Networking Dinner

There was a warm welcome networking dinner prior to the event.

Sooner Than You Think Conference

It’s always a good thing to start the day with a nice cup of coffee. Thanks to Bettr Barista for keeping that sleepy away.

Forget sooner than you think, the future is already here.

That’s the opening statement by Haslinda Amin, Chief International Correspondent for Southeast Asia, Bloomberg Television as she delivers the welcoming remarks.

AI has been around for decades, what makes it more viable today is our ability to better marshal data resources.

Just watch this space and hold back in judgement.

As what S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information, Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations, Republic of Singapore put it:

Somewhere between dystopia and utopia there is a place for us.

From Unicorn to Decacorn

The session around 12.10pm on 5th Sept saw the appearance of Jeffrey Perlman – Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia, Warburg Pincus, and Andre Soelistyo (President, Gojek) on stage in conversation with Yoolim Lee, Reporter, Asia Technology, Bloomberg.

The session profile Gojek’s next stage of growth and find out how one of their investors – Warburg Pincus – is helping the evolution.

Seems like it only took Gojek a few years time to reach the status of Decacorn.

And they are on the path for Super App.

What matters most for a unicorn to become a decacorn?

A) Vision
B) Execution
C) Capital
D) Culture
E) Product / Market fit
F) Luck

The majority from the floor voted Execution as the key factor, which was echoed by both Andre Soelistyo (President, Gojek) and Jeffrey Perlman (Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia, Warburg Pincus – one of Gojek’s investors).

#Execution.

When you have to fight with the world’s best of the best, maintain the largest balance sheet to become the largest payment solutions company in Indonesia.

A Decacorn company from South East Asia where the founders build it because they want to create #impact for the little guys.

#Gojek #UniquelyIndonesia #Food #Stickiness #Captive #Bloomberg #STYT #TheFutureOf

Passion

Be it the sharing from Harriet Green, CEO and Chairman of IBM Asia Pacific, or the sharing from Andre Soelistyo, President of Gojek, one thing in common is that they are both passionate about what they are doing.

It’s nice to have the chance to catch up with Rennie Sng from Crypto Valley Singapore as well.

Inevitably, in most of the panelist sessions, two of the most brought up matters are the US-China trade war and the recent Jack MA-Elon Musk debate on AI.

All in all, this event is more on AI & Data, with a little bit touching on Connectivity (a specific session on Cyber Security) and Ethics in AI. There is definitely something to watch out for as AI and Blockchain makes a perfect match.

Thank you Bloomberg Live for organizing such a great event.

Thank you Conrad Centennial Singapore for the warm hosting. See you guys again elsewhere.

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‘We are the first generation that can end poverty, the last that can end climate change’ ~ Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. The National SDG Progress Monitoring System is a tool and an enabler. The challenge is how do we provide quality data in a timely matter. Technologies such as Edge Computing and IoT will contribute to part of it.

The launching of Phase 1 for MySDG Analytics was a smooth one.

Keynote by Mohamad Faizal Bin Shebli from CNOPSIS Group on the first blockchain implementation within Malaysia ministry under MySDG platform project for DOSM and UN.

There was a panel discussion session on SDG Progress Monitoring Systems and the Importance of Data for SDG Achievement, moderated by Mr. Ahmad Rizal Khalit from Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The panelists include Ms Irina Tisacova, Madam Nazaria Baharudin, Prof Datuk Denison Jayasooria, and Mr. Anthony Mockler.

While the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, this single step is worth the acknowledgement as it shows the ability of a national team to deliver what had been planned.

Congratulations to team CNOPSIS, team DOSM and team UNCT Malaysia for making this happen.

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Learning… to connect the future dots.

We have quite a handful of information available for reference as we steer towards the digital future. Financial frontier is definitely a very important part of it because there is no part of life that money does not affect, be it in the conventional or data form.

Putting the transparency, traceability, trust and tax automation into the digital financial system in a well connected world through the blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency model is highly possible. CBDC, Central Bank-issued Digital Currency is well on its way.

