This award is acknowledged by The
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI)
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partnerS
Innovation Partner
& Venue Host
Digital economy
partner
Digital-TECH
EDUCATION partner
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digital economy partner
digital-TECH EDUCATION partner
ecosystem partners
supporting partners
media partners
ECOSYSTEM partners
SUPPORTING partners
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MEDIA partners
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About The Award
Innovation has become a lifeline for many of us. We are witnessing how technology acceleration, especially through digital adoption, coupled with innovation has been a powerful mechanism in paving the way to uplift the economy out of a downturn since Covid began.
The strength, creativity and perseverance that we see, hear and read is remarkably vibrant! With so many great stories of how businesses have responded and reacted and even managed to accelerate growth, it is imperative that the Top In Tech Innovation Awards, brought to you by Digital News Asia and Malaysiakini, honours these innovators, businesses, and their massive efforts that reflect the best face of Malaysia Boleh.
News & Media 2022
Your Innovation Story Matters!
Prizes
Top In Tech Innovation Awards 2022
Category Trophies
Cash Prize for the
Young Innovator of the Year
Pico 4 VR Headset by Pico VR
Winners’ Ad Grants by Malaysiakini & Digital News Asia (worth up to RM30k)
Access to programmes offered by MDEC
Equidam Valuation Report
Complementary access to Equidam Valuation report Based on five different methodologies through the collaboration with Equidam.
Green Lane for Funding Programs
Gain direct access to selected MDEC funding programs such as MDEC Pitching Open Day and Founders Grindstone Pitching & Networking.
Mentor+
In mentoring, MDEC will facilitate qualified companies with mentors in the technology space.
MIX Programme
MDEC Innovation Exchange (MIX) is an essential link between tech solution providers and the corporates. Startups possess ideas to solve current problems faced within a variety of industries, bringing new ideas and solutions to enrich the industry. MIX bridges startups with corporates to ensure sustainability between the two with discovery and identification of new talents, business models and innovations provided by startups.
MDEC 1-to-1 Office
Companies can share about their business challenges and for MDEC to support you. Gain valuable industry insights from our MDEC mentors and solid advisory support on business opportunities, fundraising, market access, the MTEP initiative and so much more.
Market Access Programme such as:
GAIN Connex – Curated 1-to-1 business matching and networking programmes with overseas partners and resellers.
GAIN Expand – Market immersion bootcamp, to assist companies to build out a business plan and provide them with opportunities to connect with decision makers, influencers, investors, and collaborators.
GAIN Series – Specialised series of in-depth discussions on specific sectors or industry.
Note:
These programmes are applicable to winners that are digital solution providers with export capabilities.
Programme names are subject to change without prior notice.
Please submit your entries
before 31 October 2021
through the online forms
available here.
SUBMISSION
This applies to 6 categories mentioned below. Please select the category that is best suited to your innovation.
The Entry Guidelines Kit is available for download to find out more about the criteria for each category and the judging process.
Category Lead Judges
Best Brick & Mortar Adoption
Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Best Pivot
Most Impactful Public Sector Agency Driving Digital Adoption
Dato’ Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi
Director,
Dricopax Capital Limited, UK
Thillai
Raj
Chief Technology Officer,
BAC Education Group
Chen
Chow
Co-Founder,
Fave
Dato' Seri Wong
Siew Hai
President,
Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association
Most Value Creation
Most Promising
Young Innovator of the Year
Innovator of the Year
Dr V.
