Award Winner Announcement
Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Winners
At the Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2025, 109 AI projects competed at the global level. Intel selected global and country/region/territory winners for the AI Changemakers category.
Highlights of the Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2025
- 109 AI Innovations were showcased from 33 countries, resulting in 47 awards.
- More than 1000+ AI Innovations competed at country-level competition.
Check out the winners for Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2025
Global Award Winners
Each winner receives $2000 in prizes, and an Intel certificate.
Anastasia Batrincea, Daniil Voznii – Moldova
Development of Adaptive AI Assistants Using RAG
An Intel-optimized Educational RAG Assistant delivers a privacy-respecting offline AI tutor that runs on standard PCs, eliminating cloud costs. It combines multilingual search, GPT-4o-mini reasoning, and voice I/O with 10× faster vector search and 100× faster math for real-time interaction. Validated by students, it empowers resource-constrained schools worldwide with scalable, production-ready AI learning support.
Joshua Chilukuri, Trevor Bedson, Vidhatu Patel - United States of America
SightLine: Depth-Based AI Navigation Glasses for the Visually Impaired
Sightline is an AI-powered glasses solution that enhances environmental awareness for the visually impaired through hands-free voice interaction. Using PyTorch models with Intel OpenVINO optimization, it delivers depth-aware object recognition, efficient processing, and secure local computation. The solution aims to scale globally, reducing accessibility gaps and supporting SDG #10.
Rohith Merala, Neil Pattani, Yu Feng Seah - Singapore
GreenPulse
The solution is an AI-powered smart farm monitoring system tackling soil mismanagement and food security challenges. It integrates Intel’s hardware, toolkits, and APIs with sensors and a custom LLM to deliver real-time plant health scoring, pest detection, and actionable insights. By optimizing soil, fertilizer, and yield management, GreenPulse helps farmers boost productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Country/Region/Territory Award Winners
Each winner receives prizes worth $1,000 and an Intel certificate.
Albania: Ajsi Beqiri, Shanel Rrosha - MindMate: AI-Powered Mental Health Buddy
India : Dwij Verma - EduMate+
Indonesia : Muhammad Salman Al Farisi, Muhammad Sultan Nurulloh Telaumbanua, Habibi Ahmad Aziz - Agrify
Japan: Atharv Kulkarni - KaiGō A.I.
Malaysia: Yi Qing Neoh, Yao Qing Chong, Zee Kenn Tong - Nemesis-X Smart Buoy: Safety from Jellyfish
People’s Republic of China: Ruitong Wang, Junzhe Li, Luosong Wang - Telepathy-Unfolding unique wings of Athena for every soul
Romania: Berbecaru Leonard - FireHouseRomania
Thailand: Carl Tidtijumreonpon, Daichi Tanaka, Pongkun Fucheun - PreCervAI: Rapid Cervical Precancerous Lesions Diagnosis Assistance System
Vietnam : Hà Ngô, Phúc Phan - Hap
Country/Region/Territory Recognition Award Winners
Each winner receives prizes worth $100 and an Intel certificate.
- Argentina: Joaquín Pussetto, Emilio Gracias, Maxence Charbonnel - Equipment for detecting the ripeness of apples.
- Bangladesh: Md Merabbi Hasan Siam, Fuad Al Firoj, Md Ishrak Hasan - NirobBondhu AI - Your Silent Mental Health Ally
- Bulgaria: Aleksandar Lechev, Dimitar Krastev, Philip Kovachev - Sky Scan Agro
- Canada: Aryan Sharma - DU-Eye
- Costa Rica: Felipe Mora Padilla, Manuel Salas - NorIA foundation
- Czech Republic: Dominik Cetl, Sebastián Šmíd - PEPA (Personal Electronic Partner for Alzheimer’s)
- Germany: Aaryan Vashisht, Viktor Ren, Varumish Mittal - Econix AEON – Adaptive Energy Optimization eNgine
- Greece: Nikolaos Mavrommatis, Chrysovalantis Sismanidis, Eleni Tsavdaroglou - ShelfEat
- Poland: Yevhen Maskaiev, Szymon Giemza - Sight Glasses
- Portugal: Maria Valente, Tomás Figueiredo - CropVision
- Slovakia: Samuel Dubáč - GENRE
- South Korea: Ashley Song, Raymond Kwon, Bernard Chang - Interactive AI Diary: Your Personal Life Companion
- United Arab Emirates: Jaivardhan Nawani, Saatvik Sandeep, Naeem Hanoor - NyaySetu
- United Kingdom: Paarth Aggarwal - NavigateAssist - A GenAI-Powered App for Visually Impaired Individuals
Global Award Winners
Each winner receives $2000 in prizes and an Intel certificate.
