Premier Sponsors
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Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. The BlackBerry product line includes the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, the award-winning BlackBerry smartphone, software for businesses and accessories. BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day.
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Global Brain is a venture capital, which focuses on seed- and early-stage ventures, and we commit to accelerate growth of portfolio ventures by providing not only capital but also supports to establish business models, marketing teams, sales processes, and search for executives.
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Microsoft Campfire proudly presents two days of cutting edge learning and inspiration from April 13 - 14, 2012. Microsoft Campfire is an action-packed conference designed especially for developers, designers, UX experts and entrepreneurs in the web technology space.
Supporting Sponsors
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform "in the cloud".
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DeNA Co., Ltd. (pronounced "D-N-A") is a publicly traded online service company (TSE: 2432) operating e-commerce and social networking websites along with its flagship mobile social gaming platform, Mobage. Established in Tokyo, Japan with the launch of an online auction service in 1999, DeNA has continued to create a stream of new business ventures that have propelled the company's growth.Annual sales figures for the fiscal year ending March 2011 was over 1.38billion US dollars. Mobage is DeNA's current core business and represents more than 85% of the company's revenue.
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SingTel Innov8 (Innov8), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the SingTel Group, is a corporate venture capital fund, with its own set of decision making, approval and funding processes. It has an initial fund size of S$200 million. Innov8 focuses its investments on technologies and solutions that lead to quantum changes in network capabilities, next generation devices, digital content services and enablers to enhance customer experience. It works closely with the ecosystem of leading innovators, developers, government agencies, R&D and capital providers to bring cutting-edge technologies and solutions to the various markets the SingTel Group operates in.
Regular Sponsor
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Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
Technology Sponsor
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Lenovo is a $US21 billion personal technology company serving customers in more than 160 countries, and the world's second-largest PC vendor. Dedicated to building exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo's business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution.
Launchpad Prize Sponsor
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Plug and Play Tech Center is a business accelerator that specializes in growing tech startups. Headquartered in Sunnyvale California, Plug and Play's global network includes 300+ tech startups, 180+ investors and a community of leading Universities and Corporate partners. In Singapore, Plug and Play partners with the National Research Foundation under the Technology Incubation Scheme to invest in early high-tech companies in the country, accelerate their growth and provide them with a direct route to Silicon Valley.
Chill Out Sponsor
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doob® is the one bean bag that provides cool people with fun comfort at an affordable price because we make 'em the way you would want 'em.
A doob® bean bag can be positioned in several ways and is the perfect companion for you to read, game or simply mess around in.
After Event Sponsor
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Singapore's first standalone rooftop bar, Loof serves up quality whimsy, fresh nostalgia and unbridled playfulness in an urban garden atop Odeon Towers in downtown CBD. Enjoy carefully crafted Southeast Asian inspired cocktails with bar snacks that have a local twist. Then take a trip down memory lane and purchase little gems of nostalgia at The Mama Shop. Bask in the cool shade of Loof's urban garden and take in the best view of Raffles Hotel. Soak up infectious beats from resident DJs and themed party nights.
Vietnam Satellite Sponsor:
Accelerator Partner
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TOPICA Founder Institute is a member of TOPICA Education Group.
Vietnam Satellite Sponsor:
Venue Sponsor
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Founded by a group of successful business leaders around Asia Pacific, we bring real life business knowledge and experience to our classrooms.Their primary objective is to groom and mentor a new generation of business leaders in Vietnam equipped with skills to analyze and solve real-world business challenges of today.
Vietnam Satellite Sponsor:
Media Partner
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Action.vn is a reputable portal in the technology sector in Vietnam that focuses on delivering information and content in two main areas: technology applications such as Web, phone applications, software, etc and debut.
Jakarta Satellite Sponsor:
Country Partner
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StartupLokal community is a community that gathers startup founders, digital/tech world enthusiasts, investors and media to meet and find a chance to collaborate. This community started since April 2010 and has been growing exponentially.
Philippines Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Partner
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WebGeek is a community that acts as a venue for Filipino Geeks, Developers and Designers. A community in which we can all grow, thrive, and of course have a little fun along the way!
Philippines Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Partner
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Roofcamp is a venue for future looking, maverick,and fearless individuals sharing and distilling ideas from concept to reality.