It is how we fine tune and adapt along the way that matters. As the saying goes, it is not about the destiny, it is the journey.

It was a fruitful trip and we are thankful to World Bank Group Malaysia for the invitation. Looking forward further collaboration soon.

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It was a Mandarin speaking event and the topic of sharing was “Tokenizing Real Estates” and “The Sharing Economy”.

Tokenizing Real Estates (Mandarin)

p/s: This was the second Chinese session after our first Chinese sharing session at SITEC last year.

The investment forum was held at 9th March 2019 and attended by some 500+ investors from around the country. It was a Mandarin speaking session for Chinese community.

Organized by Hua Zong (Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia), this is an annual investment forum since 2002. This is the 17th year since its inception, which makes the event a trustworthy brand when it comes to investment related economic forum.

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It’s an honor to be invited as one of the panelist to share about tokenomics in the real estates sector, from a technopreneur’s point of view.

The investment forum was held at 9th March 2019 and attended by some 500+ investors from around the country. It was a Mandarin speaking session for Chinese community.

Organized by Hua Zong (Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia), this is an annual investment forum since 2002. This is the 17th year since its inception, which makes the event a trustworthy brand when it comes to investment related economic forum.

After the presentation, I thought of some keypoints delivered by Polina Gusak from Switzerland during the Blockchain in Government conference in Singapore.

Property leaders know conveyancing is coming to an end.

For sale ready homes, transfer of information can be done, about the value and the ownership.

Secure property titles help eliminates poverty and boost prosperity.

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Related Info

Public feedback sought for ICO, property crowdfunding rules as reported in Chinese newspaper on 6th March, 2019.

Link to English newspaper report: https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/public-feedback-sought-ico-property-crowdfunding-rules

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AI, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Data that is changing the world

The pages of yesterday cannot be revised, but the pages of tomorrow are blank and you hold the pen. Make it an inspiring story.

Event Brochure

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Originally formed by teachers in 1945, the Sarawak Tribune was the second English language daily in Sarawak and was, prior to its suspension, the state’s oldest and largest operating state daily, with over 400 employees throughout the state and 70 editorial staff in Kuching.

The daily was regarded as a legacy of British colonial Sarawak. Its sister paper was the state Malay-language daily, Utusan Sarawak. Formerly, its other sister paper was the state Mandarin daily, Chinese Daily News, now known as United Daily. It was last owned by Sarawak Press Sdn Bhd.

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World Tourism Destinations Forum

Organized by Confexhub, a leading thought leader network solutions provider, the World Tourism Destinations Forum 2018 (WTDF 2018), themed “BUILDING AN OUTSTANDING WORLD-CLASS TOURISM DESTINATION”, is designed to provide an interactive platform for municipalities, city planning and development experts, tourism and hospitality products and services providers, government leaders, policy makers and captains of industry from across the region to converge; meet face to face to discuss a wide spectrum of issues pertaining to tourism destinations planning, development and management.

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It was a great learn-working Sunday as we toured and checked out the latest development of Iskandar area, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

This very first Iskandar Day event was organized by i2M Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia’s soverign fund management arm.

The visit include Medini commercial (Puteri Harbour, Medini CBD), educational (Educity) and residential area, which covers a land size of 2,242.99 acres or 9.3sqm.

The first stop is a visit to Medini 9. A newly completed corporate building.

While the infrastructure and the hardware facilities are well in place, the challenge now is to fill in the people that would work, live and play here, with a sound public transport system.

Taking a photo with Rennie S. from Crypto Valley Singapore.

We have a handful of BlockChain and Crypto leaders and influencers from Singapore for this tour.

Malaysia is a key player in the GBS sector and we should leverage on its strengths to help accelerate the development in Iskandar Puteri.

There is a plan to develop part of this area into a Blockchain Hub.

