Entrepreneurs from countries around the world continued pitching their creative ideas and innovative solutions in the SME space at ITU Telecom World 2017. In the presence of H.E Rudiantara, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Indonesia, the SMEs shortlisted for the prestigious ITU Telecom World Global SME Award pitched to a jury, comprising social entrepreneurship and tech experts.
Pitches spanned areas including drones, tech financing, location-based grocery shopping, multilingual robots, health monitoring, prenatal telemedicine, IoT-enabled poultry incubators, disaster recovery, face recognition and secure payment services, featuring:
Poland
- FlyTech UAV
Indonesia
- Kampung UKM Digital Belimbing
- Modalku
- Tukang Sayur
United States of America
- AKA Intelligence
- InvestED
- KonoLabs
Sudan
- Nile Centre for Technology Research
Azerbaijan
- Healthy Living Support
Japan
- Melody International
Benin
- Belle Imagerie
- BTech
- GO Incubator
China
- Shanghai Terjin Radio Technology co. ltd
Korea
- ESE co. ltd.
- Man Technology
- Neosecu
- Nexpay co.ltd.
- Opus One
- Rsupport co. ltd.
- Security Platform inc.
- Stealien
During each 10 minute pitch, SMEs were grilled by the jury on business and pricing models, competitive advantage, USP, competitors and projected revenues. You can find out who the ITU Telecom World Award winners are at the ITU Telecom World Awards Ceremony on 28 September!