DLD Singapore 2018
who it's for
startup founders, regional expansion managers, venture capitalists, product managers, payments product managers, urban planners and smart city teams, retail and fashion executives
topics
indonesia e-commerce market dynamics; cash on delivery and agent networks; additive manufacturing for metal parts; 3D printed rocket and copper winding prototypes; series A and B fundraising in Southeast Asia; regulatory sandboxes and P2P lending licenses; anonymized citywide datasets for transport optimization; micro-mobility vehicle deployments; computer vision for fashion personalization and sizing; QR-based cashless payments and national rollouts
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Winning In The Indonesian Consumer Market | A. Bose, W. Cuaca, T. Oetomo, A. Zain | 37m |
Indonesia has 265 million people and ~130 million internet users; mobile and social adoption fuels a consumer boom where e‑commerce grows from ~$14B toward… | ||
| The Secret Sauce Of Scaling Businesses In India And South-East Asia | Harish Bahl | 14m |
Argues that nothing called Asia — country and regional differences force separate go-to-market moves — and that internet/mobile businesses need a mix of local… | ||
| The Potential Of Additive Manufacturing | A.Gerfer, L. S. Kayser, Chaw Sing Ho | 38m |
Industrial-scale 3D printing already makes functional metal, ceramic, glass and polymer parts and treats complexity as free so cost tracks weight not shape… | ||
| The Changing VC Landscape | L. Enckell, D. Gowdey, V. Lauria, D. Tan, S. Leonard | 44m |
Southeast Asia moves from raw to repeatable: early-stage seed activity is growing into Series A and B pools, international players like Sequoia and Chinese and… | ||
| Smart Cities | A. Biderman, M. M. Pedrazoo, M. Wegener, I. Weinöhrl, J. Nguyen | 51m |
First Tesla takes seven months to register in Singapore; a 500,000 m² Lab Campus is being built at Munich Airport to embed sensors and AI from day one; a… | ||
| Fashion Is Booming In South-East Asia | Tiago Vieira Alves, Rachel Lim, Rohit Kumar | 31m |
Southeast Asia’s fashion market measures at about $100 billion by 2020 and demands country-by-country localization: centralized warehousing in Malaysia… | ||
| Expanding to Asia Pacific | M. Cooper, P. Mehta, H. Wortmann, M.Weiss | 30m |
Skillshare reports 23,000 video classes and 6,000 teachers, sees half of new users from outside the US and a surprising 400% year-over-year in India while… | ||
| Disrupting Industries With Digitalization And Blockchain | Isabell Welpe | 14m |
Survey of 1500 CEOs finds complexity and speed as top risks and the average half-life of a company dropped from 30 to 5 years, with 90% of the 1955 Fortune 500… | ||
| Cashless Cities | Jeffry Ho, Ayesha Khanna, Nicholas Lee, Juliette Saly | 37m |
Singapore claims 60% of transactions cashless, 40% cash and reports a 90% preference for cashless payments, yet small hawker stalls hold out because of tax and… | ||
| Blockchain Hotbeds Berlin/Singapore | Chhabra, De La Forge, Rübe, Somosundram, Wollert | 57m |
Comparison of Berlin and Singapore focuses on infrastructure not hype: teams build open protocols, cross-border fundraising with KYC/AML, and token incentives… | ||
| Asia Pacific — Right Here, Right Now | Hildegard Wortmann | 14m |
The talk argues that Asia Pacific is the immediate growth market, with corporate headquarters moving to Singapore and Hong Kong as gateways for regional… | ||
| Welcome | Steffi Czerny | 09m |
A conference overview that traces growth from a 200‑person gathering to a global circuit, founded 2005 in Nymphenburg Castle, now running a Munich flagship in… | ||
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