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3 Reasons Why Indonesia Will Become The Leader of Southeast Asian Digital Industry - MoneySmart.id
Business Forecast 2019: Digital Business Opportunities in Indonesia - Job-like Magazine
Secret of Tokopedia's Success in Becoming the King of Indonesian E-Commerce - MoneySmart.id
3 Predictions of the Technology Sector in Indonesia - Warta Ekonomi
Smart City Report: Coworking Spaces - GoWork
Catcha Group: Indonesia Will Have 2 New Unicorn Startups by 2020 - Kumparan
Get to know Halodoc, Application-Based Health Care Startup - Kumparan
Indonesian retailer market flooded with Chinese products - Kumparan
Upload Your Receipt, This Startup Loves Cashback - Kumparan
Indonesia Predicted to Produce Next Unicorn in 2019 - Job-like Magazine
Closing the Series B Funding Gap in Indonesia - MDI Ventures
38 CEOs will be speaking at 2018 Wild Digital Indonesia - Kumparan
Wild Digital Conference Presents 40 Startup CEOs in Southeast Asia - MoneySmart.id
Wild Digital Indonesia 2018 Technology Conference in Southeast Asia - youngster.id
Gathering Digital Experts at Wild Digital Conference 2018 - Job-like Magazine
Wild Digital is very unique and different. What I liked is that it really brings different set of people all in one place, from big corporates, investors, VCs, communities and all the way to startups. The program covers a wide range of topics in the future economies and technology that will affect all of us in the future. So, I think this is a very exciting place to be and get a lot of new ideas.
Santitarn Sathirathai
- Group Chief Economist, Sea Group
I am very excited to be one of the speakers at Wild Digital 2018 and the audience this year are far bigger than last year with better topics to be discussed about especially about Jakarta being a Smart City as it is not generally linked to a startup environment but more about how technology and the digital world can be used to advance a country.
Vanessa Hendriadi
- Co-Founder & CEO, GoWork
Wild Digital has been around for many years and this year's turnout is very good! We're here to witness the changes in the digital industry, to learn more about the digital sphere and be a part of the change. Events like this are very important as there are many new people in the industry with fresh ideas. Not just that, we also need the physical point of contact when networking.
Alexander Rusli
- Chairman, iflix Indonesia
Wild Digital events are in line with our company's vision as a startup and hence, I am here to gain insights from the valuable speakers and other venture capitals. It is a very important moment for digital companies as it is our momentum to network and gain information. It is great for millennials or even baby boomers to network with entrepreneurs and even investors. Our topmost priority is the networking opportunity presented by Wild Digital.
Feby M Faisal
- CEO, Lentera Digital Global
Here at Wild Digital Indonesia for the first time, you get to meet interesting players from the Southeast Asia ecosystem as well to learn fresh trends in the digital scene.
Fazil Irwan
- Asia Regional Director, World Startup Festival
I thought the lineup was awesome: a good mix of startups, VCs, regulators and other stakeholders. The topics were current and relevant.
EDDI DANUSAPUTRO
- CEO & President Director, Mandiri Capital
All the networking opportunities have been great! Look forward to the next opportunity to contribute/collaborate.
ALFONSIUS TIMBOEL
- Chief Product Officer, Halodoc
Wild Digital did a great job of saving me time…. I was able to catch up with plenty of contacts I hadn't had the chance to meet for months. And being able to share our story with the audience was invaluable.
NIGEL HEMBROW
- Co-Founder & CEO, Astronaut
The crowd was amazing! I see you guys improved a lot from event standpoint.
WILLIAM GOZALI
- Bank Rakyat Indonesia
Wild Digital is extremely useful for startups and venture capitals that are seeking new opportunities. It's fun in its own way with lots of people, a very uplifting environment equipped with motivational insights. Wild Digital is the coolest event yet!
Rishfi Mariensjoe
- Operations Manager, Helpster
The networking opportunities at Wild Digital is great! Met amazing people and leaders from the tech industry. Participated in the VC Speed Dating session, it was great and we get to present our projects to investors and get feedback from them. Would definitely recommend Wild Digital!
Thor Yumna
- Co-Founder, Fora Indonesia
Some engaging ideas from some of the attractive speaker lineup, met a lot of people and plenty of networking! I'd recommend Wild Digital without hesitation as they have the reputation for working on great events and Wild Digital Indonesia is of no exception.
- Communications Manager, Pundi X
It's my first time at Wild Digital and the networking is great! Met potential partners that we could work together and build Indonesia's tech ecosystem.
Sugito Lie
- IT Director, BCA FInance
I have attended all Wild Digital events and this year's Indonesian speaker lineup is simply amazing. Brought 9 companies from Malaysia to attend!
Keasavan Hari Krishnan
- Market Engagement Lead, MDEC
First time at Wild Digital and it's great to be at the event to learn more in-depth of the startup ecosystem as the industry is definitely getting rapidly interesting.
Lucky Esa
- Product Manager, eHarmony
This is the 2nd time I participate at Wild Digital and this time Klaud9 was chosen to pitch in the Startup Disruptor arena which was great news. Wild Digital is a great conference to meet potential clients and investors. It gave us a lot of exposure and hopefully will also bring us new businesses. The pitching companies were also invited to a VIP lunch with investors and speakers which is a great opportunity for us to talk to them in private about our project. A great conference to be at!
ISABEL GONZALEZ
- Founder & CEO
SEA's Leading Internet Group
LEONTINUS ALPHA EDISON
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman
VINNIE LAURIA
Golden Gate Ventures
CHAIRMAN, INDONESIA
Leading Entertainment Service
GROUP CHIEF ECONOMIST
SEA GROUP
NYSE Listed Internet Co
MANDIRI CAPITAL
>$63m Fintech Investments
ALISTAIR D. JOHNSTON
DIRECTOR, MARKETING
Leading Telco in Indonesia
TERESA CONDICION
CO-FOUNDER & COO/CDO
SNAPCART
Big Data-Raised $14.7m
SeriesB Fintech-Raised $30m
STEFAN JUNG
VENTURRA CAPITAL
Lippo Group's VC Arm >$150m Fund
ALLAN PHANG
HEAD OF ESPORTS
World's Best Low-Cost Airline
>$415m Investments
SETIAJI SETIAJI
JAKARTA SMART CITY
Special Smart City Unit
FERDY NANDES
HEAD OF EMERGING BUSINESS & SMB, INDONESIA & PHILIPPINES
Largest Social Network
LINGGA MADU
SALE STOCK
Online ZARA for Emerging Markets
JUSTIN WOOD
Engaging World's Top Leaders
REGI WAHYU
Blockchain Agriculture Data Exchange
GOWORK
Leading Co-Working Space
CONSTANTIN PAPADIMITRIOU (KIKI)
PRESIDENT DIRECTOR
Making Crypto Accessible
MARLIN R. SIAHAAN
COUNTRY MANAGER, INDONESIA
Social Navigation Pioneer
NATALI ARDIANTO
STARTUPLOKAL
Indonesia's Biggest Startup Community
DANIEL SURYA
WIR GROUP
Asia's Leading AR Tech Co
YUAN LEE CHUNG
INVESTOR, SEA
Global Tech Investment Firm
SHAILESH NAIK
MATCHMOVE PAY
Fastest Growing Fintech
NICKO WIDJAJA
MDI VENTURES
CVC by Telkom Indonesia
RETNO DEWATI
SEA REGIONAL MANAGER
FENOX VENTURE CAPITAL
BENEDICTO HARYONO
KOINWORKS
Innovative P2P Lending Platform
ANDI BOEDIMAN
IDEOSOURCE
Pioneer in Indonesia's Internet Ecosystem
RICHARD ELDRIDGE
LENDDOEFL
Scoring & Identity Verification Tech
ADRIAN LI
CONVERGENCE VENTURES
Backed >100 Tech Businesses
HALODOC
Online Healthcare Network-Raised >$13m
DINESH RATNAM
DIRECTOR, CEO OFFICE
LEO SHIMADA
CROWDO
P2B & ECF Fintech
CAM WALKER
CHRISTOPHER DAVISON
AirAsia's Mobile Payment App
JOSHUA HO
QCP CAPITAL
Asia's Leading Digital Asset Trading
ROSHNI MAHTANI
TICKLED MEDIA
Online Platform for Women in Asia
GUILLEM SEGARRA
Best Online Groceries Shopping
DAVE NG
>$360m Global Fund
KLAUD9
Visual Content Platform
Video-selfie Recruitment Platform
TAY ZHI XIANG
ROUNDUP ANALYTICS
Cloud-based Data Analytics
BENNETT LEE
HEAD OF GROWTH
HELICAP
Fintech Investments Platform
TARUN NALLU
FMXC MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Strategy Consulting Firm
As Co-Founder and Group CEO of Catcha Group, Patrick Grove is one of the leading entrepreneurs in the APAC region. He founded and took 5 companies from startup to IPO, recently selling iProperty Group for US$534m, making it one of the largest internet exits in ASEAN history.
