HKUST Track Platinum Award

Team Name: Refined Motor Company
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: Refined Motor Company delivers Hong Kong's only approved EV conversions with proprietary modular powertrains. It preserves vehicle heritage, cuts carbon emissions and extends car lifespans instead of scrappage, unlocking commercially viable, sustainable green mobility solutions.

HKUST Track Silver Award

Team Name:  Syntrak
Focus Area(s): I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Syntrak is transforming ski slopes into a digital laboratory with the first smart thermal motion-capture garment and world-class coaching software. By combining embedded hardware with proprietary biomechanical algorithms, Syntrak provides skiers with a 3D digital twin of their performance with integrated live AI coaching. Within its first two months, Syntrak has secured rapid institutional backing, including the Cyberport Incubation Program, the InnoBay Innovation Hub, and a Startup World Cup Regional Finalist spot. Whether it’s for elite race teams, recreational enthusiasts, or even users of other sports or industries, Syntrak is building the data pipeline that defines the future of human movement analysis.

GF Innovation Award

Team Name: Refined Motor Company
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: Refined Motor Company delivers Hong Kong's only approved EV conversions with proprietary modular powertrains. It preserves vehicle heritage, cuts carbon emissions and extends car lifespans instead of scrappage, unlocking commercially viable, sustainable green mobility solutions.

International Student Track Platinum Award

Team Name: MirrorSpace Technology
Focus Area(s): Robotics & AI
Brief Description: MirrorSpace builds a plug-and-play embodied spacetime brain module for robots. Fusing RGB, LiDAR, and thermal sensing on the edge, it reconstructs the physical world as one unified 4D representation, delivering real-time perception, queryable spatiotemporal memory, and physics-consistent prediction through a ROS2-compatible interface, while a self-evolving data flywheel keeps improving the models.

International Student Track Gold Award

Team Name: Electromaim
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Electromaim develops micro-hydroelectric generators that retrofit directly into building water distribution pipes, replacing standard pressure-reducing valves. As water flows through, the pressure differential is captured and converted into clean, on-site electricity. The technology also enables integrated pressure and flow sensing, supporting real-time risk monitoring and positioning buildings for greater energy resilience and insurance-relevant insights.

International Student Track Sliver Award

Team Name: Waveity
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Waveity delivers an efficient offshore power generation system by harnessing wave energy. Inspired by manta-rays, it features ray-shaped floats in a triangular, multi-degree-of-freedom architecture that captures energy from two modes of float motion. Its wave direction tracking and self-balancing mechanisms improve its adaptability to varying wave conditions. Waveity provides clean and cost-effective energy to power a more sustainable maritime future.

Sustainability Impact Award

Team Name: Refined Motor Company
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability 
Brief Description: Refined Motor Company delivers Hong Kong's only approved EV conversions with proprietary modular powertrains. It preserves vehicle heritage, cuts carbon emissions and extends car lifespans instead of scrappage, unlocking commercially viable, sustainable green mobility solutions.

Transformative AI Award

Team Name: Cresento
Focus Area(s): I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Cresento develops AI-powered smart shin guards that track athletes’ workload and performance during training and matches. Its AI analyzes thousands of data points to identify patterns linked to injury risk and provides coaches with personalized, actionable recommendations. This helps teams prevent overuse injuries, improve player availability, and keep athletes healthier for longer.

NextGen Biotech Award

Team Name: Advent Gene Therapeutics
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: Advent Gene Therapeutics is an AI-for-biology company tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in gene therapy: delivery. The team combines AI models with high-throughput experiments to design better viral vectors. Instead of relying on naturally occurring viruses and trial-and-error screening, Advent's platform learns from billions of years of viral evolution alongside experimental data to design new vectors with the desired properties we want.

Societal Influential Award

Team Name: BeyondCare
Focus Area(s): Social Services & Enterprise
Brief Description: Let’s Talk is a digital therapy platform designed for young adults who find existing mental health support too costly, fragmented, or difficult to access. It combines therapist-led text, voice, and video care with AI-assisted reflection, customized assignments, standardized progress tracking, and built-in safety screening to provide continuous support between therapy sessions.

