Neoteny Camp Singapore and Launch of Neoteny Labs

Hosted by well-respected investor and entrepreneur, Joi Ito; entrepreneur and community organizer, Sean Bonner; and our very own James Chan, the first installation of Neoteny Camp Singapore will take place over two exciting days in December.

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Neoteny Camp Singapore

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Bringing several international investors, startups and innovators to Singapore, Neoteny Camp Singapore aims to cover a whole range of topics, including investing and incubating, to building startups and hackerspaces. With the crowd that is due to attend the event, it is hoped that there will be lots of sharing of expertise.

There will also be a Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge on the night of the 12th.

Visit this page for updated schedule with speaker tracks.

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Overview

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Speakers

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This list is continuously growing and updating.

Some of the speakers that are due to speak at Neoteny Camp Singapore include both investors and startups. They include:

Mitch Altman – TV-B-Gone, Noisebridge – San Francisco, USA
Sean Bonner – Metblogs, Neoteny Labs – Los Angeles, USA
James Chan – Neoteny Labs – Singapore
Eddie Chau – Brandtology – Singapore
Jay Dvivedi – Shinsei Bank – Tokyo, Japan
Jonas Eichhorst – PlanetAbroad – Singapore
Johannes Grenzfurthner – monochrom – Vienna, Austria
Ming Yong Guang – Socialwok – Singapore
Elisabeth Hendrickson – Quality Tree – Pleasanton, USA
Bunnie Huang – Chumby Industries – San Diego, USA
Joi Ito – Creative Commons, Neoteny Labs – Dubai, UAE
Thorben Linneberg – Aureliant pte ltd – Singapore
Rob Mee – Pivotal Labs – San Francisco, USA
Ian McFarland – Pivotal Labs – San Francisco, USA
Jens Ohlig – C4 – Bonn, Germany
Bre Petis – Makerbot, NYCResistor – New York, USA
Diego Rodriguez – IDEO, Stanford – Palo Alto, USA
Teruhide Sato – Netprice – Tokyo, Japan
Venu Sriperumal – Mystiq Mobile – Singapore
Terence Swee – Muvee – Singapore
Meng Weng Wong – BANSEA, hackerspace.sg – Singapore
Michael Yap – MDA – Singapore

Visit their speaker page for updates.

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Neoteny Labs

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This 2-day Neoteny Camp Singapore will also act as the launch of Neoteny Labs, an early stage venture fund and incubator. The main people behind Neoteny Labs are: Joi Ito (General Partner), Reid Hoffman (Investment Committee Chairman), James Chan (Investment Manager).

Some of the Mentors that they have lined up include: Cory Ondrejka, Shawn Fanning, Dave Morin, Pivotal Labs, IDEO, John Seely Brown, Jun Murai (father of Japan Internet), Ryuichi Sakamoto (musician+composer), Tim O’Reilly, Lawrence Lessig.

Incubation and investment focus will be on Consumer Internet, Mobile Apps and Consumer Hardware & Electronics Design in the Asia region.

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Neoteny Labs Collaboration

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Centre of Best Practices in Software Engineering

Neoteny Labs also wants to help up the level of expertise of our people in software engineering through establishing a Centre of Best Practices with Pivotal Labs.

This Centre will administer proficiency tests and interviews to hire engineers who will be exposed to ARC (Agile, Ruby-on-Rails and the Cloud). These engineers will also be exposed to and work on difficult problems from Google, Twitter, etc., so that they may gain exposure to other platforms, technologies and markets.

Entrepreneurs-In-Residence

Neoteny Labs will also try to attract and relocate entrepreneurs to join the Labs as EIRs to work on their ideas.

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Event Details

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Date: Saturday-Sunday, 12-13th December 2009
Time: 8am till late
Venue: Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE), Singapore Management University (SMU)

For more detailed directions, visit the venue directions updates at Neoteny’s site.

Related posts:

1. Starting Up Start-Ups @ Neoteny Conference
2. TWIA Episode 10: A Conversation with Joi Ito, Neoteny Labs
3. Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge @ Neoteny Camp Singapore
4. Centre of Best Practices Hiring
5. TWIA Episode 7: Mozilla Drumbeat @ Neoteny with Mark Surman