2022 Maker in China - Hong Kong Chapter

The final of the 2022 “Maker in China” SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Contest – Hong Kong Chapter was held in Cyberport on August 19, 2022. More than 150 teams contestants in this contest, the most ever, and the response was overwhelming. The contestant’s projects have a total of 100 patents, and as many as 70% of the entrants have also won other well-known international innovation and technology competitions. It has facilitated 60 meetings with investors and corporate representatives to conduct financing matching, and introduce innovative ideas from start-ups into the Greater Bay Area. , to promote the overall industrial development of the Greater Bay Area as an international innovation and technology center.

2022

MAKER IN CHINA

SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Contest
Hong Kong Chapter

2022

MAKER IN CHINA

SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Contest – Hong Kong Chapter

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JUNE 2022

Two Contest Briefing Sessions

Due to COVID19, the Contest Organising Committee held two online briefing sessions in Cyberport on June 14 and June 28 respectively, inviting experts from different I&T fields to share and introduce the details of the contest and introduce the winning projects in the past.

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22, JULY 2022
Semi-final, top ten projects were selected
The conference held the semi-finals at HKTech300 Admirty Centre in Hong Kong. Eight industry experts were invited to serve as assessors. The participating projects underwent a roadshow to select the top ten projects that entered the final.

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AUGUST 19, 2022
Hong Kong Chapter Final
Final was held at Cyberport on 19 August 2022, The final contest will be held online and will be held simultaneously with the Guangzhou Industrial Park. Six experts from Hong Kong and Five experts from Guangzhou will be sent to judge the finals.

Opening Addresses by Representatives of the Organisers and Co-organiser

Mr. Ye Dingda

Deputy Director of Small and Medium Enterprises Bureau
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China

Prof. Song Lai

Deputy Director, Department of Youth Affairs,
Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Mr. Victor Lam

Government Chief Information Officer
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Mr. Luo JunZhang

Deputy Director of China Centre for Promotion of SME Development
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China

Mr. Gao Yuyue

Deputy Secretary-General
Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government

Mr. Peter Yan

CEO of Hong Kong Cyberport

Hong Kong Chapter Final

Wizpresso Limited

CEO & Founder | Calvin Cheng

Gense Technologies Limited

CEO & Co-founder | Justin Chan

Wedo Biomedical Technology Ltd

General Manager | Zhang Simin

RODS Technology Company Ltd

Chief Operation Officer | Ivor Wai

DreamTec Research Limited

Science Director | Dr. Kwong

Digital Art Fair Limited

Head of Business Development | Heiman Ng

Vista Innotech Limited

Chief Executive Officer | Mak Lin Chi

Ori-sys technology Limited

Chief Operation Officer | Dr. LI Yang

Gusto Collective Lab Limited

Director of Marketing | Caroline York

Zero Dynamic Technology Ltd

Operation Manager (HK) | Leona Ma Ching Yee

Champion

Wizpresso Discovery

Wizpresso Limited

Award representatives :
Mr. Calvin Cheng, CEO & Founder of Wizpresso Limited (Right)

Presenter :
Mr. Kingsley Wong
Assistant Government Chief Information Officer (Industry Development) The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Left)

1st Runner up

Gense Technologies – Portable and self-administrable medical imaging for remote preventive screening and chronic disease monitoring

Gense Technologies Limited

Award representative :
Mr. Justin Chan, CEO & Co-founder of Gense Technologies Limited (Right)

Presenter :
Mr. Peter Yan
CEO of Cyberport (Left)

2nd Runner up

Micro Gimble Stabilizer

Vista Innotech Limited

Award representatives :
Mr. Mak Lin Chi, Chief Executive Officer of Vista Innotech Limited (Right)

Presenter :
Mr. Ivan Shum, Chairman of Angel Investment Foundation (Left)

Merit Projects

MG MEDCARE
DAYTA AI
i2Cool
IPification
FHA
SYZYGY

* The ranking is based on the order of project application date

SEMI-FINALISTS

FireAlert
FireAlert Limited

Offline DLT for retail CBDC
iBonus Limited

Hong Kong Science Park
Building 17W19W Robotic Parking System
Yeefung Technology Limited

LUMAT-SERS
novel multifunctional fast detection machine

LUMAT-SERS limited

WeVoice Glasses
Innospire Technology Limited

Motion Sensing Controller for Esport
KellyJohn Studio Limited

Project Vaccine
Vaccine Research and Deveopment Holding Company Limited

Bioinformatics Solution Empowering Development of New and Better Vaccines
Beth Bioinformatics Co., Ltd

Energy saving & self-cleaning coating
SAMBO Group Technology Limited

ML Brain
AutoML Capital Limited
Cable-driven Robot System for Inspection of High-rise Building Facade
CUBE Robotics Limtied
Non-destructive structure Concrete Radar Scanner
Tech Hill Limited
ART-Quant™
DNA-Tech Limited

