Kuo-Yi is a Managing Director at Monk's Hill Ventures. He was the CEO of Infocomm Investments, a $200M venture fund based in Singapore investing in technology startups globally. Prior to Infocomm, Kuo-Yi has been a founder, early employee, mentor and angel investor of early-stage technology startups spanning the US and Asia. He was a senior sales executive at Encentuate (acq. by IBM) and Reputation Technologies (acq. by Security Sources), and co-founder of SportsHook, a sports-focused SaaS platform. Kuo-Yi graduated from MIT with B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees in electrical engineering.

Earl is the President and Co-founder of the IdeaSpace Foundation, a non-profit incubator and accelerator based in Manila. IdeaSpace is funded by First Pacific, one of the largest business groups in Southeast Asia focused on telecom, energy, infrastructure, and agriculture. He is passionate and driven technology-focused leader with experience in business development, open innovation, venture capital and engineering looking to facilitate the creation of innovative growth strategies for leading global technology corporations, start-ups and development organizations.

Mikko Perez is​ ​ Founder and​ ​CEO of Ayannah, a leading provider of digital commerce and payment services for online and mobile communities, especially the unbanked. Prior to leading Ayannah, he was Director of Finance & Business​ ​Development at Chikka and helped steer Chikka to profitability. He also spearheaded Chikka’s expansion into China, ​ ​Japan and the US prior to its acquisition by PLDT. Mikko serves on the board of several companies and foundations. Having begun his career as a community organizer and adult educator helping strengthen social enterprises in the Philippines, he remains actively involved in initiatives that encourage social entrepreneurship and sustainable development in emerging markets.

Based in Singapore, Gwen is an entrepreneur, investor and community leader focused on technology startups in Asia. She built and sold SGEntrepreneurs to Tech in Asia, where she now continues to track innovation in some of the world's largest markets. Gwen was also a founding partner of early stage technology investment firm, Thymos Capital where she saw two exits (one of which was iHipo) and continues to oversee their investment in Padlet, a Y-Combinator graduate. She sits on the advisory boards of some associations, was a mentor at Polish tech startup incubator Gamma Rebels, is the Singapore curator for US-headquartered StartupDigest and the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox Network - the leading global network of innovators under 30. Gwen is an alumnus of the National University of Singapore, graduated from its University Scholars Programme and spent a year at Stanford University doing technopreneurship. Gwen has lived in Singapore and California, given talks across Asia, Europe and the US, speaks 3.25 languages, loves physics, travelling, dance and adventure sports.

The face of e27, Mohan Belani is the Co-Founder and Director of e27 at Optimatic Pte. Ltd., where he also runs Asia's leading web technology event, Echelon. Apart from events, he runs all business development and strategic partnership related activities. Mohan Belani is the also the co-founder of Gokil Games, a startup focused on the social gaming industry. Mohan Belani is an avid fan of Skyrim and loves mountain climbing. He loves meeting new people, anytime anywhere.

Khailee Ng is Venture Partner at 500 Startups, a Silicon Valley based global seed fund and startup accelerator, overseeing a $10 Million micro-fund to invest in the next generation of Southeast Asia's most promising startups. He is also the co-founder of 2 of successful startups: GroupsMore, a company acquired by Groupon, and SAYS.com, acquired by Catcha Group.

Maria A. Ressa is a Filipino journalist, CEO and Chief Editor of Rappler. Maria has been a journalist in Asia for more than 25 years, most of them as CNN’s bureau chief in Manila then Jakarta. She became CNN’s lead investigative reporter focusing on terrorism in Southeast Asia.

Minette Navarrete is the President of Kickstart Ventures, Inc., the corporate venture capital subsidiary of Globe Telecom. She is a member of the Ayala Corporation’s Innovation Advisory Council, and of Globe’s Innovation Advisory Board, and is concurrently Vice-Chairman of Yondu, Globe’s wholly-owned technology solutions company. She is also a Senior Vice President at Globe Telecom. Minette has held a number of CEO/COO positions in various industries, ranging from Philippine startups to iconic global companies.

