Held in Manila, Philippines, the event starts with inspirational talks from various known technopreneurs based in the Philippines. This is proceeded by the open pitches wherein different aspirants put their best foot forward to present their excellent ideas in front of the whole audience for further evaluation. The team has one whole week to turn their idea into a commercialized product.

Check out the agenda here.

When: Saturday May 26th 2012
Where: Mapua Institute of Technology, Makati City, Manila, Philippines [a href="http://g.co/maps/6v3fm">map/a>]

Register here.

ad:tech Singapore 2012 is a regional event for the interactive marketing community at its 5th edition. ad:tech Singapore brings together brand advertisers, traditional & interactive agencies, portals, on-line publishers and technology providers. With the continued growth in technology and use of digital media, ad:tech offers an unrivalled opportunity to discover new practices and technologies, and to learn how many of the great names have utilized the net, built brand recognition and immersed themselves in digital technologies. Companies are realizing the meaning of ROI on ad spend like never before.

Check out the speaker list and the schedule.

If you have ever wondered:
• if you could and should raise serious money
• how to make your company look good to investors
• what the investment process looks like

And you:
• Have already been selling your product/service for 6-12 months
• Have 3-30 people teams
• Are struggling with accelerating your companies’ growth,

then you may be interested in attending this workshop “How the Hell can we raise money?”. (REGISTER HERE.)

Supported by Microsoft and co-organized by SGE and Tanguy Lesselin, a serial entrepreneur who has launched and financed companies in content management software, innovative e-commerce, and online services, as well as an angel investor, this session will see Tanguy share real life experiences, best practices and resources to help solve questions like:

• How much do you need? How much can you reasonably get? At what kind of valuation?
• What are the different investor categories? Which ones should you target?
• What are investors looking for?
• What does “investor-ready” really mean?
• Practically speaking, how do you raise funds in Singapore?
• What are the terms you want to avoid most?

To add to Tanguy Lesselin’s rich experience, an outstanding invitee, Leslie Loh, Managing Partner at Red Dot Ventures and Partner at Extream Ventures, board member of Spring Singapore, and an outstandingly successful entrepreneur, will be there to share with you his investment criteria (also check out a short video interview with Leslie by SGE at JFDI.asia’s Demo Day)

At the end, we’ll also have a Q&A section where SGE‘s Isaac, will place both Tanguy and Leslie on the firing line.

Event details

When: Thursday, 24 May 2012 
Time: 6:00PM -7:30PM
Price:  $45 $0 – subsidized by Microsoft!
Where: Level 22 CF-12, Microsoft Singapore, One Marina Boulevard, NTUC Centre – Singapore 018989

The session is subsidized by Microsoft. If you are interested, kindly register your interest. If you’re a startup that doesn’t fit the target as above, your registration may still be considered. As the number of participants is limited (we had 80 attendees for the previous session and many had to stand), we will come back to you within 48h to confirm your attendance.

REGISTER HERE.

Speakers’ biographies:  

Leslie Loh

Leslie Loh is General & Limited Partner at Red Dot Ventures, an incubator and at Extream Venture, a venture fund with joint investment from National Research Foundation Singapore targeting early stage technology startups in Singapore.
Mr. Loh is also currently a board member of SPRING Singapore and was an IDA Board Member (Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore) for 2 terms from 1999 to 2003. He has always found time to contribute to entrepreneurial and ICT development in Singapore and has been invited as judges to various awards committee including ASME Entrepreneurial of the Year and National Infocomm Awards.
After graduating from Saint Mary’s University, Canada, in 1982 with a bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Finance and Information Technology, Mr. Loh co-founded in 1983 and was the Chairman and the CEO of System Access which turned from a one-man outfit to a publicly listed global banking software organization with 10 offices and 500 staff in Europe, Middle East and Asia before being acquired by SunGard Data Systems INC, USA, a leading global financial services software provider.
Mr. Loh has been awarded many times for his success as an entrepreneur: selected Winner of the ASME Rotary Entrepreneur of the Year in Singapore in 1998, he received the National Youth Award (Individual) in 1999 and, in 2006, he was awarded “Person of The Year” IT Leader Award by the Singapore Computer Society.
Mr. Loh also chairs the board for several of his investee companies including Lithan Education Group and Just Commodity Software Solutions. 

