Malaysia-Japan Fast Track Pitch 2025

Thursday, 5 February 2026

13:00 - 18:00 | JW Marriott Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This is your pathway to open innovation with industry leading companies and visionary startups in ASEAN and Japan. Find unique co-creation opportunities and grow together to make the world better!

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Main Event Agenda

Time	Agenda Details	Location
12:30 - 13:00	Registration	JW Marriott Hotel Kuala Lumpur The Bayu Ballroom
13:00 - 13:35	Malaysia-Japan Fast Track Pitch Event Greeting from the co-organisers
13:35 - 13:45	Photo Session
13:45 - 15:00	Pitch Session 1
15:00 - 15:20	Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:40	Pitch Session 2
16:40 - 17:15	Break Time and Award Ceremony
17:15 - 18:00	Closing Session and Networking

Selected Finalist Startup	Description	Country
Growth Pro	Enterprises use conversational AI in marketing, sales, and support, but lack insight into how conversations affect actual business outcomes. Current analytics focus on surface metrics and miss links to revenue or customer retention. Growth Pro AI operate Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform that can be adapted into a Strategic Impact Diagnostics Engine for conversational AI. The platform provides conversation-level observability by capturing and classifying interactions across AI assistants, chatbots, and digital touchpoints into standardized intent clusters. This enables actionable insights like revenue impact and churn risk. With minor upgrades, the platform meets challenge requirements, and its content module generates trusted responses, making conversational AI a transparent, optimizable business system.	Malaysia
Kataliz AI	We built conversational AI for the hardest use case: debt collection. When conversations involve money and stress, you need AI that's empathetic, accurate, and outcome-focused. We've proven this with banks and lenders across Southeast Asia. Now we're bringing this to mobility. WILLER's customers face complex journeys combining DRT, MRT, and mobi Connect. Our AI guides them through it, monitors quality, and ensures Japan standards—just like we do for financial services. Live deployments: JTrust Group (Japan), Mekari, BCA Finance, Bank Neo Commerce in Jakarta. Recently expanded to RYT Bank (YTL Group) in Kuala Lumpur..	Singapore
Metora Data Science	Metora Data Science Sdn Bhd, founded in Malaysia in 2014, is a data engineering and AI consultancy specializing in secure, scalable solutions across the full data lifecycle, including data ingestion, lakehouse design, business intelligence, and AI/ML deployment. Serving industries such as retail, oil and gas, healthcare, logistics, and banking, Metora helps organizations enhance operational visibility and automate decision-making. Its in-house team delivers tailored solutions aligned with clients’ strategic goals, sometimes collaborating with boutique ML/AI firms for specialized needs. With extensive expertise and a practical approach, Metora empowers global enterprises to build AI-ready, resilient digital foundations.	Malaysia
Ipinfra Networks	AgriChat.ai, developed by IPINFRA Networks, is an AI-powered platform that delivers real-time farm decisions via WhatsApp using precise weather and crop risk data. Farmers can shift from reactive to predictive operations without new apps or devices. Integrating hyperlocal weather, disease forecasting, and nutrient advice, AgriChat.ai helps prevent losses from weather and crop risks before damage occurs. With over 1,000 farms in Malaysia using the service, it supports climate adaptation and food security by providing simple, actionable messages. AgriChat.ai empowers farmers to protect yields, stabilize income, and adapt to climate volatility across ASEAN.	Malaysia
CAS	Control & Automation Solution is an innovative integrator of systems thinking to provide climate-smart solutions, standing as a pioneer in the Green, Blue, and Circular Economy. Our core mission is to spearhead the sustainable transformation of Vietnam's agriculture. We are dedicated to elevating the global position of Vietnamese rice while securing long-term livelihoods to improve the quality of life for local farmers. Our vision extends beyond economic profit. We employ a "dual-use" strategy that integrates renewable energy models with circular agriculture. This approach significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and ensures both food and energy security. At CAS, we are building a resilient ecosystem where economic growth, environmental, and social prosperity together.	Vietnam
Evolving Brilliance Technologies	Evolving Brilliance (EB Tech) is a full-stack partner for land-based assets, integrating AI-powered technology and on-the-ground execution to maximize Total Asset Value. We provide end-to-end land asset management to maximize Total Asset Value across People, Planet and Profit. With 300% annual growth since we started and with traction in 5 countries to date, EB Tech is positioning themselves to be the driving factor for agriculture, technology and sustainability in ASEAN region and beyond.	Malaysia