With 8 years of real estate experience in the Philippines, Chow started her career with Rockwell Land, a luxury real estate developer. Rockwell constantly sent Chow to the United States as Sales Manager to lead its international team of sales agents. She then continued her career with newly established real estate developer Arthaland Corp. as its Sales Director, and led an entire division of the company’s in-house sales agents. Chow is also a practicing Licensed Real Estate Broker specializing in selling properties at prime areas like Makati, and Bonifacio Global City. She has been leading top sales teams and by experience has an extensive understanding of buyer behavior, sales people skill optimization, and the real estate sales process in the Philippines. She graduated from De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Plug and Play Tech Center is a Silicon Valley based tech startup accelerator, which he started in January 2006, and built a community of 350+ tech startups, 200+ angel investors, 150+ VC investors, 200+ large tech corporations and service partners, 50+ domestic and international universities, and numerous experts in various technology fields.

I'm now the Developer Evangelist at SMART.com.ph - check out SMART's APIs at http://developer.smart.com.ph - I'm also a startup evangelist for IdeaSpaceFoundation.org and co-founded SMARTDevNet (SMART Developer Network) - the Philippines fastest growing developer community as of 2014 with Jim Ayson. If you're looking for developers - join us at http://facebook.com/groups/smartdevnet and follow us @smartdevnet . Past Middle East Experience: Experienced Company Set-up Specialist, Project Manager, Project Discovery/Integration/Proponent, OD/HR Consultant, Web Integration, Strategic Innovator, Content Management/Delivery Platforms, BPO (Financial Accounts, Content & Office Management),Past Middle East Specialties: Trans-National partnerships, executive search, prototyping and pilot project facilitation of new business models in both post-conflict (Afghanistan) and First World (Dubai,UAE) countries. Also BPO between Central Asia and Middle East, government liaison, arts & media management/Creative Commons consulting

Christina serves as Founder and Managing Director of Alquemie Partners, a management consulting firm providing hands on operations consulting and advisory services to early stage and growth companies. Her career includes 13 years as a branded consumer, life sciences and technology banker FBR Capital Markets, East Peak Advisors and Pacific Growth Equities; and three years in equity research at Hambrecht & Quist LLC. She has participated in both M&A and capital raise helping raise in excess of $2.0 billion. Christina also serves as President of the Science & Technology Advisory Council - Silicon Valley, a non-profit focused on promoting a tech entrepreneurship focused ecosystem in the Philippines to support startup activity in the country. STAC SV is the creator and organizer of the nationwide ON3 Business Pitch Competition. In June 2012 STAC SV became a partner of the U.S. Department of State’s Global Entrepreneurship Program. In October 2012, the European Union – United Nations Joint Migration and Development Initiative announced that ON3 would be highlighted in the 2013 Global Mapping report.

Atty. Josephine Joy D. Caneba, EBA served as a Corporate Secretary at Philippine Business Bank, Inc. Atty. Caneba served as Company Secretary at Liberty Flour Mills Inc. Atty. Caneba served as Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary of Oriental Peninsula Resources Group Inc. Atty. Caneba served as Corporate Secretary of Globalport 900, Inc. from March 24, 2008 to August 2011 and its Corporate Information Officer until August 2011. She srved as Corporate Secretary of Century Peak Metals Holdings Corp. She is an Associate at Feria Tantoco Robeniol Santiago Law Offices. She finished her degree in Bachelor of Laws at the University of Santo Tomas in 2005.

Mon Ibrahim is the Deputy Executive Director of Information and Communications Technology Office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-ICTO). He was cited for his work in Government, primarily in the implementation of the Philippine Cyber Corridor Initiative, which aims to make the Philippines the Global for IT-BPO services. He was also instrumental in sustaining the development of the Philippine cyberservices industry and led marketing initiatives in promoting the Philippine IT-BPO brand worldwide

Iam the President of BalstAsia. As an active member of Philippines Software Industry Association (PSIA), over last several terms as elected board member, I have been trying to give back my time and learnings to help strengthen and grow the industry, through this 170 plus corporate members of the industry association.

