Startup ecosystem under one roof at Startup Capitals, the conference

Source: Startup Capitals'
website.

Startup Capitals, a thought-leadership conference based on the recently published book authored by Singapore-based author and journalist, Zafar Anjum will be held on May 20 in Singapore at The POD, NLB, 100 Victoria Street. 

The one-day conference, which will also witness the official release of the book, celebrates the innovation/startup ecosystem of cities that are making a mark on the world map. It brings together all the stakeholders in a startup ecosystem, including entrepreneurs, business leaders, innovators, researchers and educational specialists, government leaders and venture capitalists, under one roof.

Steve Leonard, Executive Deputy Chairman, IDA, will deliver a keynote on Building the World’s First Smart Nation. Zachary Caceres, award winning writer, entrepreneur and Director of the Startup Cities Institute in Guatemala City, will also provide a keynote titled Startup Cities, Micro reforms and treating governance services as a technology for startups to innovate.

The speakers' list includes:

· Zwee (Zihuan) Wee, Managing Partner, Savant Degrees, Singapore
· Suresh Shankar, CEO, Crayon Data
· Eric Tachibana, Innovation Education & MD, eXtropia Holdings
· David Toh, Director, NTUitive
· Grace Chng, Senior Correspondent, The Straits Times
· Dr Alex Lin, Director, IIPL, Singapore
· Hugh Mason, Co-Founder & CEO, JFDI
· Efraim Pettersson Ivener, General Partner at TechGrind Thailand Incubator
· Julien Berthomier, Seedstars World, Thailand
· Vladislav Solodkiy, CEO & Managing Partner, Life.SREDA
· Jeffrey Paine, Head, Founder Institute, Singapore
· Joseph Ziegler, Entrepreneur in Residence, muru-D
· Srividya Maliwal, Chief Producer, Playware Studios Asia Pte Ltd
· Joji Philip, Founder & Editor, DEALSTREETASIA
· Rohit Gandhi, Head-APAC, Tech Mahindra
· Thomas Jakob, Regional President, APAC, Bosch
· Subbaraman Ramaswamy, Vice President – Asia Business, Ramco Systems
· Ajay Sunder, Vice President – Telecoms, Frost & Sullivan
· Gordon Falconer, Director Smart Cities, Schneider Electric
· Avish Joseph, CEO, StratAgile, Singapore
· Mohit Sagar, Group Managing Director, CIO Network
· Donald Pressley, Senior VP, Booz Allen Hamilton
· Andy Mukherjee, Columnist, Breaking Views, Thomson Reuters

Interested?

View the agenda

Register - delegate tickets cost S$75, with an additional S$3.13 booking fee
Read the Suroor Asia blog post about another of Zafar's works, Iqbal.