Should you go to Inside China Summit in Shanghai & Hangzhou?
Important info about Inside China Summit Held in Shanghai & Hangzhou and on the 26th-29th 2015 Led by an independent advisory firm, it is a network for entrepreneurs and more to overcome the challenges of the digital transformation. Topics that were covered are Digital Innovation, Chinese User Behaviour. Past experiences at Inside China Summit Past speakers […]
Should you go to Web In Travel 2015 in Singapore?
Important info about Web In Travel 2015 Held in Singapore and on the 19th-21st of October 2015. The cost of attending this event is S$2,488. Opportunity to explore the disruptions to the travel industry and key elements leading the change. Topics that were covered are Personalisation, Travel Start-ups and Copycats. Past experiences at Web In Travel Travel […]
Should you go to Financial Services Marketing in Hong Kong?
Important info about Financial Services Marketing Financial Services Marketing will be held in Hong Kong and on the 5th of November 2015. The cost of attending this event is US$1,000. A forum which gathers CMOs, Marketing Directors and Heads of Marketing from Banks, Asset Management and Insurance companies to keep up to date with the latest […]
Startup Weekend Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina has been the most prolific tech hub in Latin America for the last 20 years. Actually, most of the largest tech companies of Latin America are from Argentina. In the early 2000’s, the 10 top tech companies were all Argentinians. Even lately, 4 of them are still argentinian according to Martin Vivás, facilitator at […]
Meeting with the Uruguayan developer community at TechMeetUp Uruguay
One would not expect such a small country as Uruguay to be of interest when it comes to technology matters. We actually got proven it’s a start-up scene to look at very closely in the future after attending TechmeetUp, one of the main event of the local tech community, gathering most developers, hackers and tech […]
Places of Innovation – How tech giants, hackerspaces and corporates shape new places to foster innovation
The first Coworking Unconference of Asia was the opportunity for us to showcase part of the work we’ve done over the last 18 months around the world. One topic we have been exploring during our trips is the design of what we’ve called “Places of Innovation”. How do corporates create new places where their teams […]
Meet the 24 FrenchPitch startups who pitched at CES in Las Vegas
Here’s a quick wrap-up of several French (and non-French) startups who pitched at the FrenchPitch event, organized by EPC Digital, and part of the broader #FrenchTech umbrella. It’s like the appetizer of a longer program which will take us in a tour of the Downtown Project, an initiative powered by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and […]
The best of Brazilian startups at Futurecom competition
The 2014 edition of Latin America’s biggest ICT exhibition, Futurecom, took place in São Paulo in Brazil. As such, it was the occasion for all the big players involved in the country’s telecom market, such as Ericsson, Dell, HP, Qualcomm, Telefonica, Huawei or Algar Telecom, to meet, present their new products, talk about the evolutions […]
Innovation Xtreme: Let’s go visit Bangladesh’s nascent startup ecosystem
A friend of mine told me, a few months ago, to watch Startup Dhaka, a documentary freely available on Youtube presenting the tech scene of Bangladesh’s capital city. Just take a look at the video, and you know why I’m extremely excited to go there next week to attend Innovation Xtreme, their main tech festival, […]
The best of ConDatos, the top Open Data event of Latin America
Last week, a most important serie of Open Data events took place in Mexico City. The biggest megacity of the whole American continent was chosen to hold the second edition regional conference for Open Data: ConDatos, after the success of the 2013 edition in Uruguay. The main exhibition was enhanced by many parallel conferences, meetings, […]