Farouk Meralli is the current Chief Executive Officer of mClinica, Inc.; a fast growing mobile health startup providing innovative solutions for pharmaceutical companies operating in emerging markets. He is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Borderless World Volunteers. He was the Director of the New Product Commercialization in Roche in the year 2011, the Consultant in Operations in Pfizer in 2010, the Consultant in Strategy in Johnson & Johnson in 2009-2010, the Consultant in Policy in Executive Office of Health and Human Services in 2009, the Co-founder in WholeVisit.com, and the Analyst in Strategic Pricing in Sanofi-aventis in 2008-2009.

He has lived in the United States for 9 years where he finished his bachelors degree in Finance from Portland State University. He continued onto his masters degree in Engineering Technology Management but decided to return home to Mongolia. He had amazing opportunities to develop numerous companies and client services. Throughout his life, he was fortunate to learn and work with many global leaders and firms. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and startups.

Jay is Founder and CEO of Proudcloud, an agile Ruby development firm based in Manila. He has been a tech entrepreneur since the mid 80's and runs Roofcamp, a regular gathering that hopes to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship at the grass roots. Jay's most recent startup cycle was Airborne Access, a Wi-Fi hotspot network founded in 2002 and acquired by PLDT/SMART in 2008.

Rico Sta. Cruz is a web developer helping make the world a better place through JavaScript, Ruby, and UI design.

Janette Toral is the site owner of DigitalFilipino.com She currently serves her community in the DigitalFilipino Club and the public at large through training and consulting in the area of e-commerce, digital marketing, blog campaign, and the likes.

Senator Bam Aquino is the youngest senator of the 16th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and is a world-renowned social entrepreneur. He currently chairs the Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship and the Senate Committee on Youth.

Scott Robinson is the Founder & Director of Plug and Play FinTech, a startup accelerator program in partnership with Citi, Capital One, USAA, Intuit, JCB, Assurant and a number of other global corporations.
Through both the program and individually, he have invested in early stage startups, including 37coins, Bitwage, Blockscore, ChangeTip, Pavilion, Purse.IO and SFOX. His objective in this role is to find, fund, optimize and expedite startups' approach to market while connecting the teams to top-tier investors and Fortune 500 companies.
Over the past five years he have worked inside and outside of startups, developing networks and relationships to help mold the future of the financial and educational sectors of the world.

Yosuke Fukada is Founder & CEO of YOYO Holdings Pte. Ltd. and YOYO Philippines. Prior to YOYO, Yosuke joined DeNA, one of Japan’s largest mobile platform operators. Since then he has been deeply involved in the field of ecommerce at various capacities including sales, marketing and system development. During his tenure, he participated in the creation of an innovative business targeting the B2B market. Upon release of this service, he switched to being a project leader, and led the development of its new functionalities. Following this, he was a project manager for “DeNA Shopping”, an online shopping site with yearly transaction volumes in the order of few hundred million dollars. He has experience leading service planning and marketing within the larger business development efforts of DeNA.
Yosuke has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, all from Osaka University.

Mark pineda has over 13 years of experience providing accounting, auditing and advisory services to public and private companies, both start–up and established companies that have multinational operations, in an array of industries within the united states and abroad. Mark’s key service and industry focus areas include high technology, retailing, manufacturing, real estate and hospitality, professional services and distribution. He worked for more than 7 years with Ernst & Young in the United States and abroad. Mark has extensive experience assisting companies related to outsourcing of accounting services, business process analysis and documentation, initial public offerings, private placements, and merger and acquisitions. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy (Cum Laude), University of the Philippines.

Jupe is overall responsible for international initiatives at Plug and Play, which includes the Plug and Play Accelerator programs for international startups as well as partnerships with multi-national corporations and governments from around the world. He also drives the international expansion and other strategic initiatives for Plug and Play

Dexter is a graduate of UP Diliman Major in Philosophy. He earned also a degree in Law and MBA in DLSU-FEU dual degree program. He's an advocate of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) education for the masses and believes that science should become a way of thinking of people and not just a body of knowledge taught in schools for a country, like the Philippines, to prosper.

