2017 TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES is happening this Saturday @ QBO Innovation Hub

Leave a Nest Co. Ltd. will host TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES on May 27th, 2017 at QBO Innovation Hub, Makati, Manila. This Demo Day series in Asia Pacific is the showcase of very early stage deep technology startups & pre-startups.

 

Overview of TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES
Date: Saturday 27th May
Time: 13:00~19:30 (Venue open from 12:00)
Place: QBO Innovation Hub   1209, 375 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Ave, Makati, Kalakhang Maynila, the Philippines
Capacity: First 80 people to register in the following form
:https://goo.gl/forms/wZdjE6OQdRNSoOWO2

Twelve selected teams will give presentations about their business ideas based on their technology. The teams have worked on their ideas and presentation with mentors from Leave a Nest to this day.

Many teams are from major universities in the Philippines, such as University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, De La Salle University Lipa, Ateneo University, Bohol Island State University, Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University. Also many teams are from deep technology area.

All participating teams are as follows:

	Team	Theme
1	Fablab Bohol	Waste Plastic Up- Cycling
2	Sustainable Electronic Materials (SEM) Group	Nanometallink
3	Team PAGED	Microcontroller-based Blood Agglutination Detector and Coagulation Analyzer
4	ITDI-DOST TEAM	Philippine Carrageenan Hard Capsules
5	Myo Surgical	Biomechanical Big Data in Laparoscopic Surgery and Training
6	Team UBE-Tech	Novel Powdering Technology of Purple Yam
7	MiBAS	MiBAS: Mind Based Alert System Intended for Paralyzed Patients
8	Team Aquaponics	Arduino Based Aquaponics System
9	Energy Section	Microemulsified Hybrid Fuel
10	Hydroplus Technologies	Hydro+: Integrated Water and Energy Conservation System
11	Smart Lab	Polyacrylonitrile Coated Kapok Microtubes Decorated with Cu-based Nanoparticles
12	MVM	Vending Machine for Over the Counter Medicines and Other First Aid Needs

This event is supported by THK CO., LTD, FUJIFILM Corporation, Hamano Products.Co.,Ltd, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., QBO Innovation Hub, UP Enterprise, De La Salle University, Ateneo Innovation Center, and Adamson University.

■About TECH PLANTER Asia Pacific
TECH PLANTER is a unique seed acceleration program for REAL TECH (generally called as deep tech) startups. Since 2014, we’ve supported more than 70 early stage teams in Japan. And as a result, ca. 50 mil USD fund raising our teams were given from various sources including VCs, national grants, and etc.

In Asia Pacific countries such as in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, India, Thailand, and the Philippines, more than 200 teams applied to our program in 2016. The combination of academic researchers, business ideas, and big companies’ partners from Japan, provides one and only community where scientists & technologists can explore the business field. The program also provides the show case event of each team’s idea to our partner companies from Japan.

Tech Planter is currently traveling the world, already done in India and Malaysia, and will be in Thailand on June 3rd. The winner from these rounds will be invited to join the Asia Pacific Final in Singapore on July 29th .

■Upcoming Demo Day events

• Thai round:Saturday June 3rd  *Still accepting application!
• Singapore round (Asia Pacific finals): Saturday, July 29th   *Still accepting application!

For the Thai round and Singapore round, we are still accepting application. To apply for the event, please apply from this website: http://en.techplanter.com/

Press release for India round on 29th April here.
Press release for Malaysia round on 13th May here.

■Official Website

• Tech Planter http://en.techplanter.com/
• DEMO DAY in the PHILIPPINES https://en.techplanter.com/phillipines/
• TECH PLANTER World Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/techplanterW/

 

■Inquiries
Any questions or inquiries for this event, please e-mail us: [email protected]
Attention to Wakako Tajima or Ryuta Takeda in Global Platform Development Division.