Next Wednesday, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will hold a panel discussion entitled “Startup Asia: Top strategies for cashing in Asia’s Innovation Boom”. It will reveals the winning strategies of a new generation of entrepreneurs who no longer look to Facebook, Amazon and eBay for cues but are crafting their own business models, going global, and scoring IPOs on Wall Street. The panel includes Koh Soo Boon of iGlobe Partners, Wong Kok Cheong of Sparky Animation, Darius Cheung of tencube Wavesecure. Rebecca A. Fannin and Prof Wong Poh Kam will act as moderators.

Event Details

When: Wednesday, 16th November 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Registration starts at 6:00pm)
Where: Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18, Singapore 139951 (Map)
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Event Details

When: Friday, 30th September 2011
Time: 6pm-8pm
Where: NUS University Hall Auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road (Map)
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About the Speaker

Robin is an international entrepreneur who is involved in training, researching and consulting companies on the use of Social Media. Robin is currently helping in a project on rebranding Baja California in a collaboration project with Emerson College and the Mexican Tourism Board. Robin is also giving trainings to the Tourism industry in Sri Lanka and several companies in Singapore.
Robin has been training companies on Social Media since 2008, and in 2009 did a comprehensive training for Aitken Spence Hotels and Aitken Spence Travels, the largest hotel chain in Sri Lanka, which has Luxury hotels in Maldives, India, Oman and Sri Lanka. Aitken Spence has since seen an increase in hotel occupancy, customer retention and Internet bookings.
Robin is a guest speaker at many universities, including Emerson College, Harvard University, National University of Singapore and Singapore Management Institute. Robin also started @SGbrands, a twitter account helping Singapore Companies spread their brands and @SGTweetup, a twitter networking account. And managed several Twitter gatherings and talks in Singapore, Boston and New York.

Event Details

When: Thursday to Friday, 15th-16th September 2011
Time: 9am-5pm
Where: National University of Singapore, Blk 15 Prince George’s Park Residence, Basement 1, Venture Lab, Singapore 118430 (Map)
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There is considerable interest among policy-makers in measuring the entrepreneurial character of nations. A number of approaches and indices have been proposed for the study of the question. But what is an ‘entrepreneurial economy’? In this talk Professor Erkko Autio, QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship in Physical Sciences, reviews different approaches to measuring the entrepreneurial character of nations and discuss their merits and weaknesses. He concludes by proposing a policy-oriented conceptual definition for the concept of an ‘entrepreneurial nation’.

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Boyd started the company, Enzer with S$10,000, where he was the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Enzer became a world renowned brand with products sold in 33 countries and won the Superbrands award for 3 consecutive years. The company was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange in May 2001. In 2006, the sales turnover reached close to S$ 80 million. Boyd will share the growth strategies Enzer adopted (including branding and international market penetration) to grow from S$10,000 to S$80million.

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In 1984, Boyd with his partner started the company, Enzer with S$10,000, where he was the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Enzer became a world renowned brand with products sold in over 33 countries and won the Superbrands award for 3 consecutive years.The company was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange in May 2001. In 2006, the sales turnover reached close to S$ 80 million.

Boyd is passionate in training, coaching and mentoring business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. He started 7 Notes Capital Pte Ltd, in the business of private equity investments and training programmes. Boyd is a mentor of over 30 business owners in industries such as fashion, construction equipment, TV media, spas & beauty, electronics, telecommunication and many more.

Boyd holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Hull and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from the Singapore Institute of Management, a Diploma in Industrial Management from the Institute of Industrial Management and a Diploma in Christian Education from the Rhema Bible Training Centre. Boyd is also a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants, Singapore. He serves as a sub-committee member of ACE, Spring Singapore and is a committee member of PDSC, STADA (Singapore Training and Development Association).

Prior to starting Enzer, Boyd launched his career in a multi-national corporation and was a Training Manager, specialising in management and quality programs.

When: Friday 28th January 2010
Time: 6-8pm
Where: National University of Singapore
NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd

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Tech entrepreneurship is spreading throughout Asia’s innovation hotspots. The region’s advanced mobile communications and Internet markets, wealth of talented and motivated entrepreneurs and solid government support for advanced technologies all make Asia a world leader in disruptive breakthroughs. The trend has spanned now to biotech and cleantech as well. Venture capital investment has arrived in a big way too, and is helping Asian startups get to the next level and go IPO on NASDAQ and the NYSE. Meet and hear from Ms. Rebecca Fannin Journalist and Author of “Silicon Dragon” as she talks more about China, India and the Next Frontier of Tech Innovation.

