Learn from investors, Founders, community builders and serial entrepreneurs in this exciting e27 Academy event!

The definition of ‘kampong spirit’ is, “A sense of social cohesion in a community where there is understanding and compromise among neighbours, even as preferences differ from household to household.

These two words are what the Malaysian startup community is built on. And that is why e27 is excited to be back in Kuala Lumpur to meet with like minded individuals to learn from startup veterans and share experiences as previous, current, or soon-to-be Founders.

How will we do this? By running our e27 Academy Roadshow in Kuala Lumpur this week!

Let us tickle your interest.

Where’s it happening?

Signature By The Hill @ the Roof

Sky Level, 1, First Avenue, Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Hours: 4pm to 9pm

Situated next to KPMG tower, Signature By The Hill is a trendy and premium gastro-lounge where award-winning signature cocktails meet a great selection of international premium beverages. Signature also serves as an ideal and classy joint for social gatherings and events designed to meet customizable experiences.

Meet our speakers

Panelist for the topic Fundraising : Avoiding the mistakes that even veterans still make

Mohd Ridzwan (Reez) Nordin, Venture Partner, Monk’s Hill Ventures

Reez has led several initiatives for nurturing and unearthing entrepreneurial talents within corporates and the public at large. To do this, he leveraged angel-matching and pre-accelerator programs. Reez was previously the Vice President at Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia’s strategic investment fund.

At Khazanah, he helped to invest in startups in the enterprise software space, as well as fund investments across the world.

Raja Hamzah, Co-Managing Partner, RHL Ventures

Currently the Head of Business Development in Rasma Corporation, he focuses on building and developing partnerships with government-linked companies, listed and private corporates and local authorities.

Hamzah was a Principal Investment Analyst with Guoco Management Company and used a fundamental, bottom up approach to investing, focusing on listed equities, IPO and pre-IPO investment opportunities across Asia and the U.S.and was also a Senior Analyst in the institutional coverage team of Goldman Sachs Asset Management based out of Singapore.

There, he worked extensively with various institutional funds across Southeast, recommending investments across various asset classes for accounts which include Temasek, GIC, Bank Indonesia, the Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia and Khazanah Nasional.

Nizam Mohamed Nadzri, CEO, Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad

Y.Brs Encik Nizam Mohamed Nadzri serves as Chief Executive Officer at Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad. Prior to this, he was the Chief Operating Officer, overseeing a host of MDV’s business interests.

He was previously the Vice President for Transactions under the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporations’ Industry Development Division. Prior to this, he was the Head of MESDAQ Unit of the Securities Commission.

Before heading the MESDAQ Department, He was Head of CEO’s Office of Bursa Malaysia, advising the Executive Chairman on operational, financial and regulatory matters with respect to the Exchange, clearing house, central securities depository and other business units.

Workshop: How To Sell 3,000 pieces of Shirts On Launch Day?

Tai ZiKang, Founder and Marketing Lead, Fitgear and Oxwhite

ZiKang is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur with expertise in global digital marketing, growth-hacking, and branding strategies.

At a young age, ZiKang already has the experience of leading seven startups. Though not every venture was a success, his trials as a young entrepreneur gave him new perspectives in business, leading him to his ventures today: FITGEAR and Oxwhite – clothing brands that are built on a philosophy of disrupting the market, bringing convenience, technology, and innovation to a stagnant industry.

Today, Fitgear and Oxwhite are thriving businesses. In 2017, FITGEAR made 50,000 deliveries worldwide, and just in June of 2018, Oxwhite saw the first six hours of its launch receive more than 3,000 orders.

ZiKang hopes to continue pushing entrepreneurship to new frontiers, helping revolutionize online markets and industry.

Panelist for the topic: Founder Burnout: When work and personal life gets too overwhelming

Jowynne Khor, Community Builder

Jowynne Khor is currently based in Singapore and was previously the COO for e27, a tech media company for SEAsia.

