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Confirmed Top-draw Speakers
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Ranked No. 2 on The Thinkers50 2011 list of the world's top management gurus and also
won the 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award
Co-author of International Bestseller: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested
Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Harvard Business School Press, 2005).
Co-founded the Blue Ocean Strategy Network (BOSN), a global community of practice on the
Blue Ocean Strategy family of concepts that they created.
Keynote Speaker
Day 1, Keynote Address 1
4th GES 2013: Keynote Speaker 1Professor W. Chan Kim
Co-Author Blue Ocean Strategy
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Authored best-selling management book in 2007, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration
Changes Everything
Named one of the worlds most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 in 2013
The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected
Planeta Schumpeter-ian story of creative destruction and the Huffington Post said the
book is nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.
Speaking Slots:
Digital Entrepreneurship: The Next Revolution
(D2B3T4)
Mode: Fishbowl (6 speakers)
TBC: Gazing Into The Crystal Ball
(D1B1T2)
Mode : Fishbowl (4 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Don Tapscott
Author of Wikinomics, Consultant and Speaker
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Identified as one of the top 100 thought leaders in personal leadership and
organizational Leadership by Executive Excellence Publications in 2008
Barkers videos on the future have been translated into 20 languages and watched bymore than 100 million people.
Popularized the concept ofparadigm shifts. Most recent book, Five Regions of the
Future, co-authored with Dr. Scott Erickson examines how technology is beginning to
cluster into technological ecosystems and what that means to our future
Speaking Slots:
Innovative Business Models
(D2B4T2)
Mode : Panel Discussion (4 speakers)
TBC: Gazing Into The Crystal Ball
(D1B1T2)
Mode : Fishbowl (4 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel SpeakerJoel A. Barker
Futurist, Author, Film-maker
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Author ofThe Long Tail, on how the internet undermined blockbuster-culture and
created an economy of targeted niche products
CEO of3D Robotics, a leading unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) company, with offices and
factories in Berkeley, San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico and founder of DIYDrones, an
aerial robotics community with more than 40,000 members
As former Editor-in-chief ofWired, received 2 dozen National Magazine Award
nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for general excellence in 2005, 2007 and2009.
Speaking Slots:
Innovative Business Models
(D2B4T2)
Mode: Panel Discussion (4 speakers)
TBC: Disruptive Innovation
(D2B3T3)
Mode: Panel Discussion (4 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Chris Anderson,
Former Editor-in-chief, Wired. Author, Makers, Free,
and The Long Tail. Founder of 3D Robotics.
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CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a leading think-tank he founded
in 1990 that advises business and government on future trends
Author ofThe Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st
Centuryand Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Innovations Will Transform Business in
the 21st Century
Advised for three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation and
MIT's Media Lab, Europe.
Speaking Slot:
Evolving Roles Of Entrepreneurs:
Beyond Profitability
(D2B4T3)
Mode: TALK SHOW (3 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Dr. James Canton, Global Futurist,
Entrepreneur, CEO Institute for Global Futures
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Co-founder of Triangles, an European venture capital company, focusing on internet and
media-related software companies.
Served as Chairwoman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) in
2010-2011.
Named the most powerful person in private equity for 2010 by REAL DEALS and has been
recognized by Dow Jones as one of the 100 most influential women in Europes finance industry.
Currently serves on the boards of fg microtec, iOpener, iPharro and SemEO.
Speaking Slot:
Job Creation Through SMEs and Start-ups
(D1B3T1)
Mode: Fishbowl (6 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Uli W. Fricke
Managing General Partner & Founder, Triangle
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3-time INC500 winner whose company won E&Ys Entrepreneur of the Year
Co-authored the Crowdfunding Framework used in the JOBS Act that was signed into law by
President Obama on April 5, 2012.
Co-founder of FLAVORx, a private pharmaceutical flavoring company based in Columbia,
Maryland, that supplies sugar-free, non allergenic and inert medication flavorings and flavoring
systems to more than 35,000 pharmacies in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
and Puerto Rico.
Speaking Slot:
Crowdfunding as a Source of Capital for Small-
scale Entrepreneurs
(D2B1T1)
Mode: Interview Session (5 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Sherwood Neiss
Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors
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Founded Globe Hope in 2003, a Finnish textile company that uses bags, clothing and accessoriesmade ofrecycled textiles.
Globe Hope has been the recipient of many prizes along the years: Amnesty Internationals
Designer Of The Year (2005) and the prestigious Suomi Palkinto for outstanding performance in
the field of Art and Culture, awarded by the Finnish Ministry Of Culture (2006).
