2016 Winners

oDocs Eye Care

oDocs Eye Care is a social enterprise that focuses on the development and distribution of affordable smartphone based technology for primary eye care. The company was founded in 2014 by two eye doctors and launched its first open-source retinal camera project which received global attention and gained more than 3000 clinical users in less than a year.

Therapy Box

Therapy Box provides augmentative communication solutions on iPads, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. They seek to apply the latest innovations in app development to meet the needs of those who have communication difficulties due to a range of disabilities.

The flagship text-to-speech app ‘Predictable’ is designed to give a voice to someone who is unable to use their own.

2015 saw the launch of their range of educational apps featuring Dubdub, the little yellow dinosaur who loves to learn about words! Rhyming Bus, Minimal Pairs and Odd One Out are all apps aimed at helping little ones develop their speech and listening skills.

Neal Cross

Neal leads the DBS Innovation Group (DiG) a team of influencers that fosters the spirit of innovation throughout the bank. He drives the bank’s innovation agenda across its key axes of growth, namely, Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Working with internal stakeholders and external collaborators, Neal charts a next-phase innovation roadmap for DBS to enhance customer experience and better engage the bank’s customers in the digital landscape. His vision being to turn the bank into a Fintech company by embedding the digital mind-set of a start-up across the entire banking group. In his spare time Neal has built a social enterprise hotel in the Sumatran jungle to help save the critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan and to give local villagers jobs and education.