Étiquette : emerging markets

innovfest unbound, Southeast Asia's biggest innovation opportunity

Asia is taking centre stage as the laboratory of the world, where new trends, tech and behaviour are shaping the way business is done. innovfest unbound, happening from 5 to 6 June 2018 is the perfect opportunity to experience and understand these new developments emerging from Asia. As the flagship event of Smart Nation Innovations […]

Grow Asia Hackathon Enables Corporate Collaboration

Digitalisation is impacting every industry today with agriculture as an especially ripe opportunity, given limited innovative developments in recent years. Therefore, to leverage on the digital, technical and enterprise talent available in Asia, a hackathon called the Grow Asia Hackathon (« Hackathon ») was devised. It sets out to address the productivity, profitability and sustainability challenges faced […]

How will New Retail impact Asia?

We had the opportunity to attend the « New Retail » Asia Forum from 16 – 17 January 2018. Focused on « customer-led omni-channel digital retail« , the event brought together 120 business leaders from different stakeholders in the retail environment with companies like P&G, Walmart, Tencent and Alibaba. CHECK OUT OUR 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE EVENT: 1.NEW RETAIL […]

FoodTech's 2 Key Impacts in Asia-Pacific

FoodTech and AgriTech startups were the key focus of the Future Food Asia Award 2017, offering an opportunity to look into the developing challenges towards the sustainable production of food in Asia as well as globally. Launched by ID Capital, and supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board and American food processing and commodities corporation […]

Future Food Asia 2017 : Join us to see game-changing AgriTech & FoodTech startups!

Food security is a key issue in today’s world, especially in Asia, where there’s an expected boom in the middle class, changing consumer patterns as well as increasing scarcity of arable land due to climate change. Future Food Asia is one of the emerging players in innovation for technological developments in agriculture as well as […]

What to remember from SXSW 2017? [Download Full Trends Report]

  South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual film, music, interactive media and conference-packed festival launched in 1987 and held in Austin, Texas (US). It has become an important place for startups to gain momentum. Indeed, over 50% of attendees from organisations are key decision-making individuals, and 63% of attendees are looking for new business opportunities […]

Industry 4.0 : Asia as the Factory of the Future

Asia is recognized as the manufacturing hub of the world.  Many Western corporations have migrated their manufacturing activities to China and other Asian countries to lower their labor cost. Asia could therefore be a strong driving force for the Industrial IoT market (IIoT) which some are calling the Industry 4.0 revolution. Countries such as Singapore and China are embracing […]

Hospitality in Asia : Hotels and Startups Are Reinventing Accommodation

Hospitality in Asia is about to be reinvented. What was once a market dominated by hotel conglomerates is now undergoing change with start-ups actively redefining the recipe for a satisfactory accommodation experience. Certainly, the revolutionary accommodation experience from Airbnb has paved the way for other enterprises that focus on hospitality in Asia. The region has […]