Taiwan Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Partner
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Founded in 2012, TMI台灣創意工場 is a Taiwan-based company that looks to make early stage investments and also incubate promising entrepreneurs. They are looking for entrepreneurs who want to tackle a global market and are eager to work with entrepreneurs/start-ups looking at the Mobile, Internet, and eCommerce spaces.
Taiwan Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Sponsor
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CacaFly is the leader of the Taiwan community marketing, a facebook advertising distributor, facebook ads, fan pages operate on development and community applications integrated services.
Japan Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Sponsor
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Open Network Lab is a seed acceleration program in Japan, similar to Y Combinator and TechStars, established by Netprice.com, Digital Garage, and Kakaku.com.
Japan Satellite Sponsor:
Supporting Partner
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"Deloitte" is the brand under which tens of thousands of dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients.
Japan Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Partner
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A good opportunity for entrepreneurs to find potential right-hand CTO and a vocation for technical guys.
Japan Satellite Sponsor:
Satellite Partner
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Compath.me connects your interests and location to help you discover the world around you. It will help you discover popular restaurants, shops, events, and items that are nearby.
Supporting Organisations
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NUS Enterprise (ETP) provides an entrepreneurial and innovative dimension to the University's core research and educational activities. By igniting the entrepreneurial spirit, partnering for success and nurturing future entrepreneurial leaders, NUS Enterprise aims to make a positive impact on Singapore's economy and beyond.
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SPRING Singapore is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore. It is the main agency for enterprise development, and it aims to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises to develop a strong base of dynamic and innovative Singapore enterprises.
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ACE is a movement by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. It aims to help aspiring entrepreneurs start up, build up, and eventually create great jobs. The process involves seeding startups and supporting their growth by facilitating opportunities in critical areas such as networking, mentoring, and going overseas.
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IDA aims to build a vibrant infocomm ecosystem by attracting multinational corporations and innovative foreign companies to Singapore to complement local infocomm enterprises and start-up companies. It also seeks opportunities to grow the infocomm industry by facilitating the entry of Singapore infocomm companies into the global marketplace.
Premier Media Partners
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CBS Interactive is the premier online content network for information and entertainment. Our brands dive deep into the things people care most about across news, sports, entertainment, technology and business.
With hundreds of millions of unique visitors from around the world each month, CBS Interactive is a global top 10 web property and the largest premium content network online.
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ZDNet is a one-stop destination for professionals seeking to research technology-related issues, and solve business technology problems.
Delivering a broad range of news and analysis from top editors and IT experts, the site features blogs, product reviews, software downloads, videos, white papers, Webcasts, peer feedback, and research.
Community & Media Partners
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Action.vn is a reputable portal in the technology sector in Vietnam that focuses on delivering information and content in two main areas: technology applications such as Web, phone applications, software, etc and debut.
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appWorks Ventures is a "Super Angel" fund -- an early-stage venture capital firm with deep domain knowledge and the ability to add value across all functions to its portfolio companies.
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BANSEA was established in 2001 by a group of Singapore-based angel investors. BANSEA has network connections to angel groups in China, India, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as close links to groups in Europe and the US.
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beLAUNCH 2012 is a startup conference of South Korea with a global vision of success. Organised and sponsored by beSUCCESS, this event is beneficial to all entrepreneurs.
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beSUCCESS is a startup portal based in South Korea.
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Open Coffee Bangkok Meetup, which is also Startup Weekend, is a 54 hour startup event that provides the networking, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch.
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Chinacelerator (a Global accelerator network member - formerly known as the TechStars Network) is committed to helping entrepreneurs who are involved in the cutting-edge of information technology to create a successful startup companies by providing a 4-month accelerator program.
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Founded in 2009, CloudTimes is a leading technology media property, dedicated to providing in-depth research and breaking news on Cloud Computing and related topics. Apart from its well-known news section, CloudTimes hosts the largest research database on the web, featuring free whitepapers, webinars and articles from leading IT companies.
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NUS Engineering Alumni Singapore (EAS) is an alumni society for graduates of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Singapore and the National University of Singapore to share knowledge and experiences. It is a society to promote interests of its members and take an active part in interaction with the NUS Faculty of Engineering.
