Attended an event by Bloomberg Live in Singapore on the 4th and 5th of September, 2019.
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.
