June 8, 2023
The Liveability Challenge 2023
Singapore | Marina Bay Sands | Hybrid
1400hrs - 1800hrs SGT (GMT +8)
About this Event
The global population is set to hit 8 billion this year. With rapid urbanisation gripping Asia, the decarbonisation of our economies and cities has become more urgent than ever. Bangkok and Jakarta are sinking. Bangladesh is hit by the worst floods in a century. Guangzhou's coastline is disappearing.
At the same time, climate change is warming our oceans and making it more acidic. Our marine ecosystems are under severe threat, exacerbated by overfishing and pollution. With rising constraints on land, water, and energy, food security has also risen to the top of the agenda. How can we establish circular, net-zero urban food systems?
That is why The Liveability Challenge (TLC) was launched in 2018, to spark a global hunt for innovative and sustainable solutions to the challenges of urban cities.
This year, from a record-breaking 600+ entries from 82 countries, the battle to win up to S$2.5 million funding is now down to 8 finalists. Representing various countries such as Singapore, United States, Israel and the Philippines, the shortlist for The Liveability Challenge 2023 feature innovative solutions on climate change and food and nutrition.
The 8 finalists are:
Climate change (decarbonisation, ocean conservation and restoration)
1. Team: Seabound (United Kingdom)
Solution: Carbon capture for ships. Equipment installed by a ship’s funnel that traps 95 per cent of a vessel’s carbon emissions.
2. Team: Carbix Corporation (United States)
Solution: Technology captures point source emissions from industry and converts the carbon into construction materials.
3. Team: Susteon (UnitedStates)
Solution: Capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into “green methane” or renewable natural gas.
4. Team: Seaforestation.Co (ThePhilippines)
Solution: Marine permaculture, aims to scale seaweed forest regeneration to remove atmospheric carbon and provide deepwater irrigation.
5. Team: Nika.eco (Singapore)
Solution: An analysis tool for mangrove restoration and conservation and blue carbon projects.
Food and nutrition
6. Team: Proteomax (Singapore)
Solution: Enabling the manufacture of alternative proteins with the same nutritional content as animal-based products.
7. Team: TeOra (Singapore)
Solution: Orally-delivered solution to prevent and treat scale drop disease virus in Barramundi or Asian sea bass.
8. Team: Plantae Bioscience (Israel)
Solution: Cultivating classical and gene-edited tomatoes for vertical farms in Singapore.
The Liveability Challenge will award a grand prize of up to S$1million for the winner in each track. Other funding prizes include investments of $100,000 each from our strategic partners: impact investment firm PlanetRise, impact-focused family office Rumah Group, and venture capital funds Quest Ventures, TRIREC and PeakBridge.
Join us for the Grand Finale of The Liveability Challenge 2023 at Marina Bay Sands, hosted alongside Ecosperity week 2023.
Judges
Presenter
Co-presenter of the Food & Nutrition track
Strategic Partners
Agenda
2:00 pm
Registrations
2:30 pm
Welcome
Jessica Cheam
Founder and Managing Director, Eco-Business
2:40 pm
TLC 2023 Grand Finale pitches & judges Q&A
- Food and nutrition
- Climate change and decarbonisation
4:20 pm
2022 Winner’s Spotlight
Fairventures Social Forestry
4:25 pm
Judges recess
Fireside chat: Innovators and investors: Accelerating the energy transition
The global community is stepping up efforts to address climate change and decarbonise economies, but with geopolitical tensions, rising inflation, food and energy supply chain disruptions, among other pressing challenges, these efforts are at risk. Innovation is a key driver of our response to the climate crisis, ocean conservation and food security needs, but how can we accelerate these efforts and how can investors play a key role in enabling the commercialisation of these innovations? What collaborations are needed in the search for breakthrough innovations that will accelerate the energy transition? Join us on 8 June 2023, at The Liveability Challenge Grand Finale, for this fireside chat as we discuss with our distinguished speakers on the role of innovators and impact investors in accelerating the energy transition.