She was the Director for Community & Events team in MaGIC (Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre) for more than 2.5 years. She lead the team to build tech startup community & maker community within the region. Her team delivered programs to nurture and empower startups to reach their potential. She also managed the co-working space, which houses entrepreneurs and startups that will be connected to the public sector, private sector or corporates when they are investor-ready.

Prior to her engagement with MaGIC, she was the Program Director, Asia Pacific of IASA (a professional body for the IT architects) for eight years. Projects, which she was involved in included setting up chapters in the region (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Korea and Australia), launching marketing campaigns and creating awareness on IT Architecture related subject matters.

She also co-founded a special interest group under IASA called Gorgeous Geeks (a women in tech platform) with seven other women. Gorgeous Geeks design programs or activities suitable for 3 different focus group of women; professionals, entrepreneurs and girls.

Daren Goh, Regional Marketing Director , WeWork

Daren Goh is the Regional Marketing Director for WeWork Southeast Asia, and is responsible for building the WeWork brand in the region. Preceding this, he was a part of Spacemob where he worked on community initiatives, business strategy, and all things marketing before the team was acquired by WeWork in August 2017.

His career has taken him across multiple industries and companies like Yahoo!, Philips, and various WPP marketing agencies.

Beyond his professional calling in life, Daren also runs 29 Cornflakes – an art collective comprising of artists, musicians, photographers and performance groups.

Pixie Cigar, Founder, Community Builders Union

“Community building by day, Nation building by night.”

Pixie is a community builder who is passionate about developing people and their ideas. She does that by creating engagement amongst people and building communities to foster theirs and the ecosystem’s growth.

Besides her corporate job, she co-leads a few non-profit communities in Youth and LegalTech and is the Founder of the Community Builders Union.

Roundtable Sessions: Founder Burnout

Aizat Rahim and Lennise Ng, Co-Founders of Dropee.com

Aizat: While currently a full-time entrepreneur with Dropee, Aizat does small investments as an angel on the side. He’s also one of the partners for Finnext Capital,a Fintech & IoT focused accelerator based in Cyberjaya. Prior to this, he was one of the founding partner for Job4Locum, a medical job portal company that was acquired by MIMS.

With experiences covering supply chain, medical, travel, and tech investment industries, Aizat is a strong advocate of entrepreneurship – especially amongst the younger generations. Aizat hopes to create, contribute, and collaborate within ecosystems that has high impact on community living and hopes to push humanity forward.

Lennise:Born into a family of entrepreneurs. There are only two things that Lennise and her family would love to talk about: business and food. Her passion for entrepreneurship started at a young age of 19 at the music space.

She started a business running a talent management company with a friend. Just like many startups with inexperienced founders, her company was short-lived though but we both managed to take away invaluable lessons.

Shortly after moving away from the music industry toward the tech sector, she found her calling of being able to leverage technology to improve lives and businesses and thus, Dropee came about.

Why are we doing the roadshows?

We don’t want anyone to miss out on the opportunity to learn and contribute to the ecosystems. Though we live in different countries, our community should remain the same and together we can build an even stronger ecosystem through learning, networking and enjoying one another’s company.

We want you to come into the roadshow filled with curiosity and leaving the roadshow with a sense of comeradery and connection.

Who is the Roadshow meant for?

In summary? Everyone! Be it a budding unicorn founder, a student with the dream to start their own business or a retiree that realizes he/she has a fantastic idea. We are not limiting the demographics.

Why the roadshow is beneficial

Our content is meant to be enjoyed by founders, but it is also meant for anyone with the mindset to want to learn more about entrepreneurship in terms of the startup ecosystem.

We are providing the opportunity to you, to network with other entrepreneurs and investors in a comfortable setting outside of the usual work setting. We are also giving away two tickets to our main program called e27 Academy, a three-day-two-night bootcamp filled with education and entertainment!

Can’t make it for Kuala Lumpur this week? No worries we have 1 more lined up!

Country:Manila

• Time: 25 October 2018 , 4 pm – 9 pm
• Venue: Buddha Bar Manila

The roadshows will be starting from 4pm till 9pm as well and we’ve kept the content constant so you won’t feel like you’ve miss out #NOFOMO :)

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