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🎧 Deep Dive: Asia’s crypto fever

As blockchain-related projects gather steam across Asia, the region’s countries are adopting crypto in unique ways. While Vietnam’s strong gaming culture has driven its crypto boom, India’s NFT gold rush has been powered by Bollywood film stars. However, regulation is still a tough nut to crack across the region.

🎧 Opportunities Abound in Emerging Asia, with Herald van der Linde, HSBC

This podcast episode was released to premium subscribers on Feb. 9. To become a premium subscriber and take advantage of a host of other benefits, visit Contrarian.Supercast.com or ContrarianPod.substack.com and sign up! Herald van der Linde, head of Asia equity strategy for HSBC in Hong Kong, joins the podcast to discuss opportunities in emerging Asia.

🎧 S03E30: From ex-AWS Engineer and ex-Bukalapak SVP of Engineering to Full Time Angel Investor, Tech Due Diligence, and Emerging Tech Trends in Southeas

We’re back with another episode in partnership with Insignia Ventures Academy. We went on call with another mentor who not only has been helping out with the program, but has also been a participant of the first cohort: startup advisor, angel investor, ex-Bukalapak and Amazon engineering leader Mohammed Alabsi.

🎧 035. Becoming a Lead Data Scientist with Ivan, Lead Data Scientist @ Tech in Asia

This week we invited Ivan who is a Lead Data Scientist at Tech in Asia. Ivan has a unique set of technical competencies, project management, interpersonal skills and problem solving abilities. He is also experienced in deploying scalable machine learning systems, data engineering pipelines, dashboards and delivering actionable insights through the use of statistics and data visualization.

🎧 Biden’s China policy needs to be more than “Trump lite:” A conversation with Jeff Bader

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeff Bader, who served as senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council during the first years of the Obama presidency, until 2011. Now a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute, Jeff was deeply involved in U.

🎧 Taking Asian real estate assets to another level in 2022

In an era of generally steep pricing, the focus is on real estate quality to cater to a variety of specific cultural and geographical requirements. Jose Pellicer and Richard van den Berg explore this, plus the nuances of doing business in Asia Pacific – and much more in the latest episode.    Host: Romil Patel, Editorial Manager Speakers: Jose Pellicer, Head of Investment Strategy & Richard van den Berg, Manager – Asia Pacific Property Strategy, M&G Real Estate.

🎧 Jeep Kline: Global Citizen, Emerging Market Opportunities & Supporting Underdogs

Jeep Kline is a Partner of MrPink VC, an impact venture fund targeting South American entrepreneurs. She recently founded SeaSky Lab, a project that bridges knowledge and resources from Silicon Valley to Asia for tech entrepreneurs. An advisor to several incubation programs, she is UC Berkeley Skydeck’s lead ambassador to 48 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

🎧 Evolution of Media Coverage in Asia with Terence Lee and Jon Russell

Fresh out of the studio, Terence Lee and Jon Russell, two editors from well-known technology news outlets, joined us in a roundtable to discuss the evolution of media coverage in Asia in the past decade and offered their perspectives on what the future of media coverage would look like in the next decade.

🎧 Mind Your Business: Up and coming consumer tech trends in Asia

WGSN, the world’s leading consumer trend forecaster, recently announced the launch of its new Consumer Tech vertical.The asset is designed to help brands and marketers in Asia decode what the future of consumer tech holds, better predict their consumers’ needs, innovate and create meaningful consumer-first products and experiences catered to Asian consumers.

🎧 ATP164: Graham Brown – Welcome to The Asian Century (Report Part 1/4 Asia Matters)

– If you want to understand the rise of Asia’s Tech Ecosystem look to the Megacities covered in the new Asia Matters Report as the engines of growth, not the countries.- Asia is big, but we didn’t realise how “big” it really was until we got out there, boots on the ground and did out research for this report.

🎧 From the Archives: Conversations with Richard Armitage, Kurt Tong, and Senator Jack Reed

Ahead of the 50th episode of the Asia Chessboard, we thought we would take a look back at some of our favorite conversations with key players from the past two and a half years. The first conversation is with Ambassador Richard Armitage, in which he and Mike grade the U.S., Japanese, and Chinese grand strategies in Asia.

