TECH PLANTER(en)

Judges from 2019 Season

• Dr. Yukihiro MaruFounder and Group CEO, Leave a Nest Group

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  Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. is a leading knowledge based platform company in Japan. The company is comprised of Mastersʼ and Doctorate degree holders. Leave a Nest works on extensive projects relating to Science and Technology. Dr. Maru has great experience in supporting startups. One of the startups he was supporting called euglena Co., Ltd. was listed in the First section of Tokyo Stock exchange. Heʼ s expert in advising young entrepreneur in business development and venture spirit.

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  Mr. Yoshikazu UeharaManaging Director, Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&D Centre, Pte. Ltd.

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  Mitsui Chemicals Inc. is one of the diversified companies in Japan and providing wide variety of chemicals and polymers globally. It will help build a better future society across five business domains, Mobility, Health Care, Food & Packaging, Next Generation Businesses and Basic Materials. Mr Uehara is charge of new business development from Asia Pacific. He is looking for new business opportunities making best use of open innovation in connection with Mitsui Chemicals' proprietary technologies.

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  Mr. Sophian Abdul RahmanCo-Founder and CEO Delightex Pte Ltd.

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  Mr. Sophian Abdul Rahman is the CEO and co-founder of Delightex Pte Ltd, a research and business development firm that seeks out innovative ways of capturing Delightful Moments. Before heading up Delightex, Sophian had served as the Director of Strategic Planning, Business Development and Mergers & Acquisitions at SGX-listed Cordlife Group Limited, as well as the CEO of its Bursa Malaysia-listed subsidiary Stemlife Berhad. His other experiences include a myriad number of roles in Singapore’s CapitaLand Group and Singapore Government’s Ministry of Trade & Industry agencies. Sophian graduated with a Master of Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London.

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  Mr. Kazuhiro ObaraForbes JAPAN Official Columnist

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  Kazuhiro Obara dotted emoji in 1st mobile platform, i-mode in Japan and pursue emotional internet platforms in Google, viber, McKinsey. Lives on Bali and works remotely for JP national AI research center and startups. His book on IT principles is the best-seller at Kindle. Kazuhiro also contributes to creative communities in Japan, being a speaker curation director in Slash Asia, partnership director in Unreasonable Japan, sr. advisor in Burning man Japan, Google-side director TED@Tokyo audition.

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  Mr. Adrian LimPresident Director BLOCK71 Jakarta

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  Mr. Adrian Lim is co-founder and CEO of PT PopBox Asia Services, a specialized automated parcels solution provider. PopBox Asia provides automated parcel lockers touch point that serve the local e-commerce and courier companies. Mr. Lim also holds a position as the President Director of BLOCK71 Jakarta, an incubation and coworking facilities that aim to build the Indonesian startup ecosystem and develop local talents.

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  Mr. Bukky Suwarno Head of Incubation Division, Center of Innovation LIPI

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  Mr. Bukky Suwarno Head of Incubation Division, Center of Innovation LIPI. The Center of Innovation has 3 main functions, managing LIPI’s IP, transferring technology, and nurturing technology-based startups company as well as MSMEs.

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  Prof. Dr. Ir. Hadi K. PurwadariaHead of International Relation, AIBI Network

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  Prof. Dr. Ir. Hadi K. Purwadaria was the founder of the Incubator Center for Agribusiness and Agroindustry (ICAA) of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in 1995, and lead the incubator to a sustain institution until 2005, when it was further developed into Research and Development Center for Entrepreneurship with the ICAA remained as a division under the new Center. He became the Director of the Center until 2007.

Finalists from 2019 Season

• YAGI Natural

  Utilization of underutilized cocoa-based ingredients for natural skin care

• Aviancure

  Potency of Indigenous Herbal Medicine to Control Bird Flu in Poultry

• Bumdest

  Organic Pesticide with Enhanced Rainfastness

• Arstraw

  Arstraw

• Phytotech Kit Indonesia

  Management of Nutmeg Oil Production Waste into F&B's and Cosmetics Ingredient

• Noveltindo Eiyo Technoprima

  Mannan+

• BIOTIC

  Nanotechnology and Plastic Waste

• Nasrul Isa

  Green Ion Formula water based and oil based

• Replus

  Replus Remote: Control Electrical Appliances from Anywhere to Reduce Energy Bill

• Afta b-ionik

  An Affordable, Brain-controlled Prosthetic limb

• Tech Prom Lab

  Waste Utilisation for Innovative Building Material