Connect with industry leaders and hear from prominent US-based Singaporeans in intimate conversations about culture, innovation, entrepreneurship, and community. Topics include: Born in Singapore, Building the Future: From Silicon Valley to the World, From Ports to Digital Ports: Singapore, ASEAN, and the Age of AI and more. Featured speakers include Andrew Ng, AI pioneer, Google Brain founding lead, and DeepLearning.AI founder; Jerene Yang, OpenAI’s Head of Runtime Engineering; Chade-Meng Tan, mindfulness leader and bestselling author; Anthony Chow, Igloo founder and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and many more.
SingaporeConnect Networking Booth
In addition, join us out a comfortably-decked out Networking Booth, to connect with each another and perhaps even catch these speakers, subject to their availability throughout the day.
Fireside Chat: Kopi Chat with Founders
From philanthrophy to technopreneurship, meet these trailblazers and learn about their inspiring journeys.
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is an award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, movie producer and philanthropist. He is Co-founder of Buddhism.net, and Co-chair of One Billion Acts of Peace, which has been nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel Laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was also Executive Producer of the movie Walk With Me, and Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore. He co-founded the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI, pronounced “silly”). He retired from Google as its Jolly Good Fellow at the age of 45.
Kai is a Singaporean entrepreneur who ventured to New York to build Reprise - a CPG brand on a mission to modernize Traditional Eastern Herbs. Reprise puts authentic WHOLE herbs, like Ginseng and Goji Berries, into tasty and convenient gummies. Before building Reprise, Kai was a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and received his MBA from Harvard Business School ('20)
Nikhil is a tech entrepreneur whose journey embodies resilience and ambition. Arriving alone in Singapore in his 20s, he rose from living paycheck to paycheck to building a seven-figure ARR business with a 50-member team. Today, as a founder, father, and Singapore PR, he continues to inspire entrepreneurs worldwide. Voncierge. Hipster.
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