🎧 EP 146 – Kevin Angelini – Head of Strategy & M&A, Asia Pacific – Zurich Insurance – Customers Want Processes to Be Easy and Seamless

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Kevin Angelini, the head of strategy and M&A for Asia Pacific at Zurich Insurance about the Zurich Innovation Championship and how startups can work with insurance incumbents.  Here is the transcript of our conversation.  Michael Waitze   Okay, we are on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to […]

🎧 S2E44 : Know the “Why” In Your Career : Jill Tang Serial Entrepreneur, Community Builder and Women in STEM advocate

Season 2, Episode 44 : Know the “Why” In Your Career : Jill Tang Serial Entrepreneur, Community Builder and Women in STEM advocate Description: Finding purpose in one’s career is a struggle for many people. Jayzen’s guest this week, Jill Tang, has built an incredible career and opened doors for women in tech across Asia by truly understanding her purpose and staying true to it everyday.

🎧 Graham Brown, technologist, award-winning podcast host, and storyteller, shares what entrepreneurs need to know to create better pitch decks

Graham Brown,  storyteller extraordinaire, has traveled the world learning about work, culture, and technology. He’s a cognitive psychologist with a passion for AI but also a student of history and art who is on a personal mission to link the present and future with great stories from the past. Graham’s also the CEO of Pikkal, a podcast agency, and the host of the Asia Tech Podcast.

🎧 How China’s Blockchain Technology is Causing Restlessness in the US | Paul Schulte & Zain Jaffer

Paul Schulte is the founder and editor of Schulte Research, a company that does research on banks, financial technology, bank algorithms, and credit algorithms. He has had a career in equity research which spans 27 years on both the buy and sell sides covering the Asian and emerging markets.  He also has 5 years of government policy experience in emerging markets.

🎧 61: Leong CheeTung on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement

Leong CheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, the fastest-growing Asian people analytics tech company that helps businesses improve talent retention and productivity. Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was Regional Director of Gallup in Southeast Asia. He read Economics at the University of Cambridge and has an MA in Political Science from Columbia University under the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS).

🎧 Respectable Gains in 2022 for Asia-Pacific Markets

Though uncertainties ranging from COVID-19 variants to rising inflationary pressures continue to beset investors, Credit Suisse thinks that markets in the Asia-Pacific may see decent gains. Dan Fineman, Credit Suisse’s Co-Head of Asia Pacific Equity Strategy, spoke to us on Prime Time about Credit Suisse’s outlook, why they like ASEAN markets and bank, and if Omicron has altered their views in the last 2 weeks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎧 Asia Bitesize Antitrust Podcast // Corporate M&A // Episode 5: Singapore

Our Asia Head of TMT Adrian Fisher joins Marcus Pollard in a discussion exploring the impact of digitalisation and the increasing interaction between the emerging regulatory winds on data and competition law in Singapore and in the region. Starting with an overview of how both antitrust and privacy regulators are responding actively to the use and protection of consumer data, our experts share their insights on the potential antitrust risks associated with the technology sector’s commercial practice and what the prevalence of “self-preferencing” in recent EU cases can mean to tech busine

🎧 #23: Jeremy Au, Monk’s Hill Ventures – The Balance Between Possibility vs Probability and Who Is The 1 in 40?

Jeremy Au (区汉辉) is a VC at Monk’s Hill Ventures who invests in fellow founders who will transform millions of lives. He also spearheads MHV’s key initiatives from venture scouts to thought leadership. Jeremy hosts BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech, a global top 10% podcast interviewing trailblazing founders, investors, and rising stars.

🎧 The emerging importance of Disaster Tech in SEA – Donald Kanak, Prudence Foundation

According to a 2019 report by the UN Economic and Social Council, The Asia-Pacific region has long been affected by disasters. Since 1970, two million people have been killed in disasters – 59 per cent of the global death toll.  The principal causes of deaths due to natural hazards in the Asia-Pacific region were earthquakes and storms, followed by floods.