Tanguy Lesselin

Back in 2003, Tanguy Lesselin had already co-founded, built, raised 6M Euros in venture financing, and sold the first company Tekora (web content management software) to a listed company. He then went on to start another one, CV Premium that became profitable from year two onwards and still enables executive job seekers to get help writing their resumes today. Tanguy’s third company, Sokoz, was the first live shopping platform back in 2008. It earned industry and media recognition, got 150K active members in just 6 months, and 350 high-end brands and pro-sellers operating on the platform. Tanguy raised 2M Euros from business angels and was nominated e-commerce manager of the year in 2010 by the leading e-commerce magazine in France. Today, Tanguy is working on a stealth startup in Singapore and also invests as a business angel.

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Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs & founders, and meet & learn from CEOs of established companies who have seen it all.

Our aim here at SGE is to make it easy for you to pick & choose from the event buffet. Enjoy.

Here are the events for this week. Events are mostly in Singapore (generally 30 minutes drive from anywhere), but we also include key events from around Southeast Asia and beyond.

Saturday 19th May:

(1) [Singapore] Red Dot Ruby Conf

(2) [Singapore] 13th Start-Up@Singapore Awards Ceremony

Tuesday-Thursday 22-24th May:

(1) Casual Connect Asia

Wednesday-Saturday 23-26th May:

(1) [Malaysia] Asian Business Angel Forum

Wednesday 23rd May:

(1) [Singapore] Web Wednesday: The Past, Present and Future of Location Based Media

Thursday 24th May:

(1) [Hong Kong] TEDxMongKok

(2) [Singapore] Singapore TechMeetups

Friday to Saturday 25th – 26th May:

(1) [Australia] One More Thing Conference 2012 in Melbourne

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Hear it from the industry leaders.

As mobile broadband adoption continues unabated in 2012, the telecom industry is facing a new era of opportunity and challenges to deliver a smooth experience in the increasingly important mobile cloud.

Listen to the chief protagonists in Singapore and Southeast Asia, from Google, StarHub, HP, Tellabs, Samsung and other distinguished speakers discuss a way forward, as apps demand increasingly more resources on networks as well as spectrum.

How can telcos deliver a smoother experience for consumers? Will there be enough spectrum to cater to machine-to-machine communications in future? Can users enjoy a truly unified interface for cloud services on the phone, tablet and PC?

Returning in its third year, Singapore’s independent seminar on future mobile and wireless trends, UNWIRED Conference 2012 will shed light on these issues. There will also be a demo of the first Windows 8 devices this year.

In previous events, more than 160 telecom executives, developers, academics, analysts and journalists participated in highly-interactive interactive discussions with panelists who shared their in-depth knowledge and experiences with the audience.

When: Thursday May 31, 2012
Time: 1pm – 5.30pm
Where: Angsana 3F, Level 3, Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956

Register here.

In partnership with the Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) (BANSEA), the 5th edition of Seed Forum Singapore will take place on 7th June to connect angel investors with aspiring entrepreneurs from Europe and Southeast Asia. These innovative startups demonstrate great potential for global scalability and have been carefully screened and selected by the investment panel of Seed Forum International Foundation. The conference offers angel investors, angel and early-stage venture funds, investment companies and other key finance intermediaries a first-hand insight into this selected group. Investors will be given the opportunity to hold personal meetings with the companies in the afternoon as well as attend the Evening Reception.

Program

08:45am Registration & Coffee (Guests to be seated by 9:30am)
09:30am Power Pitches
09:40am Welcome Address and Keynote Speech: Mr. William Klippgen, Angel Investor
09:50am Keynote Speech: Mr. Cato Gullichen, Seed Forum Singapore
10:00am Keynote Speech: (Speaker TBC)
10:10am Business Plan Presentations by 8 startups
11:45am Networking Lunch

06:00pm -08:00pm Investor Evening Reception

Pitching Companies

Synaptic Technologies (Norway): revolutionizing technology for real-time web
Neckcare (Norway): the Fly, a device to measure neck injuries
Yobetit (United Kingdom): new concept betting platform
Practical Technology (Norway): innovative logistic system for the marine industry

And 4 more from Southeast Asia.