* The ranking is based on the order of project application date

MADGAZE

2022 HK Chapter – Champion

Wizpresso Discovery

Wizpresso Limited

With increasingly complex regulatory requirements especially in ESG, investors are overwhelmed with a rapidly increasing amount of unstructured information inthe form of annual and ESG reports. On the other hand,issuers face growing pressure to disclose and verify more data. These factors combined with manual reporting workflows compound the inefficiencies in capitalmarkets. Wizpresso offers capital markets SaaS underpinned by cutting edge NLP and deep learning technology to tackle these challenges. Our solutions augment capital markets research and due diligence workflows. For example, Factify, our legal verification software, can save the issuer up to 75% time from verifying information disclosed in prospect uses and filings. Discovery, our market intelligence software,enables investors to screen company and extract ESG insights from financial reports and regulated disclosures.Wizpresso aims to enhance the awareness and use of ESG disclosure data amongst retail and professional investors.

i2Cool

2022 HK Chapter – 1st Runner Up

Gense Technologies
Portable and self-administrable medical imaging for remote preventive screening and chronic disease monitoring
Gense Technologies Limited

Gense offers an affordable and portable self-help medical imaging device for in-depth health monitoring and preventive screening at home and clinics. The device targets some of the costliest diseases’ early detection and chronic disease management for liver, lungs, kidney and more. Developed as a home-based medical imaging modality to assist telemedicine, the imaging scan can be self-administrable by users without any substantive operativetraining, powered by cloud-based machine learning algorithms. Gense is the Winner of the Alibaba/HSBC Jumpstarter Global Competition and is the Grand Winner of the ICT Startup Awards. The company is built by a team of 15 PhDs and researchers from Stanford, Cambridge, and Hong Kong. The team is also coordinating over 8 partnerships with professors on clinical trials and engineering. Gense has raised USD 2.5mil from grants and investment to date, and developed capacity to mass manufacture with medical device certification. The startup has also been approached by healthcare distributors from over 20 markets globally, including private hospital network, clinic chains, health insurers,and multinational conglomerates.

FHA

2022 HK Chapter – 2nd Runner Up

Micro Gimble Stabilizer
Vista Innotech Limited
Vista Innotech (VIT), a start-up company under HKSTP Leading Enterprises Acceleration Programme (LEAP). We are a team with experts from various engineering fields, including mechanical, electrical and optical. Our one-stop anti-shaking Micro Gimbel Stabilizer (MGS) is the smallest gimbal with 50+ international filed patents and excellent anti-shaking performance outperforming latest iPhone by up to 4 times. Along with our proprietary auto-calibration software, compact sizes small enough for embedding in smartphones, low cost, and easily integrated designs, we can set the best anti-shaking standards for camera modules of most mobile devices. We successfully completed our angel round funding and became one of the portfolio companies under Particle X in 2020. We also joined LEAP in 2021 and won 6 awards in half year, including Geneva Invention 2022 Silver Medal.
FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
3D Printed Orthopedic Implantable Medical Devices
Wedo Biomedical Technology Limited
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Xi’an, WEDO focuses on developing 3D printed titanium alloyimplants, biodegradable implants, and polymerimplants by leveraging advanced medial innovation. Products are used in the surgical treatment of cervical and lumbar spine diseases, mid-termfemoral head necrosis, spinal tumor, severe trauma,tuberculosis, severe infection, long-bone segment aldefects, etc. Since 2020, WEDO has made major breakthroughsin the field of bone defect repair. Combining tissue engineering and 3D printing technology, WEDO developed new bone repair materials and products,which overcame the limitations of high infectionrate, long treatment time, and complications inconventional materials.
FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
AI Robotic Dermatology Laser

RODS Technology Company Limited

RODS is devoted to technology innovation in the Aesthetic industry. We have developed the world’s 1st AI Robotic Facial Laser Machine to replace the traditional handheld laser procedure. Our core technology is the unique 3D facial scan and the algorithm in controlling the robot arm to perform trajectories autonomously. It has been proven that it is a much faster, safer, more accurate, and more effective treatment, with a 90% improvement in all areas. Both customers (better and faster treatment) and service providers (cost-saving and less risks) will benefit from this new technology.
FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
Large-scale production technology of recombinant protein
DreamTec Research Limited
DreamTec Research Limited owns the exclusive proprietary technology, which can produce various recombinant proteins with large-scale and efficient technology. Recombinant proteins are oligopeptides or polypeptides (proteins) produced in different prokaryotic or eukaryotic hosts (such as bacteria, mammalian cells, and plant cells) in a controlled form via modification of a special DNA vector with the recombinant DNA technology. DreamTec has a series of genetic programming systems to produce recombinant proteins, which can produce different recombinant proteins including interleukin-3 (IL-3), interleukin-6 (IL-6), transforming growth factor-β2 (TGF-β2), glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and stem cell factor (SCF) via fermentation technology for bacteria and mammalian cells as well as large-scale FPLC and HPLC purification technology. We have successfully developed different series of cosmetic medicine and health products such as restorative masks, biological tooth repair essence, and microneedle infusion solution for skin remodeling by utilizing different oligopeptides and polypeptides. Moreover, the scientific research team of DreamTec has successfully developed edible probiotics containing different compounds and growth factors beneficial to the human body. In order to develop high-end healthcare products, meet the people’s demand for high-end healthcare products, and reduce the government’s medical costs, we look forward to collaborating with scholars in China on different research projects that can be industrialized for the benefit of society and contribute to China’s economic and innovative scientific development.
FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
Digital Art Fair