🎧 #133 What You Learn from Decluttering – Graham Brown

About my Guest: Graham is the founder of Pikkal & Co – Award Winning Podcast Agency – an AI Powered, Data Driven B2B Podcast Agency in Singapore and The Podcast Accelerator – a Mastermind of thought leadership podcast hosts. He is a published author on the subject of The Digital Transformation of Communication, works including “The Human Communication Playbook”, “The Mobile Youth: Voices of the Connected Generation” – documenting the rise of mobile culture in the early 2000s in Japan, China, Africa and India and “Brand Love – How to Build a Brand Worth Talking About”.

🎧 Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Taiwan as a tech, not only a hardware hub with Mark Hsu from GD1 VC fund

In this episode of the Asia Pacific Series, Angela Conroy spoke to Mark Hsu, a serial entrepreneur and a tech VC investor based in Taipei, Taiwan – partner at GD1 VC Fund (Global from Day 1) about transforming Taiwan into a leading tech hub in Asia beyond manufacturing.

🎧 The Best Way to Grow Your Startup in Asia with Top VC: William Bao Bean

The tech community in Asia is calling for founders’ stories. So, here it is: get insider knowledge from one of the best in biz. William, the general partner at SOSV (the most active global venture capital firm), set up MOX: a mobile only accelerator that connects internet companies.  Host Amber gets down to the root of William’s recent promising investments, finding your perfect market fit & doing smart business in China.

🎧 US elections: What will a Biden presidency mean for Asia?

How will president-elect Biden’s policies impact businesses in Asia? Host Jason Wincuinas, senior editor at The EIU speaks to Ashley Feng, independent researcher and former research associate for the Energy, Economics, and Security program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), and Nick Marro, Lead Analyst for Global Trade at The EIU, about Biden’s policies and what it means for Asia and businesses in Asia.

🎧 BONUS EP: Capitalism for Good, feat. David Lee from AppHarvest and Impossible Foods

Can capitalism be a force for good? David Lee left the traditional corporate world to work for some of the most bullish startup companies in agrifood tech, including Impossible Foods and AppHarvest, where he was appointed the company’s President earlier this year. David did this out of a belief that the levers of capitalism and consumerism are the fastest ways to transform the food system.

🎧 Ep 020 Interview with Stephen Lai, Founder & Managing & Director at Conventus Law and VP – Legal Sector Solutions at Zegal

In episode 20 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your podcast host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Stephen Lai, Founder and Managing Director of Conventus Law and VP – Legal Sector Solutions at Zegal. Stephen, based in Hong Kong, is a keen observer of the market for legal tech solutions throughout Asia.

🎧 Interview: The Australian suburb becoming the tech capital of Asia

Australia’s start-up boom keeps going from strength to strength with global powerhouses Afterpay, Atlassian and Canva leading the way. Now venture capital firm King River Capital believes Australia, and one area in particular, is becoming the Palo Alto of Asia. Founding partner Zeb Rice explains. Support the show: See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎧 Emerging Trends Pt 1/3: SMART CITIES & 5G w/ Bernard Leong Interviewing CRA

Part 1 of a 3-part series on emerging trends in Asia’s tech ecosystem. In Part 1, we look at how the Smart Cities & 5G are progressing – and we have a special guest – me. The host becomes the guest – and we have a special guest host as well, Analyse Asia’s Bernard Leong. Parts 2 and 3 of the Emerging Trends series we will have Bernard joining us as the guest to discuss a range of topics, including drones, AI, digital transformation, crypto, NFTs and what the hell is going on in China.

🎧 Southeast Asia and China: Too Close for Comfort?

Southeast Asia is becoming an increasingly important geopolitical battleground – and so this week, we put the region’s complex relations with China in the spotlight.  Although many ASEAN nations have deepened their economic ties with Beijing in recent years, there remains a fair bit of wariness towards China’s expansion of interests in the region.

