What is GKHF?
Global Knowledge Hub Forum (GKHF) is an international co-creation business event where global corporations, startups, researchers, municipalities, and investment funds gather to accelerate “Knowledge × Technology × Social Implementation.”
Leveraging Leave a Nest’s extensive international network and Singapore’s function as a global innovation hub, the forum serves as a platform to foster multi-layered collaboration across industry, government, academia, and finance.
This year, to commemorate the Singapore-Japan 60th Anniversary (SJ60), this event is officially endorsed by the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs!
There will also be an announcement during the event about upcoming events that are related to SJ60.
Opportunities in GKHF
List of Booth Partners:
- Aha Moment Innovation: A Singapore-based serious gaming company that leverages immersive simulations and gamified learning to transform leadership, teamwork, and professional development across enterprises and educational institutions.
- Ampotech: A Singapore-based energy technology company providing AI-powered energy management and sustainability solutions that help businesses optimize operations and reduce carbon emissions.
- ARK: A Japanese deep-tech company pioneering sustainable land-based aquaculture technologies for the future of seafood production.
- ConnectIQ: Enabling smarter workforce development through AI-powered talent assessment, learning, and career solutions.
- Coretech Integrated: A technology solutions company delivering integrated engineering, automation, and smart system solutions to help businesses improve operational efficiency and accelerate digital transformation.
- Ento Industries: A Singapore biotechnology company using Black Soldier Fly bioconversion to upcycle food waste into safe, traceable, high-value animal feed and organic fertiliser for a more circular food and agriculture system.
- GRAIN International: A Singapore-based agri-biotechnology company advancing sustainable agriculture through crop innovation, precision agriculture, and regenerative farming technologies to improve food security and climate resilience.
- Healbac: A Singapore biotech startup developing stem cell-derived antimicrobial technologies that enable safer food preservation without harmful chemical preservatives.
- KosmodeHealth: A Singapore deep-tech startup transforming food processing waste into high-value functional food ingredients and sustainable biomaterials through proprietary plant extraction and biofabrication technologies.
- Louken: A leading Singapore innovation consultancy helping organisations accelerate growth through design thinking, innovation, and capability development.
- Metagen: Advancing microbiome science to develop next-generation healthcare, nutrition, and diagnostic solutions through gut-health.
- Miltalk: Miltalk builds small, self-contained AI kits for children. A child trains their own AI model on a handheld device, by giving it examples, letting it learn, and testing it, then applies it to real projects. Everything runs on the device: no laptop, no internet, no coding, and no data leaving the kit.
- Morgenrot: A Japan-based deep-tech company developing AI data center and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure solutions that optimize, manage, and share computing resources for the generative AI era.
- Morus: Harnessing silkworm biotechnology to develop sustainable functional food ingredients and next-generation biomaterials.
- Mushroom Material: Transforming agricultural waste and mycelium into scalable, home-compostable packaging that replaces expanded polystyrene without changing existing manufacturing processes.
- Padang & Co: Building open innovation ecosystems by connecting startups, corporates, investors, and governments across Asia, with main focus on Green Economy and sustainability.
- Sun ‘n’ More (Palgap Specialty Foods) : Palgap Specialty Foods is a women-led food company based in Palakkad, Kerala. Through its SUN ‘N’ MORE brand, it combines traditional Indian recipes with modern food-processing technologies to offer preservative-free ready-to-eat meals, cryogenically ground spices, fresh-cut produce, and responsibly sourced farm products. The company is led by three generations of women and focuses on authenticity, food safety, quality, and convenience.
- VARK Technologies: Optimised and scalable technology for carpark space utilisation, built for density and speed.
- Veg-An: Singapore-based Japanese food brand bringing the authentic flavours of regional Japan to everyone. Combining traditional home cooking with modern food innovation, they create familiar Japanese dishes that are satisfying, inclusive, and uncompromising in taste. D-0. 2025 Alumni.
- Vertical Oceans: Agritech company producing premium, sustainably farmed shrimp through vertically integrated aquaculture systems that deliver consistent quality with minimal environmental impact.
- Vidacity: Developing nature-based living labs/ecosystems that accelerate sustainable innovation in urban agriculture, biodiversity, and climate resilience. Managing a group of companies spanning regenerative build, green consulting, community development, and research. D-0. Official Community Partner.
(In addition to the above, 7 Selection A Participants from the D-0. Venture Building Program will be exhibiting)
Event Details
Date: 14 August 2025 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: Kent Ridge Guild House, 9 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119241
Participation fee: Free
| Time | Main Hall | Booth Space | 1-1 Meeting Space |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Registration | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Bridging Innovation and Capital: UntroD Capital Asia Partnership Announcement | 1-1 Meetings | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Poster / Networking Session | ||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Feeding the Future: Building Resilient Food Systems Together | ||
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Poster / Networking Session | ||
| 15:00 – 16:00 | D-0. Venture Building Program: Building from Day 0 | ||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Closing Remarks | ||
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Networking Session |
