC
Theme: Nanomaterials electrode for electrochemical energy storage applications

nanolabLRC won Grand Winner Award

Mitsui Chemicals Award

Content: 2,500 SGD cash prize
Team: PolyGone Recyclers
Theme: Corrosion-inhibiting product derived from plastic sachets

PolyGone Recyclers won Mitsui Chemicals Award

Delightex Award

Content: 2,500 SGD cash prize
Team: nanolabLRC
Theme: Nanomaterials electrode for electrochemical energy storage applications

nanolabLRC also won Delightex Award

Leave a Nest Special Award

Content: Support and Network
Team: Kometech
Theme: InfraDry-rice mechanical dryer

Kometech won Leave a Nest Special Award

Congratulations to all the winners! We look forward to the contribution of the winners as well as the finalists in solving world issues. The next TECH PLANTER event will be held in Vietnam on 1st of June 2019. Stay tuned!

Here is the upcoming Demo Day in the SEA region:

1 Jun Vietnam

6 Jul  Thailand

20 Jul Malaysia

3 Aug Singapore

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