
Open Winner
Ali Khaloo
Idea: AI-powered Infrastructure Management
CEO and Founder at Aren

Open Runner-Up
Hermione Crease
Co-Founder, Marketing
Purrmetrix Ltd
Idea: Measuring the Real Performance of the Fabric of Any Home

Undergraduate Winner & COINS Software Innovation Prize Winner
Krithiga Ravichandran
Electronics Engineering student University of Sheffield (UK)
Idea: 3D Printing ‘Ant-bots’ for Remote Construction

Undergraduate Runner-Up
Samarpan Deb Majumder
and Ankit Das
Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), Kolkata; Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore,India
Idea: Aq. Sodium-Methoxide Nanofluid

Saurav Bhilare
Undergraduate, Civil Engineering Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Idea: AI Assistant for Construction Management

Keval Nandu
BITS
Pilani, India
Idea: SMART Tech Aspires to Develop Smart Buildings

Maropeng Mphaho
BSC Civil engineering student University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)
Idea: Eco-friendly Geopolymer Concrete Binder

Franc Kamugyisha
CEO and Founder
EcoPlastile, Uganda
Idea: EcoPlastile - Upcycling Post-consumer Waste

Ged Finch
PhD Student in Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington. Director and R&D Manager at X-Frame PTY Ltd.
Idea: X-Frame: a modular structural wall framing technology

Carl Hebinck
CSF COINS Project Coordinator
Community Service Foundation of Clearwater
Idea: Eco-friendly Low-cost Housing

Bob Abtahi
Senior Research Fellow/Lecturer Western Sydney University
Idea: Green Concrete Aggregate from Mining Wastes

Quinn Sarah Hanitio
Engineering student Institute Teknologi Bandung
Idea: IoT Headset for Safety and Communication