BuzzCity Developer Garage – 3 Jun

The latest installment of Developer Garage will be taking place on the 4th of June. This upcoming session focuses on introducing to participants certain investment opportunities. Managing Director of SingTel Innov8 and the Head (Projects) of the National Research Foundation will be speaking. Development Garage seeks to provide a channel for developers to share experience, trends and insights on developing and commercializing sites and applications on mobile Internet.

About the Speakers and Topics

Tam Hock Chuan, Managing Director, Investments, at SingTel Innov8, will be introducing SingTel Innov8, a S$200m fund to drive innovation in Infocomm Technologies. Hock Chuan has been an investment professional for over 20 years, specialising in private equity and venture capital. In the last 1.5 years, he was with the International Finance Corporation, the private investment arm of the World Bank Group, responsible for Infocomm Technology Investments in East Asia Pacific. Before joining International Finance Corporation, Hock Chuan was with the Temasek Group and Vertex Management a globally focused Venture Capital fund based in the Silicon Valley.

Tan Yinglan, Head (Projects) at National Research Foundation, will give a talk on “How to bridge China and Singapore Innovation”. Singapore has become a leader in research and development, and technology innovation and increasingly investors are reaping the benefits through the commercialization of innovative technologies. But integration into the Asian (most notably China) and global markets is a necessity for Singapore entrepreneurs, if they are to exploit these opportunities to their full potential, and drive the returns necessary to maintain investor interest and secure the industry’s future. He will share some insights into how China and Singapore can work together to create innovative companies that will make the world a better place.

Yinglan is also the author of The Way of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board and Chinnovation – How Chinese Innovation Is Going To Change The World.

You also stand a chance to win an iPod touch, courtesy of SingTel Innov8!

Event Details

Date: Friday 3rd June 2011
Time: 4 – 6pm
Where: BuzzCity (Yellow Pages Building), 1 Lor 2 Toa Payoh Yellow Pages Building #02-03 Singapore 319637 [Map]
Dress Code: Casual

Light refreshment and networking to follow.

RSVP here (Facebook).