HackOsaka2019
Building upon the past line-up of “Digital Health”, “Travel Tech”, and “Smart City”, this year we are adding “Sports Tech” and “Food Tech” to the themes covered in our entrepreneurial idea & business model competition, the Business Plan Contest. Participating companies should be in their seed or early stage, and operate IT-related businesses dealing with products or services in any of the fields including the Internet of Things, the Internet, mobile technologies, software, digital content, or consumer electronics (including PDA and robots).
Date
March 13th (Wed.), 2019, 3:30pm-5:00pm
*This contest will be held as part of “Global Innovation Conference”, and the schedule may be subject to change depending on the situation.
Theme
Digital health, travel tech, smart city, sports tech, and food tech
Target Fields
IT-related businesses dealing with products or services in the fields including Internet of Things, the Internet, mobile technologies, software, digital content, or consumer electronics (including PDA and robots),
Target Products / Services
Any product or service that can be demonstrated on-site
Target Companies
Companies in their seed or early stage from Japan or abroad
Application
Based on the application form, submit a presentation with no more than 10 slides created with Keynote Ver5 or Microsoft PowerPoint before the application deadline. The dimensions of the slides should be in a 16:9 ratio.
Please feel free to attach additional digital reference materials or videos that may assist in describing the product or service, however we will not accept physical objects submitted by post.
(Please note that we will not be returning any materials we receive in the process)
Application Deadline and Notification Date
October 31st (Wed.), 2018, 5:00pm (JST)
We will inform those who have passed the first screening through e-mail by 5:00pm (JST) on Friday, November 16th, 2018.
Evaluation Guideline
10 companies will be selected among all applicants through the first screening on the basis of (1) Originality, (2) Feasibility, (3) Scale of Influence, and (4) Scalability.
We will only notify companies that have passed the screening and are invited to the Award event on 13th. Please be advised that the screening results will not be publicized.
On the event day, five judges, including innovators and accelerators, will assess companies on a 10-point scale live. The top three scoring companies will be awarded.
Presentation Format
- English only for both speech and materials
- Up to ten total presentations by respective companies. Only one representative shall be appointed by each company to present on stage (e.g. business owner or manager)
- Up to five minutes of presentation per company (we will inform presenters of presentation environment later after presenters have been decideddetermined)
- Up to three minutes of Q&A by judges per company.
*Top three contestants will be presented Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards. O-BIC Award will be presented as well at Hack Award 2019.
- UWINLOC France
- The only IoT indoor location solution using battery-less tags.
- NirogStreet India
- India's largest database of curated and certified Ayurveda practitioners
- Predict Vision Brazil
- AI Cloud platform to support Medical Imaging Diagnosis for Oncology, Ophthalmology, Neurology and Dermatology.
- Pokeguide HongKong
- a leading navigation app for tourists travelling any places in the world
- NIRAMAI Health Analytix Private Limited India
- a software to detect breast cancer with examinationradiation-free, non-touch, not painful and works for women of all ages
- Acumen Research Laboratories Singapore
- a prototype manual assay test kit as an early “red-flag” indicator of sepsis
- Fooyo Singapore
- app for tourists including smart navigation, smart itinerary planer, smart passbook, and dynamic suggestion system
- THE.WAVE.TALK South Korea
- a system that can detect and monitor micro-organisms in real-time and contaminated water to maintain completely germ-free condition
- reinno Inc. Japan
- We will prepare an environment for restaurants where you can easily order and pay from your customer's smartphone.
