Isaac Timothy T - Product Manager
Sometimes writer, sometimes programmer, full time behind-the-scenes guy, Isaac is responsible for keeping SGE running and ensuring the success of SGE's projects. While not working on SGE, he is running his own start-up that hopes to change how we look at the simple checklist. He plays football and is eagerly awaiting the day he can support Singapore at the World Cup.
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Over the past couple of months, in the Singapore entrepreneurship and tech startup space, there have been activities and buzz around Big Data, Cross Pollination among different groups of creatives and hackathons. UP Singapore is an event trying to bring all three movements together.
This June, over a two-week period, UP Singapore, through a unique series of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and ‘Urban Prototyping’ hackathons, aims to bring together the brightest thinkers, entrepreneurs, researchers, government employees, and engaged citizens in Singapore. Together, with a selection of global innovators, the goal is to collaborate and create innovative solutions that will make our cities smarter, more efficient and simply better places to call home.
If you are an individual interested in Big Data, this would be the perfect chance to get access to previously unavailable datasets that will be shared by data partners from both the public and private sectors into the UP Singapore “data sandbox”.
This would also be the perfect chance to meet like-minded individuals across a range of disciplines and put your collective skills together to create interesting solutions in the following areas of interest:
- Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS)
- Tourism
- Creative Arts
- Education
- Community Engagement
UP Singapore is looking to engage with data analysts, programmers, artists, graphic designers, financiers, academics, students, CEOs, NGOs, urbanists, architects, doctors, entrepreneurs, social workers and anyone else who has the ideas, vision or desire to improve our cities.
UP Singapore will culminate at the 2012 World Cities Summit in Singapore. Leading projects from the weekends will be selected through “crowd voting” and showcased in partnership with Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) and the “Data-Centric City for the Future” Pavilion. These projects will also be candidates for further development and fundraising of up to S$250,000.
Spaces in this event are limited, so do pre-register for the event on the UP Singapore website.
UP Singapore: 15th June – 4th July 2012.
City Camp: 15-16 June at Fusionopolis, Symbiosis Tower, Level 11
Urban Prototyping Weekend: 22-24 June at Plug-In@Blk71 & Fusionopolis, Symbiosis Tower, Level 11
On 2nd May, ACE will be holding an Award Ceremony to recognize the inaugural batch of ACE Startups companies.
During the event, Dr Steven Fang will be sharing about the ACE Mentorship Programme and there will be a panel discussion on “How to Make Mentoring Work for You”. The panel will consist of Dr Steven Fang (Founder and Group CEO of CordLife Limited), Irene Ang (Founder of FLY Entertainment), Jerry Chen (Founder of Express In Music), Jeffrey Paine (Director at Founders’ Institute Singapore) and moderated by Isaac from SGE.
The ACE Startups:
Innervative Learning
Innervative Learning will revolutionise the instruction of Economics, through the creation of a unique and exciting mobile edu-game app, Econopolis.
Vulcheers
Bidmygoods.com is a proposal management platform that allows merchants receive competitive proposals from websites that wish to feature the merchant’s inventory for sale. This platform will therefore allow users to source for finished (excess) goods inventory, just like how alibaba.com exist for primary producers, suppliers and retailers.
CoordSafe
CoordSafe provides tracking and risk prevention services to protect elders through their accessory-like device.
Windphony.com
Windphony aims to breach the current convention by allowing all composers to self-publish their music scores via Windphony’s digital music score distribution platform.
Zinicat
Zinicat is developing a patentable algorithm to match people to food & food outlets.
Biggest Baddest Parties Inc
BBP is a mobile app akin to the compass of the party world. The app will be a one-stop guide for partygoers, offering information about clubs, drink specials, location based services such as where are the nearest watering holes, cover charges, and redeemable rewards systems.
All ID Asia
All ID offers innovative and comprehensive Automatic Identification and Data Collection solutions to industry clients. The flagship solution suite, Pesona comprises 4 basic software engines and portfolio of add-ons for front end applications.
Discarver
Discarver, a smart car solution, mashes and analyses in-car data with contextual data to generate actionable insights to help drivers reduce unnecessary costs and risks.
NIPTE
NIPTE is an internet platform to provide quality financial information and knowledge at affordable prices to amateur or young traders. The platform is designed as a dedicated platform for experienced traders to teach others of their trading strategies and/or systems. In exchange for information, members have to pay subscription fees.
Greendot Gourmet
Greendot Gourmet intends to develop a vegetarian fast food concept that will appeal to youths by repackaging vegetarian cusines prepared at Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant into fast food to be sold at food stalls within tertiary institutions.
ARCSIS
ARCSIS is working with the Food Innovation Resource Centre to develop cooking processes which produce healthier and tasty specialty food choices.
Date & Time: 2 May, 10.00am – 2.00pm
Venue:
OCBC Conference Room, 50th floor
63 Chulia Street, OCBC Centre East,
Singapore 049514
WHAT?
Creative Mixer brings together creatives, hackers, entrepreneurs into a single space to redefine creativity. Eight speakers enlighten us with bite-sized presentations on creativity across diverse fields. Who knows what will happen after, when creatives, entrepreneurs and hackers get together?
WHY?
To increase collaboration between entrepreneurs, developers and creatives. Come to be inspired, inspire others, and find the strange common denominators!
WHO?
