Author: Laura Jiang

Are you a startup, student or innovator passionate about innovating for the sustainable future? Join Hack.Asia with your innovative solutions that address the current sustainability challenges faced by leading businesses in Asia. Compete for great prizes and get the chance to turn ideas into reality.

Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association (WTIA) follows up on the fruitful Asia Smart Apps Contests in the past to put forward the Asia Smart App Awards 2021, the 8th Edition, sponsored by Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Asia Smart App Awards provides a stage for top brilliant application experts in Asia to meet, share, team up and gain from one another in the field of smart application.

Y-LOT is an energetic Hong Kong registered charity that supports scientific research, promotes SciTech education and advocates policy to create the right ecosystem for entrepreneurial scientists. We set up Hong Kong SciTech Pioneers Award 2021 offering Cash Prize and more to Startups and Emerging Scientists. This is to recognise and celebrate the valuable contribution of young outstanding scientists and startups that are under the Y-LOT SciTech 4 Pillars: deep tech, Biotech, space science and environmental science.

Designed to help startups who have launched successful solutions in their home markets and are looking to scale across Asia Pacific, the Visa Accelerator Program focuses on identifying commercial opportunities for startups to collaborate with Visa’s extensive network of financial institutions, merchants and government partners in the region.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government published “Report on Hong Kong’s Business Environment: A Place with Unique Advantages and Unlimited Opportunities” on 27 September. The Report reviews and sets out Hong Kong’s current business environment and advantages following the events over the past two years, and describes the development opportunities available to Hong Kong under the country’s new phase and pattern of development.

Willing to validate your innovative tech idea? Join IDEATION! HKSTP IDEATION (previously known as STEP) is now open for application! Don’t miss the chance to get a HK$100K seed funding and start you FIRST STEP into HKSTP startup ecosystem!

Taking your business to the next level? Ready to take on the world’s fastest market with one of the best resourced programmes? HKSTP Acceleration Programme gives technology scale-ups wings to fly and fast-tracks their regional business expansion by tapping into HK’s largest ecosystem of industry experts, mentors, business partners.

When heritage meets innovation, exciting things happen. Chinachem Group and HKSTP are calling tech ventures to give 82-year-old Central Market a new life with technologies. Together, we can transform Central Market into a smart next-gen social hub for all. Applications are open until Friday, 20 Aug.

The EdVentures Global Business Acceleration Fellowship aims to facilitate the market entry of edtech ventures into Asia. This year, up to 20 ventures from around the world will be invited to do a virtual presentation on 3 November. They will be connected with market entry advisors, potential funders, localisation partners, and pilot opportunities in Asia.

PwC Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation are jointly launching cohort 2 of the Tech Raiser programme, which aims to build star companies, expand the investor community and attract quality technology companies to Hong Kong, with a view to fostering a robust Innovation & Technology (I&T) ecosystem for Hong Kong to stay competitive in the new economy. The 2nd cohort is now open for registration.