Winning teams and runners-up adjudicated by the panel of judges will be awarded cash prizes, fast-track entries into other competitions and the opportunities for start-up incubation and other entrepreneurial pathways.
Main Cash Prizes
Each of the four thematic tracks will have 3 prizes (gold, silver, and bronze), with a total of 12 prizes totalling HK$40,000.
Gold Prize (Winner)
HK$5,000
Silver Prize (1st runner-up)
HK$3,000
Bronze Prize (2nd runner-up)
HK$2,000
The cash prizes are generously donated by the participating universities.
Best WorkBuddy Award
Our technical sponsor, Tencent Cloud, will separately award special prizes for the most thoughtful, effective, and responsible use of their AI platform, WorkBuddy.
The award recognises teams that use WorkBuddy to solve real project challenges, improve the quality of their work, and create reusable Skill, Expert, Agent, automation or workflows that can help others address similar problems.
This is not a prize for using the most features, sending the most prompts or consuming the most tokens. Tencent judges will look for good judgement: using WorkBuddy for the right task, giving it clear instructions, checking important outputs and turning useful practice into something others can reuse.
How to enter?
Teams will need to submit a separate WorkBuddy Award Report during their final pitch deck and prototype submission. Details of the report will be release on the launch day.
The prize
- Talent and Career Fast Track: Each member of the team will join the Tencent Talent Pool, with fast-track to Tencent internship and graduate opportunities;
- Visit and Exchange: Invited to Tencent Hong Kong for an exchange session with Tencent colleagues. The session will provide an opportunity to discuss career development, product building, AI applications, the future direction of the project and other topics of interest to the team.
- Public spotlight: Featured publicly through social media spotlights on Tencent platforms, and student, developer and innovation communities. This includes interviews, case studies, and short-form content pieces.
- Official recognition: Receive a Tencent Certificate of Recognition and a Tencent gift pack.
Fast-Track Competition Entry
- 8 teams (Gold and Silver) from each track will be automatically admitted into the Finals of the Techathon+, the most prestigious tech entrepreneurship competition in Hong Kong. The event is organised by Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP). Prize winners will also receive start-up seed funding and incubation support.
- Non-winning teams can also apply for the entry to Techathon+.
Start-up and Incubation Pathways
