HKUST Track Platinum Award

Team Name: Pest0
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: Pest0 is a world-first, patent-pending solution that produces natural pest-repellent pellets. These pellets, made from recycled rubber, essential oils, and nanoparticles, effectively keep pests at bay. It is eco-friendly, reusable, and safe, giving 10 times more protection than our competitors. This helps property owners achieve a pest-free environment.

HKUST Track Sliver Award

Team Name:  EC Innovation Limited
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability; Others (Agricultural Technology)
Brief Description: EC Innovation Limited aims to construct a low-cost and low-emission perpetual planting ecosystem through innovative electrocatalytic technology. Its mission is to contribute towards circular economy from the agricultural landscape and simultaneously save aquatic life.

GF Innovation Award

Team Name: Pest0
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: Pest0 is a world-first, patent-pending solution that produces natural pest-repellent pellets. These pellets, made from recycled rubber, essential oils, and nanoparticles, effectively keep pests at bay. It is eco-friendly, reusable, and safe, giving 10 times more protection than our competitors. This helps property owners achieve a pest-free environment.

International Student Track Platinum Award

Team Name: HydroTech Solutions
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: HydroTech Solutions makes cost-effective, high performance proton exchange membrane electrodes with 15% greater hydrogen production with 70% more cost-effective materials in an IP-backed, proprietary catalyst formulation. With value propositions and market demand already validated, affordable hydrogen is at your fingertips.

International Student Track Gold Award

Team Name: Pawsible Foods
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare; Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Pawsible Foods utilizes advanced fermentation technology with filamentous fungi to convert food side streams into Kavaka™ Mycoprotein, addressing the urgent need for scalable, nutrient-dense protein alternatives. Their work directly targets global food security and the commercialization of sustainable food products.

International Student Track Sliver Award

Team Name: Empathera
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: Empathera is dedicated to improving patient safety and alleviating caretaker burden by leveraging data-driven insights to prevent disease. The team leverages diverse experiences, ranging from electrical engineering students to medical students, to enable uniquely comprehensive medical device innovation.

Elevator Pitch Award

Team Name: Empathera
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: Empathera is dedicated to improving patient safety and alleviating caretaker burden by leveraging data-driven insights to prevent disease. The team leverages diverse experiences, ranging from electrical engineering students to medical students, to enable uniquely comprehensive medical device innovation.

Team Name: Libpet
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare; Robotics & AI
Brief Description: Libpet provides innovative stair-climbing robots designed to assist individuals with disabilities. This solution aims to improve their mobility and independence, helping them navigate stairs safely and efficiently, thereby enhancing their overall quality of life. 

Team Name:  VisionDrop AI
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability; Robotics & AI; Social Services & Enterprise
Brief Description: VisionDrop AI presents the QiFlow water test, a kit which combines the convenience of home testing with the accuracy of lab tests. Utilizing a novel and affordable microfluidic chip capable of conducting 15 simultaneous chemical tests, and an AI-powered app for precise quantitative analyses, QiFlow empowers anyone to detect various pollutants in drinking water, from heavy metals to microplastics.

Sustainability Impact Award

Team Name:  Apeirocycle
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare; Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Apeirocycle develops enzymatic plastic uprecycling technology to transform plastic waste into raw materials for new plastics. Their mission is to enable infinite plastic recycling and pave the way for a circular economy by delinking plastics and fossil fuels.

Team Name:  InsectX
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: InsectX harnesses the power of black soldier flies to transform food waste into biodiesel, promoting sustainability in the local fuel market. Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, InsectX leads the charge in innovative waste management and renewable energy solutions. 

Team Name:  VisionDrop AI
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability; Robotics & AI; Social Services & Enterprise
Brief Description: VisionDrop AI presents the QiFlow water test, a kit which combines the convenience of home testing with the accuracy of lab tests. Utilizing a novel and affordable microfluidic chip capable of conducting 15 simultaneous chemical tests, and an AI-powered app for precise quantitative analyses, QiFlow empowers anyone to detect various pollutants in drinking water, from heavy metals to microplastics.

HKUST Student Team Award

Team Name:  Apeirocycle
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare; Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Apeirocycle develops enzymatic plastic uprecycling technology to transform plastic waste into raw materials for new plastics. Their mission is to enable infinite plastic recycling and pave the way for a circular economy by delinking plastics and fossil fuels.

Team Name:  Hybay Semiconductors
Focus Area(s): Microelectronics / Semi-conductor
Brief Description: Hybay Semiconductors provides a low-cost solution to deliver high-performance power devices by combining the merits of GaN and SiC for high-power high voltage applications. By reducing the cost, high-end EVs (adopted 800V platform) can be more affordable, and more efficient power can be supplied to the data center for AI training and inference, paving the way for more advanced AI tools.

Team Name:  JT Space
Focus Area(s): Others (Space science and technology)
Brief Description: Bringing the power of e-commerce, data analysis, and automation to the clothing resale industry. Based on Hong Kong's geographical advantages and the university's technological advantages in low-cost micro-nano satellites, scientific payloads, and data computing, JT Space aims to provide remote-sensing services to the government, large enterprises and scientific research institutions.

Best Video Award

Team Name:  Apeirocycle
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare; Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Apeirocycle develops enzymatic plastic uprecycling technology to transform plastic waste into raw materials for new plastics. Their mission is to enable infinite plastic recycling and pave the way for a circular economy by delinking plastics and fossil fuels.