Thursday, March 20, 2014

Bootcamp Day 3

More than 30 researchers, designers, and ETPL commercialisation teams. 
Over 16 proposals. 
Final preparation for judging by 10 industry experts. 




Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Bootcamp Day 2

Output from Day 1 from joint Design and Research teams.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Bootcamp Panel of Judges - 21st March 2014

As a head of South-east Area Region R&D centre, Mr. Youngbae Park is not only in-charge of over 400 R&D Engineers, Chemists and Scientists across six countries but also responsible for sponsoring and encouraging the 3M Innovation Culture that has kept 3M R&D alive and well for more than a century. Today over 30% of 3M sales in SEA Region comes from New Products and New Applications enabled by the active year-on-year contribution to sales by the R&D.  In 2010, YB moved to Singapore upon his appointment as R&D Head for SEA Region which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia. Under his leadership 3M R&D is undergoing a strategic as well innovative cultural shift to create more localized innovation to support the business growth plan in the region.

Ms. Daphne Flynn has a design management role at Philips Design with a focus on design led innovation for the Asean & Pacific region.  Major takeaways when u talk to her :
  • With so much diversity, designing globally is a challenge – make a product global but take into consideration local cultural nuances such as color and shape.
  • Take a chance in life, you never know, your dreams may come true!
  • Follow your passion, the rest will work itself out! 
  • There is always a great excuse to learn something new.

Mr. Fabian Ong, Director & Partner of Laminar Labs & Ideal Laminar Pte Ltd. The company, a solution provider of Thermal management and EMI solutions for Portable devices.  He is also the Director, of Uniqtek Pte Ltd,  that focuses on providing Eco-friendly and energy saving solutions to the Oil and Gas, Maritime, Building and construction Uniqtek is a supplier of High Performance Coating and Paints for Corrosion control and Hot and Cold Insulation. These products are waterbased or low VOC and are certified by EnergyStar, Singapore Environmental Council and endorsed by other Green Councils. He is constantly looking    for new revolutionary ideas to bring to the market ! 


Low Cheaw Hwei, Global Creative Director, Philips Design, joined the Philips audio concept design team in 1991. He worked in Hong Kong and Singapore before in 2002 he was made Senior Design Director for the consumer electronics portfolio in Asia and in 2007, took on the role of Design Officer for TV and AVM, leading the function of design in both business groups. He is now appointed the Global Creative Director for the Consumer Lifestyle responsible for overall creative direction in product and services design across the sector. In addition to his responsibilities at Philips Design, he has served on several design committees and international design competition judging panels. 

Kwai Merng is Executive Vice President and heads the Science and Engineering Commercialisation Division. She leads a team responsible for enhancing the value of promising technologies for commercialisation from the research institutes under A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC). Kwai Merng brings to the task her extensive experience in financial valuation, corporate planning, business development, merger and acquisitions as well as operations management accrued from her executive roles at companies such as NatSteel Asia and KPMG.

Kelvin is the Director of Focus-Tech Holding, a private investment company and formerly the holding company of the Seksun Group. He is the founder and CEO of FocusTech Ventures, a seed stage venture firm and technology incubator that focuses on projects around web, mobile, digital media and M2M communications. Kelvin co-founded T.Ware, a haptics technology firm, and serves on the Board of Directors of several internet startups. Adamant that hardware is the new black, he desperately wants to bring sexy back to the “makerpreneur” world.



Mark Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Sing Lun Holdings Limited, was accorded Most Outstanding Entrepreneur Award at Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010 in Singapore. With a workforce of more than 7,000 employees, with production facilities spanning across 6 countries worldwide, and a strategic supplier to brands including North Face, Puma and Underamour, Sing Lun is considered to be one of the leading integrated apparel provider globally.

Dr. Kenneth Lee joined A*STAR in July 2013 as Director, Biomedical Research Council. He shapes and oversees the council’s research initiatives and industry development strategy in the Consumer Business space (spanning Food and Nutrition to Personal Care and Dermatology). Ken is a passionate game changer and global executive with 14 years' experience in senior leadership positions in innovation and strategic planning (personal/beauty care, food and nutrition industries). At L’Oréal, where he was Director of Strategic Foresight, Ken led a multidisciplinary team tasked with identifying and incubating new growth opportunities based on emerging science and technology. By nurturing partnerships with research teams and start-up companies worldwide, the team helped L’Oréal to be future ready, and to gain access to white spaces with the potential to change the game for the industry in a 5 to 10 year horizon. Ken has undertaken assignments in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Israel, US. He looks forward to working closely with the A*STAR community, to help establish Singapore as the Asian Innovation Capital. 

Jade Yip , Director of Shevron Pte Ltd, is currently running a new family business, as a one stop shop for design, fabric embroidery and silkscreen. The product focuses on distinctive embroidery styles and impressive techniques which can be seen on the merchandise of many famous local and US brands 


Rudy grew up in the Silicon Valley; Started and sold two successful companies before finishing College.  Upon completing post graduate studies at The Ohio State University, Rudy put his talent to work for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space as a member of a Tiger team tasked with putting a commercial imaging satellite into orbit from design to launch in under 4 years. The project was a brilliant success,  paving the way for companies like Google to have access to data that we now all take for granted in Google Maps. Fast forward 15 years and you will find Rudy living and working in Singapore after having been at Flextronics for more than a decade. During these last three years, Rudy has served as the Director for Flextronics Design. This world class R&D team has designed many of the technology products you use every day. Although you may never see Flextronics name on the logo, Flextronics Design provides Design Services to many of the most recognized brands in the world.


