Tech in Asia is organizing their annual Startup Asia Jakarta conference. Last year they had a great conference, and the team is looking to make it even more fruitful for this year’s participants. Its goal is always to serve the startup and developer community better and to make things exciting! As such, look out for these four highlighted activities at Startup Asia Jakarta this year:
Highlights 1: Startup-Investor speed dating
Tech in Asia understand it is difficult for startups to identify and meet with investors in a conference flooded with people. As such, they want to improve this by scheduling active investors to a designated room where startups can queue to do their five-minutes elevator pitches. Investors whom they have brought in include CyberAgent Ventures, 500 Startups, Golden Gate Ventures, and Rakuten Ventures. Click here for the full schedule. Last but not least, for investors who wish to join this session, please fill up the google form here.
Highlight 2: 24-Hour Hackathon
A 24-hour hackathon will be held within Startup Asia Jakarta. The hackathon aims to attract over 500 talented developers to build products that tackle the various challenges offered by our partners. At last year’s hackathon, winners won a range of prizes including cash, gadgets, job offers, and overseas trips . This year’s hackathon challenges and prizes will be announced around mid October.
Highlight 3: Startup Arena
Startup Arena is their flagship startup pitching competition. Besides media exposure and getting feedback from judges, the winner of Startup Arena gets to win US$10,000 which is more than enough to last six months for a two-men startup team. If you are up for the challenge, apply here.
Highlight 4: Fireside Chat
Tech in Asia have planned a series of fireside chats, keynotes, and discussions with prominent entrepreneurs, investors, and decision makers to share their perspective and insights about Indonesia and Asia’s startup scene. This year’s speakers include Viber co-founder Talmon Marco, Kakao’s co-CEO Sirgoo Lee, and serial entrepreneur and now Yahoo! Japan’s head of search Gen Miyazawa.
If you are looking at the Indonesian and Southeast Asia startup and technology scene, don’t wait, join Startup Asia Jakarta on November 21 and 22.