The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Green Talents promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas. Sample 2019 awardees:
- Bioplastic - Bioplastic from milk whey (byproduct of cheese making)
- GreenLaw - Use law and regulation to combat plastic pollution
- WaterSplitting - Store energy by splitting water into hydrogen & oxygen
- GeoSpatial - Use geospatial modelling to find and rehabilitate degraded land
- Bioreactor - Use anaerobic digestion to covert farm waste to energy
- OutcomeMapping - Behavioural change as an alternative to KPI
- Pseudocapacitance - Carbon supercapacitors as an alt to lithium batteries
- Arbitration - International law when nations push green roles to each other
Wearable
Google just bought Fitbit. As phones get increasingly chunky, focus switches to wearables. A sample of finalists at the recent Asia Hardware Battle 2019 @ CN:
- Xenoma - Clothing as mouse and game controller (2nd place)
- Vicara - Wristband as mouse and game controller
- Aiello - Voice as keyboard (3rd)
- Aina - Finger ring as a smartphone adjunct
- Nemo - Wearable for infants to monitor sleep & temperature (1st)
- ACBiode - Alternating current batteries 30% smaller, 35% more efficient
Pick of Events (W4-Nov-2019)
General
Link Sarawak Digital Village @ SR 1 2 3
Link Big Data in Architecture @ KL tix
Link Business Challenge @ KL tix also
Link Green Exporters @ KL 1 2 3
Link Climatethon IR4 Dev @ PG 1 2 3
Arts & Misc
Link Lean In Unconference @ KL tix
Link Emily, Alice & Anne @ KL 1 2 3
Link Art Curation @ KL 1 2 3
Link Kebaya Jazz @ KL tix
Link Lit Fest @ PG tix
Around The Region
Link Corp Entrepreneurship @ SG tix
Link Digital Payments @ SG tix also
Link De-Globalisation @ SG
Link Agile Happiness @ JKT
Link Design Thinking @ HK tix