Join us as we head to Bangkok for the next leg of our Tech in Asia Tour

Tech in Asia is making its way to Bangkok next Thursday, July 16 for the fifth stop of our Tech in Asia Tour: Road to Tokyo 2015. Come down and witness our panel of judges evaluate pitches and crown the winner, who will earn themselves a sponsored trip to exhibit at our Tokyo conference on September 8 and 9.

The Tech in Asia crew’s last trip to Bangkok earlier this year uncovered Parking Duck, an online marketplace for parking spaces in Thailand. They won themselves an exhibition booth, event passes, and air tickets to showcase at our Singapore conference in May. They were also one of the finalists selected to pitch at Arena, the biggest highlight of our conference.

Friends in Thailand, drop by next week and find out who your city’s finalists are. Our panel of judges will also be sharing tips on how to build a world-class startup. Judges on the panel include Adrian Stewart, partner at Galaxy Ventures; Justin Hall, principal at Golden Gate Ventures; Koichi Saito, founder and general partner at KK Fund; Krating Poonpol, venture partner at 500 TukTuks; and Patai Padungtin, principal at Builk Asia.

There will be plenty of food, drinks, and networking opportunities, so grab your friends along and register fast to secure your spot – entry is free.

Venue

NE8T
1 294 Phayathai Rd
Thanon Phetchaburi, Ratchathewi
Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Agenda

6.30pm – 7pm: Registration
7pm – 7.05pm: Welcome by Tech in Asia
7.05pm – 7.35pm: Fireside chat: How to build a world-class startup in Thailand
7.35pm – 8.30pm: Pitches by startups (5 min pitch, 5 min Q&A)
8.30pm – 8.35pm: Peek into Judges’ Backstage Discussion
8.35pm – 8.45pm: Announcement & Closing
8.45pm – 9.30pm: Networking

Please note that the event will be conducted in English.

Judges

Adrian Stewart, partner at Galaxy Ventures

Adrian has over 22 years experience with tech startups across Southeast Asia, spending the last 12 years in Thailand. He is currently a partner in Galaxy Ventures, an early-stage corporate investment firm based in Bangkok. With lead investment from Ini3 Digital PLC, a Softbank Ventures Korea portfolio company, Galaxy Ventures invests in areas that it understands and can add value to. It currently has six companies under its portfolio, five in Thailand and one in Vietnam.

Justin Hall, principal at Golden Gate Ventures

In addition to his responsibilities as a partner at Golden Gate Ventures, Justin has organized a number of community building events, including SuperHappyDevHouse.sg, WalkAbout.sg, and FailCon.sg. Before Golden Gate Ventures, Justin was previously an account manager for Rakuten LinkShare Corporation, based in New York, and managed online e-commerce sales for prominent web-based retailers and service providers.

Koichi Saito, founder and general partner at KK Fund

Koichi Saito previously worked at IMJ Investment Partners as director and was responsible for IMJ’s investments throughout Southeast Asia such as iMoney, Bukalapak and Zipmatch. Prior to IMJ, Koichi worked at Private Equity Fund founded by George Soros, and was engaged in several corporate and hotel acquisitions.

Before that, he served as an arranger of the securitization of mortgages at investment banking division of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. He also worked at Orix Corporation where he was responsible for providing loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan.

Krating Poonpol, venture partner at 500 TukTuks

Prior to starting 500 TukTuks, Krating Poonpol was a global lead marketing manager of Google Earth and head of Asia Pacific quantitative marketing at Google Asia. His experience in supporting both bootstrapped and venture backed startups led him to the founding of Disrupt University, one of the top Startup Incubator Program in Thailand. Krating is also the director of Founder Institute in Bangkok and advisor to ClaimDi.

Patai Padungtin, principal at Builk Asia

Patai is the founder as well as principal and evangelist of Builk Asia, a cloud-based business management software for small and medium-sized construction businesses. Launched in 2009, Builk has won many accolades, including being most promising startup at Echelon 2012 and entering the seventh batch of 500 Startups. Prior to Builk, Patai founded Longkong Studio, a firm specialising in Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) solutions. Patai is also the president of Thailand Tech Startup Association.

Big thanks to our partners in Bangkok: