「深水埗﹒青年創新路」座談會

蕭觀明先生 （香港科技大學創業中心創業項目主管）

一位坐唔定，八足咁多爪的「資深年輕人」，被笑稱為「科大黑客松之父」。做事喜歡創新、突破常規、超越自己，因此經常被老闆派去解決啲問題原本難以解決嘅問題，所以個腦被迫進化為能為問題想出另類解決方法的特異功能。樂見年輕人及學生的成長和成功，所以經常為他們的個人及創業發展提供指引和協助。

Miss Anushka PUROHIT (Breer Limited;香港科技大學學生）

Anushka 是一位香港出生的印度女學生。她是位連續創業者，成功將剩餘轉化為可飲用啤酒並推出市場，以創新思維及社創模式發展、支持環保計劃的實施。她也是多個創業比賽的常客及獎金得主。

Waste is not waste until you waste it - Breer is a food upcycling startup that reduces bread waste and utilizes it in the brewing of beer. We introduce a novel taste of beer into the Asian market, while remonetizing otherwise wasted resources. Beer is brewed with 3 main ingredients: 78% barley, 13% hops and 9% yeast. Through supporting the local brewing businesses, we replace the 78% of barley needed for beer, with bread.

CASS√ÅNDRA is a monthly perfume subscription concept for men and women, available on the website and app. Our partners include top brands and authorized distributors of authentic and genuine fragrances.  Each month, customers will only have to pay HKD 80 for premiere brands and HKD 100 for luxury brands to become our member, which will then receive one 8ml perfume bottle. By providing a service for customers to collect fragrances every month, they would be able to pick a scent based on their mood on a particular day.  We are planning to have 100+ choices of perfume brands for the customers to choose from at the initial stage and will be adding more perfume choices in the future. By subscribing to our perfume, customers will have complete control to discover their choice of fragrance without burning a hole in their pocket or contributing to more wasted perfume in the market.

Classflip focus in providing forum service in education sector. Users could get academic help via interact with Creators in our ClassFlip community by posting their questions. We also provide job posing service for Users to hire private tutors from the Creators community for their regular academic support.

Evergreen focuses on designing and developing smart wearable somatosensory game application solutions, it innovates the way of gaming by providing physical interaction incentives with affordable and handy gadgets to promote the awareness of physical wellness and rehabitation under the social distancing limitation caused by COVID-19 pandemic.

Flash Green is a social enterprise that focuses on recycling residual stock of short-dated best-before date products and redistributing them to people from different subgroups through vending machines and the companion mobile APP. New features like product reservation, automated price adjusting, and auto-discount functions are added to the traditional retail model of vending machines through IoT and real-time telemetry technologies.
Through the integration of technology and sustainability, Flash Green is fostering a smart and sustainable campus and office culture dedicated to reducing unnecessary food waste through debunking the misconception of Best-before Date and promoting responsible consumptions behavior like purchasing the shirt-dated products first.

StevTech Limited operates SuiGor, the first-ever Cantonese Personal Finance Chatbot in Hong Kong. Our mission is to help users achieve their personal financial goals through an intuitive and fun virtual assistant, which assists users in building a financial tracking habit and learn about their own personal finances through AI-generated insights.

Our product helps users build a more disciplined financial tracking habit to understand their spending patterns; and act as the rational voice to halt or delay irrational spending decisions through conversing with users. Powered by AI, we approach young adults through personalised conversations and guide them to build their habits according to their unique needs.

Ultimately, we hope to be a financial educator for our users.