Guests
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Speaker

Jan Wong - TEDx Speaker | Founder, OpenMinds

An entrepreneur, online strategist and youth advocate. Listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, and also recognized as one of the Top 10 New Generation Business Leaders in Malaysia.

Founded OpenMinds, a marketing technology startup whose valuation grew from zero to millions in just 3 years since 2012 with two offices in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong (at one point, even Kazakhstan).

Through OpenMinds, he has worked with hundreds of brands globally, helping businesses bridge the gap between marketing and technology by helping clients better understand data analytics, digital strategy and tech development.

Chen Chow Yeoh - Co-Founder, Fave Group |

Eisenhower Fellow 2013

Co-founder of Fave, next generation merchant digital platform in South East Asia. Fave helps to digitize tens of thousands of local businesses, from restaurants, cafes, retailers, spas, beauty and wellness studios, service providers, tourist attractions to hotels.

Fave helps those businesses in multi payments acceptance, customers acquisition (vouchers/deals, ecards), loyalty, cashback and retention, analytics, customers reviews/ratings, table orderings/takeaways, financing etc. He is also the co-founder of KFit, regional fitness sharing platform in South East Asia.

Prior to that, he was the Regional Operations Director for Groupon Asia Pacific, Product Manager for JobStreet.com and Management Consultant for Accenture.

Pedram Rahmati -
CTO, Photobook Worldwide

Hands on manager, P&L responsibilities in tech sector, larger segmented organizations and smaller lean teams. Continuous delivery of high impact deliverables, with strong controls on ROI, rightsizing, and technical debt.

Mentor

Jimmy Lee - Founder, Foodie Box Group

Self-made entrepreneur with 19 years of experience managing his 4 startups. He is the Group CEO for Foodie Box Group that has received approval for an undisclosed amount of funding from a group of humanitarian investors. He has mentored 13 startups and invested into 3 of them including Lapar Esports. Jimmy is also a humanitarian by empowering the poor and refugees through WATAN.

Apart from being featured in The Edge Markets in their September 2020 issue, Jimmy has also received the award of Best CEO in Malaysia’s Food Industry from UK Business Worldwide's 2020 Asia-Pacific Business Awards in November 2020, 100 Most Inspirational LinkedIn Icons in Malaysia for 2019 & 2020 by Marketing In Asia and nominated in India for Asia's 100 Greatest Leaders with process reviewers.

Heislyc Loh - Founder, Devs Asia

Founded StartupMamak, a community for technology start-up entrepreneurs in 2011. StartupMamak is currently the largest tech startup community in Malaysia with over 18k patrons.

Managing Director for Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Penang & Johor) chapters of Founder Institute, the world's premier pre-seed startup accelerator in 180 different cities.

Experienced Hackathon Organizer and Community Leader; Brand Ambassador for AngelHack, a global hackathon movement, we gathered 370 software developers, designers and entrepreneurs to enable the creation of over 80 technology prototypes in the span of 24 hours. (2016)

Chan Kee Siak - Owner, Exabytes Network

Started humbly as a helper at his father’s hawker store, Chan enrolled into a local college at 18 years old, selling PC hardware on a part time basis to earn his tuition fees. As he discovered the potential of web hosting and lack of providers in Malaysia when building a website for his customer, at 19 he set up his first web hosting reseller business which was 100% Online based, and business kept coming in. To grab the once in a lifetime opportunity, Chan dropped out of college to concentrate on his online business.

Under the leadership of Chan, today the Exabytes Group consists of 12 subsidiaries, with businesses ranging from web hosting to eCommerce and e-Deliveries, serving over 140,000 businesses with over 1 million users in 121 countries. Besides being the local director of Founder Institute, Chan is also the president of the Internet Alliance, Malaysia, and the honoree of TOYM (Top Outstanding Young Malaysian), 2015.

Jocelyn Pinto - Data Strategist

Data Strategist

Asyur Anwar - Founder/CEO, EasyTech Digital Solution

Founder and CEO of Easytech Digital Solution, a company that is dedicated to provide the best user experience to the client by developing augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mobile and web solutions. He is determined and passionate to make technology understandable and inclusive to everyone.

Before he started his own venture, he was a Lead Trainer for Coding@Schools program, a program to equip the younger generation with the skills and abilities to become more creative and innovative. He also one of the Mentor for 1Malaysia Entrepreneurship (1MET) Bootcamp 2015. Since then, he has taught and mentored more than 1000 school students and youth throughout Malaysia.

Waheeda Hasbullah - Youth Partner, Leaderonomics

A huge people-person and she believes every encounter unfolds a great wisdom. She is passionate about bringing out the best of people through the mutually beneficial relationships. So it is no surprise that she decided to work in the social enterprise.

She is currently with Leaderonomics serving organizations and leaders in transforming their number 1 asset: People. Be it through professional or volunteering, She is always on the look-out for new opportunities to continuously grow in the social enterprise. She is focused on putting her passions and skills to good use by supporting organizations and projects that aim to empower leaders and change makers.

Dr Fred Wu - CEO, GECB

A Harvard-educated and widely known for his incredible market mechanism and know how, Fred has over 16 years of consulting and business plan experience in Malaysia and abroad. He has been responsible for the creation and execution of corporate and turnaround strategy for many startups, SMEs and large corporations across sectors. In numerous client engagements, he has been known to create significant value for investors and corporations through financial and operational performance improvement as well as corporate turnaround exercises where he has saved ailing enterprises from losing multimillions to back in profitable trend in a year. He is a specialist in devising and executing plans to deliver results with immediate impact on valuation through corporate strategy, revenue stream design, KPI improvement and cash flow management.

Melanie Ong - Head Of HR, Speedhome.com

Your hustler, your go-getter, your leader, your friend.

Judge

Homam Alghorani - Web Specialist Brighttail |
Founder Rockstars.Media

A serial entrepreneur who gain some wisdom by having many startups with different levels of success and failures. He has been called "The Hologram Man", Crazy, "CEO Chief Everything Officer" and "The AI Evangelist".

He was awarded ITEX2009 GOLD AWARD for Best invention and ITEX2009 SPECIAL AWARD for Corporate Invention also NTT Com Startup Challenge Finalist, chosen as one of the most 100 inspiring LinkedIn icons in Malaysia and featured as MIA 70 Rising Personalities On LinkedIn In Malaysia In 2020.