CB students win SAP global innovation award

CityU BBA (Hons) Information Management Year 2 student Sharon Lam Chui-kwan and Year 3 student Chaylen Chin Bik-ying, together with a teammate from the San Francisco State University (SFSU), won the Utility of Tomorrow Innovation Contest hosted by SAP AG, a world leader in enterprise software and software-related services*.

The contest seeks ideas from university students around the world on solving future energy and resource challenges via software and applications, such as mobile apps and management systems.  Sharon and Chaylen were on the CityU Exchange Programme to SFSU when they decided to enter this online open contest with a classmate they met in a mobile application development course that they took during exchange in November 2013.

There were 5 categories to the contest and the team has won the Sustainable Resources category. Their idea is to develop a water management mobile application where consumers can set a water usage target, track their usages, send alerts to their mobile devices or emails, and pool the data to help infrastructure conservation.

The two students recently received their SAP certificates along with an invitation to the SAP Silicon Valley branch to develop their proposed prototype from 3rd to 9th of August this year. Sharon and Chaylen are very excited about this 7-day intensive workshop trip with all the expenses paid by SAP.

Follow-up news reporting will be published in mid-August after the SAP workshop.

*quoted from SAP AG official website.

For more information about the contest, please visit https://ideas.sap.com/ct/s.bix?c=983D13AC-DB77-4647-BBB6-DA2B52300AAA.