He is Co-Founder and Chairman of iflix, the leading SVoD service for emerging markets; Co-Founder and Director of iCar Asia, ASEAN's No. 1 network of digital automotive portals; and Co-Founder of Frontier Digital Ventures, a leading operator of online classifieds in frontier markets.
Patrick has received numerous international awards, including: Global Leader of Tomorrow and New Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum; Asia's Best Young Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Business.
LEONTINUS ALPHA EDISON - Co-Founder & Vice Chairman
Leon is the co-founder of Tokopedia. Prior to Tokopedia, he has various experiences in software development in different kind of industries, including ISP, Insurance, Airlines, and several government projects. Today, he is the Vice Chairman in Tokopedia, focusing on mentoring and nurturing the next generation of leaders in Tokopedia. He is also responsible for technical, operation, people management, security, risk management, compliance, and governance.
Tokopedia (www.tokopedia.com), which is owned by PT Tokopedia, is an internet company that allows individuals and business owners in Indonesia to open and manage their own online stores easily and for free. Tokopedia provides a better online selling experience to the sellers, so that the sellers can provide a better online shopping experience to their customers.
At Tokopedia, we believe that a marketplace is the most beautiful business model in the world, because the success of a marketplace can only be achieved by helping others to become more successful. Our services have allowed hundreds of thousands of Indonesian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to send millions of products every month to their customers throughout Indonesia.
Tokopedia is also indirectly responsible for the creation of thousands of new jobs through the growing success of our merchants, who often become a positive impact by providing job vacancies in their immediate communities.
Tokopedia is the first internet company in Southeast Asia that succeeded to close US $100 million in funding from SoftBank and Sequoia Capital. SoftBank is the investor behind the success of Alibaba, while Sequoia Capital is the investor behind the success of Apple, Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, and many other successful technology companies.
We believe that we are in the process of building a world class technology company which fortunately happens to be in Indonesia.
VINNIE LAURIA - Founding Partner
Vinnie is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Southeast Asia with over US$100M AUM and 30+ investments to date. He is a Kauffman Fellow, and a guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore. He was rated by the Founder Institute as highest startup mentor in Asia from a pool of 2,500 mentors.
Prior to setting up Golden Gate Ventures, Vinnie built two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro, a location-based chat service which was dissolved with many lessons learned in 2007; and Lefora, a forum hosting platform which grew to over 100,000 communities and was acquired by CrowdGather in 2010. He founded the Silicon Valley NewTech meetup, featuring hundreds of startups to a monthly audience w/ more than 10,000 members.
Earlier in his career, Vinnie spent four years within IBM, helping to shape how IBM was approaching social software for the enterprise. Vinnie is a graduate of Boston University's College of Engineering. Vinnie is passionate about building startup ecosystems and joined his first startup while still in high school.
Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in Singapore and Jakarta with investments across Southeast Asia. Golden Gate Ventures was established in 2011 and has over 35 investments across 7 countries. The firm invests in internet & mobile startups across many sectors, including e-commerce, payments, marketplaces, mobile applications, and SaaS platforms.
ALEXANDER RUSLI - CHAIRMAN, INDONESIA
Alex was the CEO of Indosat Ooredoo from 2012 to 2017, where he led the transformation of the company through Digital Transformation and innovation. As a result, the company became #2 on cellular RMS, doubled its market cap, and started the ideabox incubator and FTTH business. Previously, Alex was a Partner at Northstar Pacific, and had a nine-year career for the Government of Indonesia as Special Advisor for MCIT (Kementrian Kominfo) and MSOE (Kementrian BUMN).
Currently, Alex serves as an independent Board Member for PT Medikaloka Hermina, Tbk; PT Unilever Indonesia, Tbk; and PT Sarana Menara Nusantara,Tbk (Protelindo). He founded PT Digi Asia Bios, a consolidated fintech holding that offers digital payment, credit and remittance financial services in Indonesia. He is also the Chairman of iFlix Indonesia, and advisor to LotusFlare. Alex has PhD degree in Information Technology from Curtin University of Technology, Australia.
iflix is the world's leading entertainment service for emerging markets, offering users unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more. With a vast selection everyone's favourite comedies, drama, K-drama, Turkish drama, Bollywood, Nollywood, cartoons, movies, live sports and more from Hollywood, the UK, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, iflix places the entertainment people want at their fingertips to either stream or download. For one low monthly fee, iflix subscribers can watch on their mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV… wherever, whenever.
iflix is currently available to consumers in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar, Vietnam, the Maldives, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Cambodia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Morocco and Tanzania.
SANTITARN SATHIRATHAI - GROUP CHIEF ECONOMIST
Dr Santitarn Sathirathai is the Group Chief Economist of Sea Group, one of the leading tech companies in ASEAN and Taiwan that operates Garena, Shopee and Airpay.
Prior to joining Sea, Santitarn was the Head of Emerging Asia Economics Research at Credit Suisse where he advised public and private investors, covering 10 economies. He was the only economist in Asia to have won the prestigious best economic forecaster award by Consensus Economics for three consecutive years.
He is a visiting lecturer at Chulalongkorn University and a regular columnist for one of the top Thai language business newspapers. Previously, he also worked at the Ministry of Finance, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Santitarn was selected as one of Asia's 21 young leaders in 2017 by Asia Society.
Santitarn holds a doctorate degree in Public Policy and a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Economics and a master's degree from the LSE.
Sea is an internet company based in Singapore. We focus on the Greater Southeast Asia Region. Our mission is to better the lives of the consumers and small businesses of Greater Southeast Asia with technology.
EDDI DANUSAPUTRO - CEO
Eddi is Chief Executive Officer of Mandiri Capital Indonesia (MCI), the corporate venture capital subsidiary of PT. Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk. MCI aims to provide equity funding for regional start-ups, with focus on the fintech sector.
Eddi has more than 20 years' working experience in various sectors, including consumer goods (at Procter & Gamble), management consulting (at AT Kearney and Booz Allen Hamilton) and financial services (including Morgan Stanley, AXA, and Makara Capital), whereby the majority of his work experience was in Singapore.
In addition to working at large corporations, Eddi also has experience as an angel investor and social entrepreneur.
Eddi graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and also has a MBA degree from Duke University, USA and a Doctorate in Management from Universitas Indonesia.
Mandiri Capital Indonesia (MCI) is a Corporate Venture Capital firm operated by the country's largest financial institution, Bank Mandiri. In a world where technology and finance are becoming more advanced and inseparable, MCI acts as a bridge connecting investors and entrepreneurs to the ever-evolving fintech sector.
The term "fintech" is short for financial technology. We invest in innovative fintech startups, and help them scale quickly by utilizing Mandiri's deep financial expertise, coupled with access to a vast network of merchants and customers. MCI is committed to helping sustain Mandiri's leadership in Indonesia through continuous creativity and partnerships.
ALISTAIR D. JOHNSTON - DIRECTOR, MARKETING
Mr. Alistair D. Johnston has served as Director of Marketing since August 2012. He has a wide portfolio of responsibilities including core and digital lifestyle product management and pricing, advertising and customer campaigns, brand portfolio management, interconnection and international roaming, customer analytics, digital sales and service channels and customer loyalty.
He has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry in multiple countries. He joined Singtel in June 2012 as a Director at Singtel International. Prior to this he served as Group Chief Marketing Officer at Augere, Dubai (2010 – 2012) where he oversaw commercial activities for this start-up business offering Internet connectivity to under-served emerging markets. He oversaw commercial operations in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda.
From 1998 to 2010 he successfully held important roles in the UK telecommunications industry. This included Telefonica O2 UK (2007 – 2010) where he served as Head of Prepay, Head of Online and Marketing Director and helped to build the O2 business into a strong market leader; Orange UK (2004 – 2007) where he served as Head of Prepay Acquisition and Retention and British Sky Broadcasting UK (2003 – 2004). From 1998 to 2003 he worked for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group of companies in a variety of business development roles in the UK, Australia and Singapore and was a founder of the Virgin Mobile businesses in the UK and Australia.
He began his career as a Management Consultant at Andersen Consulting, based on London, UK.
He holds a degree in Modern History from Oxford University, UK and over the years has attended a number of management programmes, including at Harvard and Stanford Universities.
Telkomsel is a subsidiary of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (owns 65% of issued share capital) and Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte Ltd (owns 35% of issued share capital) which first started operations in 1995. Twenty-three years later, Telkomsel has established itself as the leading cellular operator in Indonesia, with our go-to-market brand for postpaid customers is kartuHalo, while for prepaid customers, who account for almost 98% of our base, we have three distinctive brands targeted at different customer segments: simPATI, Kartu As and LOOP.
Telkomsel was the first operator to commercially market 4G LTE technology in Indonesia and have the country's widest network coverage, with estimated 2G population coverage of almost 100% and 3G-4G population coverage of more than 80%. During the Nine Months of 2018, we deployed more than 22,000 new Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs), with all of BTS were 4G-based lead to BTS on-air totaled more than 183,000 of which more than 70% were 3G-4G BTS.