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Entrepreneurs.my is an online resource portal & community for entrepreneurs and business owners in Malaysia. The core of this organization is in developing entrepreneurial content, resources, linkages and market access to many Asian companies, education institutes, communities and similar circles of society.
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EnvisionCareers is dedicated to providing college students or recent college graduates with an unparalleled career coaching services, career tour, and internship experience in Asia.
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The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies. Their goal is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" by launching 1,000 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year in 30 cities worldwide.
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Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology.
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The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is Asia's largest mobile Internet conference. It is specifically designed for mobile Internet leaders to connect with each other, to learn from top industry influencers, and to promote their initiatives.
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Grow VC stands for Grow Venture Community, bringing the first truly transparent, global, community-based approach to early stage funding. Grow VC can help startups secure initial funding for their businesses ranging from $10,000 to 1M USD.
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The Ideas Inc. Business Challenge helps budding entrepreneurs turn their business ideas into real start-ups. It's more than just a business plan competition, it's a start-up builder.
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Lintas.me provides space/platform to gather all kinds of interesting, funny, entertaining content from all over webs and blogs from variety of topics and sources, ALL Place, ONE Space.
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Lowyat.NET is Malaysia's Largest Online Community!
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Malaysian Digest was started by a group of writers and editors who believed that Malaysia should be given more choice in what they read. The online publication is owned by Pustaka Cipta Sdn Bhd, publisher of quality books.
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MindTalk is the place where you can share your mind and connect your interests. Meet similar minded persons in Indonesia or anywhere in the world.
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MobileMonday (MoMo) is an open community platform of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering brand neutral cooperation and cross-border P2P business opportunities through live networking events to demo products, share ideas and discuss trends from both local and global markets.
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Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC) was established in January 2001 with seed funding from the Economic Development Board (EDB), Singapore. A multi-disciplinary university-level center, NTC was created to be the focal point of technopreneurship development within the University and the region, where creativity and entrepreneurship leads to the creation of new business ventures that will provide the new engine of growth for Singapore.
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NUS Entrepreneurship Society is a hub for entrepreneurship with an abundance of learning and networking opportunities. We regularly feature prominent speakers at our events, bringing our members close to the business community. We aim to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship with our growing network of alumni through the sharing of expertise and knowledge.
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pluGGd.in (Pi) is the place to see what's going on deep inside the rice fields & animal sheds these days.pluGGd.in (Pi) showcase the upcoming technology & business startups from Asia (India, China, Bangladesh, Singapore and more) who have the potential to become Google(s) & Twitter(s) of tomorrow.
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Plug-In@Blk71 is a joint initiative by NUS Enterprise, MDA and SingTel Innov8 to aggregate entrepreneurship activities for the purpose of creating a collaborative and synergistic community. Managed by NUS Enterprise, Plug-In@Blk71 serves as a common platform where different stakeholders in a business venture meet and connect, so as to accelerate the growth of young start-ups. This is done so by bringing together a collection of activities and support structures to the community. For more information, visit www.blk71.com!
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SGEntrepreneurs is an online publisher dedicated to the Singapore and Southeast Asia startup and entrepreneurship scene. It serves as an online ecosystem where fellow entrepreneurs, investors & venture capitalists, technologists, developers and business plan competition organizers discuss their experiences on entrepreneurship and enterprise in Singapore.
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The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) comprises corporate members ranging from local start-ups to established MNCs. It works with various stakeholders in the ICT industry to promote emerging technologies and ICT-related issues in areas such as Digital Media, Cloud Computing, Green IT, Wireless, Security and Governance.
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SMU is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together – building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.
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StartupLokal community is a community that gathers startup founders, digital/tech world enthusiasts, investors and media to meet and find a chance to collaborate. This community started since April 2010 and has been growing exponentially.
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StartupMalaysia.org is Malaysia's first not-for-profit entrepreneurial initiative with the ultimate mission to catalyze scalable startups and our vision is to airlift the entire startup ecosystem in the country by inspiring and educating the next generation of young people to become startup junkies and to create at least 10 success stories each year.
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StartupCentral tracks small businesses that are making a big impact in India and Asia. They aim to be a credible and insightful voice at the intersection of ideas, people and money. Read them to discover new, innovative and fast-track companies founded by first generation entrepreneurs, follow the money that powers their growth, and understand how they influence the larger economy. The StartupCentral team of writers focuses on daily news and in-depth analyses on developments in five key sectors – technology, healthcare, education, green and rural.
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Startup Club is a friendly community of cool business minded people. All of then are passionate about entrepreneurship and start-up scene. Their goal is simple: To meet more and more like-minded individuals in order to expand our network, build lasting friendships as well as business connections and last but not least help developing local startup ecosystem.
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A good opportunity for entrepreneurs to find potential right-hand CTO and a vocation for technical guys.
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Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.
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Tech65 Pte. Ltd. is Singapore's Technology Source. As tech evangelists with a deep bench and the broadest expertise online, we aim to empower you with valuable tech advice and content that is most relevant to you. With a focus on the Singaporean audience, but an eye to the wider world, Tech65 reporting provides a distinctly local flavour that appeals beyond our shores.
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Techgoondu.com is published by Goondu Media Pte Ltd, which is based in Singapore. The site was originally founded by Ong Boon Kiat, Oo Gin Lee and Alfred Siew in June 2008, when the three men were all technology journalists in Singapore Press Holdings.
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TechOrange tracks a global network of industry, science and technology blog. Internet entrepreneurs, marketers, media personnel, network information and knowledge is their mission.
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Tech Wire Asia is a portal that comprised of all the latest technology, gadgets, business enterprise, green and social tech news in one place! Everything Asia and the rest of the world need to know about the latest gadgets, green tech, social media tech, start-ups, business enterprise software and more.
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thumbs up is a leading tech blog from Bangkok, Thailand that was co-founded by Chyu Srimattayakul, Jakrapong Kongmalai, Oranuch Lerdsuwankij, Piradee Pittayatikhun , Rungroj Siripornmongkol. thumbs up has been reporting on local technology, social media movement and the digital business since early 2011.
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Founded in 2012, TMI台灣創意工場 is a Taiwan-based company that looks to make early stage investments and also incubate promising entrepreneurs. They are looking for entrepreneurs who want to tackle a global market and are eager to work with entrepreneurs/start-ups looking at the Mobile, Internet, and eCommerce spaces.
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Trend Insight provides relevant information in media marketing trends. It aims to be influential in the field of marketing, media and trends.
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This Week in Asia is a podcast dedicated to dissect on what's interesting and hot in the web and tech landscape in Asia, a vast continent with many countries and different culture and practices.
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Venture square is an online media focusing on venture business communication.
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WebGeek is a community that acts as a venue for Filipino Geeks, Developers and Designers. A community in which we can all grow, thrive, and of course have a little fun along the way!
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The heart of WIT is the annual WIT (Web In Travel) Conference that takes place in Singapore. It started in 2005 as an event to focus thought, debate and personality around the subject of travel distribution, marketing and technology.
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Young Upstarts is part of Singapore-based Upstart Publishing. Young Upstarts focuses on small business stories, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, social causes as well as new ideas that help make our world a better place.
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Yourstory.in is an online media platform committed to providing visibility and meaningful networking opportunities to entrepreneurs, startups and all self made professionals. You lead, they support.
The Awesomer Start-up Event in Asia is gonna be in Town!
Echelon 2012 is organized by E27, a media organization focused on the Asian technology startup community.
Echelon 2012 aims to be the frontier of the Internet and web technology landscape, where the main focus was to bring together the top brass of the web technology industry from various parts of the startup eco-system to facilitate discussion on the hot topics in the web startup scene.
A two-day, double-track event on 11 and 12 June 2012 with over 1,100 delegates, a demo pit of up to 50 regional startups per day and various workshops.
E27 Crew
Mohan Belani
Director
The face of E27, Mohan Belani is the Director of e27 at Optimatic Pte. Ltd., where he also runs Asia's leading web technology event, Echelon. Apart from events, he runs all business development and strategic partnership related activities. Mohan Belani is the also the co-founder of Gokil Games, a startup focused on the social gaming industry. Mohan Belani is an avid fan of Skyrim and loves mountain climbing. He loves meeting new people, anytime anywhere.
