Echelon 2010 Updates: More Speakers, Startups Revealed

May 14, 2010 by Larissa THIA

If you haven’t already purchased your ticket to Echelon 2010, one of the most happening web tech events in our local (and regional) web technology landscape, here is one major reason why you should: Geeks On A Plane (!!) are arriving for a 2 day stopover at our sunny shores for the event. 20 geeks have confirmed attendance. What’s more is that Singapore is their last stop for their Asian tour after China and Korea – this definitely ensures keen insight of the Asian market from these experienced entrepreneurs. Convinced already? Click here to register now.

Need more persuasion? Here are 5 other reasons why you should be stoked about Echelon 2010.

1. Comprehensive Speaker Lineup

With 40 speakers from over 8 countries, Echelon 2010 definitely boasts a comprehensive line up which promises to engage and excite the audience with the gamut of topics which they will be presenting on. Key note speakers include Dave McClure (Startup Investor, Founders Fund; Founder, Geeks On A Plane), Daniel Raffel (Senior Product Manager, Yahoo), Bret Terrill (Senior Director of Corporate Development at Zynga) as well as Simone Brunozzi (Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services- APAC).

Other speakers include:
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Nicholas Aaron Khoo: Co-Founder of SCOGA; CNET Blogger at CNET Networks Asia Pacific	Andi Boediman: Chief Innovation Officer at Plasa.com	Andy Zain: Managing Partner at VentureX Capital; Founder & Chairman at MobileMonday Indonesia	Aneace Hadded: CEO & Founder at Taggo	Arnaud Blandin: APAC Managing Director and Vice President of Alliances at Intalio
Benjamin Joffe: Partner at CMUNE, Founder & CEO at +8* \| Plus Eight Star	Bernard Leong: Co-Founder and CTO at Chlkboard Partner at Thymos Capital LLP	Bret Terrill: Senior Director of Corporate Development at Zynga	Chris Evdemon: Investments & Business Development Manager at Innovation Works	Christian Cadeo: Head of Brand Advertising, APAC for AdMob
Daniel Raffel: Senior Product Manager at Yahoo!	Dave McClure: Startup Investor at Founders Fund; Founder at Geeks On A Plane	David Lian: Social Media Strategist, ASEAN & Account Director, Malaysia at Text 100	David Zhao: Founder & CEO of Zumodrive	Fajar Budiprasetyo: Founder at SkyEight Indonesia
Gen Kannai: Director of Asia Business Development at Mozilla	Greg Fisher: Head of Advertising & Marketing Services, Asia-Pacific at Intel Corporation	Ian Mckee: CEO at Vocanic	Ian Morrison: CIO at i-POP	Jeffery Paine: Managing Partner at Battle Ventures, Executive Director of Endeavor Capital Partners
Joichi Ito: Founder and CEO of Neoteny Labs	Juoko Ahvenainen: Co-founder & Chairman of Grow VC International Limited	Kevin Walsh, CTO at Oracle Asia Research and Development Centers	Meng Weng Wong: Director at JFDI.Asia VP, Strategic Development at BoxSentry	Noah Kagan: Founder & CEO at Gambit Director of Marketing at Mint Software Inc.
Patrick de Laive: Co-founder of TwitterCounter, Co-founder and Partner at The Next Web, Founder of Paydro	Pratyush Prasanna: Founder at SMS GupShup, Open Innovation Manager at Xerox	Rex Ng: Managing Director at 6waves	Rohit Dadwal: Managing Director at Mobile Marketing Association APAC Branch	Ross Veitch, Chief Product Officer at Wego
Romulo “Je” Alipio: Executive Producer - Games & Media at BuzzCity Pte Ltd	Ryan Lim: Founder & Business Director at Blugrapes	Saeed Amidi: President & CEO at Plug and Play Tech Center	Simone Brunozzi: Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services- APAC	Tan Yinglan: Head of Projects at the National Research Foudation
Ulf Waschbusch: Chief Product Officer at Garena	Varsha Rao: CEO at SingTel Digital Media (inSing.com)	Vinod Nair: Founder & CEO at Catapult Ventures Pte Ltd; Founder & CEO at The Real Group	Vishal Gondal: CEO at Indiagames Ltd, Partner at Sweat and Blood Venture Group	Zaki Mahomed: CEO at Gameventures, Co-Founder and CEO at TimeSvr

2. Opportunity To Interact With Experienced Entrepreneurs

Always wanted a chance to meet and interact with other regional entrepreneurs but never got the chance to do so? Echelon 2010 boasts the most international attendee profile ever with regional ticket sales accounting for up to 40% of all tickets sold hitherto. Some experienced India and Australian entrepreneurs have also confirmed their attendance at the event – interaction with them will definitely enable young start-ups to glean some useful and practical tips for their entrepreneurial journey.

3. Watch Fireworks Fly

App developers are the current kingmakers and will possibly drive the next wave of successful tech enterprises. This year, both #1 and #5 of Facebook’s top app developers will be participating at Echelon 2010. Zygna and 6 Waves are sending down Brent Terrelli and Rex Ng respectively to attend the conference. Both will also participate as panelist for a discussion aptly titled – Social Gaming – How A Fast Rising Global Phenomenon Is Rising In Asia. Most interestingly enough, 6 Waves received US $17.5M from Twitter’s VC late last year to gear up for battle against industry behemoth Zynga. It just might be the classic David and Goliath story given how 6 Waves managed to jump astronomically from 2 million to 20 million users within a month in 2009. Audiences will definitely be ensured of an interesting panel discussion.

4. Unveiling of 10 Never Seen Before Startups

One other highlight of the event, which hitherto is clouded with secrecy, is the launching of 10 relatively unknown companies which have either not released their products to the market yet or have created completely new versions of their previous prototypes. Event organizers, e27, will not be releasing the names of these companies until the start of the launch itself.

5. Startup Exhibition featuring 39 Regional Startups

39 regional start-ups will be presenting at the startup exhibition – that is a whopping 9 more start-ups compared to unConference Singapore 2009. Although the bulk of this number is made up by Singaporean start-ups, there is also a healthy mix of start-ups from other countries including Pakistan, India, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Philippines and Australia. A known list of the presenting start-ups has been listed below:

2C2P: Singapore	Ankoder: Hong Kong	BubbleIdeas: Singapore	BukuQ: Indonesia	CatchTheCrowd: Singapore
Creately: Australia	Textuate: Singapore	Tasksee: Hong Kong	SocialWalk: Malaysia	sambaash: Singapore
ReserveUp: Philippines	Reevolo: Pakistan	OCR Terminal: Singapore	myAdEngine: Singapore	Muecs: Hong Kong
Medresa: Indonesia	KrazyMarket: Indonesia	Koprol: Indonesia	iWeb: India	iSyndica: Singapore
amn: Indonesia	Insync: Philippines	ideaken: Singapore	Home Camera: Singapore	Grow VC: Hong Kong
Gradkin: Singapore	Give.sg: Singapore	Gameplan: Singapore	ForSka: Singapore	FlutterScape: Japan
Design Chords: India	Yoplr: Pakistan	YBO: Singapore	VirtualSandbox: Singapore	Veldis Experience: Singapore
Urbanesia: Indonesia	TwitCasting: Japan	tokopedia: Indonesia	KUUKIE: China

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Larissa THIA - SGE Alumnus - Editorial Intern

Larissa is a fresh graduate who has a love for the irreverent and outré. She is highly fascinated by culture, thought processes and human nature in general.

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