Futuregen to Attend DemoAsia

The first-ever DEMO Asia conference is just weeks away, and we’re excited to announce our panel of speakers and DEMO sages — industry leaders, investors, and CEOs of flourishing start-ups — who will be offering valuable insight to the 70+ Launch and Pitch companies debuting their products and services onstage.

Moderator:
Matt Marshall — Executive Producer, DEMO & Editor-in-Chief, Venturebeat
Keynote Speaker:
Robert Kim — Director (Consumer Infocomm), Media Development Authority, Singapore
Speakers:
Jeff Clavier — Founder of SoftTech VC
Philip Lim Feng — Chief Executive Officer, Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd
Adeo Ressi — Founder Member, TheFunded.com
Michael Yap — Deputy CEO & Executive Director of Interactive Digital Media Programme Office, Media Development Authority, Singapore
Sages:
Zane Adam — Senior Director, Azure Asia, Microsoft
Michel Birnbaum – General Partner, iGlobe
Simone Brunozzi — Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, APAC

Dr. Jeff Chi — Managing Director, Vickers Venture; Partner & VP – Investments, Vickers Capital Group
Michelle Guthrie – JAPAC Director of Strategic Business Development
Rebeca Hwang — Co-founder, Younoodle
Jawed Karim — Co-founder, Youtube
Arnon Kohavi – Founder, Yarden VC
Ed Quek — Director, Platform Strategy, Microsoft
Dr. Gopi Kurup – CEO, Telekom Malaysia
Vinnie Lauria – Co-Founder, Lefora
Antonny Liem — CEO, Merah Putih Incubator
Lim Kuo-yi — CEO Infocomm Investment Pte Ltd
Ni ZhengDong – Founder, CEO, President & Managing Partner Zero2IPO
Guy Proulx — Managing Director, Transpacific IP
Chris Shipley – Founder, Guidewire Group
Jessica Tan — Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore
Albert Tay – Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Corporation, APAC Division
Marc van der Chijs – Founder, Tudou.com
Danny Wilson — Founder & CEO, Pixelmetrix

DEMO Alumni Panel:
Steven Goh — Co-founder & CEO, migg3
Mario Jobbe — Co-founder & COO, Circos
Jerry Kuo — Founder & CEO, Atlas Post
Matthew Roszak — Co-founder, Silkroad Tech

The inaugural DEMO Asia is happening from Wednesday 29 February to Friday 2 March at Matrix@Biopolis, Singapore

Want to be part of this exciting event? Register for the event here.
Use this promo code for a 5% dicsount on your ticket: SGE68S

Futuregen Attends Sharepoint Conference

Southeast Asia Sharepoint Conference 2011
Southeast Asia Sharepoint Conference 2011

 

 

Mr Wilson L. Chua attended this very special event at the Grand Copthorne Hotel. Amazing keynote address by Ryan Duguid, Senior Product Manager, ECM and Compliance, Microsoft. Great demos from Debbie Ireland and Paul Culmsee, Eric Harlan and the rest!

It was co organized by SG Sharepoint’s Steve Sofian!   Thanks Steve for organizing this!

Transcription Service in Singapore: Sharing The skills

Futuregen is now working closely with clients of SPD (Society for the Physically Disabled) to train vision impaired people with necessary skills to transcribe audio into microsoft word documents.

While the transcription service training project seems to be too ambitious for the visually impaired, they do have a higher level of sensitivity to sound – their listening skills are much better than normal people. Hence when SPD contacted Futuregen to share its skills in transcription service, we readily agreed to give it a try.

The initial results are heartwarming. Some of SPD’s clients were able to transcribe the audio with 94% accuracy. This is not bad for a first try where usual participants would get 70-80% accuracy on their first try.

In case you are wondering, SPD’s Clients who were visually impaired used a software called JAWS to navigate around their PC without the aid of sight. Our plan is to engage SPD’s clients in offering transcription service in Singapore.