Speaking Slot:
Start-ups Going Global
(D1B3T2)
Mode: Story-telling (5 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Seija Lukkala
CEO, Globe Hope
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Regional Director for Ashoka Arab World (AAW) which Iman launched in 2003
Co-founder and chair ofAssociation for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW),a CSO providing credit and legal aid for impoverished women.
Iman has dedicated her life to working with marginalized and voiceless groups - female heads of
households in Egypt's poorest areas.
Worked with UNICEF, Catholic Relief Services, CARE-Egypt, GTZ and KFW. Iman holds a PhD in
Development Studies from Sussex University and a BA and MA in Political Science from
American University in Cairo.
Speaking Slot:
Innovative Solutions for the Bottom Billion
(D2B2T2)
Mode: Panel Discussion (4 speakers)
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Dr. Iman Bibars
Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World
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Co-founder ofGreenfieldProject that is a launching point ofhigh-tech start-up projects helpingthe entrepreneurs to develop their projects on early stages.
From 2011-2012, he headed the InCube business incubator at The Russian Presidential Academy
of National Economy and Public Administration.
He is a graduate of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.
Speaking Slot:
The Emerging Market Start-up Scene
(D2B2T3)
Mode: Panel Discussion (5 speakers)
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Peter Tatischev
Co-founder, Greenfield Project
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Leading youth sector figures in the UK with an equally strong profile globally. Reached out to 1million young people in over 100 countries.
Set up social enterprise InspirEngage International in 2003. InspirEngages central objective is to
improve the lives of children and young people through unique Skills Development Bootcamps.
Past participant of the Apprentice UK, Melody has championed young people, worked and been
trained by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former vice-president Al Gore.
Speaking Slot:
Are we there yet?
(D1B2T4)
Mode: Fishbowl (6 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Melody Hossaini
Founder & CEO, InspirEngage Ltd , Social Entrepreneur,
Trainer & Public Speaker
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Founder of JobStreet Group and Executive Director of JobStreet. He has also been thecompanys Chief Executive Officer following its inception and a Director since its incorporation.
Prior to founding MOL Online Sdn Bhd in 1995 and subsequently JobStreet.com Sdn Bhd in
1997, he was with Kendall International, a US healthcare company, for five years.
He currently sits on the Boards of Innity Corporation Berhad, Vitrox Corporation Berhad and 104
Corporation, Taiwan.
Speaking Slot:
Developing Your Team: Attracting, Developing
and Retaining Talent Locally or Globally(D2B2T1)
Mode: Debate or Panel Discussion (4 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel SpeakerMark Chang
Founder/Chief Executive Officer, JobStreet.com
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Built Eversendai from a modest structural steel specialist to one of the leading integrated
structural steel turnkey contractors.
Successfully completed several high-profile projects namely, the Petronas Twin Tower 2 and
Kuala Lumpur International Airport; Burj Al-Arab and Burj Khalifa in Dubai
Won several notable industry awards namely; Golden Construction Award 2008 from Trade
Leaders Club, Madrid, Spain, Malaysian Entrepreneur of the Year 2008from Ernst & Young, CEO
of the Year Award in 2008 by CIDB and Brand Personality Award in 2009 by The Brand Laureate
in the Asia Pacific.
Speaking Slot:
Success Stories: How I Made My First Million(D2B3T2)
Mode: Story-telling (5 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel SpeakerTan Sri A.K Nathan
Executive Chairman & Group Managing
Director, Eversendai Corporation
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Founded Asiastream Group, inducted into the Malaysian Book of Records for executing the first
live webcast of an international pageant in the country and organizing the first Gourmand World
Media Awards in Asia.
Prior to this, he contributed to the development of the Malaysian International Trading
Corporation and AIMS Worldwide.
Ashran currently juggles his responsibilities as CEO of Asiastream Group, his presidency of the
Malaysian Association of Bumiputera ICT Industry & Entrepreneurs (NEF) and various speaking
engagements.
Speaking Slot:
The Malaysian Start-up Landscape(D1B2T2)
Mode: Story-telling (5 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Ashran Dato Ghazi
CEO, Asiastream Group
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Co-founded and built MOL from scratch to become one of the biggest online payment service
providers in Asia with annual revenues of over USD200Million. MOL today has over 680,000physical payment channels across 80 countries worldwide and handles over 5 million
transactions a month.
Certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the Youngest CEO of a Public Listed Company in
Malaysia when he listed MOL AccessPortal Berhad on the MESDAQ Market of Bursa Malaysia at
the age of 23.
Speaking Slot:
Digital Entrepreneurship: The Next Revolution(D2B3T4)
Mode: Tech & Tech/Fishbowl (5 speakers)
4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker
Ganesh Kumar Bangah
Group Chief Executive Officer, MOL Global Pte.
Ltd
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