TERESA CONDICION - CO-FOUNDER & COO/CDO
Teresa has more than 20 years of experience in data analytics. Previously an A. Director of Analytics and Insights in P&G, she now leads the data team at Snapcart in developing cutting edge analytics and machine learning of images, texts and structured data, revolutionizing the market research industry traditionally done in pen and paper survey, and making offline data accessible and useful beyond marketing.
Prior to Snapcart, she also created multiple innovations for market analytics in P&G, from low-cost Marketing ROI analytics to Volume forecasting , to Social media analytics for brand equity measurement.
She has more than a decade of experience in statistical analysis, machine learning and predictive analytics, is Java-certified and proficient in R, Python, SPSS and Tableau.
She has a long history of building multimillion-dollar businesses in double digits across the region, with more than a decade of experience in organization building. She led recruiting for Analytics function in P&G Asia, built a top-notch Data Science team from scratch and launched and expanded Snapcart across markets.
Her free time is spent taking care of her two boys, hitting the gym, or working on an educational foundation she founded, jmcescuela.org.
Snapcart provides real-time offline shopper and consumer insights for brands. Through its receipt-scanning cashback mobile application, Snapcart collects billions of data points at an individual shopper level, an unprecedented level of data granularity in the market research industry. This brings brands much closer to a holistic understanding of shoppers than ever before.
Snapcart can identify optimal promotion level to maximize revenue, help evaluate media spend effectiveness, deep dive into purchasing habits, and many more. It is recognized globally and hailed as the top 22 most disruptive companies in the world by Disrupt 100. Snapcart has partnered up with over 75 brands of fast-moving consumer goods companies. For more information, visit www.snapcart.global
Akshay Garg is the co-founder and CEO of FinAccel, a VC backed financial technology company that leverages deep data analytics to automate credit risk scoring and access to credit for consumers in Southeast Asia. FinAccel's flagship product Kredivo enables ecommerce buyers to purchase products on credit, based on real-time credit decisioning that evaluates nearly 5000 features in real-time. Kredivo is currently available on 200+ ecommerce merchants in Indonesia. Akshay previously co-founded Komli Media, one of Asia's leading adtech companies, which raised over US$70m from top tier investors and was acquired by Axiata, Malaysia's leading telco in 2015. Komli pioneered RTB (Real Time Bidding) and audience profiling in Asia. Akshay is a Kauffman Fellow, an elite worldwide network of venture capital investors and innovation leaders, and an active angel investor.
FinAccel is a financial technology company that leverages deep data analytics across users' digital footprint to automate credit risk scoring and access to credit in Southeast Asia, the 7th largest economy in the world. FinAccel's flagship product, Kredivo Buy now, Pay later, enables e-commerce buyers to apply and qualify for instant credit and pay back over time. Merchants using Kredivo benefit from providing point-of-sale financing using a 2-click checkout to all eligible buyers. FinAccel is backed by leading investors and regulated by OJK in Indonesia. To know more about FinAccel and Kredivo, visit www.finaccel.co and www.kredivo.com.
STEFAN JUNG - MANAGING PARTNER
Previously before starting Venturra, Stefan was a Partner at venture capital firm Monk's Hill Ventures and Founder & Managing Director of Rocket Internet Southeast Asia, where he co-founded amongst others Zalora and Lazada. His career started as strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. Studied at Copenhagen Business School, Tsinghua University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and London Business School.
Venturra is a Southeast Asia focused venture capital firm investing in early stage consumer technology-enabled internet businesses. Our firms primarily investment focus is in consumer internet companies that are ready to expand internationally, in sectors such as e-commerce, financial technology, marketplaces, healthcare and education amongst others.
ALLAN PHANG - HEAD OF ESPORTS
Allan is on his fifth year with The World's Best Low-Cost Airline voted 10 years in a row by Skytrax! He loves engaging with people and is currently on his seventh portfolio with AirAsia – AirAsia Esports.
He was part of the working committee that organised AirAsia's first ever regional hackathon - AirAsia AIRVOLUTION 2017 which was hosted in AirAsia's global headquarters, RedQ, and saw the participation of 100 participants across 9 countries Before taking a leap of faith into the world of aviation, he was a college dropout turned accidental entrepreneur in the paintball industry.
Allan has been known amongst his AirAsia peers as an intrapreneur; an entrepreneur within a large firm, who uses entrepreneurial skills without incurring the risks associated with those activities. Intrapreneurs are employees within a company who are assigned to work on a special idea or project and are instructed to develop the project like an entrepreneur would.
He won the 'Take Ownership Award' by AirAsia Group People and Culture for driving esports awareness amongst fellow colleagues with the assistance from Allstars (AirAsia employees) and living the brand by using social media to promote AirAsia as part of their Employer Branding initiative.
AirAsia has sparked a revolution in air travel with more and more people around the region choosing us as their preferred choice of air transport. As we continuously strive to promote air travel, we also seek to create excitement amongst our guests with our range of innovative and personalized services.
Our mission is to attain the lowest cost so that everyone can fly with AirAsia and maintain the highest quality product, embracing technology to reduce cost and enhance service levels.
AirAsia is now a proud sponsor of the Mineski Dota 2 Pro Team, one of the best teams in Southeast Asia and Top 10 globally, who recently won champions in a Major - The Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018 and one of the teams that competed in The International 8 Dota 2. AirAsia acquired a majority share in AirAsia Saiyan, a mobile esports team. AirAsia is the official airline and sponsor for Alibaba's/Alisports WESG SEA (World Electronic Sports Games) esports tournament in Southeast Asia with a prize pool of US$5.5 Million for WESG World Finals in China. AirAsia will be supporting The AirAsia Esports Center - the first Esports Hub in Southeast Asia.
JEFFREY CHI - MANAGING DIRECTOR
SETIAJI SETIAJI - HEAD
Mr. Setiaji current position is Head of Jakarta Smart City Management Unit. The unit works under Communications, Information and Statistic Department of Jakarta Capital City Government. His unit has accountability to provide updated information about Jakarta and he is managing information through Jakarta's official portals (jakarta.go.id and smartcity.jakarta.go.id). He also succeeded to build Jakarta Smart City team and develop Jakarta Smart City Lounge facility.
During his administration, the unit has developed several programs and initiatives such as: the development of Jakarta Smart City online portal as integrated platform for various local government information, Citizen Relation Management to aggregate citizen aspiration through several digital channels, Big Data Project to gather and analyze data to help policy making, and the assessment for bike-sharing implementation in Jakarta.
Through his leadership Jakarta Smart City has achieved several international and national awards: GovInsider Innovation Awards 2016 Best Team Under 35, Top 99 Innovation for Public Service 2016, Silver Award for Open City Category on 3rd WeGo Smart Sustainable Award 2017, and GovInsider Innovation Awards 2018 Best Team Under 35. He also awarded as Marketeer of The Year for Government Sectoral 2016, and iCIO Award 2018 as The Most Intelligent CIO.
Established in 2015, Jakarta Smart City Management Unit is a technical implementation unit under the coordination of the Office of Communication, Information and Statistic Department of Jakarta Provincial Government. This unit has the task of carrying out the planning, developing, control and management of the Jakarta Smart City system.
FERDY NANDES - HEAD OF EMERGING BUSINESS & SMB, INDONESIA & PHILIPPINES
Ferdy is currently the Head of Emerging Business and SMB for Indonesia and Philippines for Facebook. He is responsible to educate, help and grow the SMB business. Prior to Facebook, he worked at several companies such as Google, Skyscanner, LinkedIn and American Express. He has keen interest in growing the SMB business and contribute to the community.
Ferdy has Master of Business Administration from Newcastle Business School - Northumbria University and he holds Bachelor science of Business from University of London.
Founded in 2004, Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
LINGGA MADU - CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Lingga is on his 5th company now. He started his entrepreneurial journey by selling Anime VCDs during his student days in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and learned quickly his lessons on what it takes to build successful companies. He went on to found several other companies in various industries, from design to technology. He is now the co-founder of Sale Stock, a 800 people strong, fast growing fashion e-commerce company in Indonesia.
Sale Stock is the online ZARA for emerging markets. We're democratizing the most up-to-date fashion to the middle class Indonesians at 8 - 10 USD price point. We're using data and technology to reduce significant supply chain inefficiencies. We're the biggest online private label in Indonesia, serving the underserved customer in tier 2 and 3 cities in Indonesia. We also pioneer the Coba Dulu Baru Bayar, bridging one the biggest trust gap in online fashion.
JUSTIN WOOD - HEAD OF APAC
Undergraduate degree, London School of Economics; postgraduate studies in corporate finance, London Business School. Formerly: with The Economist Group for 17 years, three of them in London followed by 14 in Asia, initially as a Journalist, but more recently as Head of Economic and Political Advisory Services, South-East Asia and India. Since 2015, Head, Asia-Pacific region and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.
REGI WAHYU - FOUNDER & CEO
Regi is the founder and the driver of the whole business in HARA as CEO. His vision is to deliver world-changing solutions by leveraging on blockchain technology. He has proven track records as professional in the area of business development. He successfully developed several start-ups, turned around "maturedeclining" organization and managed growth strategies across the Asia Pacific region. He experience covered multinational companies such as Development Dimension International (DDI), General Electric (GE) Asia Pacific, and Dupont. Regi is part of the high impact entrepreneurs of Endeavor network. Regi's current obsession to bring Indonesia to the global stage by launching HARA, a blockchain based technology platform focusing on Agriculture and Food sector, in several countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
HARA is a blockchain-based data exchange for the food sector that has been operating since 2015. The company provides farmers and other players in the agricultural sector with access to reliable data and transactions. HARA was founded by serial entrepreneurs Regi Wahyu & Imron Zuhri, both co-founders of Dattabot, Indonesia's leading big data analytics company.
In a pilot project, HARA has acquired usually hard-to-find food data such as KYC, farmer, land, weather data in different provinces across Indonesia that is beneficial to assist financial institution partners to disburse loans in growing market, and tested incentive mechanisms ensuring continuous usage of application in the ecosystem.
VANESSA HENDRIADI - CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Vanessa is a passionate entrepreneur revolutionizing the office industry through building collaborative workspaces. She is the CEO and Co-founder of GoWork, a leading premium and most integrated coworking platform in Indonesia, after a merger with Rework earlier this year. In a little over 2 years, GoWork has grown >80x and currently spanned across 12 locations in the most prime mall and Grade A offices in Jakarta, all with >90% occupancy, combining thousands of community leaders and influencers into the platform. GoWork also has an exclusive partnership with Ismaya, the largest hospitality and lifestyle operator in Indonesia with almost 100 locations in the region.
Prior to GoWork, she was a Director at Mikatasa, actively managing the company of 600 employees, and grew the business to be a dominant market player in consumer goods in Indonesia. She received scholarship for her MBA at University of Southern California and B.S. with Honors from University of Wisconsin. A full marathon finisher, triathlon rookie, certified yoga teacher and mountain climber, she is a happy wife and a proud mother of 2 boys.
GoWork is Indonesia's leading premium coworking platform with a mission to empower people to be at their best. Go-Rework provides world-class work spaces that are inspiring and fully equipped with amenities and tools to help companies thrive. Go-Rework pursues its mission by creating business community platforms for its members through researched spatial design, integrated technology and empowering content and services. The venture is backed by several well-known venture capitalists and partnered with leading brands in coworking, lifestyle and real estate.
CONSTANTIN PAPADIMITRIOU (KIKI) - PRESIDENT DIRECTOR
Constantin Papadimitriou is the president of Pundi X and a founding member of the Indonesian Blockchain Association. He has 17 years of experience as founding CEO of two fintech companies: Infinetworks and E2Pay.co.id, pioneering internet banking, mobile banking and e-payment services in Indonesia. Previously, he worked at Accenture in Chicago and Jakarta. Constantin holds an MSc in computer science from Purdue University and a BSc in computer science from University of Tulsa.
Most of the Blockchain today is far from ideal, with an over-emphasis on technology and the under-emphasis on creating real use cases. Pundi X's philosophy is not only to build a technologically superior chain, but also one that has real-life application. A good Blockchain should have a user experience and performance that are way more superior than the current product in market.
And that's what we have achieved with our Blockchain called f(x). Currently, f(x) is already up and running on internal test environment. And we will continue to provide regular updates on the progress of f(x). We will walk the talk with f(x). It will be a game changer with real use cases to support it.
MARLIN R. SIAHAAN - COUNTRY MANAGER, INDONESIA
Marlin R Siahaan is an experienced sales practitioner and marketer. She has 17 years of experience in the field with an excellent track record across various industries, ranging from broadcast stations to internet companies.
Prior to joining Waze, she was the general manager of national sales digital advertising at Telkomsel. She started her career in the technology sector in 2009, where she joined Interactive Hub – the first authorised advertising reseller for Facebook in Southeast Asia – to educate Indonesian businesses on the importance of social media as part of their marketing strategy. Her clients were the likes of GarudaFood, BNI and Mandiri.
She continued her career path in the technology sector by joining Yahoo Indonesia from 2010 to 2014. She was a digital consultant who provided a full suite of digital solutions in marketing for various big brands in Indonesia. In late 2014, she saw the rapid growth of mobile in Indonesia and decided to join the largest telco company in Indonesia, Telkomsel. She was trusted to take up the role as general manager of digital advertising, where she was responsible for leading account teams and building innovation in technology to strengthen its position as a leader in Indonesia's telecommunications sector.
Marlin later joined Google Indonesia in January 2018, and has now been appointed as the new country manager for Waze Indonesia. She will oversee business development and become the voice of Waze in Indonesia.
Waze is the social navigation pioneer, leveraging mobile technology and a passionate global community to redefine expectations of today's maps. Waze is home to the world's largest network of drivers—100 million strong—who work together daily to outsmart traffic and save time and money. The app consistently recommends the fastest routes based on real-time driving and data from millions of users. From traffic reroutes to low gas price alerts and relevant offers from favorite brands, Waze is one of the most comprehensive driving companions in the marketplace.
NATALI ARDIANTO - CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Natali Ardianto – A serial entrepreneur and one of the prominent leader in the startup industry in Indonesia. He is also awarded the most intelligent CIO at the iCIO Awards 2015 and Best CIO 2015 by SWA and PricewaterhouseCooper.
Natali co-founded four startups, where two of them successfully exited. First was Urbanesia.com, a city directory, acquired by Kompas, the biggest media company in Indonesia. Second was Tiket.com, an Online Travel Agency, acquired by Djarum Group through Blibli.com.
Natali has been angel investing a total of eleven companies so far since 2012.
Natali with two other initiators Nuniek and Ollie also runs the biggest startup community in Indonesia called #StartupLokal, which they have run for over eight years and consistently held monthly meetups to nurture the startup ecosystem in Indonesia.
A startup company or startup is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets.
#StartupLokal is a group for all Indonesian local startups.
DANIEL SURYA - CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Daniel Surya is the co-founder of WIR Group, the global Augmented Reality technology driver and emerging markets brandman. Under his leadership, WIR Group has evolved into an emerging technology powerhouse with presence at Asia, Europe, and USA to deliver projects worldwide.
He also co-founded Slingshot group (AR&Co, DAV, Mindstores) and growing it as the leading Augmented Reality technology company with global projects including from the best entertainment brands such as Disney, Cartoon Network, the recent one for the Nigeria presidential campaign as well as delivering an AR application that was shown during the launch of Billionaire Boys Club flagship store in New York - owned by artist Pharrell Williams. AR&Co has been acknowledged in awards such as listed as one of Innovation 40 companies awarded at the London Stock Exchange, category winner of Auggie Award for 2 years at AWE 2015 & 2016 (Silicon Valley), winner at SMARTIES APAC, while the other unit namely MindStores was awarded world record holder as the 1st 3D virtual store network by MURI Indonesia (2016).
Due to his knowledge & experiences, he has been invited to share at events worldwide such as SLUSH, becoming a panel member or advisory boards from organizations like AIESEC, and GEPI as well as judging member for Ernst and Young EWW 2015 in Jakarta.
WIR Group (www.wirglobal.com), a group of companies specializing in Digital Reality technology (AR-VR-AI) empowerment for the nation's prosperity.
Since 2009 with headquarter in Indonesia & presence globally [Singapore, USA, Spain, Malta], WIR with business pillars in TECHNOLOGY & BRANDING has delivered 1000+ projects in 20+ countries.
The first tech unit, AR&Co (www.ar-innovation.com), the leading AR developer company has won various awards such as:
Auggie Awards Winner 2015 & 2016 at the AWE (USA)
Winner at The Smarties APAC 2015
One of i40 companies by The New Economy in 2014, awarded at London Stock Exchange
The second tech unit, DAV (www.mynameisdav.com) offers measurable Intelligent Media placement with AR technology. Thousands on-demand units have been deployed in retail spaces in Indonesia. DAV is also part of Unilever's Foundry, the global platform for partnering with world's best startups to accelerate business innovation on a global scale through collaboration with Unilever.
The third tech unit, Mindstores' AR/VR Partnership Store Network (www.mymindstores.com) allows many to own (virtual) store of a well-known retailer brands. MindStores was also awarded world record holder as the 1st 3D virtual store network (MURI Indonesia, 2016)
Lastly, DM ID (www.dmidgroup.com) is the leading brand consultancy firm with combined expertise in strategy, design and people engagement. DM ID has won Rebrand 100 Global Awards for 4 years, and has served clients such as: Bank Muamalat, Indosat Ooredoo, Myanmar Tourism Federation, and many others.
YUAN LEE CHUNG - INVESTOR, SEA
Yuan Lee leads early-stage tech investments in Indonesia for SIG, a global quantitative trading firm and active venture investor in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. She has over 10 years of investing experience across multiple asset classes and currently oversees investments like Zilingo for SIG.
Previously, she worked at Burda Principal Investments and helped set up its Southeast Asia investment operations focused on e-Commerce, marketplace and media investments in Asia.
Prior to that, she was at UBS and The Capital Group managing private wealth and institutional client funds, and supporting senior management in project management, risk management, strategy development and implementation. Yuan Lee holds a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and completed her MBA at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Columbia Business School.
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SIG is a US-headquartered global quantitative trading firm founded with an entrepreneurial mindset and a rigorous analytical approach to decision making. Over the last 30 years, SIG's business has thrived at the intersection of trading, quantitative research, and technology and now has over 1,800 employees worldwide.
SIG first began investing in venture capital in China in 2005 in a variety of industry sectors. In the last decade, SIG invested in excess of US$1B over 200+ companies such as Bytedance, WeCash, 51fanli, Damai, Yitiao, Flash Delivery and Baby Tree in China. In recent years the firm expanded its venture capital investments to Japan and Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asia, our portfolio includes firms such as Zilingo, Reddoorz, Fave, Jirnexu, 90 Seconds, Asia Kredit, Asia Collect and Deskera.
SHAILESH NAIK - FOUNDER & CEO
Mr Shailesh Naik is founder and CEO of MatchMove Pay (www.matchmove.com), one of the world's fastest growing and most disruptive fintech companies in digital payments and next-generation banking.
MatchMove's proprietary Banking Wallet OSTM enables 'Banking-as-a-Service' with Spend, Send, LendTM capabilities within any app. The operating system allows businesses and their customers to pay online and offline simply and securely, perform P2P domestic transfers, cross-border remittances, P2M and mass disbursements to global recipients. MatchMove platform further extends to Lend where credit scores are assigned based on customers' spending and sending patterns to offer customized lending solutions.
MatchMove has been recognized with international awards for being a promising and innovative organization, as well as a preferred employer.
An entrepreneur with a successful track record in high-tech and new media sectors across China, India, Korea and Southeast Asia, Shailesh also made several successful investments in online entertainment and e-commerce companies across Asia and the US. He served on the iN2015 committees to develop Singapore's new national IT master plan and is a Founding Investor in Aavishkaar, a Singapore-based social venture fund focused on start-ups in India and Southeast Asia.
MatchMove is one of the world's fastest growing and most disruptive fintech companies in digital payments and next-generation banking.
MatchMove's proprietary Banking Wallet OSTM enables 'Banking As A Service' and the capabilities of Spend, Send, LendTM within any app. The platform empowers B2B businesses and their customers to Spend both online and offline easily and safely, via instantly issued prepaid cards on major card networks. Its Send capabilities include P2P domestic transfers, cross-border remittances, P2M and mass disbursements to global recipients. MatchMove platform further extends to Lend, where credit scores are assigned based on customers' spending and sending patterns to offer customized lending solutions.
Envisioning a financially inclusive world as it wages war on cash, MatchMove's solutions help enterprise clients digitize payments and give the financially underserved segments the empowerment to move their money anytime and anywhere.
MatchMove is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and authorized by leading card networks to issue virtual and physical cards directly to users in approved jurisdictions, or anywhere else in the world with partner banks.
The company has been recognized with international awards for being a promising and an innovative organization, as well as for being a preferred employer.
MatchMove is headquartered in Singapore with offices in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, and the USA.
For more information, please visit www.matchmove.com.
NICKO WIDJAJA - CEO
Nicko Widjaja is currently serving as the CEO and Investment Director of MDI Ventures, a corporate venture capital arm of Telkom Indonesia. MDI Ventures invested in growth stage companies across 10 countries including: Geniee, NComputing, LotusFlare, aCommerce, RedDot Payment, mClinica, Codapay, Ematic.
He is one of Indonesia's tech investment pioneers and ecosystem builders. He set up his first venture fund, Systec Group Ventures, in 2010. Then he briefly joined Fenox VC as Venture Partner in 2014 just before joining Telkom Indonesia as Program Director for Indigo Accelerator and later MDI Ventures.
Prior to venture capital and startup industry, he co-founded several consulting firms (Mindcode, ThinkingRoom, IncyteLab) servicing clients in Southeast Asia from innovation to consumer insights. His vast experience was complemented by his role at Indofood, the largest food company in Indonesia, where he took on corporate development and organizational change.
Nicko is also involved in the design of the entrepreneurship curriculum for UPH Business School where he also teaches other subjects such as strategic management, marketing, change management and corporate strategy.
Throughout his career, he had invested in more than 80 startups.
MDI is a corporate venture capital initiative by Telkom Indonesia which is based in Jakarta with operations in Singapore and Silicon Valley. It is set as an independent entity with its own funding processes.
MDI uniquely combines a VC model with services in providing companies from Telkom Group with access to operational assistance and help in building startups' growth engine after making a financial investment.
The focus of our investments are on high growth business verticals to enhance digital experience and provide excellent services that lead to an unparalleled customer experience, such as
Digital Ads, Payment Solutions, Cloud Computing (Building coherence with existing Telkom Group's business portfolios).
Big Data, Media Services, Digital Life, Mobile Apps, E-Commerce (Leveraging growth through Telkom's new initiatives in product development).
Forms of Future Communications and Internet of Things (Investing in the future's technologies that may reshape Telkom's current business units).
We work closely with global accelerators and venture firms to bring proprietary technologies from other mature markets into various businesses of Telkom Indonesia.
RETNO DEWATI - SEA REGIONAL MANAGER
Retno Dewati is SEA Regional Manager of Fenox Venture Capital – a global VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Fenox VC is managing 20 parallel funds with fund size range from $20 M to $200 M. With over 3 years experiences, Retno has been investing in 40+ tech startups across Southeast Asia including MOKA POS, Alodokter, Pomelo Fashion, Hijup.com, and many more. Retno is also the founding member of GnB Accelerator – a joint venture between Fenox VC and Infocom Corporation from Japan. GnB Accelerator is the first global accelerator program in Indonesia offering 3 months intensive program and $50,000 investment. Retno is mainly responsible to lead deal sourcing, investment activities, business development and marketing for Fenox SEA. Some of her expertise area are including fintech, medical tech, and consumer internet.
Fenox Venture Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded by an exceptional team of seasoned entrepreneurs and proven international business leaders. We work with emerging technology companies across the world and specialize in helping entrepreneurs achieve global expansion into North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Our 60+ person team operates out of offices across 8 different countries, including Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea, and offers a wide range of domain expertise.
Fenox currently has several multi-million dollar funds under management. We seek to work with world-class management and technical teams that are targeting disruptive opportunities in IT, Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, Big Data, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, FinTech and Next Generation Technologies.
BENEDICTO HARYONO - CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Benedicto Haryono is the the CEO & Co-founder of KoinWorks, a leading P2P Lending company in Indonesia that has been registered and supervised by Indonesia's Financial Services Authority, that connect Borrowers and Lenders online to provide access to financial services for people who have not been served by banking institutions through various services on a single platform.
Ben is responsible for developing the overall strategy and direction of KoinWorks' initiatives, including our product development and strategic partnerships. Ben also takes the lead in recruitment and in liaising with our Legal consultants.
Before founding KoinWorks, Ben was mainly involved in a palm oil company as head of the commercial department. Ben also currently serves as non executive directors at two small companies; Indoseaweed and Bedec.
Ben holds a MBA from IESE Business School and a BSE in Industrial Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
KoinWorks is the leading Indonesian Fintech Lending company, provides online P2P Lending investment with innovative machine learning, connecting Investors & Borrowers into an online platform. Investors can start investing with as low as IDR 100,000 and Borrowers can apply loan online with low monthly interest rate.
ANDI BOEDIMAN - MANAGING PARTNER
As a strategist and dealmaker, he successfully initiated & facilitated the MediaCorp & KLN as the highest value digital media deal in Indonesia.
Andi sits as a Board Director in Bhinneka.com, the leading O2O (online to offline) e-commerce specialises in computers and IT products, communications goods, and consumer electronics (3C).
With his strong background in creative industry, he is currently holding the position as Chairman of Ideoworks, a Google Premiere SME.
To fulfill his passion for education, he founded IDS Education, offering bachelor degree in Design, Animation & Filmmaking in partnership with Griffith University Australia.
Andi's past position was the Chief Innovation Officer at Plasa.com—a subsidiary of PT. Telkom Indonesia. Bringing eBay and Microsoft as a strategic partner, he was the key strategist in building the company foundation, from envisioning the road map, creating the business model and setting up the team to build the company from ground up.
Ideosource is a venture capital firm dedicated on making investment in early-stage to later-stage. From the infancy of Indonesia's internet economy in 2011, Ideosource has ignited the local Internet ecosystem. Our approach combines a bottom-up investment selection process with a top-down view of the economy.
RICHARD ELDRIDGE - CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Mr. Eldridge is the CEO of LenddoEFL, world leader in identity verification and scoring technology using non-traditional data.
Mr. Eldridge started with Lenddo, an online lending platform, which he was the co-founder and CEO. After 4 years of lending, Lenddo opened its technologies to banks, lending institutions, utilities companies and credit card companies worldwide to reduce risk, increase portfolio size, improve
customer service and verify applicants. Then in October 2017, Lenddo and EFL merged with a shared goal of financial inclusion for 1 billion individuals & SMEs around the world.
