Everyone is talking about innovation, but no one tells you exactly how to do it. Technology is the disrupter and the enabler, but how can you and your business harness it?
Join us as we introduce platform thinking in the Philippines.
Platform thinking radically changes the way we build businesses in the digital age. Platforms allow multiple participants to connect, interact, create and exchange value. In the era of “sharing," every person’s property can be of value to your business. Platform thinking creates that share-ability and the value of earned media.Learn how you... can use platform thinking to scale your business. Our keynote speaker is Sangeet Paul Choudary, coauthor of Managing Start-ups and co-chair of MIT Platform Strategy Groups. Sangeet deconstructs exactly how network effects work for our audience. Ken Lingan of Google will talk about Waze, YouTube and Search, Uber will talk about disruptions, Kickstart and Ideaspace will talk about innovations in start ups. Check back for more surprise guests lined up to challenge conventional thinking around building business. "We are not merely in the business of building products and services anymore, we are in the business of enabling interactions" - Sangeet Paul Choudary
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SANGEET PAUL CHOUDARY
Founder and CEO, Platform Thinking Labs
Sangeet Choudary is a widely published industry analyst, C-level advisor, educator at leading universities, and CEO of Platform Thinking Labs, best known for his work on platform business models and multi-sided network effects. He is also the co-chair of the MIT Platform Strategy Group at MIT Media Labs, Boston, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD Business School, a Global Fellow at the Centre for Global Enterprise in New York, an industry advisor to the Platform Data Initiative at Stanford Business School, a speaker at the G20 Summit 2014 in Brisbane and an advisor at 500Startups in Silicon Valley. Sangeet has been featured on leading publications like the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Wired and Thinkers Magazine and has been invited to lecture at leading US universities including the Harvard Business School, MIT Media Labs and Carnegie Mellon University.
LAURENCE CUA
General Manager, Uber Manila
Laurence is the General Manager for Uber Manila. Previously, he was responsible for the Prepaid business for T-Mobile in the United States. Prior to that, he was in charge of trade marketing for the hair, oral care and deodorants categories for Unilever Philippines. He holds an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management and a Management Engineering degree from Ateneo de Manila. He is passionate about anything technology and does 3D printing in his spare time.
KENNETH LINGAN
Google Philippines Country Manager
Ken Lingan joins Google Philippines from Unilever where he was Vice-President for Deodorants, Southeast Asia and ANZ, based out of Singapore. Ken's 16 year experience in marketing and brand development includes a stint as Marketing Director for Unilever Home and Personal Care in the Gulf Region. He was also the Regional Brand Director for Rexona in the Asia Region. Ken graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Management Engineering.
ANNA IRMINA “MINETTE” B. NAVARRETE
Co-founder and President, Kickstart Ventures, Inc.
Minette Navarrete joined Globe Telecom Inc. in July 2006 to start Business Development in what was then a pure-play mobile operator. In 2012, Minette led her team to found Kickstart Ventures, Inc. (www.kickstart.ph) and spin it out as a wholly-owned Globe subsidiary. Kickstart is an investment firm that funds digital startups, providing capital, incubation and mentoring, and market access. Kickstart is the Philippines’ most active early-stage venture capital firm, investing at seed-stage to Series “A” and beyond; its portfolio has some of the country’s best-performing startups; its mentorship program is highly coveted. Kickstart portfolio companies have attracted funding from some of the world’s most respected tech investors: Y Combinator and 500 Startups from Silicon Valley; Omidyar Network from New York; IMJ Investment Partners from Japan; and Wavemaker from Los Angeles and Singapore. Minette is concurrently Vice-Chairman of Yondu, Globe’s wholly-owned content and technology solutions provider, which they acquired as Entertainment Gateway Group (EGG) in 2008. Before joining Globe, she was Managing Director of online game publishing startup, Level Up! She previously served as Levi Strauss & Company’s Country Manager for the Philippines and Guam; and President & CEO of Shangri-La Plaza Corporation.
NIX NOLLEDO
CEO of Xurpas, Inc
Nix is a digital entrepreneur with businesses in mobile applications, web marketing and e-commerce. He’s the CEO of Xurpas, Inc., a large mobile content provider which develops mobile marketing programs and applications for several telecommunications firms in the Philippines as well as other emerging markets. He is also the co-founder of pinoyexchange.com, one of the country’s largest online communities. Xurpas set a new record upon listing its shares at the Philippine Stock Exchange following its successful P1.37-billion maiden public offering. Xurpas now holds the record as the first IPO to open at its ceiling price (uptick of 50 percent from IPO price) on listing day. It is also among the IPOs with the lowest value turnover on listing day as most investors refused to sell even with a 50 percent windfall. He is a founding director of the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) and the Digital Commerce Association of the Philippines (DCOM). He is a board member of Rappler and a member of the Philippine chapter of Enterpreneurs’ Organization (EO). Nix graduated with a business degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and was selected as one of the top 50 entrepreneurs in the Philippines by Entrepreneur Magazine.
MARIA RESSA
CEO, Rappler.com
Maria A. Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for nearly 30 years and is the author of FROM BIN LADEN TO FACEBOOK: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism and Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia. She is one of the founders of independent production company, Probe Productions, before reporting for and heading CNN's Southeast Asia operations for nearly 2 decades (bureau chief in Manila then Jakarta). For 6 years, she was ABSCBN's Senior Vice President for News & Current Affairs, handling news operations across multiple platforms. She is Rappler's CEO and Executive Editor.
RUSSELL SHEPHERD
Co-founder, Reach & Rappler Data Scientist
Russell Shepherd combines methods from statistics, economics, social network analysis and natural language processing for a wide variety of applications of big data ranging from international counterterrorism to social media marketing. He is the co-author of The Strength of Tweet Ties: How Twitter Helped Frame the Egyptian Protests and Mining Twitter Data From the Arab Spring. Previous clients include the United States Department of Defense and the Carter Center.
EARL VALENCIA
Head of Corporate Development/Innovations, Smart Communications
Earl Martin Valencia is president and co-founder of IdeaSpace Foundation, a nonprofit incubator that aims to promote economic development through technology and entrepreneurship. He says he has a mission: to find the top 10 science and technology ideas in the country every year to help create one of the biggest business incubators in the Philippines for technology startups. Earl says he's positive the next Google or Facebook can come from the Philippines. He co-led the creation of IdeaSpace’s structure and program, and fundraising for the startup incubator. Hundreds of teams submitted proposals, from which IdeaSpace selected the best 10 to support and incubate. Among the assistance the foundation provides is P500 million ($12.5 million) funding for investment, administrative and legal paperwork, and office space. Earl concurrently serves as head of corporate development at Smart Communications.