Spent the first 15 years of working life in an MNC environment picking up the “right answers” in the business value chain. Aspire to practice and refine these ‘right answers’ in a very different setting like small enterprise. One of the very few senior executive that has whole spectrum of experience in MNC, SME, high-tech start-up, A*Star spin-off and manufacturing plant in less develop country. Good balance of hand-on practical experience and academic learning for engineering, management and business. Well rounded technical know-how and self-driven profile. 


Brian is a multidisciplinary Design Leader with more than 15 years of experience leading strategic design programs that drives successful Brands, Fortune 500 businesses, and Government Institutions such as GE, Philips, Nakamichi, Flextronics, Ericsson, Hannspree, and HP. His passion is in helping organisations leverage on Design Driven Innovation to make people’s lives better. His designs, or those by the teams he has led, have been recognized with prestigious awards such as: The Singapore Design Award – Silver (2010), 2 Red Dots in Product Design (2010 for HTS8160B, 2005), Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award (2007)2 CES Innovations Award Honorees (2007)Red Dot Concept Award (2006), and a “Merit” in the Young Professional Designers Award (2002). These designs have been featured in T3 (Lumos, HTS9520, HTS9140), Wired Magazine, Home and Décor, Engadget China, Yanko Design, and exhibited at Singapore Design Festival (2007) and 20/20 Product Design (2004). He was formally a Senior Design Manager at Philips Design leading their global portfolio of home cinema/entertainment products and Head of Industrial Design at Nakamichi. He founded and currently runs Design Sojourn, a strategic design consultancy.

Alfred Tan, Deputy Director of ITE College West Technology Development Center. This center brings engineering solution in the form of imaging, embedded systems, mechanical design and software to the industry. Alfred has more than 15 years wot R&D experience in different MNC industry covering MedTech, Military and Consumer. He is well versed in product development from product definition to mass production level ( high mix low volume and low mix high volume ).

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Bootcamp - 19,20,21 March 2014

Location: SUTD, Level 2, Classroom Think Tank 2-4 (left from the main lobby)

THE HOMEWORK
a) Participants are required to take 3 photos of people's behavior that they find it interesting.
For each photo , to complete Toolkit link, and bring these 3 insights along on 19th March 2014.
Coloured print-outs preferred for each insight.

A*STAR TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY
Participants are encouraged to go through the Technologies we have at A*STAR.
These technologies are encouraged to be utilized as teams formulate product concepts.
Product concepts are also judged based on the technologies utilized from the list



Toolkits

Customer Insight Tool by Design Sojourn

Photo Archive for Tech Sharing Day 12 March 2014

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

FlyFord Communications

The consumer experience: inventing products that consumers want to buy
Peter Moore, Director, FlyFord Communications
Investor in A*STAR startup Nanoveu

Kickoff Co-Creators

43 Co-Creators
DSI, IMRE, I2R, NTU
MDesign, Co-Foundry, IdeationEdgeAsia
Nanoveu, Sofshell, World Kitchen
FlyFord Communications, Shevon, Elextile, Design Sojurn





Technologies

InfoComm Media
Portable Virtual Reality Kit 2
HDR Camera App without Ghosting
Single Image Haze Removal
Scalable Multimedia Platform
Face Recognition
Multilingual Chat
Cloud-ready Speech Recognition
Natural Speech Synthesis
Voice Biometrics
Video-based Customer Profiling
Human Detection & Tracking for Behavioural Analysis
Mobile Activity Recognition
Mobile Interactive Multimedia Access System (MIMAS)

Nanoimprint
Formation of 2D and 3D Patterned Surfaces with Nanoimprint Lithography
Gecko's Feet adhesive
Modification of Substrate Wettability
Colour Texturing on plastics without using dyes

Printed electronics
Solution Processable Molybdenum Oxide Film
Fabrication Of Conductive And Transparent Thin Films
Digital Asynchronous Logic in Printed Electronics
Conductive inks for printed electronics



Nanofibers
Electrospun Fibrous Carbon Mats from Lignin and Their Application as Electrode Materials for Energy Storage
One-step Mineralizable Electrospun Fibrous Mat
Electrospinning & electrospraying

Smart polymers
Biodegradable Thermogelling Copolymers
Fast Response Biodegradable and Biocompatible Shape
Stimuli-Responsive Degradable Polymeric Materials

Encapsulation
Prevent Oxidation of (Poly)unsaturated Fatty Acids Against Oxidation Via Fabrication of Multilayer Protective Coating Over Encapsulated Emulsion

OLED
Improving display contrast of OLEDs

Biosensor/Sensors
Microfluidic Biosensor Intergrated With LSPR Spectroscopy
Metal Nanoclusters Fluorescent Colour-Change Assay

Others
LED as Next Generation Visible Light Communication
Lead-Free Electro-Optic Ceramics
Flexible Impact Absorption Composite
Nanowire Sensor, Nanowire Sensor Array and Method of Fabricating the Same
Point-of-care Diagnostics Tools
Point-of-care System for Cell-based Monitoring for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
Embedded electronics and ideas from Data Storage researchers
Superhydophilic coating