Confirmed Top-Draw Speaker List and Profile for 4th GES, 2013

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Confirmed Top-draw Speakers

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4th GES 2013

International Speakers

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Ranked No. 2 on The Thinkers50 2011 list of the world's top management gurus and also

won the 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award

Co-author of International Bestseller: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested

Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Harvard Business School Press, 2005).

Co-founded the Blue Ocean Strategy Network (BOSN), a global community of practice on the

Blue Ocean Strategy family of concepts that they created.

Keynote Speaker

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4th GES 2013: Keynote Speaker 1Professor W. Chan Kim

Co-Author Blue Ocean Strategy


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Authored best-selling management book in 2007, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration

Changes Everything

Named one of the worlds most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 in 2013

The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected

Planeta Schumpeter-ian story of creative destruction and the Huffington Post said the

book is nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world.

Speaking Slots:

Digital Entrepreneurship: The Next Revolution

(D2B3T4)

Mode: Fishbowl (6 speakers)

TBC: Gazing Into The Crystal Ball

(D1B1T2)

Mode : Fishbowl (4 speakers)

4th GES 2013: Panel Speaker

Don Tapscott

Author of Wikinomics, Consultant and Speaker


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Identified as one of the top 100 thought leaders in personal leadership and

organizational Leadership by Executive Excellence Publications in 2008

Barkers videos on the future have been translated into 20 languages and watched bymore than 100 million people.

Popularized the concept ofparadigm shifts. Most recent book, Five Regions of the

Future, co-authored with Dr. Scott Erickson examines how technology is beginning to

cluster into technological ecosystems and what that means to our future

Speaking Slots:

Innovative Business Models

(D2B4T2)

Mode : Panel Discussion (4 speakers)

TBC: Gazing Into The Crystal Ball

(D1B1T2)

Mode : Fishbowl (4 speakers)

4th GES 2013: Panel SpeakerJoel A. Barker

Futurist, Author, Film-maker


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Author ofThe Long Tail, on how the internet undermined blockbuster-culture and

created an economy of targeted niche products

CEO of3D Robotics, a leading unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) company, with offices and

factories in Berkeley, San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico and founder of DIYDrones, an

aerial robotics community with more than 40,000 members

As former Editor-in-chief ofWired, received 2 dozen National Magazine Award

nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for general excellence in 2005, 2007 and2009.

Speaking Slots:

Innovative Business Models

(D2B4T2)

Mode: Panel Discussion (4 speakers)

TBC: Disruptive Innovation

(D2B3T3)



Chris Anderson,

Former Editor-in-chief, Wired. Author, Makers, Free,

and The Long Tail. Founder of 3D Robotics.


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CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a leading think-tank he founded

in 1990 that advises business and government on future trends

Author ofThe Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st

Centuryand Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Innovations Will Transform Business in

the 21st Century

Advised for three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation and

MIT's Media Lab, Europe.

Speaking Slot:

Evolving Roles Of Entrepreneurs:

Beyond Profitability

(D2B4T3)

Mode: TALK SHOW (3 speakers)


Dr. James Canton, Global Futurist,

Entrepreneur, CEO Institute for Global Futures


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Co-founder of Triangles, an European venture capital company, focusing on internet and

media-related software companies.

Served as Chairwoman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) in

2010-2011.

Named the most powerful person in private equity for 2010 by REAL DEALS and has been

recognized by Dow Jones as one of the 100 most influential women in Europes finance industry.

Currently serves on the boards of fg microtec, iOpener, iPharro and SemEO.

Speaking Slot:

Job Creation Through SMEs and Start-ups

(D1B3T1)



Uli W. Fricke

Managing General Partner & Founder, Triangle


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3-time INC500 winner whose company won E&Ys Entrepreneur of the Year

Co-authored the Crowdfunding Framework used in the JOBS Act that was signed into law by

President Obama on April 5, 2012.

Co-founder of FLAVORx, a private pharmaceutical flavoring company based in Columbia,

Maryland, that supplies sugar-free, non allergenic and inert medication flavorings and flavoring

systems to more than 35,000 pharmacies in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,

and Puerto Rico.

Speaking Slot:

Crowdfunding as a Source of Capital for Small-

scale Entrepreneurs

(D2B1T1)

Mode: Interview Session (5 speakers)


Sherwood Neiss

Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors


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Founded Globe Hope in 2003, a Finnish textile company that uses bags, clothing and accessoriesmade ofrecycled textiles.

Globe Hope has been the recipient of many prizes along the years: Amnesty Internationals

Designer Of The Year (2005) and the prestigious Suomi Palkinto for outstanding performance in

the field of Art and Culture, awarded by the Finnish Ministry Of Culture (2006).

