Esther Wang, 30
FOUNDER, JOYTINGLE SINGAPORE
While volunteering at a children’s hospital, Esther Wang noticed the fear and
anxiety kids experience ahead of procedures involving needles. Using her design
background, the 29-year-old Singaporean went on to develop an educational toy
character called Rabbit Ray, whose function is to inform and reassure children
about things like injections, vaccinations and intravenous drips.
It may have taken four years in product development, but Wang’s eforts paid
of with Rabbit Ray now being used by leading hospitals in five countries and
available online for purchase by individuals. Rabbit Ray can also be utilized as a
tool to start diicult conversations about terminal illness and death. “These are
important conversations, but often we do not how to enter them,” says Wang,
who believes that by using the language of play, caretakers can create a friendly
and healthy way to talk about such topics. Wang, however, is not stopping
here. Her aim is to take part in making an impact in the health care sector. “I’m
constantly asking myself, ‘What is the next area in which you can touch a billion
lives and make health care more eicient?’” —R.W.Health Care & Science
Abrahim Ali Shah, Asad Raza, 23,
23 Pakistan
CEO, CTO, Neurostic
Jugal Anchalia, Abhishek Kumar,
26, 25 India
Cofounders, JustDoc
Adrian Ang, 28 Singapore
Founder, AEvice Health
Gauri Angrish, 28 India
Founder, Caredose
Chen Kuan, 29 China
Cofounder, Infervision
Deepanjali Dalmia, 27 India
Founder, Heyday Care
Dong Leiting, 30 China
Professor, Assistant dean,
Beihang University
Dong Lin, 28 China
CEO, Sirui Jiankang
Harris Eyre, 29 Australia
Cofounder, CNSDose
Rohan M Ganapathy, Yashas
Karanam, 26, 23 India
Cofounders, Bellatrix Aerospace
Kshitij Garg, 29 India
Founder, Healers at Home
Samuel Glatman, 29 Myanmar
Founder, Ko Shwe
Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran, 25
Singapore
Founder, Visre
Sirawaj Itthipuripat, 25 Thailand
Neuroscientist, King Mongkut’s
University of Technology Thonburi
Hyungkook Jeon, 28 South Korea
Research professor, Pohang
University of Science & Technology
(POSTECH)
Masahiro Kasuya, Tatsuya Seki,
30, 30 Japan
Cofounders, Meltin MMI
Liu Mingzhen, 27 China
Professor, University of Electronic
Science & Technology of ChinaMuhammad Shaheer Niazi, 17
Pakistan
Scientist
Duc Pham, 29 Vietnam
Cofounder, ViCare
Priya Prakash, 27 India
Founder, HealthSetGo
Nicole Seebacher, 29 Australia
Researcher, University of Sydney
Diva Sharma, 29 India
Inventor
Shing Yue Sheung, 23 Australia
Cofounder,
NAVi Medical Technologies
Ryushi Shiohama, Yusuke
Sugomori, 29, 29 Japan
Cofounders, Micin
Prabhdeep Singh, 30 India
Cofounder, StanPlus Tech
Duong Tong, 26 Vietnam
Cofounder, Homage
Esther ChunShu Wang, 30
Singapore
Founder, Joytingle
Min Hao Wong, 29 Singapore
Founder, Plantea
Seonghoon Woo, 28 South Korea
Senior research scientist, Korea
Institute of Science & Technology
(KIST)
Melissa Yu, 29 Taiwan
Founder, Havital HK Holdings
JUDGES
Sonny Vu, President and CTO,
Connected Devices—Fossil Group
Steve Monaghan, Chairman and
CEO, GenLife
Michel Birnbaum, Entrepreneur in
Residence, NTUitiveMUNSHI AHMED FOR FORBES
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