Startups, here’s your chance to meet tech giant IBM and investors in KL and Jakarta next month

Missed out on some face time with IBM at Tech in Asia Singapore 2015? Fret not, for here’s your chance to meet them again: the tech giant will be heading to Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta next month.

For these two meetups, IBM is keen to connect with startups and help them understand the role of big tech companies in Malaysia’s and Indonesia’s startup ecosystem. Participating startups will be able to glean insights from the session, which features a panel discussion with several distinguished speakers within the startup environment; followed by a IBM Bluemix demo which allows you to find out how you can build and scale your business with SoftLayer’s global cloud infrastructure. Each meetup will end with dinner and networking.

I’m in! Now what?

Click here to submit your application. Qualified startups will be informed via an email invitation. Remember to check your inboxes! We can only take in a fixed number of startups, so this is on a first-come-first-served basis.

Here’s the detailed agenda:
Update on June 4: Lais de Oliveira, MaGIC Community Ambassador & Startup Grind Global Community Director, will be replacing Warren Leow, Executive Director (Entrepreneurship Development) of MaGIC, for the meetup in KL.

Giveaways at the Meetup!

1. Bluemix 30-day trial

Bluemix is an open-standard, cloud-based platform to build, manage, and run apps of all types and offers a single solution environment with the instant resources (e.g. sample code) and infrastructure (e.g. services and runtimes) you need to develop and deploy apps. Attend and get your 30-days free trial.

2. SoftLayer free trial and migration

With data centers and network points of presence worldwide – all connected by a high-speed private network – your cloud is available when and where you want it. See for yourself at the meetup, and get your virtual server for free for one month.

Attendees will also be able to get their workload migrated to the SoftLayer Cloud using Racemi Cloud Path for no charge.

3. Global Entrepreneur Program

The IBM Global Entrepreneur Program for Cloud Startups aims to help startups find their way onto the cloud via IBM’s rich set of resources, global network of enterprise clients, consultants, Innovation Centers and more to rapidly build innovations, scale quickly and accelerate growth.

Through the new program, qualifying startups will receive up to US$120,000 worth of credits channeled towards its IBM Cloud usage, giving them the instant infrastructure needed to quickly launch their businesses and focus resources on coding, building, scaling, and bringing innovations to market.

Apply now before slots run out!