Theme: Wireless Startup CEOs Roundtable

Objectives:
1) Gain better understanding of key issues and challenges facing local wireless startups,
2) Explore how NUS Entrepreneurship Centre can contribute to the development of the wireless venturing community.

Target Audience: Wireless Startup CEOs (20 - 30)

Speakers: Panel discussion involving wireless startups CEOs.

Location: NUS Guild House
 

Theme: The LBS Marketplace

Objectives: Examining the opportunities & challenges for LBS and the roles and issues facing wireless LBS startups in order to deliver profitable LBS

Target Audience: Players in LBS Value Chain/Ecosystem (200)

• LBS Startups
• Mobile Operators
• Mobile Equipment Manufacturers
• Positioning Technology Vendors
• Network Infrastructure Providers
• Mobile Venture VCs
• LBS Content Providers
• Mobile Portal Operators
• Wireless Consultants, Analysts & SIs
• LBS Platform & Software Vendors
• Leading Corporate Adopters
• Research Institutes & Centres
• Government & Regulatory Authorities
• Press/Media covering wireless
• Tertiary Students

Speakers: Various players in LBS value chain

Location: NUS Hon Sui Sen Auditorium

Supporting Organizations: IDA, Singapore Computer Society, SVCA, WirelessWorld

Theme: Joint Business Plan Presentation Session

Theme: The Mobile Commerce Marketplace

Areas to cover:-
1) Mobile Payment & Mobile Banking
2) Mobile Marketing/Advertising
3) Multi-media Messaging
4) Mobile Security & Authentication

Objectives:-
Examining the opportunities & challenges for mobile commerce and the roles and issues facing mobile commerce startups in order to deliver profitable mobile commerce solutions

Target Audience: Players in Mobile Commerce Value Chain/Ecosystem (150 - 200)

• Mobile Commerce Startups
• Banks & Financial Institutions
• Mobile Operators
• Mobile Equipment Manufacturers
• Network Infrastructure Providers
• VCs in Mobile Ventures
• Content Providers in Mobile Commerce
• Mobile Portal Operators
• Wireless Consultants, Analysts & SIs
• Mobile Middleware, Security & Software Vendors
• Leading Corporate Adopters
• Research Institutes & Centres
• Government & Regulatory Authorities
• Press/Media covering wireless
• Tertiary Students

Speakers: Various players in Mobile Commerce Value Chain

Location: NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House Ballroom

Theme: NUS Wireless Ventures Showcase

Objectives:
1) Showcase wireless technologies and solutions developed by students, researchers and professors from the university community and the various institutes of higher learning and research institutes
2) Generate interest in wireless ventures amongst the student population
3) Generate awareness and interest in adoption/usage of wireless technologies amongst students specifically and the population in general.
4) Linking such wireless startups with industry players and VCs

Target Audience: (150 - 200)

• Wireless start-ups amongst the NUS, IHL & RIC community
• VCs & mobile industry players looking for emerging partners with innovative wireless technology & solutions, for collaborations & investments.
• Tertiary Students

Speakers: Wireless startups amongst NUS, IHL and RIC community, VCs & mobile industry players

Location: NUS Hon Sui Sen Auditorium

Theme: Global Wireless Venturing Forum

1) Market opportunities assessments by leading industry analysts/academics across the leading Japan/Korea markets, emerging China/India markets, as well as Europe & North America.
2) Next generation Roundtable - Vision & Potential of emerging technologies for mobile start-ups
3) Global Wireless Venturing Strategies
4) Elevator pitches of local/overseas wireless start-ups to an international audience of CEOs, CTOs & VCs at Enterprise Exchange (Part of EDB's Global Entrepolis)
5) Showcase of local/overseas innovative wireless solutions & technologies with market potential for global marketplace

Target Audience(Both Local & Overseas): (150 - 200)

• CEOs, CTOs, CFOs from MNCs
• Both Local & Overseas
• Wireless Start-ups & SMEs
• Wireless Vendors in LBS and Mobile Commerce Value Chain - Content & Service Providers, Mobile Operators, Application/Software Providers, system integrators, handset manufacturers, wireless analysts, etc.
• Financial Sector - Banks, Credit Cards, carrier CFOs, Investment Bankers, VCs & Business Angels, Fund Managers, Technology & Infrastructure Vendor Financiers
• News Media & Advertisers
• Business/Trade Associations & Professional Bodies
• Wireless Analysts, Consultants & Academics
• Students and Staff from IHLs

Speakers:

• Local/Overseas Mobile Operators & Mobile Vendors
• Local Wireless Startups/Ventures
• VCs, Industry Analysts & Academics in Wireless Industry

Location: Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre