Startups point to the changing global business trends at RISE-Hong Kong!

With pointers to the changing world economy and the rising of young & innovative Startup culture in Asia, the most sorted International Startup Conference: RISE, took off at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre on July 11th, 2017 and concluded on 13^th July 2017.

About RISE:

RISE brings speakers from the world’s biggest companies together with the world’s most exciting startups in Hong Kong. They all were joined at the Hong Kong Convention Centre by major global media, hundreds of investors and thousands of attendees for three days of legendary networking from July 11-13, 2017

About The Event:

With over 250 world class Speakers, over 10000 +attendees from 90 countries, it has been the most happening Startup Conclave in Asia as the clock ticked. The program has attracted over 500 plus start-ups (early, innovative and growth stage) from over the world, 150 of them displaying each day at 3-day Mega Conference. Startups venturing into Imaging, Aerial Solutions, Data, AI, VR, AR, Fintech, Health and Wellness, payments, social networking, Medical & testing devices, Design &Research, Mobile hardware, Software, Media, Entertainment and a lot many more sectors.

Networking and live Interactions over late evening pub crawl in the streets of modern Hong Kong, was the unique feature of this 3-day youth savvy summit, immaculately organized by the famous team from RISE, the same team that also hosts the world famous tech event WEB SUMMIT & COLLISION. The team of RISE has been led by the dynamic, Paddy Cosgrave- CEO and Co-founder at WEB SUMMIT, an Irish origin entrepreneur. Diversity in the Event with tracks such as Startup University, Digital Branding, Partner workshops, Night Summit, Money Conference, Investor meets, Innovation conferences, Panda Conference, Facebook Analytics sessions, Mentor meets, Q&A’s has been a not to miss on the program list.

Alongside, around 65 Start-ups pitched for the top spot and the winner to be acknowledged as that most compelling Startup at RISE 2017. ZAP ZAP MATH- a Start-up providing kindergarten math learning tools was the winner at the RISE PITCH battle. The Start-up is founded by a Singapore based maths teacher, John NG.

Some Celebrity Comments at RISE:

Gary Vaynerchuk- Social Media Celebrity/CEO& Founder at Vaynermedia, who has over 1.5 million twitter followers has been the star at this year’s RISE Conference, a big crowd puller. At the Panda Conference, in a Live Interview with the CNN anchor, he remarked:

“People have been trading on the reputation for ages, and it’s the same thing on social media to build a personal brand along with reputation”.

On content creation, Gary added: “You need to create stories for people to consume and understand what you do, you need to think like a media company”. He added that” everybody says content is the king, but not to miss that context is the Queen and that’s where the magic sits”.

Rolf Schrömgens- CEO and Co-founder Trivago in a Q&A replied to a question on work culture:

“I and my team have been constantly focusing on culture in the company. An unbiased work environment is totally dependent on its people, and that’s how you build a good work culture”

Bradley Horowitz- American Entrepreneur and VP Streams, Photos, and Sharing at GOOGLE remarked from centre Stage:“He would love to see Start-ups having a pragmatic approach and not worrying about the exits too early, loving the problem and always ready to work for it”.

The dynamic AIRBUS CTO Paul Eremenko in conversation with Sr. Journalist from BloombergYvonne Man, shared:

“My job at Airbus is to prepare for the future. He added: what he learned in his past organization DARPA was speed, not in terms to be first, but speed in terms of incentivising risk tolerance among team engineers”. He also said that “external technological context is equally important to continue building great products at AIRBUS or at any innovative environment”. He also did reply to Yvonne questions on Airbus personal flight project “Vahana” that started in 2016.

With Hong Kong, leading the way as the leader in Startup Revolution in Asia, RISE Conference is undisputedly the most sorted Start-up friendly event with a global impact and outstanding Industry engagement.