Agenda


Day One — 2 Feb 2012


Time What
8.15 – 9.00am Registration
9.00 – 9.10am Opening remarks
9.10 – 9.40am Coffee Chat: All things Entrepreneurship in Singapore — Lim Kuo-yi, CEO at Infocomm Investment
9.40 -10.10am Coffee Chat: A Singaporean Entrepreneur in China — James Tan, Co-Founder of 55tuan; Managing Partner at QuestVC
10.10 – 10.30am Break
10.30 – 11.10am Discussion Panel: Starting up in Singapore: the Good and the Bad — Nicholas Aaron Khoo (Moderator, CNET), Zaki Mahomed (Game Ventures), Alvin Yap (TMG), Sanjay (Replaid), Saumil Nanavati (Chalkboard)
11.10 – 11.40am Coffee chat: Southeast Asia and Japan through a German’s lens — Dr. Serkan Toto, Independent Consultant, Japan Correspondent For TechCrunch
11.40 – 12.10pm Coffee chat: Building a Hardware startup in Singapore — Lux Anantharaman, co-founder and CEO of iTwin
12.10 – 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm – 2.00pm Coffee chat: Social Gaming Startups in Southeast Asia — Tetsuya Mori, Managing Director at DeNA Asia; Ex-VC at Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
2.00 – 2.30pm Coffee chat: What is GREE Ventures Doing in Southeast Asia? — Tatsuo Tsutsumi Director of GREE Ventures Investment Office and Noritaka Kobayashi, Head of APAC business Development at GREE
2.30 – 3.10pm Cloud Computing and Entrepreneurship — Serkan Toto (Moderator) Francis Lee (Joyent), Zane Adam (Microsoft Azure), Christopher Bousigues (Nubefy), Simone Brunozzi (Amazon Web Services)
3.10 – 3.50pm Break
3.50 – 4.50pm Startup Arena Session 1
4.50 – 5.50pm Startup Arena Session 2
5.50 – 6.00pm Day 1 closing remark

Day Two — 3 Feb 2012


Time What
8.00 – 9.00am Breakfast with VIP, investors, and selected entrepreneurs. Invitation basis.
9.30 – 9.40am Opening remarks
9.40 – 10.10am Coffee Chat: Running LinkedIn Singapore like a startup — Arvind Rajan, Managing Director and VP, APAC and Japan
10.10 -10.40am Coffee Chat: Raising Capital, Generating Revenue, and the God Damn Exits – Steven Goh, CEO and Co-founder, mig33
10.40 – 11.00am Break
11.30 – 12.00pm Coffee Chat: From Singapore, Silicon Valley, and then to China – James Tong, President Asia Ops, Dextrys & Venture Partner, Gobi Partners
12.00 – 12.30pm Coffee Chat: Raising Funds From Strategic Partners – Anuj Khanna Sohum, Founder and Chairman, Affle Group
12.30 – 2.00pm Lunch
2.00 – 2.30pm Coffee Chat: From Ex-bankers to Entrepreneurs – Angeline Tham and Tian Qiuyan, Co-founders of Sold.sg
2.30 – 3.30pm Startup Arena Session 3
3.30 – 4.30pm Startup Arena Session 4
4.30 – 5.00pm Break
5.00 – 5.30pm Announce Startup Arena winner and closing remarks