See Mei is the head designer of Piktochart. A designer by tertiary education with stats and biologist background. An infographic specialist from analysing data to designing them into interesting story. She is also dreamer who believes in fairytale and magical unicorns. During her free time she loves photographing sunrise/sunset and her cookings!

Tonyo's works on mobile, web and social has taken him through: the parliament of the streets; Congress; the presidential elections; citizens' tech-powered responses to calamities and elections; a netizens' Supreme Court petition against a draconian cybercrime law; and stints with the country's leading creative and digital agencies.

A FinTech investment professional who serves as a start up mentor at Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Jon is also on the venture investment team at USAA; with nearly $500M in committed capital, the team manages direct investments in Software, Security, IoT, Consumer, and Financial Services technology companies. Jon led USAA’s investment in the $75M Series C funding for Coinbase in January 2015. Additionally, Jon co-founded USAA’s internal Blockchain Working Group designed to identify and to develop extensions of Blockchain technology for internal use.Prior to joining USAA, Jon worked for Intel Corporation and Deloitte Consulting, LLP. While at Intel, Jon managed a portfolio of early-stage internal ventures designed to provide non-core organic revenue growth. During his tenure at Deloitte Consulting, Jon worked with numerous private and public sector clients concentrating on strategic management, process reengineering, and systems modernization and integration. Jon holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and International Business from New York University, an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and has completed Level I of the CFA program.

He is currently a Venture Partner at 500 Startups, heading up our side micro-VC fund, 500Kimchi, focused on Korean startups. He spend about half of his time traveling mainly to Seoul, but he is based in SF.

Bikesh is the co-founder of iTrain, South East Asia’s No 1 tech training centre. He pioneered mobile development trainings in the region and has major universities licensing their development programmes in Malaysia and throughout SEA. iTrain is one of the first Google Web Academy's in the world and actively conducts iOS education outreach programmes for Apple.

Birthdate: November 12, 1971.Religion: Roman Catholic.Member: Lions Club (Bataan Chapter) International Knights of Columbus (Bataan).Post-Graduate: De La Salle University Graduate School of Business(1999-present) Masters in Business Administration.

He is an American living in Tokyo, working for IP Nexus (ipnexus.com), a legaltech startup that provides a marketplace for innovation and intellectual property, connecting inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, universities and companies with experts who can help them protect their inventions and build successful businesses.

At the age of 16, he started his first e-commerce business, a field where he is very passionate about. Today,he is part of a very exciting Fintech startup, PawnHero – the 1st Online Pawnshop in Southeast Asia. Recently PawnHero won e27's title "Most Promising Startup 2015 in Asia"​ at Echelon.

In 2007, he established Triple i Consulting Inc. whose core competencies lay in Regulatory Compliance and Consulting for the following sectors; Food and Drug, Environmental, Accounting and Finance, and Corporate Compliance. Facing a growing demand from an existing client base in January of 2013 he founded Salarium Ltd which is tackling the global payroll industry. With thousands of users already on board in the Philippines they are beginning our international expansion next year.Besides Triple i Consulting and Salarium, he spend a small percentage of my time working on various companies and projects, sitting on the board of and mentoring start ups.

Justin Hall is Principal at Golden Gate Ventures. He is a scholar from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, having specialised in entrepreneurship policy, and graduated with Honours at Trinity College Dublin in History and Political Science. In addition to his responsibilities at Golden Gate Ventures, Justin has organized a number of community building events, including SuperHappyDevHouse.sg, WalkAbout.sg, and FailCon.sg. Before Golden Gate Ventures, Justin was previously an Account Manager for Rakuten LinkShare Corporation, based in New York, and managed online e-commerce sales for prominent web-based retailers and service providers. Justin is a New York transplant and fitness fanatic, as well as a huge fan of Chicken Rice and kopi gau.