Atsushi Taira
Executive Partner, Mistletoe Japan, Managing Director, Mistletoe Singapore
Dawn Chan
Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Centre for Impact Investing and Practices
Meaghan See
Director of Partnerships, Eco-Business
5:05 pm
Judges’ feedback
5:15 pm
Unveiling of winners
- Food and nutrition
- Climate change and decarbonisation
5:35 pm
Closing
5:40 pm
Networking cocktails
Agenda
2:00 pm
Registrations
2:30 pm
Welcome
2:40 pm
TLC 2023 Grand Finale pitches & judges Q&A
- Food and nutrition
- Climate change and decarbonisation
4:20 pm
2022 Winner’s Spotlight
Fairventures Social Forestry
4:25 pm
Judges recess
Fireside chat: Innovators and investors: Accelerating the energy transition
The global community is stepping up efforts to address climate change and decarbonise economies, but with geopolitical tensions, rising inflation, food and energy supply chain disruptions, among other pressing challenges, these efforts are at risk. Innovation is a key driver of our response to the climate crisis, ocean conservation and food security needs, but how can we accelerate these efforts and how can investors play a key role in enabling the commercialisation of these innovations? What collaborations are needed in the search for breakthrough innovations that will accelerate the energy transition? Join us on 8 June 2023, at The Liveability Challenge Grand Finale, for this fireside chat as we discuss with our distinguished speakers on the role of innovators and impact investors in accelerating the energy transition.
5:05 pm
Judges’ feedback
5:15 pm
Unveiling of winners
- Food and nutrition
- Climate change and decarbonisation
5:35 pm
Closing
5:40 pm
Networking cocktails
Judges
Presenter
Temasek Foundation
Temasek Foundation International is a Singapore-based non-profit organisation under the philanthropic arm of the Singapore state sovereign fund Temasek Holdings. Temasek has established 17 endowments since 1974 focused on promoting social and cultural interaction, education, and aid for the disadvantaged in Asia.
It is under the financial oversight of Temasek Trust, the endowment trustee of Temasek Holdings. The other foundations under the trust's financial oversight include Temasek Foundation Cares, Temasek Foundation Connects, Temasek Foundation Nurtures, Temasek Foundation Innovates and Temasek Foundation Ecosperity.
As of 2016, over S$2 billion has been given to community initiatives covering a wide range of sectors and demographic groups locally and regionally, benefitting more than 300,000 people in Singapore and across Asia.
Co-presenter of the Food & Nutrition track
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) was formed as a statutory board under the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) on 1 April 2019 to oversee food safety and food security from farm-to-fork. MEWR has been renamed as the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE). The SFA brings together food-related functions carried out by the former Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore, the National Environment Agency and the Health Sciences Authority.
As the lead agency for food-related matters, SFA’s mission is to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore. SFA works hand-in-hand with the industry and consumers to grow our three “food baskets” – Diversify import sources, Grow local, and Grow overseas, as well as ensure food safety from farm to fork. SFA also partners food businesses to strengthen capabilities, tap on technologies to raise productivity, undertake research to develop new lines of business, and catalyse industry transformation to ensure food security
Singapore Food Agency
Strategic Partners
PeakBridge VC is a pioneering global fund manager in Agri-FoodTech investing that focuses on discovering and nurturing high-growth startups, entrepreneurs, and technologies that impact the future of the world’s food systems.
Peak Bridge
WE INVEST IN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES
Climate and social inequality are the biggest challenges facing humanity today. We support companies solving these issues, using tech to achieve impact at scale
PlanetRise
Since 2011, Quest Ventures has focused on an overarching ‘digital economy’ strategy across Asia, and is a top venture capital firm in artificial intelligence, e-commerce and marketplaces, entertainment, finance, food, insurance, logistics, media, property, sports, and the Islamic digital economy. Portfolio companies include industry leaders such as 99.co, Carousell, Carro, Glife, Hepmil, Oddle, Shopback, VulcanPost, Xfers, and Yummy Corporation. More
Quest Ventures
Rumah Group is a Singapore-based family office passionate about sustainable investments, communities and the environment, as well as having continuous programmes for giving. Rumah means 'home' - inspired by family, we're driven to contribute towards a better world and advocate for causes that we feel strongly about.
Rumah Group
With the clarity of intent and purpose, we chase impact and deliver performance. We maximize our efforts on decarbonization, investing in entrepreneurs whose exceptional innovations decarbonizes the world. Our support enables entrepreneurs to achieve what is better for planet Earth.
Trirec
