Nexus 2007: March 24th: Out of Beta Mode!
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Steve Ming Yeow Ng
Mar 10, 2007, 4:25:24 PM3/10/07
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Hi folks!
Ming Yeow here. As most of you folks know, we are having an event called Nexus 2007, coming up in just 2 weeks time! There had been a lot of updates recently, but check out the mail below for a summary of the updates, and the attached for the concise program.
Oh ya, we have a pre-Nexus event, called Geekout, where we introduce cool technologists working on cool stuff to the community and to our overseas guests. Currently, we are showing 3 ( Velvet Puffin, Shwup.com, Genometric). 2 more slots open, though we have quite a few folks on the waiting list. Sign up if it is of interest to you!
Nat Torkington from O'Reilly Radar and Perl Foundation Board, and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist of Amazon.com will be at Geekout too as guests, and Nexus as panelists as well!
Ok, that's all folks, definitely looking forward to meeting you great folks again at either Geekout/Nexus!
Cheers,
Ming Yeow
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With 2 weeks left, Nexus 2007 is finally out of Beta mode! Helping us make the panels are relevant as possible are the moderators, folks like Kevin Lim, Bernard Leong, Darius Cheung , Kae Fong, Wilson Tan), who are part of our community. The discussions has also been focused further in the wiki. We have also finalized all the panel speakers, with more cool companies like Google, Second Life, Velvet Puffin, joining us in the panels and for Geekout (the pre-Nexus demo of cool products)
Check out the attached document for the concise program, and subscribe to the Nexus Blog to get updates and interviews with attendees, speakers, etc
Sign up for Nexus Here!
Here are the summary of the updates:
Attendees:
Folks from the 2 most exciting companies to set up R&D offices in Singapore for a long time, Google and Second Life, will be at Nexus. Also, the first Singaporean company to be profiled at Techcrunch, mobile social network Velvet Puffin will be @ Nexus as well to be on the mobile web panel. We also added a few other speakers, including Jennifer Lewis, Editor, Stomp.com.sg (For Media Crowdsourcing), and Bobby Napiltonia, Senior VP of Salesforce.com to round off these panels
One of our goals at Nexus is to help raise the awareness of cool local companies, and to help communities gather
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Ming Yeow here. As most of you folks know, we are having an event called Nexus 2007, coming up in just 2 weeks time! There had been a lot of updates recently, but check out the mail below for a summary of the updates, and the attached for the concise program.
Oh ya, we have a pre-Nexus event, called Geekout, where we introduce cool technologists working on cool stuff to the community and to our overseas guests. Currently, we are showing 3 ( Velvet Puffin, Shwup.com, Genometric). 2 more slots open, though we have quite a few folks on the waiting list. Sign up if it is of interest to you!
Nat Torkington from O'Reilly Radar and Perl Foundation Board, and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist of Amazon.com will be at Geekout too as guests, and Nexus as panelists as well!
Ok, that's all folks, definitely looking forward to meeting you great folks again at either Geekout/Nexus!
Cheers,
Ming Yeow
-------------------------------
With 2 weeks left, Nexus 2007 is finally out of Beta mode! Helping us make the panels are relevant as possible are the moderators, folks like Kevin Lim, Bernard Leong, Darius Cheung , Kae Fong, Wilson Tan), who are part of our community. The discussions has also been focused further in the wiki. We have also finalized all the panel speakers, with more cool companies like Google, Second Life, Velvet Puffin, joining us in the panels and for Geekout (the pre-Nexus demo of cool products)
Check out the attached document for the concise program, and subscribe to the Nexus Blog to get updates and interviews with attendees, speakers, etc
Sign up for Nexus Here!
Here are the summary of the updates:
Attendees:
- So
far, we have almost 400 attendees signing up, ranging from
entrepreneurs, professionals, investors and students (35%). Companies
like Tencube, XM-Asia are sending entire teams down!
The attendee browsing system will be up soon. We are gunning for 600, and we are starting a next round of buzz soon, so we expecting a burst of attendees next week.
Folks from the 2 most exciting companies to set up R&D offices in Singapore for a long time, Google and Second Life, will be at Nexus. Also, the first Singaporean company to be profiled at Techcrunch, mobile social network Velvet Puffin will be @ Nexus as well to be on the mobile web panel. We also added a few other speakers, including Jennifer Lewis, Editor, Stomp.com.sg (For Media Crowdsourcing), and Bobby Napiltonia, Senior VP of Salesforce.com to round off these panels
- Crowdsourcing the Media
- Asia Pacific 2.0 :Regional Technology Leaders Discuss Emerging Opportunities
- Future of The Web
- The Mobile Web Explosion
- Open Source Communities - Innovation unlimited
- Global Startup Share Their War Stories
One of our goals at Nexus is to help raise the awareness of cool local companies, and to help communities gather
- Demo your technology/innovation @ Geekout!,
an event where the
local tech community gathers together with our speakers, Andreas
(former chief scientist, Amazon) and Nat (O'Reilly). There are still 2
slots available for presentation, but there are a few in the waiting
list, so indicate interest fast!
- Help decide the agenda
before hand in the wiki.
- Participate Live@nexus, and create a common document together on the web (Probably Google documents).
- Community gatherings happening, for example the Open Source and Second Life communities in Singapore.
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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mingyeow
Personal Blog: www.mingyeow.com
The Digital Movement: www.thedigitalmovement.org
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