Richard is with RTI International, a non-profit research and technical services company headquartered in North Carolina, USA. He is currently the Research and Industry Partnerships Manager of the STRIDE (Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation for Development) Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), working towards enhanced technical collaborations between industry and academe in the Philippines. Activities he manages under the program include Innovation Workshops and Faculty Immersions in Industry which foster joint projects for academics with industry partners toward innovative products and solutions.

Dr. David Hall is the Chief of Party for the USAID Science, Technology, Research, and Innovation for Development (STRIDE) Program. He has more than 30 years of professional experience specializing in engineering, science, and technology. He is experienced in the start-up, funding, accreditation, and management of new university programs and centers. He has served as Dean of Computing and Engineering at universities in the United Kingdom and in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He has also served as the Director of the Appropriate Technology Center at Kenyatta University in Kenya. More recently, he was Chief of Party for the USAID/Liberia Excellence in Higher Education for Liberian Development (EHELD) Project. In universities, he has supervised 6 research PhDs, has 50 publications and has generated or managed grant and private-sector funding in excess of US$30 million.

Zsolt is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with several successful startups under his belt. He joined his first startup in 1998 where he established the first digital media agency in Hungary which was acquired by Austrian digital media group Red-Stars. After spending 10 award rich years in digital and classical advertising working for major brands like Pepsi, EoN Energy and Music Television, he re-joined the startup ecosystem by co-founding WebCam Laboratory. WCL is webcam based digital learning software acquired by Intel Education and pre-installed on millions of Intel based learning platforms world wide. After exiting WCL, Zsolt worked as a consultant for Venture Capital firms and that is how he got involved with multicopter/drone technology. Being infected with this exciting technology, he went as far as setting up a professional aerial filmography gig working for Hollywood productions called Aircamfilm and a website catering to drone enthusiasts called Dronethusiast.com (which is one of the top drone news sites in the world). He enjoys traveling, working out and flying one of his quadcopters in as many locations as possible.

Randall is a serial entrepreneur and a robotics enthusiast. In the early years of his professional career, he went on to build a company that provided services to private and U.S. government sector developing unmanned systems. He is currently CEO of Mayon Studios, an innovation incubator that seeks to nurture bleeding-edge ideas and turn them into successful business startups.

Digital Naturalist (12 years of life and research across multiple startup ecosystems), Pro Speaker (over 150 talks across 21 countries), Startup Therapist (mentor to 6 accelerators), Angel Investor (10 investments, half in Asia). Benjamin is a leading expert on digital innovation in Asia with 12 years experience across China, Japan, South Korea and SE Asia. He is also the founder of the Asia-focused digital research consultancy +8* (www.plus8star.com). He is also frequently quoted in media (Forbes, The Economist, CNN, AdAge, VentureBeat, TechCrunch). Benjamin is a Startup Mentor at 500 Startups (US), YetiZen (US), Founder Institute (Global), JFDI (Singapore), Gamma Rebels (Poland), and of course the one and only Chinaccelerator (China).

Ebihara is Founding General Partner of Rebright Partners, Venture Capital invests in Internet sector in SE Asia and India. Ebihara has been in the industry 20 years as Venture Capitalist, as well as serial entrepreneur founded and managed several internet companies himself includes stock-ex listed public company.

Thomas' world is entrepreneurs and tech startups with everything involved. He's coming from a technology background and spent more than 16 years re-thinking, designing, building web applications and tasted all kinds of flavors of technology in various industries. He built products, teams and companies in Germany, the US, Panama and Singapore and am currently proudly mentoring at Asia's leading tech incubators and venture firms, such as JFDI, Jungle Ventures and Sequoia and is angeling in selected cases himself. He's the organizer of Southeast Asia's most influential web/mobile developer and design conferences for the 4th time:http://jsconf.asia and http://cssconf.asia. His specialty is UX/product design, web tech, development processes, automation and culture.

Dmitry is an Internet investor and entrepreneur. Dmitry has backed over 25 internet companies including market leading companies such as ivi.ru (the “Netflix of Russia”), Chope.co (Asia’s leading restaurant reservation service), profi.ru (largest service marketplace in Russia and CIS), and Expert360.com, a leading global marketplace for high end consulting services. In 2007-2010, Dmitry served as Managing Partner of ru-Net (www.ru-net.ru), a global venture fund with $700m under management. In 2009, Dmitry co-founded ivi.ru, the leader in the Russian online video market (c. 30 million users).