Sivapalan
Senior Partner & Co-Founder,
ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator
Facilitating Judges
Premesh
Chandran
Co-Founder,
Malaysiakini
Karamjit
Singh
Chief Executive Officer,
Digital News Asia
Panel Judges
Innovator of The Year
Best Brick & Mortar Adoption
Sharala Axryd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS)
Suresh Thiru
Start-up Advisor, Angel Investor
Nizam Mohamed Nadzri
Chief Executive Officer,
Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad
Callum Chen
CEO,
LH Plus Sdn Bhd
President, MCMTC
Richard Wong
Founder & Chief Listener,
Vistage Malaysia & Singapore
Best Pivot
Most Promising
Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Lennise Ng
CEO & Co-Founder, Dropee
Johnson Lam Hooi Liang
Chief Innovation Officer, SOLS247
Founder,
KakiDIY / KakiRepair
Dr Melissa Foo
Head,
Sunway iLabs Venture
Lavinie Thiruchelvam
Founder & CEO, Babydash Sdn Bhd
Naguib Mohd Nor
Chief Executive Officer,
Strand Aerospace Malaysia
Young Innovator
Most Impactful Public Sector Agency Driving Digital Adoption
Most Value Creation
Francesca Chia
CEO, Co-Founder, GoGet
Elain Lockman
CEO & Co-Founder, Ata Plus
Sharizal Shaarani
Senior Vice President, Business Development Office, NanoMalaysia Berhad
Dr. Gabriel Walter
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, QEOS
Mohd Safuan Mohd Zair
Chief Ecosystem Development Officer, MRANTI
Alan Ow
Managing Partner, Tenggara Capital Partners Sdn Bhd
Category Lead Judges
Best Brick & Mortar Adoption
Best Pivot
Dato’ Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi
Director,
Dricopax Capital Limited, UK
Chen Chow
Co-Founder,
Fave
Most Impactful Public Sector Driving Digital Adoption
Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Dato' Seri Wong
Siew Hai
President,
Malaysia
Semiconductor
Industry Association
Thillai Raj
Chief Technology Officer,
BAC Education Group
Most Value Creation
Most Promising
Dr V. Sivapalan
Senior Partner & Co-Founder,
ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator
Ganesh Bangah
Executive Chairman,
Commerce.Asia
Young Innovator of the Year
Innovator of the Year
Prof. Ir. Eur. Ing. Ts. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam
Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer,
APU / APIIT
Datuk NK Tong
Group Managing Director,
Bukit Kiara Properties Sdn Bhd
Facilitating Judges
Premesh
Chandran
Co-Founder,
Malaysiakini
Karamjit
Singh
Chief Executive Officer,
Digital News Asia
Panel Judges
Innovator Of The Year
Sharala Axryd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS)
Suresh Thiru
Start-up Advisor,
Angel Investor
Nizam Mohamed Nadzri
Chief Executive Officer, Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad
Panel Judges
Best Brick & Mortar Adoption
Callum Chen
CEO,
LH Plus Sdn Bhd
President,
MCMTC
Richard Wong
Founder & Chief Listener,
Vistage Malaysia & Singapore
Panel Judges
Best Pivot
Lennise Ng
CEO & Co-Founder, Dropee
Johnson Lam Hooi Liang
Chief Innovation Officer, SOLS247 Founder, KakiDIY / KakiRepair
Panel Judges
Most Promising
Dr Melissa Foo
Head, Sunway iLabs Venture
Lavinie Thiruchelvam
Founder & CEO, Babydash Sdn Bhd
Panel Judges
Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Naguib Mohd Nor
Chief Executive Officer, Strand Aerospace Malaysia
Panel Judges
Young Innovator
Elain Lockman
CEO & Co-Founder,
Ata Plus
Panel Judges
Most Impactful Public Sector Agency Driving Digital Adoption
Sharizal Shaarani
Senior Vice President, Business Development Office, NanoMalaysia Berhad
Dr. Gabriel Walter
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, QEOS
Panel Judges
Most Value Creation
Mohd Safuan Mohd Zair
Chief Ecosystem Development Officer, MRANTI
Eight
Categories
The judges will be seeking innovators that have skillfully leveraged and incorporated technology into their business to secure a competitive advantage in today’s landscape despite the pandemic in the following categories.
Innovator
of the Year
Recognises a person who has developed a breakthrough innovation / has displayed a streak of innovation throughout their career / is a leader who inspires a community and helps spread an innovative mentality towards improving lives and serve as an inspiration to all.
Best Brick & Mortar Adoption
This award recognises a large Brick & Mortar company that has shown exceptional productivity, resilience, and creative thinking in managing the disruptions caused by Covid through the adoption of digital technology. Eligible to those with a revenue of over RM100 million.
Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Commercial Category:
This award recognises a University or Polytechnic that has shown strong collaboration with industry since Jan 2022 to strengthen the delivery of its curriculum and ensure graduates are industry ready from the get Go!
R&D Category:
This award recognises a University whose research has been done with either the private sector or an international partner AND where the results are now tangible and adopted by industry.
Most Impactful Public Sector Agency Driving Digital Adoption
A Federal Level & State Level Government Agency that has:
i. Adopted digital to significantly improve the delivery of their services to the Rakyat and Business.
Or
ii. Launched Digital Skills/Adoption programs in collaboration with stakeholders that has seen strong and measurable outcomes.
Most Value Creation
Introducing an exciting and most timely new category in Top in Tech Innovation Awards this year, our “Most Value Creation” category.
This is when the proverbial rubber meets the road i.e. show me the money category! Most timely as with stock markets swooning, inflation looming, valuations falling; investors want to see startups grow up and start making money.
