Startup Asia Singapore Conference 2013

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About

Organized by TechinAsia.com, Startup Asia is a 2-day conference organized for entrepreneurs, investors, media, and people across the Asian tech community.

What to expect?

Insightful speakers
Quality startups and investors across Asia
Honest content about the industry

Audience breakdown in 2012

Founders/Developers: 512

Investors: 158

MNC Rep: 148

Students: 49

Media: 32

Some of Our Speakers

STEFAN JUNG

Co-Founder and Managing Director SEA,
Rocket Internet

Stefan is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Rocket Internet in South East Asia. Stefan started with Rocket Internet in India before coming to SEA to start the offices and becoming initial co-founder of amongst other Zalora, Lazada and OfficeFab.

He previously worked as strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in Copenhagen and Bain & Company in Stockholm, where he focused on private equity investments.

DAPHNE LEE

Director,
Taobao International Business

Daphne is responsible for managing Taobao Marketplace’s business development and marketing strategies in markets outside of Mainland China such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. She has more than 10 years of experience in Internet marketing and e-commerce, and has a strong track record of e-banking and payment product development, business development, and online business operation management.

ALIZA KNOX

Managing Director, Online Sales,
Twitter

Aliza recently joined Twitter to build and run the medium and small business markets across the APAC region. Previously she spent 5 years at Google, as Managing Director, Commerce and Wallet and Managing Director of the Online Sales Group, where she led the team’s strategy and growth in Asia Pacific. She also worked closely with the Economic Development Board to create a major presence for Google in Singapore.

GANESH KUMAR BANGAH

Founder and Group CEO,
MOL Global Pte Ltd

Ganesh leads the two wholly owned subsidiaries of MOL Global, namely MOL AccessPortal Berhad (“MOL”), a global online payment service provider and Friendster Inc. (“Friendster”), the world’s pioneer social network. He co-founded and built MOL from scratch to become one of the biggest online payment service providers in Asia with annual revenues of over USD200Million. MOL today has over 680,000 physical payment channels across 80 countries worldwide and handles over 5,000,000 transactions a month.

“Startup Asia’s line-up of speakers and startups was very well curated. Most participants, including myself, stayed happily until the end to learn and network.”

Benjamin Joffe

Benjamin Joffe, Digital Naturalist & Angel Investor, +8*

LE HONG MINH

Chairman, CEO,
VNG Corporation

Mr. Minh Le is the Chairman and CEO of VNG Corporation, a leading internet and social media company in Vietnam. Established in 2004, VNG has grown from a 5-person startup to a well-respected domestic company running online portal, social networking site, and entertainment products such as music, games, and videos. Its E-commerce platform has approximately 20 million Vietnamese subscribers.

DARIUS CHEUNG

Co-founder,
BillPin

Darius Cheung is currently co-founder and CEO of BillPin. Previously he was cofounder and CEO of tenCube, a Singapore-based mobile security company that was acquired by McAfee Inc.

NOBUAKI KITAGAWA

Managing Director,
CyberAgent Ventures

Nobuaki Kitagawa is the Managing Director for CyberAgent Ventures and the CEO of CyberAgent Ventures China, responsible for all of the company’s investments in Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea. Since joining to CyberAgent Ventures in 2006, Nobuaki has
led international expansion of the Japan-based VC firm from no investment outside Japan then to more than 40 overseas investments including Tudou.com (Mainland China), iPartment (Taiwan), Vatgia (Vietnam), Tokopedia (Indonesia) and Kakao Corp (Korea). Prior to CyberAgent Ventures he also had 11 years’ experience in the telecom industry working for Japan’s NTT DoCoMo.

KEE LOCK CHUA

Group President and CEO,
Vertex Venture Holdings

Kee Lock leads the team at Vertex Venture Holdings, a wholly-owned and wholly-sponsored subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, and is engaged with driving its efforts toward investing in emerging companies and leading venture capital funds throughout Greater Asia and the U.S. Kee Lock has nearly three decades of experience as an investor (Walden International, Transpac Capital), entrepreneur (MediaRing, BioSensors), and operational executive (NatSteel, Beaver Computer Corp, Intraco).

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Startup Asia Singapore Conference 2013 Agenda

*Agenda may change without notice. Please check back often.

Day 1: 4 April 2013

8.30 — 9.15

Registration and networking

9.15 — 9.45

Coffee Chat: Startup Opportunities in Southeast Asia