Mr. Eldridge has more than 6 years of management consultancy experience with Renoir Consulting, operating across various industries and business functions in more than 8 countries. Since its inception in 2001, Mr Eldridge has been known as one of the pioneers in the outsourcing industry in the Philippines, having successfully ran two outsourcing companies in the form of Summersault and Infinit-O.
In addition, Mr. Eldridge is a director at the British Chamber and the European Chamber of Commerce Philippines. He received his Bachelor's degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University in the United Kingdom.
LenddoEFL's mission is to provide 1 billion people access to powerful financial products at a lower cost, faster and more conveniently. We use AI and advanced analytics to bring together the best sources of digital and behavioural data to help lenders in emerging markets confidently serve underbanked people and small businesses. To date, LenddoEFL has provided credit scoring, verification and insights products to 50+ financial institutions, serving 7 million people and lending $2 billion USD. Find more information at https://include1billion.com/.
ADRIAN LI - FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Adrian is a seasoned internet entrepreneur. In the past 10 years he has been involved in cofounding and operating 6 internet ventures covering eCommerce, media, market place and product based businesses in emerging markets China and Indonesia. He founded Convergence Ventures as a platform to bring together experience, network and capital to help empower entrepreneurs to succeed.
Adrian is a business mentor at several start-up incubators and accelerator programs including Endeavor, Founder Institute, GEPI, Ideabox, Incyte and Sky Star Ventures. He is also a long standing member of Entrepreneurs Organisation. He is also involved in non-profit work. He founded and chairs a UK Charity called CNYTrust which since 2001 has continued to raise funds to support children in rural China continue schooling.
Adrian graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Economics and was elected a Hawk in recognition of his contributions to University and National level Judo. He obtained his MBA from Stanford while studying in the dual degree MBA & Education MA program. He speaks Mandarin and English fluently and is proficient in Cantonese and basic Bahasa.
Adrian is a sponsored endurance athlete and is the Polar Brand Ambassador for Indonesia. He has completed several marathons in New York, London, Tokyo and Beijing & triathlons including a full Ironman.
Convergence Ventures is an early stage technology venture fund focused on investing in Indonesia's digital disruptors. The fund is led by Partners Adrian Li and Donald Wihardja who are seasoned professionals with extensive operating experience in Internet and Mobile businesses in emerging markets. Convergence leverages its industry insights, support services and global network to empower exceptional founders to build disruptive and impactful businesses for Indonesia and the South East Asia region.
Our Advisory Board and Limited Partners from the US, Asia and Indonesia have backed hundreds of technology businesses in the past decade with notable successes and bring deep industry insights and global networks to our portfolio companies.
ALFONSIUS TIMBOEL - CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Alfons' is MBA graduate from University Technology of Sydney majoring in project management and marketing. He started his career in business and operations for an IT company in Australia before coming back to Indonesia. He joined Halodoc in 2016 and considered as one of the founding members of Halodoc and now leads team of product as vice president.
Halodoc is a healthcare platform that was established in 2016 with its missions to simplify access to healthcare using technology. The startup over a telemedicine solutions that allow patients to connect with a doctor within 15 seconds and get medicine delivered to patient's location in 35 minutes along with home service laboratory check.
DINESH RATNAM - DIRECTOR, CEO OFFICE
Dinesh is currently Chief of Staff to the CEO at Catcha Group, where he provides critical support in evaluating key strategic decisions and driving execution across the Group's main priorities.
Prior to Catcha Group, Dinesh spent over 6 years as an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in its London and San Francisco offices focused on the Technology, Media and Telecommunications space. While at J.P. Morgan, Dinesh helped advise on over $25bn+ worth of capital raising and transformative M&A transactions including Nokia's handset division sale to Microsoft and the buyout of Nokia Siemens Networks, as well as Yahoo's sale to Verizon.
During his stint in San Francisco, Dinesh worked with innovative and disruptive leaders including Dropbox, Linkedin, Airbnb, Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Tesla amongst others on their strategic and financial roadmap. In London, Dinesh was also selected by the European Investment Banking CEO and his senior management team to spend a year assisting with strategising optimal management of the investment banking business.
Dinesh graduated from Imperial College in 2010 with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering.
LEO SHIMADA - CO-FOUNDER & GROUP CEO
Reona (Leo) Shimada is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of Crowdo. Crowdo (crowdo.com) is an Artificial Intelligence powered marketplace for lending and investments. Crowdo's mission is to connect emerging Asia's micro and small-medium size enterprises with its global community of investors. Crowdo is the first in SE. Asia to develop a proprietary credit scoring engine, Crowdo ACE, to create digital credit identities for the region's unbanked. Crowdo is a regulatory supervised financial institution in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Leo is a recognized leader in the fintech industry with close to 20 years experience in the areas of finance and technology across Asia. Leo is a recognized Asia Pacific Fintech influencer and a regular speaker at international fintech events. Leo started his career with McKinsey & Company based in Tokyo and SE. Asia advising senior executives on their digital strategies. After leaving the Firm, Leo moved on to a Fortune 500 company as the strategy lead for the Asia Pacific region driving projects related to strategy, investments, and innovation.
Leo holds a MBA from INSEAD and a Law Degree from Keio University.
Crowdo (PT Mediator Komunitas Indonesia) is an Artificial Intelligence powered marketplace for Lending and Investments. A pioneer in the industry, Crowdo was first established in Singapore and an early entrant into the Indonesia market in early 2016. Crowdo's vision is to establish a regional smart fintech bridge with two pillars of attracting foreign capital to augment restricted domestic credit, and technology innovation. Already in Indonesia, 50% of the credit is sourced from overseas and Crowdo assists the distribution of this capital to close to 20 different industries such as retail, consumer goods, services as well as the informal sector. Driven by this vision, Crowdo became the first P2P platform to fully commercialize their Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in ASEAN named CROWDO ACE. Crowdo ACE is built off of a proprietary technology infrastructure that has now passed the ISO27001 certification (the international standard that describes best practice for an Information Security Management Systems). Credit analysis is only one use case for Crowdo's AI, and they have ambitious plans to deploy AI across different use cases so that both Lenders, Borrowers and also Financial Institution partners will benefit.
Currently, Crowdo has national coverage with a presence most dominant in Java, Sumatera, and Kalimantan. However, with their strong international network and backing, Crowdo has plans in the near future to expand to a more nation-wide coverage. In this year alone, Crowdo has already committed to create market awareness and boost financial literacy through 7 cities. As of now, Crowdo has successfully financed =/- 4.000 SME's project across Indonesia with funds sourced globally and locally. Partnerships play a core role in Crowdo's strategy and they have recently partnered in Medan to allow local consumers to have an alternative form of investment, as well as further, develop the digital economy ecosystem.
CAM WALKER - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Cam Walker is the Executive Director of iflix Indonesia, an emerging markets VOD platform. Prior to launching iflix Indonesia in 2016, Cam spent 5 years as Vice President & Territory Head for Fox Networks Group based in Jakarta. Cam started his career with STAR TV in Hong Kong in 1992, and this led to his first posting in Indonesia in 1994. In addition to his work with iflix and FOX, Cam also worked with ESPN Asia, Indonesia's Emtek Group and First Media/Linknet.
CHRISTOPHER DAVISON - CO-FOUNDER & GROUP CEO
Christopher is the CEO and Co-Founder of BigPay. BigPay is one of the fastest growing SE Asian challenger bank. Christopher is originally from London where he worked in financial services investment banking, tech VC, with a strong track record of both investing in, and setting up, several successful fintech and data analytics companies. He holds an undergraduate degree from Oxford and a masters from Cambridge.
BigPay is available in Malaysia and is a licensed e-money issuer, regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia. BigPay's app allows its users to manage money on the go from their smartphone. Users can see their transactions in real-time, add photo receipts to purchases, track their monthly spending, freeze their card and send money to friends and family for free.
Full transparency and lower fees than your average bank card, especially when travelling. Good news for international spenders who won't pay additional cross-border fees abroad
Freedom and flexibility to manage your account and spend with merchants globally using the BigPay card
Travel benefits with AirAsia including zero processing fees, pre-booked F&B and baggage discounts, and more travel perks to come in 2018
Send money for free to friends and family instantly – join the BigPay community today
BigPay is only just starting on its journey to revolutionise money in Asia, and intends to rollout many new and exciting features in 2018. BigPay is a community driven product being built for, and evolving to, its customers' needs.
JOSHUA HO - MANAGING PARTNER
Josh is a lawyer and entrepreneur. He has built e-commerce businesses globally with Rocket Internet, launched ride-sharing ecosystems like Uber and GO-JEK across the Asia Pacific and is a seed-stage tech investor in frontier markets and verticals.
An early investor in cryptocurrencies, he is currently Co-Founder of QCP Capital - a crypto-asset trading firm based in Singapore.
QCP Capital is Asia's leading digital asset trading firm headquartered in Singapore. The firm runs quantitatively-driven strategies with a focus on trading crypto derivatives. In addition, QCP runs a large over-the-counter trading desk and provides crypto-trading services such as risk management solutions and market-making operations. QCP has a strategic focus on Southeast Asia but also operates in the UK, Japan and Australia.
