2014 Winners
Congratulations to our 2014 Winners!
The 2014 Talent Unleashed Awards celebrated the overall category winners at five events that spanned the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. The awards, were inundated with over 600 entries from the entire region with the global grand final winners receiving a once in a lifetime opportunity to attend the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson in South Africa for a five day entrepreneurship workshop during Global Entrepreneur’s Week.
These short videos recap the event highlights and showcase the winners journey.
2014 Year Winners:
Inspirational Leadership
GRACE CLAPHAM – Changepreneur & Inspirational Leader
Grace Clapham has set up a variety of communities including; the Secret {W} Business, a network for women entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia, CreativeMornings Singapore, a free, monthly, breakfast-lecture series for creative entrepreneurs and SheSays Singapore, a network for women in marketing and TEDx Singapore Women. Grace is also the co-founder of The Change School – a multidimensional retreat that intersects between personal development, education, wellness and travel to align purpose and passion for impact.
Community Impact
PAUL LEE – Co-inventor, ACEHearing
ACE Hearing is a hearing enhancement technology that incorporates the services of hearing professionals into any mobile device. It assesses your hearing health with a self-administered hearing test, and then can reshape your device’s audio output to provide a fuller listening experience.
Best Startup
FRANCES VALINTINE – Founder & Chairperson,
The Mind Lab
The Mind Lab by Unitec is a collaboration between Unitec Institute of Technology and The Mind Lab. It draws on the education expertise of both organisations to provide teachers and their students with the opportunity to learn how to integrate technology, enhance digital capability and activate new teaching practices in the classroom.
Digital Content
PHILIP ANDREWS – Director & Co-Founder, Liquid State
Liquid State claims to be the fastest and simplest digital publishing process in the world, publishing documents to a custom branded app for tablets and phones.
Rising Star
AMBER BLUMANIS – App Creator of Stopover
The Stopover App allows users to engage through; expanding business networking, airport dating, learn languages or meet other travelers while on stop over at an airport.
People’s Choice
DAVID HILLIER – Director & Founder, Little Lot
Little Lot is a charitable giving platform, changing the way you connect with the brands you love while giving to the causes you care about.
The UK ‘One to Watch’
JUDE OWER – Founder and CEO of Playmob
Playmob is an organisation connecting game mechanics to social good by helping companies create ‘in-game giving’ through their video games.