And that’s what this category’s finalists will have demonstrated…that they have created value for their investors through free cash flows and profitability and thereby showing increased valuation since being invested in! This is going to be a tough category. Can the submissions impress our Lead Judge, Dr V Sivapalan, and his team of judges?
Most Promising
Startup
This award recognises a startup in operation for below 18 months that has shown excellent resilience, productivity, and promising scalability with an annual revenue of up to RM1 million.
Growth Company
This award recognises a company that has shown excellent resilience, productivity and promising scalability with an annual revenue of RM1 million – RM20 million.
Best Pivot
Startup
This award recognises a startup that has shown bold pivot strategy during the pandemic with an annual revenue of up to RM1 million.
Growth Company
This award recognises a company that has shown bold pivot strategy during the pandemic with an annual revenue of RM1 million – RM20 million.
Young Innovator
of the Year
This award, curated for Gen Z, will salute a young talent or team for displaying outstanding creativity and an innovative mindset in developing new or improving processes and products for today or tomorrow.
ORGANISED BY
This award is
acknowledged by
The
Ministry of Science,
Technology and Innovation
(MOSTI)
organised by
strategic partnerS
Innovation Partner
& Venue Host
digital economy partner
digital-TECH EDUCATION partner
Ecosystem partners
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
PRODUCT SPONSOR
MEDIA PARTNERS
Congratulations to all the winners!
Previous
Next
Celebrating Remarkable Innovators and Recognizing Ground-Breaking Technology Adoptions.
Previous
Next
Watch again the ceremony
News & Media
About The Award
Recognising leaders who have done an outstanding job leveraging technology and innovation during these challenging times.
Read more
Innovation has become a lifeline for many of us. We are witnessing how technology acceleration, especially through digital adoption, coupled with innovation has been a powerful mechanism in paving the way to uplift the economy out of a downturn since Covid began.
The strength, creativity and perseverance that we see, hear and read is remarkably vibrant! With so many great stories of how businesses have responded and reacted and even managed to accelerate growth, it is imperative that the Top In Tech Innovation Awards, brought to you by Digital News Asia and Malaysiakini, honours these innovators, businesses, and their massive efforts that reflect the best face of Malaysia Boleh.
Your Innovation Story Matters!
Prizes
- Trophies
Top In Tech Innovation Awards 2022 Category Trophies.
- Ad Grants
Winners’ Ad Grants by Malaysiakini & Digital News Asia (worth up to RM30k).
- Cash Prize
Cash Prize for the Young Innovator
of the Year.
- VR Headset
Pico 4 VR Headset by Pico VR
- Progremmes by MDEC
Access to programmes offered by MDEC:
Read more
Equidam Valuation Report
Complementary access to Equidam Valuation report Based on five different methodologies through the collaboration with Equidam.
Green Lane for Funding Programs
Gain direct access to selected MDEC funding programs such as MDEC Pitching Open Day and Founders Grindstone Pitching & Networking.
Mentor+
In mentoring, MDEC will facilitate qualified companies with mentors in the technology space.
MIX Programme
MDEC Innovation Exchange (MIX) is an essential link between tech solution providers and the corporates. Startups possess ideas to solve current problems faced within a variety of industries, bringing new ideas and solutions to enrich the industry. MIX bridges startups with corporates to ensure sustainability between the two with discovery and identification of new talents, business models and innovations provided by startups.
MDEC 1-to-1 OfficeCompanies can share about their business challenges and for MDEC to support you. Gain valuable industry insights from our MDEC mentors and solid advisory support on business opportunities, fundraising, market access, the MTEP initiative and so much more.
Market Access Programme such as:
GAIN Connex – Curated 1-to-1 business matching and networking programmes with overseas partners and resellers.
GAIN Expand – Market immersion bootcamp, to assist companies to build out a business plan and provide them with opportunities to connect with decision makers, influencers, investors, and collaborators.
GAIN Series – Specialised series of in-depth discussions on specific sectors or industry.
Note:
These programmes are applicable to winners that are digital solution providers with export capabilities.
Programme names are subject to change without prior notice.