ROSHNI MAHTANI - FOUNDER & CEO
Roshni Mahtani is the CEO and Founder of Tickled Media, the digital media company behind theAsianparent.com and AsianMoneyGuide.com. Her company reaches over 12 million women monthly across Southeast Asia.
Actively involved in the start-up community, she founded the Female Founders Network - a group of over 3,000 female founders - in 2015. She also sits on the board of TIE Singapore and is an angel investor in a dozen early stage start-ups.
Besides her interest in the start-up world, Roshni is also an Executive Producer of Untouchable: Children of God - A 2014 documovie about young girls in the brothels of India and how they are sold and trafficked from Nepal. The film won the Humanitarian Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Tickled Media (est. 2009) is the digital media company behind theAsianparent.com and AsianMoneyGuide.com. The company reaches over 12 million women monthly across Southeast Asia via its portals and community platforms, which provide fun, meaningful, and life-stage relevant content.
For its brand clients, Tickled Media offers end-to-end services focused on the Asian women category – from market research to content creation, KOL collaboration, video production, display advertising, social media + email marketing, e-commerce activations, and sponsored/bespoke on-ground events.
GUILLEM SEGARRA - CEO
Guillem Segarra is CEO of HappyFresh Group, Southeast Asia's leading food-focused last mile logistics and on-demand delivery company.
Prior to joining HappyFresh in March 2015, he was Marketplace Operations Manager and Head of 3PL Management at Lazada Group, which is pioneering e-Commerce across Southeast Asia. Before that he was a Technical Consultant for Vodafone Global Enterprise (part of the Vodafone Group), dedicated to simplifying the management of global communications for the world's largest multi-national companies.
Guillem holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He loves to travel and is curious about all the cultures in Asia and this is why he has enjoyed living in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
HappyFresh is Asia's leading hyperlocal FoodTech company that enables consumers to shop in their favourite grocery retailers via the mobile and web platforms, using technology to enable delivery within an hour. Founded in October 2014 by an international team of ecommerce and logistics experts HappyFresh partners with established retailers to offer customers more choices at a wide range of price point. HappyFresh is headquartered in Jakarta and has operations across Southeast Asia.
DAVE NG - VENTURE PARTNER
Dave Ng is a Principal at B Capital Group, a global venture capital fund with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Singapore. Dave invests in fintech, consumer and enterprise technology, and leads the fund's investments in Southeast Asia and US. Some of his recent investments include Ninja Van, Carro, Capital Match, Mswipe, CXA Group and Icertis.
Prior to B Capital, Dave spent 20 years across Silicon Valley and Asia, building and operating tech companies. He was Director at Oracle, where he was responsible for corporate and industry strategy. He led the Converged and Cloud businesses strategy, working with senior executives in identifying strategic investments, business operating model and go to market launch. Previously, Dave was an early employee at Zuora, which subsequently went IPO on NYSE. He led strategy and operations for the Services organization, focusing on people, process and infrastructure growth across US, EMEA and APAC. Earlier on, he did management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group, investments at Khazanah and product development & engineering at Oracle.
Dave graduated from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon.
B Capital Group backs brash entrepreneurs building the next generation of groundbreaking technology companies. With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Singapore, B Capital Group focuses on pioneering start-ups that are ready to scale across the global stage. Partnering with Boston Consulting Group, and its incubation arm BCG Digital Ventures, B Capital delivers unparalleled access to top corporations to match cutting-edge start-ups with the world's most powerful CEOs, platforms, and brands.
ISABEL GONZALEZ - FOUNDER & CEO
Isabel is from Spain, Barcelona. With over 20 years of experience in Online & Offline Marketing. She has been living and working in Germany, Spain, UK, Australia, New Zealand & in Singapore for the last 8 years. Isabel was the General Manager of two e-commerce companies in Singapore, CheapTickets.sg & Skiddoo.com.sg. She launched in April 2017 Klaud9, an Online Platform for low cost On Demand Photo Shoots and Asian Stock Photos.
Klaud9 Asia's First Online Platform that helps brands scale their photo and video needs through machine learning and AI across the region.
NIGEL HEMBROW - CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Nigel Hembrow is an Australian based in Jakarta with his family.
He is the CEO & Co-Founder of Astronaut, a SaaS/PaaS company using video-selfies & AI to solve for the pain points in the interviewing and assessment process in recruitment, student admissions, student loans, eKYC & more. They're a graduate of Plug & Play Indonesia's Batch 1 and are aiming to be global by the end of 2019.
With a background in large scale property development, Nigel switched his focus to early-stage ventures in Asia, in 2010. He has lived in UK, China, Singapore and India before moving to Jakarta in 2016. He has previous experience with SaaS-enabled marketplace models.
Nigel is an active angel investor with ANGIN and over coming years hopes to use Astronaut's success to drive deeper collaboration between entrepreneurs in Australia, Indonesia and the region.
Accurate, fast & effective candidate shortlisting is a core problem for in-house recruiters, agency teams and also talent marketplace platforms. This is what Astronaut does.
Astronaut is a SaaS/PaaS company using video-selfies & AI to solve for the pain points in the interviewing and assessment process in recruitment. And now extension to student admissions, student loans, eKYC & more. They're a graduate of Plug & Play Indonesia's Batch 1 and are aiming to be global by the end of 2019.
Team Astronaut's focus to date has been on SaaS product development, channel validation, proving price-point and proving recurring revenue. Existing clients include Kompas Group, Sampoerna Philip Morris International & KornFerry. They now have the opportunity to scale globally via partnerships with global platforms such as Workable.
Self-funded, plus three angels, Astronaut is soon opening a round to invest in user acquisition and product development (AI, predictive analytics).
TAY ZHI XIANG - CO-FOUNDER
A digital marketer and online strategist proficient in brand communication and brand strategy, Tay Zhi Xiang learnt his ropes in agencies -- managed various global semiconductor MNC accounts and executed their B2B and B2C marketing efforts.
In 2017, Zhi Xiang brought these experience into the local startup scene and was the Marketing and Business Development Lead for various startups in the sport and tech space. He was most recently the Marketing Lead for an esport startup that recently raised a successful ICO.
RoundUp Analytics is a Singaporean startup with a cloud-based data analytics and reporting tool co-founded by Jan Wong and Tay Zhi Xiang. With almost 20 years of combined experience in the digital marketing space, both Jan and Xiang understood the pain in crunching the infinite troves of data and making sense of them.
While digital marketing, led by social media, is constantly breaking new grounds and developing new trends, data analysis has always been playing catch-up, especially when data is so fragmented in today's landscape. Realizing that brands are placing tons of resources and focus on data-driven marketing strategies, Jan and Xiang saw the need for a user-friendly analytics tool. RoundUp was born.
Conceived with the aspiration to disrupt the need of using Excel to manually create pivot tables and apply complicated formulas, and of subscribing to multiple costly data analytics tools, RoundUp's proprietary data analytics and reporting tool was developed to consolidate all data sources into a single report and provide relevant and effective business recommendations. Its sole purpose is to help business owners and marketers gain deeper and more comprehensive insights across their brand's marketing channels.
BENNETT LEE - HEAD OF GROWTH
Bennett has almost a decade of private equity & venture capital, corporate finance and equity research experience. Prior to joining Helicap, Bennett worked at a couple of mid-market private equity and venture capital firms where he completed over 10 transactions with combine value of ~ S$1.5bn. He has also worked at notable financial institutions including BNP Paribas, UOB, and Union National Bank where he focused on investment banking and equity research.
Bennett holds a Degree in Economics from National University of Singapore. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations and is a graduate of the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School Fintech Programme.
Helicap is an innovative FinTech investment firm specialising in the fast growing alternative lending space in Southeast Asia and Australia. Helicap has built a proprietary loan of loans platform, aiming to collect, analyse and invest into loans from 300 current partners covering 300mil people. We started operations in Jan 2018, are backed by strong founders, a Fintech conglomerate, top ASEAN VC and Singapore family office.
TARUN NALLU - MANAGING DIRECTOR
X-googler, Consultant, Banker and 100% entrepreneur at heart. Believes in action and breaking down all problems to the fundamentals.
At FMXC™, we love solving problems with the right blend of common sense and creativity. We are a small team but highly skilled in the areas of Strategy, Planning, Operations, Research, Work force management and adding to the list regularly. Our goal is to produce great work through positive energy and build strong personal relationships. We enjoy creating solutions together with you.
FMXC™ is Fundamental Management Consulting, call it the X factor, it represents the CXO's we work with. Our clientele includes progressive college/universities, start-ups in diverse verticals and established corporate.


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The system engineer accountable for IO-SSO and the impacts it has on the DDR memory system will more than happy to understand that the innovation required for effective simulation is now offered in a single suite of analysis tools, the Cadence ® IO-SSO Analysis Suite. The Cadence IO-SSO Analysis Suite is a single-vendor option that offers precise system-level synchronised changing sound (SSN) analysis, dealing with coupled signal, power and ground networks throughout chips, plans and printed circuit boards (PCB). In addition to the brand-new item, visitors to the Cadence table 5 can find out more about the current advances originating from the combination in between Allegro ® and Sigrity ™ innovation for both signal and power stability.