Eight Knot	Eight Knot Inc. develops “AI CAPTAIN,” an autonomous navigation and operation-assist platform for 20–80ft passenger and workboats, designed for easy retrofitting. Integrating cameras, radar, and LiDAR, it enhances safety in challenging waters like docks and narrow channels while logging voyages and safety KPIs to improve reliability and standardize procedures. Focusing on upgrading existing fleets, Eight Knot adopts a phased approach—starting with crew-assisted autonomy and progressing toward remote, multi-vessel monitoring. In the Johor–Singapore corridor, the company aims to offer predictable, safe, and accessible water mobility for commuting, school, medical, and premium travel, complementing land and future rail transport.	Japan
Citysage	CitySage is an AI-driven urban intelligence company that helps governments make proactive decisions by integrating climate risk, infrastructure, and socio-economic data. Their platform unifies geospatial, satellite, environmental, transport, and government datasets into a real-time intelligence environment, enabling scenario modeling, risk prioritization, and policy simulation. CitySage partners with PlanMalaysia and Map2U, powering the Iskandar Malaysia Analytics Center to provide a unified decision-making view for policymakers. By connecting climate resilience with economic and social outcomes, CitySage empowers cities to anticipate and adapt to crises, balancing sustainable development with long-term urban resilience.	Malaysia
Jikantechno	Jikantechno is a Osaka-based materials company that transforms agricultural by-products—primarily rice husks—into high-value carbon and silica materials. Its proprietary production method makes it possible to create consistent, high-performance materials while keeping CO₂ emissions very low, offering a sustainable alternative to conventional fossil-based resources. The company produces porous carbon, conductive carbon materials, and high-purity silica that can be used in areas such as energy storage, electronics, filtration, environmental solutions, and advanced composites. Jikantechno works with manufacturers and research institutions to develop new applications and help partners integrate more sustainable materials into their products and processes.	Japan
Parongpong RAW Lab	Parongpong RAW Lab is an award-winning waste to material private research institute based in Indonesia, focused on sustainability, circular economy, and material innovation. We transform residual waste into circular materials by combining community empowerment, technology, and design. Our mission is to work with businesses and industries to create innovative solutions that reduce environmental impact and build decentralized circular systems.	Indonesia
Prayogik	Prayogik works towards remote power management solutions including, Thermoelectric technology, Battery Management Systems, Automation, Wearable technology, health monitoring systems, and waste to energy in cooling and utilizing heat applications including power management solutions.	India
Aldagram	Our company offers KANNA, a cloud platform that streamlines project management and digitizes reporting workflows. KANNA replaces manual Excel scheduling with real-time, cloud-based project tracking, ensuring better alignment and task management. For reporting, KANNA eliminates paper-based inefficiencies by enabling digital completion, approval, and storage of documents, improving compliance and reducing costs. Its intuitive mobile app supports offline use and multiple languages, making it popular among on-site teams. Major companies like Okinawa Electric Power, Panasonic, and Obayashi Road trust KANNA, which is widely adopted across ASEAN and the UK.	Japan
Datalabs	Our company specializes in automation technologies that create accurate 3D digital twins of on-site conditions without manual modeling. Modely, our core product, automatically generates precise 3D rebar models and extracts key inspection data, enabling faster and more consistent quality checks. Our automated engine also converts point clouds into structured BIM models for as-built verification and efficient digital handover. Adopted by major contractors and endorsed by Japan’s MLIT, our solutions are proven for national infrastructure management. We're developing Framy, a platform for automated BIM generation and scalable 3D data use. Our mission is to boost productivity and safety with seamless digital tools.	Japan
Onestruction	ONESTRUCTION bridges construction and technology by enabling AEC/O companies to leverage digital solutions and data for improved workflows and environments. We offer DX consulting, SaaS, SDK, and API solutions, backed by deep industry expertise from a team of construction and IT specialists. Our experience includes standards development for BIM, working with the Japanese government and building SMART internationally on national and openBIM standards. We also excel in AI and software development, providing custom and SaaS solutions tailored to industry needs, and are involved in government-led initiatives to develop foundational LLM and SLM models for the construction sector.	Japan

* Proposal submissions closed on December 22, 2025 (Monday) 23:59 (GMT+8)

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