A bird’s eye view of DEMO Asia 2012
February 29, 2012 by SGE
On day zero, startups were busy preparing for their pitches.
DEMO Asia is the premier tech startup launchpad in Asia, part of the DEMO brand of conferences. Over its illustrious history, it has debuted many well-known products such as Salesforce.com, Adobe Acrobat, and Skype for mobile. In DEMO Asia 2012, held in Singapore, we’ve seen 76 startups from 14 countries launch their products and pitch their ideas in front of a live audience.
SGE was the official online media partner for DEMO Asia 2012, and we’ve provide complete coverage of the conference (full program). Below is a compilation of all the live blogs, interviews, and articles we’ve written about the landmark event.
Startups
Winners of DEMO Asia 2012: Fiett, dropmyinbox, Sofshell, PixTelz, FlexiRoam, and Hoiio.
DEMOfocus on Web Tech: See the promising web technologies that aim to make it big. | Live blog | Good, bad, ugly
DEMOfocus on Social and Media Tech: Check out how the social media companies intend to change the way we live. | Live blog | Squiryl, Sageby, TradeHero | Startups and gamification | Burpple | MeSixty
DEMOfocus on Consumer Tech: Take a look at promising technologies that intend to break out big with consumers. | Live blog | A jungle out there
Alpha Pitch by the ten Microsoft Bizspark scholarship winners | Live blog | TranscribeMe | Other startups
DEMOfocus on Cloud and Enterprise Tech: Get a glimpse into promising startups that could to be the next big thing in the cloud and enterprise space. | Live blog | Tradesparq | DropMyEmail.com | Summary
DEMOfocus on Mobile Tech: Witness the new products that hope to define the mobile landscape. | Live blog | LobangClub | Hoiio
DEMOfocus on Innovative Tech: Take a look at promising technologies set to change the market. | Live blog
DEMO Alumni Panel – Where are they today? Panel: Steven Goh, mig33; Mario Jobbe, Circos; Jerry Kuo, Atlas Post. | Live blog
Live discussions
DEMO One-on-One with Adeo Ressi, founder of Founder Institute and TheFunded.com on the Globalization of Start-ups | Live blog | Interviews
DEMO One-on-One with Jeff Clavier, founder of SoftTech VC | Live blog | Video interview
Panel on investing in Asia: Dr. Ni Zhengdong, Marc van der Chijs, Antonny Liem | Live blog | Thoughts on China
Panel on doing business in Singapore | Live blog
DEMO One-on-One: Matt Marshall interviews Philip Lim, CEO of Exploit Technologies (commercialization arm of A*STAR) | Live blog
DEMO One-on-One with Simone Brunozzi, technology evangelist at Amazon Web Services | Live blog
DEMO One-on-One with Michael Yap, Deputy CEO and Executive Director of Interactive Digital Media Programme Office, Media Development Authority of Singapore. | Live blog
Gurus and Sages
Jeff Chi, vice president of investments at Vickers Venture Partners | Interview
Marc van der Chijs, co-founder of Tudou | Video interview
Arnon Kohavi, founder of Yarden VC | Video interview | Pre-DEMO interview
Antonny Liem, CEO of Indonesia incubator Merah Putih | Interviews | Thoughts on Indonesia
Rebeca Hwang, CEO of YouNoodle | Video interview
Attendees
Amit Anand, co-founder of Jungle Ventures | Video interview
Roshni Mahtani, founder of TheAsianParent.com | Video interview
Jackie and Kelvin, co-founders of Noddon, a business contacts app | Video interview
Joon of Pigeonhole Live | Video interview
Frederic Langlois, general manager of Circos Brand Karma | Video interview
Jackson Chan, business development at DMGT International, information service provider | Video interview
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