When: Thursday 7th June 2012
Registration for Seed Forum Singapore: 8:45am-1:30pm
Registration for Investor Evening Reception: 6-8pm
Where: Taurus, Level 1, Marina Mandarin Singapore, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square, Singapore 039594

Register here.

Constantine (Con) Frantzeskos is a passionate and experienced digital marketer whose role is to turn business problems into multi-platform, multi-channel brand solutions with digital at their core. With over 23 years (yes, since 1989!) of experience in digital marketing, Con provides digital solutions for strategic and creative challenges, and creates comprehensive communications strategies and programs for a range of international and local Ogilvy clients, including Unilever, BP, Diageo, Coca-Cola, and Singapore’s Health Promotion Board.

When: Wednesday May 23rd 2012
Time: 630pm onwards
Where: BEER MARKET at Clarke Quay, 177A River Valley Rd, Clarke Quay, Singapore 179021

It is also a great opportunity to network with investors, leading researchers, business & industry leaders and budding & experienced entrepreneurs.

Who should attend: Investors, entrepreneurs/technopreneurs, industry, start-up partners, government agencies and SMEs seeking technology adoption

Program

1.30 pm Registration & Technology Showcase
2.00 pm Opening Address: Mr Teo Ser Luck, ACE Chairman and Minister of State for Trade and Industry
2.20 pm Keynote Address: Johnson Chen, Managing Director, Clearbridge Accelerator “The Technology Start-up Landscape in Singapore – Trends and Opportunities”
2.45 pm Discussion Panel: “Does Singapore Have a Conducive Ecosystem to Support Technology Start-ups? What Else Can Be Done?”
3.30 pm Break
3.45 pm Start-up Elevator Pitching Competition
5.00 pm A*STAR Technologies Pitching by Exploit Technologies
5.30 pm Awards and Closing Remarks
6.00 pm Cocktails & Networking

When: Friday 1st June 2012
Time: 1:30– 6:00pm
Where: Breakthrough and Discovery Theatrettes, 30 Biopolis Street, Matrix Building Level 4, Singapore 139671

Register here.

Brief:

In a rising flood of apps, how should you make your app stand out? What makes users come back to the app? What changes the curious user to a loyal fan? As marketers, should we redefine what makes meaningful and immersive engagement on a mobile screen? How does gamification give you an edge? Join Kaiwei as he discusses the challenges of creating mobile products and some learning points on the potential pitfalls that you should look out for. Gain a deeper understanding of the principles and concepts that make good mobile design with insight from 2359 Media’s studio.
1) A million dollar lesson

Lessons to help you avoid major pitfalls in developing your mobile strategy

2) Rethink the purpose – Incentivising behaviour

Areas of discussion: Retail, Tourism, Education, and Animation

3) Rethink your idea – Simplicity is key

Case Studies: SGMalls and DatingGoWhere app

4) Rethink the phone – The evolution from a tool to an extension of oneself.

Case Studies: Media Content

Speaker:
Chen Kai Wei, Chief Consulting Officer of 2359 Media

Kaiwei set up the mobile consultancy arm in 2359 Media and is responsible for driving the engineering and sales prowess of the company. His portfolio of clients includes large organisations like CapitaLand, Singtel, Sentosa, ESPN, FarEast, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Health, among others.

Kaiwei was honoured First Class Honours in the Bachelors of Computer Engineering by the National University of Singapore. Versatile and entrepreneurial throughout his experiences, he began as a user experience designer and developer in Silicon Valley. He later co-founded Russ-Net Technologies where he managed a team of engineers and designers in developing a social networking site targeted at sports enthusiasts. Before joining 2359 Media, he was focused on enterprise and consultative sales for business management solutions in BMC.

When: Saturday June 9 at 2:00pm until Sunday June 10 at 9:00am
Where: The Hub, 113 Somerset Road, Singapore 238165

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