Pick up growth tactics from the leaders of AWS, Udemy, and JustCo at TIA Conference’s Main Stage

In less than a month, the Tech in Asia Conference will be happening at the Jakarta Convention Center, on October 8 & 9. 

Already topping the speakers list are Aadi Vaidya (COO of Zilingo), Rohit Sipahimalani (Joint Head, Investment Group, Temasek International), Jason Thompson (CEO of OVO), and Cheryl Goh (Group Vice President of Marketing Grab). 

We’ve since added more to the list—read all about these industry game changers who are eager to share with you the secrets to their success! Check out the full conference speaker list here.

Gaurav Arora – Head of Startups, APAC, Amazon Web Services 

Gaurav Arora, Head of Startups, APAC, Amazon Web Services

Scaling a business means setting the stage to enable and support growth in your startup. 

One critical aspect to scaling your business is hiring. Ensuring that managers recruit the right talent can have a multi-fold effect, not just for your business’ bottomline, but also in keeping your startup’s culture. 

In Gaurav’s session “Hiring The Amazon Way: Best Practices for Hiring at Scale”, he will use his experience in Amazon to deliver insights on how you can build the right mechanisms to hire top talent. He will also touch upon Amazon’s 14 leadership principles to assess whether a candidate raises the bar and to ultimately make data-driven decisions that you can consider. 

Gaurav heads startup initiatives for AWS Asia Pacific. He works closely with the leading VCs, incubators, startup communities and helps them create value for their portfolio companies by leveraging the best of cloud computing and Amazon’s resources.

Richard Qiu – SVP Global Business Development, Udemy 

Richard Qiu, SVP Global Business Development, Udemy

The education technology industry in Asia is the second largest across the world, with a potential market value of US$5 trillion by 2020. The region is set to become the global ed-tech laboratory fueled with the aid of government policies, accelerators, venture capitalists, incubators and other key players.

Richard, in his session will be talking about “EdTech in Asia: Selling Content with The Right Strategy”. You can glean insights on the growth of the education technology industry in Asia, and how to create the right strategy in marketing your content to the relevant audience.

Richard currently drives content, distribution, and strategic partnerships between Udemy and organizations around the world as SVP Global Business Development. He also leads Udemy in exploring cooperation opportunities with government bodies. 

Kong Wan Long – Co-founder and Chief Corporate Officer, JustCo 

Kong Wan Long, Co-founder and Chief Corporate Officer, JustCo

Having your business remain competitive is especially important for sustainability – in fact, research by CB Insights cited the inability to understand and remain competitive as one of the top reasons why startups fail.

It is thus important to have a solid growth strategy in place for long-term success, taking into account how your business can stay relevant your industry.

Wan Long will be taking the Main Stage and share how businesses can achieve fast growth in a competitive landscape. He will also touch upon about growth vs revenue – how this presents a dilemma for startups and how to approach this conundrum.

As co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of JustCo, Wan Long is responsible for driving sales growth and revenue targets across all the eight Asian markets that JustCo has presence in. 

Don’t miss your chance to learn from the industry’s best!

These are just three amazing speakers out of our specially curated speaker line-up. Mark your calendars for October 8 & 9, check out our speakers and content here. 

Beyond learning through fireside chats and speeches with thought leaders, the Tech in Asia Conference provides multiple networking opportunities, as well as features up-and-coming startups exhibiting their product at Startup Factory. 

Want to experience all of them first hand? Sign up today and grab your tickets to one of Asia’s largest gathering of the tech startup community. 

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