Speaking Slot:

Start-ups Going Global

(D1B3T2)

Mode: Story-telling (5 speakers)


Seija Lukkala

CEO, Globe Hope


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Regional Director for Ashoka Arab World (AAW) which Iman launched in 2003

Co-founder and chair ofAssociation for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW),a CSO providing credit and legal aid for impoverished women.

Iman has dedicated her life to working with marginalized and voiceless groups - female heads of

households in Egypt's poorest areas.

Worked with UNICEF, Catholic Relief Services, CARE-Egypt, GTZ and KFW. Iman holds a PhD in

Development Studies from Sussex University and a BA and MA in Political Science from

American University in Cairo.

Speaking Slot:

Innovative Solutions for the Bottom Billion

(D2B2T2)



Dr. Iman Bibars

Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World


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Co-founder ofGreenfieldProject that is a launching point ofhigh-tech start-up projects helpingthe entrepreneurs to develop their projects on early stages.

From 2011-2012, he headed the InCube business incubator at The Russian Presidential Academy

of National Economy and Public Administration.

He is a graduate of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.

Speaking Slot:

The Emerging Market Start-up Scene

(D2B2T3)



Peter Tatischev

Co-founder, Greenfield Project


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Leading youth sector figures in the UK with an equally strong profile globally. Reached out to 1million young people in over 100 countries.

Set up social enterprise InspirEngage International in 2003. InspirEngages central objective is to

improve the lives of children and young people through unique Skills Development Bootcamps.

Past participant of the Apprentice UK, Melody has championed young people, worked and been

trained by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former vice-president Al Gore.

Speaking Slot:

Are we there yet?

(D1B2T4)



Melody Hossaini

Founder & CEO, InspirEngage Ltd , Social Entrepreneur,

Trainer & Public Speaker
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Malaysian Speakers

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Founder of JobStreet Group and Executive Director of JobStreet. He has also been thecompanys Chief Executive Officer following its inception and a Director since its incorporation.

Prior to founding MOL Online Sdn Bhd in 1995 and subsequently JobStreet.com Sdn Bhd in

1997, he was with Kendall International, a US healthcare company, for five years.

He currently sits on the Boards of Innity Corporation Berhad, Vitrox Corporation Berhad and 104

Corporation, Taiwan.

Speaking Slot:

Developing Your Team: Attracting, Developing

and Retaining Talent Locally or Globally(D2B2T1)

Mode: Debate or Panel Discussion (4 speakers)

4th GES 2013: Panel SpeakerMark Chang

Founder/Chief Executive Officer, JobStreet.com
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Built Eversendai from a modest structural steel specialist to one of the leading integrated

structural steel turnkey contractors.

Successfully completed several high-profile projects namely, the Petronas Twin Tower 2 and

Kuala Lumpur International Airport; Burj Al-Arab and Burj Khalifa in Dubai

Won several notable industry awards namely; Golden Construction Award 2008 from Trade

Leaders Club, Madrid, Spain, Malaysian Entrepreneur of the Year 2008from Ernst & Young, CEO

of the Year Award in 2008 by CIDB and Brand Personality Award in 2009 by The Brand Laureate

in the Asia Pacific.

Speaking Slot:

Success Stories: How I Made My First Million(D2B3T2)


4th GES 2013: Panel SpeakerTan Sri A.K Nathan

Executive Chairman & Group Managing

Director, Eversendai Corporation


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Founded Asiastream Group, inducted into the Malaysian Book of Records for executing the first

live webcast of an international pageant in the country and organizing the first Gourmand World

Media Awards in Asia.

Prior to this, he contributed to the development of the Malaysian International Trading

Corporation and AIMS Worldwide.

Ashran currently juggles his responsibilities as CEO of Asiastream Group, his presidency of the

Malaysian Association of Bumiputera ICT Industry & Entrepreneurs (NEF) and various speaking

engagements.

Speaking Slot:

The Malaysian Start-up Landscape(D1B2T2)



Ashran Dato Ghazi

CEO, Asiastream Group

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Co-founded and built MOL from scratch to become one of the biggest online payment service

providers in Asia with annual revenues of over USD200Million. MOL today has over 680,000physical payment channels across 80 countries worldwide and handles over 5 million

transactions a month.

Certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the Youngest CEO of a Public Listed Company in

Malaysia when he listed MOL AccessPortal Berhad on the MESDAQ Market of Bursa Malaysia at

the age of 23.

Speaking Slot:

Digital Entrepreneurship: The Next Revolution(D2B3T4)

Mode: Tech & Tech/Fishbowl (5 speakers)


Ganesh Kumar Bangah

Group Chief Executive Officer, MOL Global Pte.

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