🎧 Anvesh Ramineni (Managing Director, MassMutual Ventures) | SEA, India & Healthcare Investing

Anvesh is a Managing Director at MassMutual Ventures (MMV) and co-heads MMV’s investment efforts in Asia. Prior to MMV, Anvesh was a Director and Head of Investments at Openspace Ventures, where he was part of the founding team. He started his career at Citi in the TMT Investment Banking team, during which he spent around 8 years in Hong Kong and Mumbai on M&A and financial advisory work with clients in the APAC region.

🎧 Ethereum up before Altair upgrade

Ethereum is up before today’s network upgrade which should make its network faster and more energy-efficient, and may even lead to lower fees for users. The so-called Altair upgrade is another step in helping Ethereum transition away from the energy-hungry proof-of-work to energy-light proof-of-stake protocol when Ethereum 2.

🎧 Being More Human: An Interview With Graham Brown – Part 1

“If you’ve grown up not wanting to make mistakes because that was beaten out of you in the system, or if you’ve grown up trying to be perfect in your appearance, all of that is tough. Now you have to go onto a podcast and you have to be human, which is not easy.” — Graham Brown My next guest is the founder of Pikkal and Company, an award-winning, AI-powered, data-driven business-to-business podcast agency in Singapore, and The Podcast Accelerator, a mastermind of thought leadership podcast hosts.

🎧 EP021 – Steve McGinnes, Asia Branding & Strategy Expert

My next guest is Steve McGinnes, author, strategy consultant, commentator, speaker and currently running his consultancy, Hummingbird Group from Singapore. He’s been featured on BBC World News as their regional Asia expert, recently released his book, Surfing The Asian Wave, and has worked across some of the biggest brand names including Diageo, Unilever, Nestle and more.

🎧 #003: Bridging Blockchain & Communities

In this episode, we chat with The Digital Wayfinder aka George Siosi Samuels who is the Managing Director of Faia, a community-tech consultancy, and founder of Hona, a blockchain-based social accountability platform. Responsible for negotiating a deal that led to Tuvalu ?? being one of the first UN-seated nations to adopt blockchain technology as a national ledger, George helps leaders with potential navigate new digital oceans.

🎧 Episode #16 : Mr Felix Lee (Co-Founder & CEO, ADPList) Demoratize Mentorship For All

About the Speaker: Mr Felix Lee (Co-Founder & CEO, ADPList)  Felix is the co-founder and CEO of the global mentorship platform, ADPList. He’s a product designer and tech entrepreneur on a mission to bring equity to the world through purposeful designs. His focus spans across product, design, and growth. He’s been featured on Forbes, Tech in Asia, Straits Times and YahooNews.

🎧 Tech Society 020 – Asia’s Acceleration and the Dawn of a New World

South-East Asia is growing at a rate comparable to China. The population and speed of growth are significant in feeding the massive appetite for disruptive technology.   Alex and John from Ninja Software are with our peer in entrepreneurial tech space, Nesh Sooriyan, sharing his insights on startups in Asia.

🎧 ?Tech News around the World – Tokyo Olympics, Covid in Asia, Binance, Climate Tech, China Population, Elon on Doge, TikTok CVs, +more

0:00:00 Intro/casual discussion on Swedish culture and privacy 0:11:00 Tokyo Olympics 0:16:00 Covid cases up around Asia 0:22:00 Binance under IRS scrutiny 0:32:00 Climate Tech Headlines 0:40:00 China Population 1:07:00 Elon working with Doge Coin Devs 1:20:00 TikTok Resumes CVs

🎧 Utako Kojima & Aya Weissman: Special Situation Investing In Japan

This week I’m thrilled to be joined by Utako Kojima and Aya Weissman. Both women work at Horizon Kinetics and help run the Japan Special Opportunity Strategy.  Aya is a Co-Portfolio Manager and Director of Asia Strategy at Horizon. With over 30 years of investment experience, Aya was previously a founder and Chief Investment Officer of AS Hirota Capital Management, LLC.

