Pitching

Expertise:

Marketing (Branding, Digital), Community Building, Social Enterprises, SaaS, Education, Mentoring, Start-ups

Experience:

Belinda is the founder and CEO of Springboard Group - your marketing & consulting wolf pack. She is also the Head of APAC for SaaStock - THE global community of software as a service (SaaS) founders, executives, and investors. Springboard crafts unique brands, helps them go digital, works with entrepreneurs to kickstart their business and consults brands on events focused on entrepreneurship & tech. Springboard is about to launch HK’s first female intrapreneurship bootcamp - Fem Founded. Prior to starting Springboard, Belinda led high-profile marketing campaigns for a “Big 4” female entrepreneur program and worked in marketing across many sectors around the world. A tech enthusiast with 10+ years of international experience she empowers people to become innovators and entrepreneurs by facilitating startup boot camps (Techstars, Startup Weekend, UNLEASH,...) and she is a passionate advocate for female mentoring and founded the NextGen Network, a non-profit mentoring network for high school and university students in Hong Kong. Belinda is also a co-founder and member of the board of Women in Tech HK, sits on the committee of Asian University for Women (AUW) and TEDxTinHauWomen and is a co-host for #impact - a podcast featuring people making a social impact.

 Pitching

Expertise:

Digital Marketing, Bootstrapping, eCommerce, Business Model

Experience:

Jan Wong is an entrepreneur, youth advocate, and founder of OpenMinds; a 7 years bootstrapped, data-driven martech company based in KL, Singapore and Hong Kong. Starting at the age of 17, he has ventured into eight businesses, a part time lecturer at the Asia Pacific University, a certified e-commerce consultant, published an academic journal during his Masters degree, sits on the Academic Advisory Board of two universities, a regional keynote speaker in events and conferences, a mentor for multiple startup communities and NEXT50 Singapore, regular contributor on BFM radio, a TEDx speaker, and more recently, listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017 list.

Pitching

Expertise: 

Management 

Experience:

As the Director of Startup Programs in Asia-Pacific, Oko Davaasuren is responsible for creating and executing the strategy for the region, managing a multi-cultural remote team that supports network and bringing revenue by selling corporate innovation programs to large corporations as well supporting governments building innovation ecosystem. He has 10 years of experience in this field. 

Designer

Expertise: 

UX, Startup Pitching

Experience: 

Judges of DEPA StartUp Fund Pitching / Instructor for multiple UX Fundamental courses

Smart Living 

Expertise: 

Smart City, Inc.Smart House, Smart Energy and Smart Mobility

Experience:

Former Senior Innovation Officer at Ministry of Foreign affair in Denmark

Developer

Expertise: 

Rapid software development, e-commerce

Experience:

Kowit is a serial entrepreneur. Most recently, a founder of Follovv, the social trip planner, a global community for the traveler, inspired people to embark on a new journey, sharing incredible local travel experiences. And co-founder of Cookly.me, the world's largest cooking class platform. , building a global community of food, culture, and travel enthusiasts, currently offering 1500 cooking classes and food experiences in over 150 destinations across 35 countries.

Energy

Expertise: 

Energy

Experience: 

VP of Business Development, Energy Response Co., Ltd. BrightEdge Technologies, Inc., San Mateo, CA

Mobility 

Expertise: 

Mobility, Data Analysis, and Financial Analysis, Risk Assessment

Experience:

Recently started working as a Growth Manager at Haupcar Company Limited. Experienced in Corporate Finance with a demonstrated history of working in the restaurants industry. Skilled in ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, Structural Engineering, SAP2000, and ANSYS. Strong finance professional with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) focused in Financial Investment and Risk Management (FIRM) from National Institute of Development Administration. 

Smart Living 

Expertise: 

Smart Access Solutions for homeowners and large scale infrastructure in both hardware and software

Experience: 

- Smart home/Cities project development (turning normal space to smart home, implementing smart access solution to transform the building into smart building) - Actively looking for opportunities in the market mainly focus on Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore - Organizing the first Singapore Smart Cities Summit by igloohome. The ground-up initiative funded by the Singapore government to build smart cities ecosystem for ASEAN - Established and manage retail channels for igloohome products - Smart Cities market research

Pitching

Expertise: 

Digital Marketing, Business Strategy, Platform Technology, Lean Startup, Consulting

Experience:

JoeZ is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing of Seekster, building the Service Platform group-up from the days with Spreadsheet and Phone Calls. Now, with the Full-Stack Technology, JoeZ leads the Workforce Team providing platform technology for SME and Large enterprise to manage human resource and put Digital Transformation to the real action with the ready-to-market technology.

Developer

Expertise:

UX, MVP, Product-Market fit 

Experience: 

Founded FinTech startup “Refinn” and currently advisor for Digital Transformation for many companies.

Mobility

Expertise:

Venture builder and financial advisor

Experience: 

- Co-founder and Managing Director, Almond Digital Group - CFO, ETRAN (Thailand) - Background in Strategy and M&A from Phatra Securities and Siam Commercial Bank

Smart Living

Expertise:

Design, Pitching, Public Speaking, Story Telling, Customer Validation

Experience: 

Jakapan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tourkrub, an online marketplace for outbound tour packages. Tourkrub is fastest growing online travel agent for outbound tour packages in Thailand, which help customers discover the best travel packages effortlessly from entirely market. He has helped the team to learn and grow fast, creating the future for the tour industry. 

Founding tourkrub.com, an online travel agent for out-bound tour packages. Experienced in digital marketing, travel related business development, and fund raising.

Designer

Expertise:

Design, Pitching, Public Speaking, Story Telling, Customer Validation 

Experience: 

Lalitha Wemel is the Regional Director of a Community for Asia Pacific at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. She has been actively overseeing the partnerships and programming of startup ecosystem development across Asia Pacific since 2015, and has worked with over 20+ corporate & government partners in the region, developing strategy, executing corporation innovation programs and leading community growth activities.

Lalitha works with community leaders, corporates, founders, and governments to run over 250 startup programs annually in APAC - leading to building robust, sustainable local ecosystems and culture. She leads Global Startup Weekend Women, a series of diversity & inclusion programs that focus on engagement and development around innovation, fostering diversity in opportunity, and ensuring inclusion in local communities.

Lalitha has a background in consulting, communications and design. Lalitha holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and International Studies with a minor in marketing from Monash University, Melbourne Australia. 

Pitching

Expertise:

Pitching, Validation, Community Building, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability

Experience: 

Farah is currently leading the development of Customer Success for Community Operations focused on management of the Techstars Community Programs' rapid growth in APAC. Farah has founded 2 Malaysian companies in the past, an impact-driven company that built a camouflage mobile app for domestic violence victims and an e-commerce for bespoke floral arrangements. Her legal background, startup experience and current role in Techstars supports her passion for sustainability. Farah has regularly mentored and facilitated startup training sessions globally, including Techstars Startup Weekend, Startup Battleground Thailand 2018 and UNLEASH Innovation Lab focusing on Sustainable Cities.