While the system designer is accountable for taking a look at the numerous geographies and examining the impacts of synchronised changing outputs, there are a variety of adjoin designs needed to carry out efficient simulations. In addition, the simulations will be much quicker if carried out with power-aware signal stability (SI) designs over transistor-level SPICE designs. The IO-SSO Analysis Suite permits the designer to begin with native style apply for the I/O, chip, plan, and PCB, and either transform or draw out those designs into a format that can be dropped into the Sigrity ™ SystemSI ™ geography editor. The IO-SSO Analysis Suite from Cadence offers a total and precise service from a single EDA supplier. Provided the style information for the bundle, PCB, and chip, a user of the IO-SSO Analysis Suite can draw out all the materials into broadband adjoin designs where signal, power, and ground are all paired.
In addition, transistor-level SPICE designs can be transformed to power-aware IBIS designs. With the I/O and adjoin designs, DDR simulations can be run where the impacts of synchronised changing outputs are thought about in the compliance requirements. Analysis information can be relied on as signoff quality as all the results from non-ideal power and ground have actually been thought about. The IO-SSO Analysis Suite is a particular group of design production and analysis tools that supplies the capability to precisely replicate a group of parallel bus internet that are changing concurrently. A DDR3 information bus might have as lots of as 64 synchronised changing signals. The sound on the power and ground aircrafts, referred to as synchronised changing sound (SSN), should be properly identified to comprehend if the information will constantly be dependable. This suite of tools offers all the performance needed for modeling chip, bundle, and PCB from die to pass away.
The simulation tool supplied comprehends modern-day memory user interface procedures (such as DDR3/DDR4) and mentions infractions to the electrical requirements for those basic procedures. Synchronised changing sound (SSN) impacts the timing efficiency of output motorists along with other I/O and core circumstances close by. It can trigger big adequate problems on the output signal to incorrectly change the state of the next element on the signal course. In addition, shared inductance in between supply and signal lines along the plan and board triggers crosstalk, increasing the threat of signal destruction. Vulnerability to voltage changes increases as the operating voltage is minimized. And, with the pattern to more pins on smaller sized die, the variety of pins in close distance boosts, raising the possibility of synchronised changing within an I/O area. No style cycle is total till it has actually confirmed SSN's effect on the stability of on-chip power and of signals eliminated of the chip along the bundle and PCB. Choices relating to bundle option, output signal multitude rate, pin sizing, pin positioning, and decoupling capacitance positioning have to be made based upon compromises notified by quantitative analysis.


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#UnitedAsOne Campaign: NCAA and Its Member Schools Create Resource for COVID-19 Information, Updates
By Bernard G. Dennis III & Gregg E. Clifton on April 3, 2020
Out of the uncertainty and chaos of the cancellation of the NCAA Winter championships and Spring seasons caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, digital and social media leaders at a small group of 50 schools came together to launch the #UnitedAsOne campaign to show unity and support for all student-athletes in college sports.
In less than two weeks,
more than 1,1000 member institutions across all three NCAA divisions have joined the campaign using social media hashtags and postings.
Individual athletic departments have also used the campaign to promote the importance of social distancing on campus and to thank first responders.
The campaign was used as a rallying point in a March 29 open letter to student-athletes from NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee leaders in advance of the NCAA Division I Council vote on additional eligibility for student-athletes impacted by COVID-19. On March 30, the NCAA Division I Council voted to allow additional eligibility to spring athletes who had their 2020 canceled.
The NCAA now has a #UnitedAsOne webpage, providing links to COVID-19 resources and the latest NCAA updates.
These resources include need-to-know information for member institutions, NCAA COVID-19 FAQs, information about the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel and its recommendations, mental health resources, and healthy tips for athletes, athletics personnel, and fans. The site also provides links to additional COVID-19 information and travel guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Jackson Lewis' Collegiate and Professional Sports Practice Group will continue to monitor the NCAA in its ongoing response to COVID-19. Please feel free to reach out to any member of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Practice Group with questions.
Tags: COVID-19, NCAA, student athletes

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Buy Beyoncé's Balmain Beychella Sweatshirt
Story from Fashion
Beyoncé Is Teaming Up With Balmain — & 100% Of Proceeds Go To Charity
Channing Hargrove
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images.
When Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter took the stage at Coachella, she brought Black history and culture to the forefront. And in between celebrating the Black college experience (specifically HBCUs), the first Black woman to ever headline the music festival championed Black bodies, feminism, activism, and her family, all while wearing a custom Balmain hoodie. On July 13, that same hoodie, available in both yellow and pink, along with a black T-shirt featuring a sorority-inspired graphic, will go on sale with proceeds benefiting the United Negro College Fund.
Frederick D. Patterson and Mary McLeod Bethune founded the United Negro College Fund in 1944, and since then, the organisation has raised more than £3.6 billion, helping more than 450,000 students attend historically Black universities. "This is something important and this collaboration is talking to the new generation and saying you can get that piece, you can be a part of the history," Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing tells Vogue.
Recreating such a small part of such a historic moment (Beychella) makes Rousteing emotional. "I'm of mixed race. I'm Black and my parents are white. I grew up in France without having a real identification of being Black and being an adult," he says. "I couldn't see myself in the future, in a way, because there were not so many people in the '80s or early '90s that could show me a direction. For me, working with Beyoncé, it's more than only music. It's about history, working with a woman that's going to be part of the history and has made her own revolution, not only in music, not only in fashion. She is an icon to an entire generation and so many more generations can follow the steps of Beyoncé and say, 'You give us hope, you make us dream.'"
This isn't the first time Rousteing has used his design powers for good. In May, he dressed another iconic Black woman, French film star Aïssa Maïga, as well as 17 other Black actresses, for the Cannes Film Festival steps in protest of the racism that continues to perpetuate our society. Following the Met Gala on May 7, Rousteing auctioned off the custom pieces he made for Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Trevor Noah, Juliette Binoche, Natalia Vodianova, Natasha Poly, and Julia Stegner, with 100% of the proceeds going towards (RED)'s Global Fund, which works to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies.
Balmain's collaboration with Beyoncé, which is priced from $290 (£220) to $1,790 (£1,340), will be available on July 13 on Balmain.com and Beyonce.com.
Balmain Selling Beyonce Coachella Hoodie For Charity
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Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, an investigation by the Associated Press has revealed.
Expelled at gunpoint, thousands of people have been forced to walk miles in temperatures of up to 48 degrees. The majority head for Niger; the lucky ones arrive at the village of Assamaka after trekking tens of kilometres in search of water. Some are rescued by UN squads, but untold numbers do not survive the trip.
The migrants and refugees' accounts have been confirmed by videos collected over months, which show hundreds of people stumbling away from lines of trucks and buses. They travel in crammed trucks for six to eight hours before being dropped in the desert and pointed in the direction of Niger. In early June, 217 men, women and children were dropped off well before reaching the usual drop-off stop, dubbed Point Zero and 30 kilometres from the nearest source of water, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
"There were people who couldn't take it. They sat down and we left them. They were suffering too much," said 18-year-old Aliou Kande from Senegal who was interviewed for the investigation.
Kande said nearly a dozen people simply gave up, collapsing in the sand. His group of 1,000 also got lost and wandered for 11 hours in the heat of the desert. He never saw the missing people again.
Kande said Algerian police stole everything he had earned when he was first detained, amounting to some 40,000 dinars ($340) and a Samsung mobile phone.
In leaked comments, authorities in the country have said the investigation is part of a "campaign of defamation" which the north African state is being subjected to.
Algeria's mass expulsions have increased since October 2017, as the EU renewed pressure on North African countries to prevent migrants and refugees travelling north to Europe.
Whilst migrant expulsions are not documented by Algiers, the number of people crossing on foot to Niger has been increasing since the IOM started counting in May 2017, when 135 people were recorded, to April 2018, when the monthly figure stood at 2,888. At least another 2,500 were forced on a similar trek into neighbouring Mali, with an unknown number succumbing along the way.
The IOM has estimated that for every person known to have died crossing the Mediterranean, as many as two people are lost in the Sahara, amounting to more than 30,000 people since 2014.
Algerian authorities have refused to comment but have previously denied that it is committing rights abuses by abandoning migrants and refugees in the desert. Many have accused the government of contributing to the anti-migrant backlash that has seen sub-Saharan Africans branded as invaders, and popularised xenophobic and racist stereotypes in the public discourse.
"We do not want to play the role of police in the Mediterranean," former interior minister Dahou Ould Kablia said.
Despite the threat of violence and expulsion, for many migrants, Algeria is a necessary transit point to recover their strength and to save enough money before attempting to continue their journey towards Europe.


* My one moment of internet fame – a mention on Boing Boing for my photos of the Sedlec Ossuary / Bone Church in Kutna Hora, the Czech Republich, is broken. The post itself lives on though, and I've made sure the pictures still work.
* Some posts have weird text formatting, and have lost some copy. I'm going through them and trying to fix this, but it's taking a bit of time.
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