- No new folk studio Inc. Japan
- the world’s first Smart Shoes Platform
which analyzes various kinetic data from your feet such as walking, running, kicking, jumping and dancing
Mr. Allen Miner (Chairman & CEO of SunBridge)
Mr. Oscar Kneppers (Founder of Rockstart)
Ms. Christina Teo (Chief Builder, she1K and WantThingsDone)
Mr. Christopher Kommatas (Head of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, The Health Round Table Co-founder, Melbourne Health Accelerator)
Gold
- NIRAMAI Health Analytix Private Limited Ms. Mathur Nidhi / India
- a software to detect breast cancer with examinationradiation-free, non-touch, not painful and works for women of all ages
Silver
- No new folk studio Inc. Mr. Yuya Kikukawa / Japan
- the world’s first Smart Shoes Platform
which analyzes various kinetic data from your feet such as walking, running, kicking, jumping and dancing
Bronze
- Fooyo Mr. Li Shaohuan / Singapore
- app for tourists including smart navigation, smart itinerary planer, smart passbook, and dynamic suggestion system
O-BIC Prize
- Acumen Research Laboratories Ms. Ong, Siew Hwa / Singapore
- a prototype manual assay test kit as an early “red-flag” indicator of sepsis
Gold
Dot watch (Eric Ju Yoon Kim / South Korea)
the world’s very first, mass-producible,micro-braille actuator
Silver
Eye control (Tania Suares / Israel)
A new wearable and affordable solution for "locked-in" patients
Other
- BLOODHERO (Joselito Barquez / Philippines)
- Oui reward (Ugo Weyl / France)
- Yiyuan (Dr. Zhili Wu / China)
- Travelio (Christie Amanda / Indonesia)
- BackTech (Kimiko Motoyama / Japan)
- protectiq (Sergey Shayakhmetov / Russia/UAE)
Gold
Docquity (Indrranil Roychowdhury / Singapore)
Asia's fastest growing network for medical professional
Silver
Holiday-Sitters (Ela Slutski / Holland)
top-quality, fully-vetted babysiters who speaks your language that is as easy and reliable to book as a hotel room or restaurant reservation
Bronze
MARUI Plugin (Max Krichenbauer / Japan/Osaka)
a plug-In for Autodesk Maya that allows you to do your modeling and animation work in VR
Other
- Mimi Hearing Technologies (Timur Emre / Germany/Berlin)
- At Co., Ltd. (Hiroki Okazaki / Osaka/Japan)
- Caption Hospitality (Larry Chua / Indonesia)
- Hacarus Inc. (Kenshin Fujiwara / Japan/Kyoto)
- Cardiomo (Roman Belkin / USA/NYC)
- Timescope (Adrien Sadaka / France/Paris)
- PARKISSEO (Régis Duhot / France/Toulouse)
Gold
Pawnhero (David Margendorff / Philippine)
an online pawnshop where anyone can submit a pawn request anytime, anywhere
Silver
podaris (Nathan Koren / UK/London)
a powerful tools for proposal development and feasibility studiesthat let you create transport plans
Bronze
shipwise (Alexander Malov / Spain)
The faster, easiest way to book & manage your international freight shipments
Other
- Chikaku, Inc. (Kenji Kajiwara / Japan/Tokyo)
- Fabelio (Krishnan M Menon / Indonesia)
- YesBoss(YesBoss is now kata.ai.) (Irzan Raditya / Indonesia)
- meleap (Hiroshi Fukuda / Japan/Tokyo)
- budofinder (Djuro Stojanovic / Burgalia)
- Play Until Dark (Sifang Lu / Japan/Osaka&USA)
- ACPAD (Robin Sukroso / Germany/Berlin)
Other
- Smart Checkups (Didier Vermeiren / Germany/Berlin)
- Cashboard (Robert Henker / Germany/Berlin)
- M SQUARE LLC (Miwa Jojo / Japan/Kobe)
- Cofame (Kanji Noguchi / Japan/Osaka)
- INGAGE Inc. (Tetsuya Wada / Japan/Osaka)
- DigitAddress (Wang Wei / Japan/Osaka)
- Stamp (Opie Lopansri / Thailand/Bangkok)
Silver
TransferGo Ltd. (Dvilinskas Daumantas / UK/London)
Transfer service to send money completely FREE with real exchange rate and no transfer fees
Bronze
StudyPact Ltd. (Tobias Hoenisch / Japan/Tokyo)
Crowd funded motivation platform for self studying
Other
- ShareWis Inc. (Tomoki Tsujikawa / Japan/Osaka)
- 8villages Pte.Ltd (Sanny Gaddafi / Singapore)
- Warantee Inc. (Yusuke Shouno / Japan/Osaka)
- AnSing Technology Pte. Ltd. (Hu Junhao / Singapore)
- ONTROX co.,Ltd. (Kazuki Arita / Japan/Osaka)
- Moff Inc. (Akinori Takahagi / Japan/Tokyo)
- Quadcept Inc. (Yasuhisa Morimoto / Japan/Osaka)