50 Entrepreneurs, Developers & Creatives from Design, Photography, Film, Architecture, Animation/Illustration and Writing.
This second edition of Creative Mixer will feature sharings by:
Janice Wong, 2amLab, Chef-owner of 2am dessert bar
Aen Tan, Singapore’s leading UI/UX Designer
Francis Chu, inventor & co-founder of ISUDA (bike sharing scheme)
Lara Kanga (UK), Publicist
Travis Ho, Game Designer of Autumn Dynasty (Touch Dimensions)
Oh York Bing, Architect
Veerapan Swaminathan, Sustainable Living Lab
Sean Lee, Photographer, Winner of the ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu 2011
… and a surprise presentation by a Visual Artist.
HOW? Register here!
Seats are LIMITED, so register to secure your place. Registration is $15 (includes food + a glass of wine) + $3.18 processing/paypal fee
PROGRAMME
7:00 – 7:15PM Welcome & Registration
7:15 – 8:15PM Dinner & Networking
8:15 – 9:00PM Sharing Sessions
9:00 – 10:00PM Mix the night awaay!
For more information, visit www.creativemixer.co :)
Quick Facts about Creative Mixer 2.0: Temporary / Permanent
When: 28 March 2012, 7pm-10pm
Where: Sinema Old School, 11B Mt Sophia
Who: 50 Hackers, Entrepreneurs and Creatives from Design, Photography, Film, Architecture, Animation, Illustration
How: Register by 24 March 2012 to www.flickevents.com/creativemixer
Registration: $15 (includes a glass of wine!) + $3 processing/paypal fee
Website/More Info: www.creativemixer.co
Partners: Relay Room, Spizza, Sinema, SGE, FeverAvenue, Girls in Tech, Underground Wines
Starters is new monthly mixer specially catered to social entrepreneurs and change makers! Its not just about talking anymore, its about standing up, going out and taking action.
Put together by the crazy team behind Start Now Volunteerism Advocacy, Starters aims to bring people from all walks of life together to make social change that lasts. We firmly believe that each and everyone one of us has a desire to change something for the better.
But that’s sometimes hard if you are just one person against the world so we want to bring like minded people together and empower you to do something – in the spirit of “start now”!
We plan our events differently!
- We kick off the night with the niceties and some drinks before
- Jumping straight into “power session” – sharing by anyone in the audience.
- Introducing for the first time ever – the “Starters Board” – a pledge board where every participant can pledge different ways they can help any of the speakers – whether by introducing contacts, joining their team, or helping out with a project. This will then be emailed to all of the attendees!
So join us as we kick off the first Starters this March, 28th at 7pm Ice Cold Beer. Special Happy Hour just for us whole night long so no more excuses cause its time to start.
Confirmed Speakers:
- James Norris – Founder of Self Spark
- Eleanor Yap – Editor of SALT, Humaneity, Ageless Online
- Seamus Yeo – Team Singapura Everest
- Zhihan – Bagosphere
For more information about this monthly event, check out the Facebook event page here.
To learn more about the finalists for The Ultimate Start-Up Space competition, each of the 10 finalists will answer 3 questions:
1. Why this idea?
2. Why this space? (Why do you feel like your idea best suits the shop space at 29 Boon Tat Street?)
3. Why this team? (Why do you think you’re the best person/team to realize your business idea in this space?)
In this post, we feature the answers from 3 of the finalists in random order.
Public supports plays a big part in determining the winner. If you have a favorite among the finalists, pledge your support here. Read more
When Singapore was a young nation, and education not universal, our elders did all they could to put food on the table. They rested their hopes in the younger generation, believing that they will take advantage of opportunities the nation’s pioneers don’t have. Through their toil, future generations were able to have higher education and opportunities to be doctors, engineers and researchers. Read more
To learn more about the finalists for The Ultimate Start-Up Space competition, each of the 10 finalists will answer 3 questions:
1. Why this idea?
2. Why this space? (Why do you feel like your idea best suits the shop space at 29 Boon Tat Street?)
3. Why this team? (Why do you think you’re the best person/team to realize your business idea in this space?)
In this post, we feature the answers from 3 of the finalists in random order.
Public supports plays a big part in determining the winner. If you have a favorite among the finalists, pledge your support here. Read more
To learn more about the finalists for The Ultimate Start-Up Space competition, each of the 10 finalists will answer 3 questions:
1. Why this idea?
2. Why this space? (Why do you feel like your idea best suits the shop space at 29 Boon Tat Street?)
3. Why this team? (Why do you think you’re the best person/team to realize your business idea in this space?)
In this post, we feature the answers from 3 of the finalists in random order.
Public supports plays a big part in determining the winner. If you have a favorite among the finalists, pledge your support here. Read more
To learn more about the finalists for The Ultimate Start-Up Space competition, each of the 10 finalists will answer 3 questions:
1. Why this idea?
2. Why this space? (Why do you feel like your idea best suits the shop space at 29 Boon Tat Street?)
3. Why this team? (Why do you think you’re the best person/team to realize your business idea in this space?)
In this post, we feature the answers from 3 of the finalists in random order.
Public supports plays a big part in determining the winner. If you have a favorite among the finalists, pledge your support here. Read more
Southeast Asia’s first ruby & rails conference RedDotRubyConf is happening in 2 days time. Read more
