[Event] Social Media World Forum Asia on September 22 – 23

With Indonesia and Japan being the second and the third largest Tweeter, and with the recent news of Facebook setting up offices in Asia and entering into partnership with Malaysian based MOL , there is an increased focus from the social networking behemoths on this region. Come September 22 -23, get a chance to learn from some of the largest global brands who are using social media effectively in their marketing and public relations strategies.

Early bird registration for Social Media World Forum Asia ends on 21st August. Readers of this blog get a 15% discount – just quote that you’re a reader of e27.

Speakers

• Nicki Kenyon, Vice President, Digital Marketing APMEA, MasterCard Worldwide/APMEA

• Reynold D’Silva, Global Brand Marketing Manager, Unilever

• Blake Chandlee, VP & Commercial Director, EMEA, Facebook

• Pooja Arora, Brand Manager, P&G

• Thomas Crampton, Asia-Pacific Director, 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

• Damien Cummings, SMB Online Director – Asia Pacific & Japan, Dell | Consumer & SMB

• Lito S. German, Marketing Director, BMW Group Asia

• Argha Sen, Head of Marketing & CRM, Toys R Us

• Ranjeet-Shandu Singh, Digital Project Manager, Ogilvy One Singapore

• Shalabh Pandey, Author and Founder, Chasingthestorm

• Fotini Paraskakis, Director of Production, FremantleMedia Asia

• Derek Yeo, Head of Marketing, Tiger Airways

• Jeremy Khoo, Deputy Director, Marketing Communication and loyalty, NTUC Fairprice

With over 40 conference sessions and 50 leading speakers from the Asian social media market, the conference programme promises to educate, engage and inspire the audience.

Conference highlights include:

• Two days of interactive & engaging conference featuring leading key figure keynotes, brand case studies, topical Q&A and debates, exhibition hall, workshops and networking.
• The event will enabling attendees to discover, engage, network, share and collaborate in the world of social media. Ideal for those looking to embrace the latest in brand engagement, monitoring, ROI, advertising and building communities.
• The key differences between the Asian Social Media market and other parts of the world
• How brands are using Social Media. Engage with customers though mobile apps and Mobile Social Media, learn about the future of Social TV, get some top tips on selecting your Social Media Agency
• How to increase customer intimacy and empowerment through Social CRM
• Best practices for delivering PR campaigns across multiple Social Media platforms
• The new buzz word “Social Search”
• HeliPad Networking Party
  
• Free to attend exibition-only pass available

Buzzcity Developer Garage Meetup, 30 July

Buzzcity will be organizing their monthly developer garage on 30 July. Developer Garage seeks to provide a channel for developers to share experience, trends and insights on developing and commercializing sites and applications on mobile Internet. This upcoming series will cover the different development platforms, which one is up and coming, and how to choose the right one if you’re a developer. Speakers include:

Chua Zi Yong, CEO of Stream Media and founder of Code Android Singapore, will give an introduction to Android, delve in to the opportunities and growth potential of the platform. Zi Yong will also discuss how you can get started to develop on Android.

A panel will be featured for the first time in Developer Garage Meet Up. They will explore pertinent issues of the Android platform – adoption of Android devices, fragmentation challenges and monetization options. Speakers include:

• Loo Cheng Chuan, Principal, SingTel Idea Factory: Brings with him extensive experience in SingTel’s finance, consumer and corporate businesses. With his current appointment at SingTel Idea Factory, Loo is occupied with seeking and developing innovative products and cutting-edge technology.

• Winston Goh, Product Marketing Manager, Samsung: Winston manages the various complexities inherent in the business, integrate the multiple functional roles and ultimately drive the business to meet its key matrices.

• Chua Zi Yong, CEO, Stream Media: Drives in-app payment system (MoVend) on Android and Android turn-key solutions and trainings in Stream Media.

Light refreshment and networking will follow.

Details of the Meet up are as follows:
Date / Day: 30 Jul (Friday)
Time: 4 – 6pm
Location: BuzzCity (Yellow Pages Building)
Address: 1 Lor 2 Toa Payoh Yellow Pages Building #02-03 Singapore 319637
Dress Code: Casual

Email baoyi[at] buzzcity [dot] com to RSVP as seats are limited on a first-come first-served basis. The closing date is 23 Jul (Friday). Visit them on Facebook and Twitter for more information and updates.

[Event] The Garag3 Innovation Friday (TGIF) With Stanly Han and Sean Bonner

The Garag3 Innovation Friday is a quarterly event series that brings together entrepreneurs from various domains to share their experiences on different aspects of their startup journey. This week Stanly Han from Personal E-Motion will be discussing his experience on incubating under NUS Enterprise. They also have Sean Bonner as one of the speakers for this event. He is a Co-founder and CEO of Bode Media Inc.

Event Details

Date: June 25

Time: 6 – 8 pm

Venue: Garag3 –  8, Prince George’s Park

Free drinks and food will be provided. RSVP Here

Google DevFest Singapore on July 9th in Singapore

Singapore is one of the 3 cities in South East Asia where this year’s Google DevFest will happen. The topics include the following and all speakers are from Google offices

* Chrome/HTML5
* Google Maps API
* Google AppEngine
* Google Apps

Developer advocates and engineers will be there to show you the latest and greatest, as well as answer your questions. Click here to find more information on Google DevFest.

Speakers

Jeremy Orlow (MTV/LON)
Jeremy is an engineer working on the Chrome team. Over the last year and a half, he’s implemented localStorage, sessionStorage, and is now working on Indexed Database API. He’s also helped out in various ways with WebNotifications, WebSQLDatabase, GeoLocaiton, device orientation, and the File API, among others. Jeremy is a WebKit reviewer and an active participant in several of the W3C working groups. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Daniels Lee (SFO)
Daniels joined the Developer Relations team at Google over 3 years ago. He dedicated most of his time supporting and building up the community around the Google Gadgets API for iGoogle. After spending over two years on the product, he shifted focus onto supporting the Google Maps APIs.

Patrick Chanezon (MTV)
Patrick Chanezon manages the Client and Cloud Advocacy team at Google, making the web better as a development platform with open web standards, GWT, Google Appengine and a lot of coffee. He has been a Developer Advocate at Google since 2005, building and growing developer ecosystems for OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he has been working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He’s the co-founder of the ROME java open source project and the OSSGTP (Open Source Get Together Paris) group. Patrick is french, so he takes long vacations in the summer and likes to drink red wine with baguette and stinky cheese while wearing a beret. Apart from programming and reading books and mangas, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

Timothy Jordan (MTV)
Timothy is a Developer Advocate at Google working on the social web. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a Theater Arts graduate degree, and an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz. In his spare time he runs half marathons and announces for the Santa Cruz Derby Girls, the Silicon Valley Roller Girls, and any other Roller Derby team that asks. As an engineer he enjoys solving problems for the benefit of fellow humans. As an artist he enjoys the search for truth and beauty.

Bob Aman (MTV)
Bob works on the Developer Relations team at Google in Mountain View. He loves contributing to open source, open web standards, and generally making the web a friendlier, more useful place for everybody. Bob was once saved from a volcanic mishap by a bad case of malaria. True story.

[Event] SG-GTUG Special Tutorial Session – Introduction to Python + Google App Engine

SG-GTUG is organizing a special tutorial presentation by Wesley J.Chun, a software architect, technical consultant and corporate trainer at Google. The tutorial will cover a brief on Python and also explain more about the Google App Engine.

Event Details:

Date: 12 June 2010

Time: 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Venue: Google Singapore, Level 35, 8 Shenton Way (Temasek towers) S068811

Visit SG-GTUG’s site for more details or register here.