Rebecca A. Fannin is an international journalist and author of Silicon Dragon, published in 2008 by McGraw-Hill, translated into several languages and favorably reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.

In 2009, Rebecca formed the e-newsletter, consulting and events group SiliconAsia, with an expertise in innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurship trends in China, India and emerging hotspots. She is a columnist and contributor for Forbes and a blogging contributor for Harvard Business Review. A former international editor with Red Herring and Incisive Media, Rebecca’s journalistic career has spanned to writing and editing for Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Asia, Inc., AsiaWeek, the Pulitzer-owned International Business, and Chief Executive.

Ms. Fannin is the author of “A New Dawn,” a 2009 KPMG special report on the development of China outsourcing and its implications for India. She has appeared as a featured guest commentator on Fox Business News, Sky TV in Australia, China’s CCTV, and numerous media outlets worldwide. In addition, she has provided expert testimony on Google and Baidu in China for the U.S.-China Commission, in Washington, DC.

Rebecca resides in New York City and San Francisco, and travels regularly to Asia.

When: Friday 29th October 2010
Time: 6pm-8pm
Where: NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd

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Localization is an essential part of a business strategy. Hear from Hong Qu, who led YouTube’s localization strategy for Asia. He will talk about the importance of a localization strategy and how to design for different cultures, countries or markets.

Hong Qu builds social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. As one of the first YouTube employees, Hong designed, programmed, and launched vital parts of the site such as sharing tools, user profiles and video responses. In addition he spearheaded YouTube’s localization strategy in Asia by conducting user research studies at Google’s local offices in the region. Prior to YouTube, Hong has worked at Yahoo and also at various startups in New York and Silicon Valley. Hong has a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s School of Information with a focus on social media design and data mining and a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Economics. Hong is currently an independent design consultant.

When: Tuesday 28 September 2010
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd

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Technology played a significant part in bringing about this fast changing world. In a simplistic way, we could summarize as follows: The advancement in Computing, Logistics and Telecommunication technology have flattened all forms of supply chain. The end result is a massive Globalization trend.

Nobody is spared. Not even us on this little red dot. To hold our place under the sun, we need to be part of the global technological thrust. We do have many of the ingredients to be successful as a viable innovator over the global technology landscape.

Drawing from his experience as the former HP general manager for the Handheld Products Division as well as the formal CEO of MediaRing, which did pioneering work in the VoIP space, Khaw will talk about the three important trends, which are fundamental to our immediate future as innovator. They are the Sharing Transaction Model in a Knowledge-Based Environment, Life at the perpetual edge of the Internet and the Third Screen. Khaw will also talk about the challenges one will face as an innovator and the joy of giving form to one’s idea. He will illustrate his talk with examples from his past works at HP and MediaRing.”

Khaw’s Career with HP spanned 26 years and his last assignment was the General Manager of HP’s Hand Held Products Division. Khaw built a world class R/D team in Singapore and the team gave the world its first color PDA, which was featured in a James Bond movie called “The World is not Enough”. Subsequently, the team followed up with the first smart phone based on WinCE platform. The team was influential with Microsoft on the direction of the WinCE platform in the early days. The most notable would be to have Microsoft ported the platform to run on ARM architecture.

Khaw was the CEO of MediaRing for 6 years. MediaRing is one of the leading players in VoIP and successfully delivered an enterprise grade VoIP solution. MediaRing counts the likes of SIA and Republic Poly as its enterprise customers. Its session border controller technology was licensed by the likes of MCI, AT&T and NTT.

Khaw is currently on the Board of SATS and he was the former Board member of the EDB as well as Senoko Power and served on the Advisory Council of Singapore Poly’s Business School. In 2008, Khaw was accepted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers by Oregon State University in recognition of his various accomplishments in the technology area. Khaw holds a BSEE from Oregon State University, MBA from Santa Clara University and a Technical Diploma from Singapore Poly.

When: Thursday 2nd September 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Light dinner will be served at 7:30pm)
Where: National University of Singapore, NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd [map]

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When: Friday 30th July 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Registration starts at 5:30pm)
Where: National University of Singapore, NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd [map]

Please register your details by 29th July, noon. Seats are limited so please register early to secure a place.