Category Lead Judges
MOST IMPACTFUL ACADEMIA - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION
Thillai Raj
Chief
Technology Officer
MOST IMPACTFUL PUBLIC SECTOR DRIVING DIGITAL ADOPTION
Dato' Seri Wong
Siew Hai
President,
BEST BRICK &
MORTAR ADOPTION
Dato’ Mohamed Sharil Tarmiz
Director,
MOST VALUE
CREATION
Dr V. Sivapalan
Senior Partner &
Co-Founder
YOUNG INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
Prof. Ir. Eur. Ing. Ts. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam
Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer
APU / APIIT
INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
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Datuk NK Tong
Group Managing Director
Bukit Kiara Properties Sdn Bhd
Facilitating Judges
Panel JudgesInnovator of The Year
Sharala Axryd
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS)
Suresh Thiru
Start-up Advisor, Angel Investor
Nizam Mohamed Nadzri
Chief Executive Officer, Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad
Panel JudgesBest Brick & Mortar Adoption
Callum Chen
CEO, LH Plus Sdn Bhd President, MCMTC
Richard Wong
Founder & Chief Listener, Vistage Malaysia & Singapore
Panel Judges
Best Pivot
Lennise Ng
CEO & Co-Founder, Dropee
Johnson Lam Hooi Liang
Chief Innovation Officer, SOLS247 Founder, KakiDIY / KakiRepair
Panel JudgesMost Promising
Dr Melissa Foo
Head, Sunway iLabs Venture
Lavinie Thiruchelvam
Founder & CEO, Babydash Sdn Bhd
Panel JudgesMost Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Naguib Mohd Nor
Chief Executive Officer, Strand Aerospace Malaysia
Panel JudgesYoung Innovator
Elain Lockman
CEO & Co-Founder, Ata Plus
Francesca Chia
Co-Founder, GoGet
Panel JudgesMost Impactful Public Sector Agency Driving Digital Adoption
Sharizal Shaarani
Senior Vice President, Business Development Office, NanoMalaysia Berhad
Dr. Gabriel Walter
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, QEOS
Panel JudgesMost Value Creation
Mohd Safuan Mohd Zair
Chief Ecosystem Development Officer, MRANTI
Alan Ow
Managing Partner, Tenggara Capital Partners Sdn Bhd
8 Categories
The judges will be seeking innovators that have skillfully leveraged and incorporated technology into their business to secure a competitive advantage in today’s landscape despite the pandemic in the following categories.
Innovator of the Year
Recognises a person who has developed a breakthrough innovation / has displayed a streak of innovation throughout their career / is a leader who inspires a community and helps spread an innovative mentality towards improving lives and serve as an inspiration to all.
Best Brick & Mortar Adoption
This award recognises a large Brick & Mortar company that has shown exceptional productivity, resilience, and creative thinking in managing the disruptions caused by Covid through the adoption of digital technology. Eligible to those with a revenue of over RM100 million.
Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration
Commercial Category:
This award recognises a University or Polytechnic that has shown strong collaboration with industry since Jan 2022 to strengthen the delivery of its curriculum and ensure graduates are industry ready from the get Go!
R&D Category:
This award recognises a University whose research has been done with either the private sector or an international partner AND where the results are now tangible and adopted by industry.results are now tangible and being used by industry.
Most Impactful Public Sector Agency Driving Digital Adoption
A Federal Level & State Level Government Agency that has:
- i. Adopted digital to significantly improve the delivery of their services to the Rakyat and Business.
Or
ii. Launched Digital Skills/Adoption programs in collaboration with stakeholders that has seen strong and measurable outcomes.ii.
and measurable outcomes.
Most Value Creation
Introducing an exciting and most timely new category in Top in Tech Innovation Awards this year, our “Most Value Creation” category.
This is when the proverbial rubber meets the road i.e. show me the money category! Most timely as with stock markets swooning, inflation looming, valuations falling; investors want to see startups grow up and start making money.
And that’s what this category’s finalists will have demonstrated… that they have created value for their investors through free cash flows and profitability and thereby showing increased valuation since being invested in!
This is going to be a tough category. Can the submissions impress our Lead Judge, Dr V Sivapalan, and his team of judges?
Most Promising
Startup
This award recognises a startup in operation for below 18 months that has shown excellent resilience, productivity, and promising scalability with an annual revenue of up to RM1 million.
Growth Company
This award recognises a company that has shown excellent resilience, productivity and promising scalability with an annual revenue of RM1 million – RM20 million.
Best Pivot
Startup
This award recognises a startup that has shown bold pivot strategy during the pandemic with an annual revenue of up to RM1 million.
Growth Company
This award recognises a company that has shown bold pivot strategy during the pandemic with an annual revenue of RM1 million – RM20 million.
Young Innovator of the Year
This award, curated for Gen Z, will salute a young talent or team for displaying outstanding creativity and an innovative mindset in developing new or improving processes and products for today or tomorrow.
ORGANISED BY
The Prizes
