Category: Events

Scaleup Bio Accelerates Opportunities for Global Food Tech Start-Ups with 2023 Opening of Two Dedicated Food-Grade Precision Fermentation Facilities in Singapore

Þ First dedicated food-grade precision fermentation laboratories in Singapore and amongst few in the world truly catered towards start-ups and emerging food tech companies
Þ Offering end-to-end Contract Development Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) services from lab to market, including business and technicaladvisory, industry partnerships and investor access
Þ Backed by ADM and Temasek’s Nurasa, formerly Asia Sustainable Foods Platform

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5th annual Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit

Join 900+ international delegates in Singapore and online for the 5th annual Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit on October 26-28, to focus on building agri-food capacity and resilience in Asia, network, and forge partnerships for future growth.

Ecopetrol expands footprint to Asia; opens first office in Singapore

Singapore, 27 September 2022 – The Ecopetrol Group, Colombia’s largest company and
one of the leading energy groups in Latin America, officially launched their office in
Singapore during APPEC 2022, the premier oil and gas industry meeting in the Asia-Pacific
region.
In four months since operations began, the subsidiary has secured sales that surpass
initially forecasted plans by 55%. This has been possible thanks to a specialized regional
on-site team that has allowed the Company to seize opportunities in real time, develop close
relationships with current and potential clients, as well as gain a better understanding of the
local environment.
“We are pleased to continue moving forward with Ecopetrol Group’s international operations
plan through the opening of this new office in Singapore. Asia is our main export destination,
and a physical presence here allows us to develop closer relationships with our customers
and capture more and better opportunities,” announced Felipe Bayón, CEO of the Ecopetrol
Group, during the first customer relations event organized by the company in Asia.

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Global Food Tech Challenge Announces 30 Shortlisted Start-Ups in Competition for $2 Million Prize

Dubai – UAE: 27 September 2022 – A selection of 30 innovative Agri tech and food tech start-ups from around the world, working to address food security challenges, were today named as shortlisted teams vying to win the global Food Tech Challenge that has a pooled prize of US $2 million.   

The second edition of the Food Tech Challenge seeks to find the next wave of technology innovations on the cusp of transforming traditional agriculture practices efficiently and sustainably. Officially launched at Expo City in Dubai in March 2022, the competition is organized by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and Tamkeen, with ASPIRE as the lead partner.  

The 30 shortlisted start-ups have been selected from 667 submissions across 79 countries, representing a 52% increase in entries compared to the first edition of the competition, which saw 437 applications from 68 countries, with previous winners announced from Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the UK.

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SIT Hackathon 2022: Sustainability in Space Final

8 June 2022 – The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Science Centre Singapore and NEO Aeronautics Pte Ltd successfully concluded the inaugural edition of ‘The SIT Hackathon 2022: Sustainability in Space’.

Themed ‘How to Live in Space for 365 Days’, the Hackathon saw participating students from SIT proposing innovative solutions related to 3D printing technologies that can be used in space. From January 2022 to June 2022, six teams submitted their product proposals and were given a budget of $500 to produce their prototype. Four teams progressed to the Grand Final, held at SIT@Dover on 8 June.

Team REPA impressed the judges with their sustainable innovation proposal and clinched the top prize of $500 cash. The winning team, comprising three Year 3 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students from SIT- University of Glasgow joint degree programmes, proposed using recyclable plastic material for 3D-printed repair parts in the International Space Station.