Singapore At SXSW Interactive 2011

For the first time ever in its 18-year history, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive section of the larger SXSW Conferences and Festivals (including Music and Film) will see official Singapore representation. Supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), SXSW Interactive will include a Singapore Pavilion exhibition and a Singapore panel during the SXSW Tech Summit.

Having attended SXSW for the first time last year, IDA was very impressed with the “attendance, energy and insightful sharing at the various conference sessions”. They see the conference “as the best show in US for startups to expose themselves in the American market, with over 35K attendees that consist of entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, press and investors”.

Also, having seen some of our own make a splash at TechCrunch50 (2009) and helped some make DEMO (Fall 2010) possible, IDA decided to go further and help make the Singapore Pavilion happen at SXSW Interactive 2011.

Update: Aftermath – Check out photos here and here.

Timeline: Singapore Delegation At SXSW

Singapore Networking Party: 14th March, evening
Singapore Pavilion Exhibition: 14-17th March
Singapore Panel @ TechSummit: 17th March

The Singapore pavilion is 40’x20’ and will house 10 companies and a small IDA reception counter.

Singapore Companies At The SXSW Pavillion

Started in 2007 (read their back story), Zopim provides live chat software.

Wordster is “a large scale project attempting to innovate the traditional semantic references (the dictionary and the thesaurus).”

Started in 2008 (read their back story), Socialico “creates social apps with game mechanics”, such as FameMark and GameMaki.