Digital Art Fair Limited

Digital Art Fair is the world’s leading Web 3.0 fine art fair with a focus on innovative art created for every demographic that wishes to appreciate, create, and collect digital and NFT fine art. Our vision is to cultivate and inspire a new generation of art collectors to embrace the use of digital technology to explore the beauty of art and culture.  Created for every demographic to EXPERIENCE the future of art, Digital Art Fair’s goal is to EDUCATE the new generation of artists, art curators, art administrators and INSPIRE the young generation with curated digital art and NFT programmes. Digital Art Fair’s vision is to unleash the potential of ART X TECH in the constantly evolving digital landscape.
FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
Low cost, large format flexible intelligent sensing system

Ori-sys technology Limited

Ori-sys technology is a high-tech research company specializing in the research and development, production and manufacturing of flexible sensor systems. Founded in February 2022. The company uses the talent and technical advantages of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to focus on solving the problem of high cost and difficult manufacturing of flexible sensor system. The team members of the company have been deeply engaged in the field of flexible sensing for about 20 years and have mastered the key technologies of the whole process from flexible materials to flexible sensors and flexible sensing systems. Based on the theory of extensible superstructure circuit design and large-scale flexible circuit manufacturing applications, a series of low-cost large-scale flexible sensor systems and solutions were introduced. The company’s products can be widely used in the next generation flexible intelligent terminal, flexible wearable clothing and other fields, and has reached cooperation intention with a number of domestic industrial giants.

FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
Metahuman Artist MonoC’s Garden of Eden

Gusto Collective Lab Limited

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover. Gusto Collective has joined hands with the LCSD to promote immersive Art-Tech exhibition to engage audiences in Hong Kong in exploring the segway between science and art with meta human artist MonoC.
FHA
2022 HK Chapter – Merit
Dr.Body
Zero Dynamic Technology Limited
Dr Body – Zero Dynamic Limited is committed to building the world’s leading digital musculoskeletal & digital neuro therapy company around rehabilitation indications. We are currently focusing on two directions, adolescent spine health and middle-aged and elderly stroke hemiplegia rehabilitation. Dr. Body Spine focuses on foot and spine health, providing young people with radiation-free abnormal posture screening, assessment, and rehabilitation services. The development direction includes: an online spine and abnormal posture screening system, 3D/4D spine and posture measurement and management system, scoliosis digital orthopaedic therapy, etc. Dr. Body Stroke focuses on the rehabilitation of hemiplegia for stroke. The team has developed the world’s leading CPPC (Central Conduction Pathway and Posture Control Technology) exercise rehabilitation therapy, which has passed clinical trials and has been trained in many tertiary hospitals. The company is stepping up its digitalisation efforts, opening up the linkage between hospitals, social health and families. In order to overcome the constraints of time and place, helping more hemiplegic patients to achieve telerehabilitation and improve the effectiveness of rehabilitation
Final Judging Panel
Mr. Archie Fong

Managing Director
Ping An of China Capital (Hong Kong)

(Investment Banking & Global Capital Makets)
Mr. Gary Ho
Chief Technology Officer
AXA Hong Kong and Macau
Dr. Frank Ng
Associate Director
CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship
Mr. Shi Kailiang
Chairman
Guangdong Wiser Holding Group Co., Ltd.
Mr. Ivan Shum
Chairman
Angel Investment Foundation
Mr. Wang He
Academician
International Academy of Ecology & Life Protection Sciences

Dr. David Xiao

President
APT Electronics Co. Ltd.
Mr. Jack Xu
Chairman
Guangzhou Lanyi Investment Management Co., Ltd.
Prof. Albert Yu
Chairman
Hong Kong Biotechnology Organization
Prof. Zhao Suqing
Professor
School of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong University of Technology
Ir. Eric Chan
Chief Public Mission Officer
Cyberport

*Ranking is based on the alphabetical order of the judges’ English surname

Semi-Final Assessors
Dr. Vincent Fung
Chief Technology Advisor
QP Group
Prof. Johnny Ho

Acting Director of Knowledge Transfer & Associate Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CityU

Dr. Stephen Lam
Chief Operating Officer
GS1 Hong Kong

Ir. Dr. Jacky Ng

Principal Engineer
FUJIFILM Business Innovation Hong Kong Limited
Mr. Donny Siu
Acting Director of Entrepreneurship Center, HKUST

Prof. Stephen Tsui

Professor and Associate Director (Research), School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK
Ms. Alice So
Head of Entrepreneurship
Cyberport
Mr. Ivan Shum
Chairman
Angel Investment Foundation

*Ranking is based on the alphabetical order of the judges’ English surname