Design Ninja and Star Wars fan girl currently based in Singapore. I have an obsession with all things aesthetically beautiful and seamlessly functional. That obsession also extends to sci-fi, tech and nerdy goodness. I work with awesome startups on branding and UI/UX design for websites and mobile apps. Hit me up if you'd like to build cool stuff together or if you just want to talk about Star Wars.

Beryl is the Senior Consultant for the Philippine Roadmap on Digital Innovation commissioned by the DOST-ICTO and the private sector. As an Entrepreneur, she sat as Director for S.E Asia at SeedAsia, an investment startup based in Shanghai looking into early stage tech companies across China and South East Asia. Beryl co-authored the Philippine Startup Report and shortly worked on leading the World Startup Report team into launching Wiki reports for various startup ecosystems. She previously joined the Coins.ph team towards its mission accelerating financial inclusion through the blockchain technology.Beryl completed her Bachelor’s Degree in International Business, Finance and Economics at the University of Manchester and earned an International Management certificate over a quarter at Stanford University. She will be pursuing her Masters Degree in Finance at the University of Cambridge this fall.

Binh Tran is the co-founder of Klout, Inc. and is a serial entrepreneur. Binh’s background is technology but after the acquisition of Klout and years of angel investing under his belt, he's joined 500 Startups as a Venture Partner and is looking forward to supporting the vibrant Vietnamese startup ecosystem. Binh serves on the board of OneVietnam, a Ford Foundation supported nonprofit based in San Francisco, California. Binh also serves as a startup advisor to Chute and 100Plus as well as a mentor for the Women Innovate Mobile and ARK Challenge accelerator programs.

John is an entrepreneur with global experience in developed and emerging markets, playing a key advisory and investment role in startups as well as enterprise growth and diversification planning. Highly regarded for driving offshore delivery and regional business development for high-growth companies, as well as identifying IP, talent and market opportunities in early-stage ventures.

Eddie is a venture partner with 500 Startups in Southeast Asia, focused especially on Vietnam-connected startups. He has prior experience in strategy and M&A for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 corporations across tech, media & entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, and manufacturing. He was recently recognized on Forbes Vietnam’s inaugural 30 Under 30 List. He received degrees from Harvard and Yale, and serves as Asia Director for the Harvard Alumni Association.

Andrea Levinge is the 27-year-old Technical Director of White Widget. Andrea previously graduated from Ateneo de Manila University in 2011 and worked in New York as a lead software engineer before she took the reins of her current mobile gaming startup. She has had a passion for all things tech, creating commercial web projects since age 12. She's passionate about Android, iOS, numerous web technologies, U/X design and loves video games. She also sings in a jazz band, cosplays, writes music, performs poetry, tinkers with electronics kits and is a member of Mensa.

Earning his position as the head of ICT Research and Development after 29 years of experience in PLDT, Joey has encouraged innovation and paved the way for future communications through leading his team into generating new technologies and solutions serving both the local enterprise and global market. Other than his contributions to the telecommunications industry, he is also an entrepreneur himself and has undeniable passion for traveling, various watersports and music.

Koichi Saito is a founder & General Partner of KK Fund, a Singapore based VC fund investing in Seed Stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia. Koichi previously worked at IMJ Investment Partners as Director and responsible for IMJ's investments throughout Southeast Asia such as iMoney, mClinica and Zipmatch. Prior to IMJ, He worked at Private Equity Fund founded by George Soros, and was engaged in several corporate and hotel acquisitions. Koichi holds a Master of Business Administration degree from IE business school in Spain.

Matthew Cua is a young innovator who believes that creating sustainable technologies and business models is the key to progress. His background in both business management and science allows him a deeper understanding and a multi-perspective approach towards business process modeling and tech development. Matthew thrives and enjoys in places where things are chaotic and where there are more unknowns than known variables. This is reflected in the different work he has taken up since then.