If you are looking at investing in Southern Region of Malaysia, so that you can leverage on the financial and global connectivity strength of Singapore with a more cost effective setup and operation, this is the right place and the right time, as there are many incentives, facilitation and policy support by government agencies.

If you have any idea related to blockchain or crypto economy, such as emerging tech development or even tokenization of the real estates within this region, contact Aaron Ting from ACCESS Blockchain Association Malaysia or Rennie S. from Crypto Valley Singapore.

We had a happy trip and everybody enjoyed the day.

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Internet Alliance organized the Malaysia Internet Business Summit 2018 at MaGIC building, Cyberjaya, Malaysia on 15th November 2018.

The theme for the event was “Digital Technology, Future Is Now”.

It’s an honor to be able to share the same stage with many of the established industry players.

I think I am the only “crypto guy” who shared a little bit about Blockchain in the event. The organizer actually reminded me (in a very polite way) that “you are not talking about cryptocurrency right? ….” kinda thing before confirming the slot for the event.

Yes, that normal “Blockchain is good, crypto is bad” perception. Anyhow, I do choose the topic “Blockchain In Supply Chain”, and made a little bit of introduction to Crypto Valley Malaysia Association which I co-founded to promote the tech movement to the country and the world.

Blockchain In Supply Chain – Dreams vs Reality

While transparency, traceability and trust are all the good element the blockchain technology promise to deliver, we still have to match those elements with real world business model and operating cases.

The reality of data policy according to country, stakeholders collaboration when it comes to implementation, and the data that we are collecting and feed into the system, are some of the real world challenges we need to face and tackle.

It might not be an easy job before we see the real killer apps in the supply chain when in comes to blockchain implemntation, but how hard can that be?

Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve

It is nice that the organizer hosted us the speakers a very good dinner after the day long event.

Thank you and wish you all a blessed and blissful journey in pursuing your dreams.

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We also take the chance to mention a bit about the reason we setup Crypto Valley Association Malaysia.

Before going further into the topic of the session, an introduction to the whole technology movement is a must. That is, a century of technology innovation, by briefing into these questions:

1. What is blockchain?
2. What can we do with blockchain?
3. Where are we now?
4. Where are we heading?
5. Where do we want to go indeed?

Blockchain In The Supply Chain, Reality vs Dreams

Bitcoin is the buzz word, blockchain is the hype. There are still lots more to do before we can see the real impact.

Malaysia Internet Business Summit 2018

Highlights of Event

Keynote on

A Artificial Intelligence,
B Blockchain for business,
C Cloud Infrastructure,
D Big Data Analytics

Panel Session and take away:

E Ecommerce & O2O
F Finance tips for SMEs to LEAP to GROW

MATRADE Incentives on MDG & SEF
Customs Malaysia SST for the tech industry
Tech Workshop from IA members on various topics

Event Info: https://2018.mibs.internetalliance.my/index.html

There was a line up of other industry players sharing their perspective in their own expertise too.

Speakers: https://2018.mibs.internetalliance.my/speakers.html

Internet Alliance

Internet Alliance is a non-profit association set up in 2010 to represent the country’s major pool of Internet service and ‘middleware’ infrastructure providers – ranging web hosting companies, data centres, payment gateway and Cloud providers, web platform enablers, and eCommerce solutions provider.

IA serves as an effective networking platform for its entrepreneur-spirited members to educate and empower each other within a conducive ecosystem in order to share valuable learning and expertise amongst Internet leaders.

MaGIC | Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre

Empowering the spirit of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation

MaGIC was first announced in October 2013 during the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Kuala Lumpur. Cyberjaya plays home to the Centre as it is progressively becoming the preferred location for the technology-driven startup community.

On April 27th 2014, MaGIC was launched by President Barack Obama and Malaysia’s 6th Prime Minister with 7000 aspiring entrepreneurs in attendance. As part of the launch, MaGIC signed memorandum of understandings with Stanford University and UP Global to further foster and develop a vibrant startup ecosystem in Malaysia and beyond.

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