At the Smart Energy Hackathon held from September 7–9th in Bangkok, NEM Thailand Country Lead, Laura Takenaka was in attendance as a blockchain mentor to the many teams that came out to hack for Smart Energy.

Over 110 participants participated in the Smart Energy 2018 hackathon and spent 28+ hours hacking to solve a myriad of problems surrounding the creation, distribution, and availability of smart, clean, renewable energy.

Held at the KX Made centre for Innovation, a division of KMUTT KX were at the heart of the action as hosts and coordinators and were also very *generous* hosts and facilitators that kept the teams motivated and provided space to sleep, shower, relax and unwind from the stress of the challenges.

NEM Thailand Country Lead, Laura Takenaka, mentoring some of the participants at the Smart Energy Hackathon

Other partners at the hackathon were: GIZ, South Pole Energy, Energy Nexus, KMUTT Univeristy. NEM Thailand was in attendance as blockchain mentors together with other other industry leaders such as Dr. Lerwin Liu, Senior Advisor KMUTT, Dr. Christoph Menke — Professor, The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Darunporn Kamolpus — Vice President, PTT Company Limited, who were also on hand as judges. The winning project was one that leveraged blockchain solutions for solar energy.

“This Hackathon shows that Southeast Asia and Thailand is where the innovation for Smart Energy Solutions will originate. Blockchain technology is the perfect partner to this innovative solutions”, said Laura Takenaka.

NEM Thailand looks forward to working with the hackathon winners if and when they would like to move their project forward and offer blockchain solutions to SEA’s renewable energy needs.