JitSiong Thaddeus Koh
Chief Operations and Finance & Co-Founder
Jit Siong graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore. He is also an NUS Overseas Colleges Silicon Valley alumni. Our very own Chief Operations & Finance Director, he loves analyzing new startups and creating new start-up focused community programs. Jit Siong Thaddeus Koh is also a diving, swimming, jogging, cycling and snowboarding enthusiast.
Gabriel Yang
Media & Events Manager
Gabriel has spent nearly 8 years working in the corporate events industry before jumping into the scene. His experience working on projects such as the APEC CEO Summit 2009 and Nomura Equities Forum allows him to bring a different yet sometimes out-of-the-box element to the team. Now as e27's in-house events and projects guru, he is also in charge servicing the company's corporate accounts and marketing campaigns. During his free time, he manages his virtual football team (Liverpool 4 life!) and dreams of shoes, lots of them.
Joash Wee
Community Manager & Editor
Joash is passionate about tech start-ups and building the technopreneur community. While completing his undergraduate business degree, he decided to take a programming class just for kicks. Fortunately for him, he managed to scrap a pass and it now helps him get by with the geek talk. When he is not discussing about start-ups or the latest technologies, you can find him reading off his Kindle or taking photos with silver halide salts, old school.
Bianca Zen
Marketing Manager
Boasting vast experiences in Editorial, Advertising, Design and Marketing, Bianca was invited to present at School of Visual Arts in NYC and has worked closely with D&AD, ICOGRADA, AIGA and New York Festival. Besides being an award-winning Copywriter and Content Producer from Singapore Press Holdings and several international mobile awards organizations, she also dabbles in poetry and acrylic & collage paintings. She is also ka-ray-zee about shoes.
Joanna Yeo
Writer & Project Executive
Joanna comes from a unique background mix of Life Sciences and Technopreneurship at NUS. Having gone through more than half a year of internship with a local startup under NUS Overseas College's innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) programme, she developed a keen interest in the tech scene. Joanna is also running N-House, an entrepreneurial residence at NUS. The geek girl at heart loves her dog, travelling and learning new things everyday!
Joyce Lim
Contributing Writer
Joyce developed a keen interest in the tech world while pursuing her degree in Communications and New Media at NUS. She is fascinated with social media and the perceptions of people towards converging technologies, especially with respect to mobile media. Her spare time is spent embarking on adventures in both the real and fictional worlds. She was also a Relief Teacher at Temasek Secondary School.
Goutama Bachtiar
Senior Contributing Writer
Goutama is a Technologist, ICT Educator, Trainer, Writer, Author & Courseware Developer mostly in enterprise technology space. He is a Contributing Writer for e27 living in Jakarta. His main interests are Venture Finance, Social and Green Technology. Goutama has 12 years of Training and Education Management Experience in Training, Education & IT Industry including 5 years of Software Development & Project Management and 6 years of Writing & Courseware Development.
Raymond Lau
Contributing Writer
Raymond Lau is currently pursuing a degree in Communications & New Media at NUS. He has a passion for all things digital, especially new media (as you can probably guess), and is currently conceptualising a top-secret start-up that might or might not involve sharks and lasers. He also writes for Techgoondu and PublicHouse.sg.
Jacky Yap
Contributing Writer
Having spent one year abroad in Shanghai under the NUS Overseas College Programme, Jacky has an avid interest in entrepreneurship and web based startups. Besides helping out at e27, Jacky is working on Lunchsparks, as well as running N-House, Singapore's first entrepreneurial themed residence in NUS. Did we also mention that he is a huge fan of Starcraft 2, but sucks at it?
For Media & Press
For a complete Media Pack, click here.
PRESS RELEASES
31 May 2012
Strongest Lineup of Start-ups Ever at Echelon 2012
9 April 2012
e27 Announces Research in Motion as Premier Sponsor for Echelon 2012
16 March 2012
Echelon 2012 Satellites' 6 City Hunt for the
Best Startups in Asia
9 March 2012
Echelon 2012 Kicks off with a look at how the Asian Tech Scene can be Awesomer
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Contact Details
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Gabriel Yang
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Joash Wee
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