Yijie Chen, Qian Shi, Zhaoyang Ling - People’s Republic of China
AI Platform for Designing Educational Smart Hardware
The solution revolutionises AI-digital circuit education with a secure, IDE-like environment that delivers real-time syntax checks, performance optimisation, and guided learning. Leveraging localised XPU orchestration (CPU/GPU/NPU) with Intel-powered security, it ensures 100% privacy while enabling cloud-assisted optimisation without source code exposure. Piloted at Shanghai University, it empowers students to master hardware design independently, transforming education with local AI execution and interactive feedback.
Jayan Shah, Pratham Shah, Shubham Kolaskar – India
Deepfake Detective: Securing Social Integrity, Uncovering Faux AI Content
TrustTrace is an AI-powered multimedia detection platform combating deepfakes and misinformation through multi-modal analysis of video, audio, images, and text. Its ensemble of Computer Vision, Audio Processing, and NLP models integrates into an intuitive interface, enabling anyone to verify digital content with ease. By restoring trust in media and supporting SDG 16, TrustTrace strengthens democratic institutions and safeguards a more informed global society.
Huy Hoàng Gia, Canh Bui Xuan, Thuong Vi Hoai – Vietnam
Your Voice
Your Voice is an AI-powered application that bridges communication gaps for Vietnam’s 2.5M+ deaf and mute individuals by translating Vietnamese Sign Language into text and speech in real time. Leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and animated avatars, it enables two-way communication via smartphones and webcams while offering sign language education and job support. By advancing accessibility and inclusion, Your Voice empowers underserved communities and drives equitable digital transformation.
Country/Region/Territory Award Winners
Each winner receives prizes worth $1,000 and an Intel certificate.
- Albania: Enea Toro - Civiguard (Custos civitatis)
- Costa Rica: Elias Miranda Cedeno, Xavier Barrios - Voz que ve (Voice that sees)
- Germany: Hong Nhung Pham, Larissa Svoboda, Emily Lüke - SafeBites – AI Powered App for Detecting Food Allergens
- Indonesia: Muhammad Akmal Saban, Andre Nugraha, Nurissa'idah - SiTANGGAP - Rapid Stroke Symptom Capture System
- Malaysia: Ang Yi Herng - AI-Powered ADHD Diagnosis through EEG and Brain Connectivity Analysis
- Mexico: Mariel Urbina-Escalante, Luis Alberto García-Ochoa, Sergio Hernández-Lecona - Intelligent Analysis of Search and Asistance Dog Behavior
- Poland: Weronika Bagniewska, Julia Poteralska, Aleksandra Ferens - ESI
- Singapore: Balasubramanian Manish, Seth Olav Yong, Aden Ling Jie - RhizoRing
- Ukraine: Pavlo Bilokin, Yegor Popov - Mobile application for people with visual impairments “Providnyk”
Country/Region/Territory Recognition Award Winners
Each winner receives prizes worth $100 and an Intel certificate.
- Argentina: Wanda Ordoñez - MotoVision: Data for Safer Mobility
- Czech Republic: Ondřej Toman, Štěpán Hejda, Matyáš Mlnařík - Hope to See
- Denmark: Simon Danner Hessellund, Georg Kristensen, Adrian Siig - SeedSAP AI
- France: Yanis Bouvet, Lucas Leclerc, Joy Kabuya - BioShield – Your smart, 100% natural shield against agricultural insects
- Japan: Shuji Iriya - Itadaku
- Moldova: Gluhu Cristian, Basoc Damian - SmartCare- The Future of AI In Healthcare
- Nepal: Sirjan Ghimire - ReadEasy: An AI powered browser Extension for Dyslexia
- South Africa: Lucky-Girl Boitumelo Mapotsane, Innocentia Kgaugelo Masingi, Olerato Butiki Khoza - BIO-COMMAND
- Thailand: Teerapat Sardsud, Chananphat Tacharoenmuang, Pimlada Patiphatpatawee - FundyFlow: AI-powered fundraising platform and smart assistant for SME startups.
Congratulations and Thank You
Once again, congratulations to all the award winners and ambassadors for Intel® AI Global Impact Festival 2025.