Transcript: Jennifer Morris on Effective Models for Sustainable Growth

CONFERENCE TITLE: Effective Models for Sustainable Growth
SPEAKER: Jennifer Morris
CONFERENCE DATE: April 06, 2011

Operator:: You are listening to the “DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series” brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. You can find podcast and videos of these lectures online at ecorner.stanford.edu.

Moderator: So Jennifer Morris, she’s from Conservation International in DC. She’s the Executive Vice President for this organization that you may or may not have heard about. I’ve had the pleasure and honor of knowing about this organization for quite a while. They’re in the same sort of ballpark as World Wildlife Foundation, and others like that.

But this – what’s interesting about Conservation International is they bring an entrepreneurial spirit to environmental non-profit work. Then what is ironic, like it, feels like an internet start-up company.

Even though they have offices in 60 companies — countries, excuse me — offices in 60 countries all over this planet, Jennifer in particular, is interesting. She’s on the leadership team. One of the senior, senior management of the – this NGO, but she also is responsible for their connecting with business. And all – and running it – running even funds that feel like a Venture Capital Fund.

So they’re – so what’s fun is to compare this to the principles of Silicon Valley. How are the principles of Silicon Valley being able to be used by organizations that are in social innovation?

So without further ado, let’s welcome a graduate of Emory University and Columbia University. Let’s welcome her at Stanford University — Jennifer Morris.
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Transcript: Guy Kawasaki on Creating Enchantment

CONFERENCE TITLE: DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series
SPEAKER: Guy Kawasaki
CONFERENCE DATE: March 02, 2011

Operator: You are listening to the “DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series” brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures program. You can find podcast and videos of these lectures online at ecorner.stanford.edu.

It is my extreme pleasure to welcome our final speaker for eWeek this week. It is Guy Kawasaki, who for many of you needs no introduction. Guy’s original claim to fame was when he was the original Apple evangelist. I remember reading his columns years and years ago. And I am certainly a Mac enthusiast myself.

He was a founding partner of Garage Technology Ventures. He has been involved with writing. He has written 10 books, “Rules for Revolutionaries”, “The Art of the Start”. And his new book, “Engagement”.

I’ve had a chance to read and give (unintelligible) and (enchantment). (I think that’s going to be your next book. Can that be your next book, “Engagement” – “Enchantment”, sorry. But I did get to read…

Guy Kawasaki: She’s a close personal Friend.
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Transcript: TWIS.org Dec 9, 2010

Kirsten: This show is brought to you by listeners like you and your contributions. We couldn’t do it without you. Thanks.

Justin: Disclaimer. Disclaimer. Disclaimer. You don’t know everything. In fact, everything you do know when added up amounts to less than everything you don’t know and what you don’t know could kill you. What you don’t know could also save your life, or save you time, or make you money or provide an insight into something you thought to knew, or confirm suspicion, or make you more suspicious, or change the way you see the world for the better, or change the way you see the world for the worse.

It’s safe to say that what you don’t know could potentially do you more good or more harm than everything you know that you don’t know put together and with this in mind the following hour promises that while results will differ dramatically in terms of outcomes. The process of learning new things has been dramatically refined into a reliable system of questioning what we thought we knew, known simply as This Week in Science. Coming up next.

Justin: Good Thursday, Kirsten.
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Transcript: TWIS.org Nov 4, 2010

Kirsten: This show was brought to you by listeners like you and your contributions. We couldn’t do it without you. Thanks.

Justin: Disclaimer. Disclaimer. Disclaimer. The following hour of programming is not a part of a clandestine operations sponsored by secretive governmental departments or intelligence agencies to covertly strengthen the scientific awareness and critical thinking capabilities of freedom loving people.

It is not funded by any nation’s military or insurgent guerillas with the intention of making you a more secure person and you’re understanding of the world. Listening is not enforced by or mandated by any law, statute, or men with guns.

No part of this program was conducted by or supported through a charitable organization of citizens concerned with the state of science literacy in this country. What the following hour is not says as much about what it is, as we will say on This Week in Science. Coming up next.

Justin: Hello and good morning Kirsten!
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