ICDT 2025 Start-up Zone is a platform for exhibiting any innovative ideas related to display technologies or application,including display materials, display manufacturing equipment, display processes, display devices, display measurement, display system, display application, content creation. Welcome bring your physical demos, even only an idea in PPT, to ICDT 2025 Start-up Zone.


Startups come to ICDT 2025 to exhibit display technologies or application that will change the future life, connect with investors, and corporate leaders who help to speed up the procession of commercialization. Investors come to ICDT 2025 Start-up Zone to find their next unicorn and explore the development trend of the display industry. Corporations come to look for partnerships and acquisitions.

ENTRY CRITERIA

Open to global individuals, start-up teams,or universities and research institutions.

The technology or ideas displayed must be related to the display industry. 

Technology displayed must be a prototype which must not have shipped or been on the market prior to March 21, 2025.    

Technology and ides displayed have no known intellectual property conflicts. 

* Startup requirements: the company was established within 5 years, and the total financing since its establishment is less than 10 million CNY.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Step1: Submit an online entry form APPLY NOW and complete all required information before March 2, 2025.

Step2: ICDT organizing committee inspect if your project is qualified for the ICDT 2025 Start-up Zone.

Step3: Receive the exhibition results before March, 2025. If you are informed to exhibit at the ICDT 2025 Start-up Zone, you can bring your physical demos or ideas to ICDT 2025 Start-up Zone. (Regular exhibition fee is 3000 CNY, Standard exhibition fee is 5000 CNY.)

PROMOTION OPPORTUNITIES

1) Post avideo for introducing your start-up project on the SID official video platform.

2) Be invitedto deliver a speech in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project Roadshow during ICDT 2025 Exhibition.

Your speech needs cover the technologically innovative nature of your project, its effect on the display industry,feasibility for mass production and going to the market. Audiences includes investors and ICDT attendees.


AWARDS

Award nameStart-up Achievement Award

Winner selectionexhibiting and face-to-face Q&A with a panel of judges

Evaluation criteriainnovativeness 30%, demo performance 30%,mass production feasibility 20%, market reception 20%

JudgesSID Beijing Chapter Technical Committee Member

Certificates and prizes:

Certificates will be awarded to the first,second and third prize winners

One free standard booth of ICDT 2026 exhibition (booth size 3m*3m) for the first prize winner