HKUST Track Platinum Award

Team Name: Stellerus Technology Limited
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: Stellerus Technology Limited pioneers the Feilian Constellation, the world's first high-resolution 3D wind mapping constellation consisted of advanced, cost-effective, lightweight and easily scalable satellites to deliver hourly km-scale global 3D wind maps that empowers global climate resilient economy across industry verticals.

HKUST Track Silver Award

Team Name:  Lulusmiles
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: AI-powered tele-orthodontics for all. Leveraging SMARTLAB's cutting-edge AI, we reduce treatment time and cost, boost clinical efficiency and productivity, and extend care to remote underserved population via AI scans and monitoring - delivering safe, affordable, dentist-supervised, AI-designed clear aligner care.

GF Innovation Award

Team Name: Z-Omics Limited
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: Z-Omics empowers academic and pharmaceutical researchers with a proprietary platform to address cell heterogeneity. With single-cell technology revealing differences and interactions among cells, and microfluidics simplifying experimental processes and scaling up reactions, this high-resolution solution accelerates biomarker discovery, therapeutic target identification, and personalized medicine, enabling high-throughput high-content screening for scientific and pharmaceutical breakthroughs.

International Student Track Platinum Award

Team Name: Envirovex
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: Envirovex is pioneering a plug‑and‑play bioreactor that eliminates antibiotic waste at the source while recovering valuable by‑products. Our solution safeguards water resources, protects ecosystems, and preserves the effectiveness of life‑saving drugs. For wastewater treatment plants, it reduces long‑term costs, ensures regulatory compliance, and unlocks new revenue streams, supporting WHO’s fight against antimicrobial resistance.

International Student Track Gold Award

Team Name: MaternaSense
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: MaternaSense is a biotechnology company focused on improving women's healthcare through innovative solutions that empower physicians and patients to make informed decisions, enhance care experiences, and support better long-term health outcomes. 

International Student Track Sliver Award

Team Name: BACKEER
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: The project introduces a fiber-optic biosensor method for breast cancer biomarker detection, designed to support healthcare professionals in achieving earlier and more accurate diagnosis. By integrating photonic technologies with biochemistry, the biosensor identifies the CD44 biomarker with high sensitivity and specificity, enabling improved cancer monitoring and therapy assessment while enhancing efficiency and reliability in clinical diagnostics.

Elevator Pitch Award

Team Name: LAMPray Diagnostics
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: LAMPray Diagnostics’ solution consists of a patented microfluidic chip, an integrated device powered by AI-driven software. It is 30X cheaper per device and 3X faster. It can be deployed in general and pediatric hospitals for faster AMR detection and saving children from up to 8 dangerous pathogens, including MRSA. Ideal for developing countries and low-resource settings.

Team Name: Theo Quant
Focus Area(s): Fintech
Brief Description: Theo Quant creates algorithmic SaaS that helps licensed Virtual Asset Trading Platforms (VATPs) achieve liquid and efficient markets in Hong Kong. By using the SaaS, spreads are narrowed, enhancing liquidity for VATPs to operate with greater efficiency, stability, and transparency, ultimately improving the user experience.

Team Name:  ROYO
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
ROYO is the world's first cardboard vegan leather. It is more eco-friendly, economical and eco-visual than existing alternatives, addressing two problems at once: the carbon-intensive burden of animal leather and the issue of growing cardboard waste.

Sustainability Impact Award

Team Name:  Stellerus Technology Limited
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Stellerus Technology Limited pioneers the Feilian Constellation, the world's first high-resolution 3D wind mapping constellation consisted of advanced, cost-effective, lightweight and easily scalable satellites to deliver hourly km-scale global 3D wind maps that empowers global climate resilient economy across industry verticals.

Team Name:  LoonGaN Technology Co Limited
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: LoonGaN Technology focuses on developing high-performance vertical Gallium Nitride (GaN) power devices for energy-efficient high-power applications (like AI data center, electrical vehicle, and industrial power supply). The LoonGaN team, led by Dr. Renqiang Zhu, Dr. Huaxing Jiang and Prof. Kei May Lau, is the world-leading one in vertical GaN power devices with over 10 years' R&D experience.

Team Name:  Regenerative System
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Welcome to ReGen, where we are dedicated to transforming coastal landscapes through innovative water solutions, technology & regenerative practices. We specialise in providing high-quality irrigation water resources sourced from the ocean using advanced solar desalination technology. 

HKUST Student Team Award

Team Name:  AIVOICE Limited
Focus Area(s): Robotics & AI
Brief Description: A Hong Kong-based company specializing in Voice AI research, with a particular emphasis on Cantonese Voice AI Models. Our AI research aims to enhance voice-over efficiency and overcome language barriers.

Team Name:  Kingjune Robotics Technology Co., Limited (Building Facade Photovoltaic Installation Robot)
Focus Area(s): Robotics & AI
Brief Description: This system targets photovoltaic (PV) installations on low-rise building facades (≤7 floors or ≤20m), aiming to facilitate urban retrofitting and sustainable construction. Key application scenarios include Urban Renewal, New Constructions and Special Cases.

Team Name:  Universpirit Innovation Limited
Focus Area(s): Robotics & AI
Brief Description: Dxpert X1 is a next-generation modular aerial platform built for creators, innovators, and developers driving the low-altitude economy. With a deeply customizable architecture, it supports advanced modifications, zero-barrier DIY, and a wide range of aerodynamic configurations — from fixed-wing to VTOL tilt-rotors.

Best Video Award

Team Name:  AI-Vision Opto-Electronics Limited
Focus Area(s): Microelectronics / Semi-conductor
Brief Description: AI-Vision Opto-Electronics Limited introduces a perovskite-based multispectral visual sensor that combines ultra-high quantum efficiency with exceptional resolution. Through perovskite's tunable bandgap, advanced silicon integration and scalable patterning techniques, it reduces cost and complexity, unlocking transformative applications in autonomous driving, robotics and industrial automation.