Andreas Weigend, Amazon's former chief scientist : "From E-Business to Me-Business" !
Steve Ming Yeow Ng
We are hosting an event for Andreas Weigend next Wednesday. He is a very cool guy, and should be an interesting session! He is also giving a talk in SoC the day before. Same topic, but we wanna steer the talk towards exciting new companies and new concepts on the web. Should be much more happening too. haha.
Do check it out if you are interested! Got any ideas for making the talk more fun, feel free to email me too!
Cheers,
Ming Yeow
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Hi everyone
We're ( The Digital Movement) organizing a very interesting session, 20th Dec 7pm , with the former chief scientist of Amazon! This is your chance to ask him any questions you have had about Amazon and the Web.
He'll talk about how the traditional e-businesses like Amazon should change in the new Web (writeup below). This is a fantastic session for anyone who wants to start a business or expand and strengthen your online presence and also for consultants in this field (checkout his bio).
We're holding this session in a very central location (One Marina Boulevard) with refreshments :) Send this message out to friends who would be interested!
Details and the link to registration can be found below.
See you there!
Ahmed
The Digital Movement
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The Digital Movement brings you Andreas Weigend, Amazon's former chief scientist, and one of the world's top experts on the web to share with you how the web is fundamentally changing, and how you can make use of it! He will be tapping on his experiences gained in Amazon and in consulting many cutting edge startups across the globe such as Alibaba.com, Technorati, etc.
Registration Here
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The web is no longer the same. It used to be driven by a few major sites, but now user generated content drives the most successful ones. Traditional e-business such as Amazon.com derives significant value from its customers contributing metadata at the e-business site, but these same individuals now create rich identities on the web of themselves, expressing themselves and building their reputation over time through personal sites and blogs (myspace etc). How does traditional e-business need to change to successfully participate in this "me-business"? How can it replace increasingly unsuccessful push marketing and recommendations by serendipity and discovery by the individual? What are other implications of this shift from vendor-centric sites to user-centric meta-data collections, such as del.icio.us?
Speakers:
Andreas Weigend
As the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, Andreas
became known for innovations in measuring, modeling and predicting
customer behavior and for the successful application of these ideas to
marketing. He now works as an independent consultant with customer
centric,information rich companies, bringing to them state-of-the-art
methodology and his rich experience with collecting and managing
information and designing web experiments.
Andreas is a sought-after speaker: He has debated with Jack Ma in Shanghai, while recent speeches include "Discovery in the Digital Universe" (IFA, Berlin 2006), "From E-Business to Me-Business" (Web 2.0 Kongress, Offenbach 2006), "The Attention Economy" (Guggenheim, Bilbao 2005), and "People and Data: Understanding Customer Behavior" (SAS, Las Vegas 2004).
Pamela Lim:
Ms Pamela Lim is currently a private investor and also adjuncts at the Singapore Management University. She was the CEO of iQB Pte Ltd, a joint venture between Green Dot Payment Systems (Singapore Technology's Payment company) and BCSIS (Singapore's national cheque clearing house), which was formed in 2002.
Since its incorporation in February 1998, Pamela Lim was the
Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of 3rd Frontier Inc. In
2001, she was awarded "Netrepreneur of the Year 2001" by the
Association of Small and Medium Enterprises after having clinched "Most
Promising Woman Entrepreneur 2000" and "Top 10 Woman Entrepreneur of
the Year 1999". In the year 2000, she led 3rd Frontier to win the
"Technology Achievement Award (TAA) 2000.
Details:
Date : 20th December 2006, Wednesday
Time : 7.00pm - 9.15pm
Venue : NTUC, Room 701, 1 Marina Boulevard
(Walkable via Raffles Place MRT Underground Pass)
For more enquiries, please contact Adeline.
Please register here by 19th December.