Elevator Pitch Award

Team Name: Cresento
Focus Area(s): I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Cresento develops AI-powered smart shin guards that track athletes’ workload and performance during training and matches. Its AI analyzes thousands of data points to identify patterns linked to injury risk and provides coaches with personalized, actionable recommendations. This helps teams prevent overuse injuries, improve player availability, and keep athletes healthier for longer.

Team Name:  Syntrak
Focus Area(s): I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Syntrak is transforming ski slopes into a digital laboratory with the first smart thermal motion-capture garment and world-class coaching software. By combining embedded hardware with proprietary biomechanical algorithms, Syntrak provides skiers with a 3D digital twin of their performance with integrated live AI coaching. Within its first two months, Syntrak has secured rapid institutional backing, including the Cyberport Incubation Program, the InnoBay Innovation Hub, and a Startup World Cup Regional Finalist spot. Whether it’s for elite race teams, recreational enthusiasts, or even users of other sports or industries, Syntrak is building the data pipeline that defines the future of human movement analysis.

Team Name: Waveity
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: Waveity delivers an efficient offshore power generation system by harnessing wave energy. Inspired by manta-rays, it features ray-shaped floats in a triangular, multi-degree-of-freedom architecture that captures energy from two modes of float motion. Its wave direction tracking and self-balancing mechanisms improve its adaptability to varying wave conditions. Waveity provides clean and cost-effective energy to power a more sustainable maritime future.

HKUST Student Team Award

Team Name: Cresento
Focus Area(s): I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Cresento develops AI-powered smart shin guards that track athletes’ workload and performance during training and matches. Its AI analyzes thousands of data points to identify patterns linked to injury risk and provides coaches with personalized, actionable recommendations. This helps teams prevent overuse injuries, improve player availability, and keep athletes healthier for longer.

Team Name:  Flame Bio
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: EnzymeCut (Flame Bio), founded by a PhD team from HKUST and HKU, is an AI-driven, one-stop platform for enzyme-targeted active ingredient discovery and delivery. Powered by a 1.3M+ proprietary molecule library (including 300K in-house molecules), self-developed AI/GNN screening, and wet-lab closed-loop validation, it shortens new ingredient development from 1–2 years to about 3 months and cuts costs by ~80%, directly delivering experimentally validated, patentable ingredients to clients in cosmetics, agriculture, and functional food.

Team Name:  SmartCool Optimizer
Focus Area(s): Environment & Sustainability
Brief Description: SmartCool Optimizer is a software-only solution for large-building cooling plants. It uses physics-informed AI to provide optimal chiller sequencing and predictive maintenance, reducing energy use, electricity costs, and carbon emissions without hardware upgrades. A smart O&M dashboard supports monitoring and facilitates phased adoption for smaller or earlier-stage sites.

People’s Choice Award

Team Name:  Advent Gene Therapeutics
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: Advent Gene Therapeutics is an AI-for-biology company tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in gene therapy: delivery. The team combines AI models with high-throughput experiments to design better viral vectors. Instead of relying on naturally occurring viruses and trial-and-error screening, Advent's platform learns from billions of years of viral evolution alongside experimental data to design new vectors with the desired properties we want.

Team Name:  Syntrak
Focus Area(s): I.T & Smart Tech
Brief Description: Syntrak is transforming ski slopes into a digital laboratory with the first smart thermal motion-capture garment and world-class coaching software. By combining embedded hardware with proprietary biomechanical algorithms, Syntrak provides skiers with a 3D digital twin of their performance with integrated live AI coaching. Within its first two months, Syntrak has secured rapid institutional backing, including the Cyberport Incubation Program, the InnoBay Innovation Hub, and a Startup World Cup Regional Finalist spot. Whether it’s for elite race teams, recreational enthusiasts, or even users of other sports or industries, Syntrak is building the data pipeline that defines the future of human movement analysis.

Team Name:  BAEPR
Focus Area(s): Biotech & Healthcare
Brief Description: BAEPR is developing a temporary localized treatment platform that combines wireless power, programmable electro-stimulation, controlled nano-drug delivery, and bioresorbable materials. A reusable wearable controller is designed to wirelessly operate a ribbon placed at selected acupoints. The first target indication is central obesity with metabolic risk, subject to prototype completion and preclinical validation.