Department of Design and Digital Innovation, Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics organized DDI CONNECT 2023 on March 29, 2023, at GLOWFISH, Sathorn, Bangkok. DDI Connect aims to expand direct knowledge and experiences from real entrepreneurs, practitioners, experts, professionals, and mentors in the digital age market.

The DDI Demo Day is an annual event that showcases the creativity, innovation, and talent of the 2nd year students in the Design and Digital Innovation program. During the event, students will present their business projects and/or startups to a panel of judges. This is a part of our DDI Sandbox project. The Sandbox project is a unique opportunity for our students to develop their entrepreneurial skills by creating innovative digital solutions to real-world challenges and opportunities. All students teams receive the seed funding from our program ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 THB and have been working hard for about two semesters (1 year) with the final goal of achieving the MVP (minimum viable products) status. This year we have a total of 23 teams with a variety of businesses and MVPS in Traveling, Entertainment, Foods and Drinks, Supplements, Agriculture, Pets, Learning, and Psychology.

During the event, students will present their business projects and/or startups to a panel of judges. This is a part of our DDI Sandbox project. The Sandbox project is a unique opportunity for our students to develop their entrepreneurial skills by creating innovative digital solutions to real-world challenges and opportunities. All students teams receive the seed funding from our program ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 THB and have been working hard for about two semesters (1 year) with the final goal of achieving the MVP status. This year we have a total of 23 teams with a variety of businesses and MVPS in Traveling, Entertainment, Foods and Drinks, Supplements, Agriculture, Pets, Learning, and Psychology.

🎉The winner of this event is team “Wastic”; an eco-friendly team decided to save the planet by recycling plastic bottle caps to a household item, has raised a total of 16 million DDI Dollars. The first runner up is team “Athena”, an online learning platform emphasising on entertaining from Gamified at the same time educating employees, has raised a total of 13,500,000 DDI Dollars. The second runner up is team “Jelly Bob”, a drinkable sun protection product, has raised a total of $ 11,000,000 DDI Dollars.

DDI Dollars is a digital coin that judges used it real time to evaluate and give it to the team. Moreover, this is the first time in Thailand that the digital coin system has been used by judges from 20 business organizations to evaluate the team in real time. This digital coin (seeding fund) will be given to the team that the judges believed it can best demonstrate the business success potential through the pitching and visiting booths, and MVPs. The winning team is the team that gets the most investment from the judges.

#MSMENews #MSME #MSMEBUSINESSSCHOOL
#abac #ddi