🎧 017 – Asia, Technology, Laziness & Innovation

Nathaniel Fetalvero is a writer and producer at Tech in Asia- a media company based in Singapore serving Asia’s tech and startup community. Some topics we covered: – what new technology is currently at the top of Nat’s mind  – does technology make people more lazy or more productive? – how Myanmar is developing as the final frontier in South East Asia – what common traits Nat has noticed among successful Asian startups

🎧 PODCAST: Spotlight on UK Integrated Review and US Asia-Pacific strategy

In this episode of The Weekly Defence Podcast, we discuss UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Integrated Review announcement in the House of Commons on Tuesday 16 March ahead of the MoD Command Paper to be released next week; and we look at attitude of the Biden administration to Indo-Pacific partnerships.

🎧 Sam Neo: Stories of Asia

Sam Neo is a founder of 2 start-ups: People Mentality Inc, one of APAC’s top 10 HR and Employer Branding consultancy firms & Stories of Asia, a story-tech platform designed to give the Asian business community a voice. He’s worked with some of the largest organizations in the APAC region: Singtel Group, Under Armour, and Mitsubishi.

🎧 TechnoViews #12 ‘Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China’ | Lena Kaufmann (U. of Zurich)

Lena KAUFMANN, interviewed by Joseph BOSCO on 9 Sept 2021ABOUT THIS PODCASTIn this podcast, Dr. Kaufmann discusses what she means by the term “sociotechnical,” and “paddy field predicament,” the fact that in the area she researched, paddy fields need to be continuously planted or they become damaged and less productive.

🎧 AVC12: Different founder mindsets with Qiming’s Helen Wong

In this episode, we talk about investing during uncertain times, different cultural mindsets of founders, and the differences in China and Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystems.To discuss more, we speak to Helen Wong, a partner at Qiming Venture Partners. Helen is a veteran in the VC industry, ranked among the top 100 VCs and top 25 female VCs in China in 2018 by Forbes.

🎧 Kopi Time E053: Juliana Chan on scientific communication and entrepreneurship in Asia

Juliana Chan, founder & CEO of Wildtype Media Group, joins Kopi Time to talk about the state of publication, R&D, and public-private partnerships in the area of science and tech in Asia. She delves into the areas of transformational technology under development in China, Japan, and Singapore, the role of women in science in the region, and the burgeoning ecosystem that is promoting research commercialisation.

🎧 Asia Orangio – CEO at DemandMaven – 5 Steps To Create A B2B SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy

Asia Orangio is CEO & Founder at DemandMaven and Board Member at Moz. In this episode, we’re talking about a 5-step framework to create a B2B SaaS go-to-market strategy, including: – 1. Goals – 2. Product-Market-Model-Channel fit – 3. Defining your customer – 4. Success gaps – 5. Guiding principles – As well as practical examples of building go-to-market strategies Links DemandMaven >>

🎧 Convertible Note vs SAFE | Carman Chan (Click Ventures)

⭐️ Carman has her fingerprints all over the global tech scene. As one of the ​top 5 ​Women to watch in Asia Tech ​(​Nikkei Asian Review​), Carman is a veteran in the technology industry, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist. ? If you’re an entrepreneur looking to finance your startup through a convertible note or a SAFE, this one’s for you!

🎧 Dr. Gang Lu | Building a Tech Media Empire in China

In this episode, we have the esteemed pleasure of speaking with a tech media mogul in China, Dr. Gang Lu, the founder of TechNode, the number one English-language tech media in China. We discuss the ins and outs of the media landscape in China, and how a young graduate, with a doctorate in computer engineering, educated in the UK, goes on to become a media magnate in China.

🎧 Chasing digital footprints

Early in the pandemic, Taiwan legally gathered location data from more than 600,000 of its citizens to stem the spread of coronavirus. South Korea, another east Asian democracy, has similar legal measures in place. How far are those of us who live in democratic societies willing to trust “big government” with our data.

🎧 It “Hertz”: Tesla Slumps on Musk Tweet, Apple Supply Chain Pain, COVID Vaccine Demand Boosts Pfizer, DuPont’s Deal to Capitalize on EV — and Chegg Pl

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber led off the show with Tesla’s rally running in reverse: The stock fell sharply after CEO Elon Musk tweeted that his company’s 100,000 vehicle deal with Hertz had yet to be signed. Cramer explained how investors should approach Tesla and other electric vehicle stocks.