17 September 2020
Opmantek Innovation Awards 2020
What is it?
Fostering innovation is the catalyst to business growth. Opmantek are proud to support our industry’s growth by sponsoring Griffith Universities Industry award. This award focuses on encouraging students to apply their skills and innovative ideas to real-world situations and business that are in need bright solutions.
Building a diverse and forward-thinking team in today’s climate has never been more important. This event hosted by Griffith’s School of ICT will showcase the emerging talent that is graduating from Griffith University. It is a terrific opportunity if you are looking for staff with qualified project experience, you have an area of interest in entrepreneurship or enjoy the ICT field.
Previous Winners
Team name: Octadoc
The Project: The goal of the project was to re-design an existing online tool, Octadoc. Octadoc allows a GP to record clinic notes more efficiently by streamlining the process. The team re-designed the existing tool to be user friendly and to incorporate the ability to use different templates or create new templates in such a way that they are organised and shareable with other users.
Team Name: Vietnamese Agriculture Decision Support App (VADSA)
The Project: VADSA were tasked to develop an Android app that would help farmers, specifically in the Mekong Delta, to help predict farming outcomes based on environmental conditions. VADSA used professional sources and node collection to run a prediction algorithm that gave suggestions on suitable farming techniques to maximise the probability of successful crop generation. This was all packaged on a mobile device for a farmer to use in the field.