RISEconf 2015 UNOFFICIAL Schedule

RISEconf 2015 DAY1(Friday) Unofficial Schedule by Sh1n0g1
Center Stage Enterprise Stage Builders Stage
09:20 9:25-9:30
Opening Remarks
Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit
Casey Lau, StartupsHK
09:30 9:30 - 9:45
The Chinese are no longer copycats,
they are innovators
Neil Shen, Sequoia Capital China
One of the most prevalent myths that
exists is that China is a land of copycats in
the technology world. When in fact China is
a land of innovators.
09:40
09:50 9:58-10:00
Opening remarks
Richard Robinson, Yolu
Introduction to stage and day's content
9:58-10:00
Opening Remarks
10:00 10:00-10:15
Big innovations in small loans
Simon Loong, WeLab
Simon Loong will open the Enterprise Stage
with a seasoned, local perspective on
fintech, lending and innovation in the Asian
e-commerce market.
10:10
10:20
10:30
10:40
9:45-10:05
How to localise a global game
Arthur Chow, 6Waves
Yat Siu, Outblaze
Misha Lyalin, ZeptoLab
Abhimanyu Ghoshal, The Next Web
The games industry is a global market with
new titles becoming worldwide sensations
within a short time of their release. But
how do you keep a game relevant to a local
marketplace?
10:00-10:30
Why Build?
Allan Grant, Hired
Allan Grant shares insight into how he
accidentally started the auction-format
based recruitment site, Hired.com and how
he's built up the platform to the substantial
sucess it has today.
10:05-10:25
The Midas touch: Jenny Lee in
conversation
Jenny Lee, GGV Capital
Rebecca Blumenstein, Wall Street
Journal
A unique perspective where we will see the
technology world through the eyes of the
world's leading female investor.
10:15-10:35
Transfer methods - transforming the
traditional
Eric Barbier, TransferTo Inc.
Brett Meyers, CurrencyFair
John Lunn, Paypal & Braintree
Phillip Kingston, Trimantium Capital
Experts talk to the industry that is now
worth well over $1 trillion and give insight
into how they're furthering the business of
financial exchange.
10:25-10:45
Coming soon: Stripe prepares for an
Asian expansion
John Collison, Stripe
Hannah Kuchler, Financial Times
What plans Stripe have for the Asian
market.
10:30-11:00
The future of notifications
Tomaz Stolfa, Layer
How notifications are becoming the
mainstream mini-interface to apps on new
devices, and how to build products around
this evolution.
10:35-10:50
Bitcoin: crime and regulation
Bobby Lee, BTCChina
With Bitcoin becoming increasingly more
accepted, we hear from Bobby Lee on the
darker side-effects of its anonymity.
10:45-11:05
The evolution of mobile messaging
Jonathan Caras, Glide
Tony Jamous, Nexmo
Micha Benoliel, Open Garden
Josh Horwitz, Quartz
Mobile messaging is constantly changing-
from text, to voice, to picture, to video and
beyond; the medium is constantly evolving
but what will be next?

10:50
11:00
11:10
11:20
11:30 11:30-11:45
Power forward: why the future of
energy (and everything else) is about
consuming less, not producing more
Alex Laskey, Opower
The global leader in cloud-based software
for the utility industry shows us how to
maximise resources for optimum results.
11:40
11:50
12:00
12:10
12:20 12:20-12:35
The big opportunity in small business
Rod Drury, Xero
Experiencing continued success in their
cloud-based accounting software business,
Xero's CEO talks about their winning SMB
focus.
12:00-12:20
Is the changing face of recruitment
working?
Allan Grant, Hired
Damon Kitney, The Australian
How effective are today's innovations in
head-hunting and what can we learn from
the past? Hired.com has turned the
traditional jobs market on its head and
know exactly what it takes to do so.
12:00-12:30
Security - RAT demo
Shota Shinogi, ShinoBOT Suite
A live demonstration of ShinoBOT and an
APT attack to illustrate cyber security and
common causes of security breaches.
12:00-13:00 Break
11:00-11:30
Making information smart with public
computing
Nanxi Liu, Enplug
Founder and CEO, Nanxi Liu, talks to the
advantages in building the first large-scale
open platform for digital displays.
11:05-11:25
Online governance needs to be
decided by natives, not migrants
Nikesh Arora, Softbank
David Pilling, Financial Times
Today’s youth are the true natives of the
mobile internet but how they be governed.
11:10-11:30
The grass is always greener - financial
innovation in Asia
Gerald Eder, Compare Asia Group
Egidio Zarrella, KPMG
Jennifer Hughes, Financial Times
Tee Plern Suraphongchai, Ardent
Capital
Hearing the exclusive inside track on the
hotbed of fintech innovation that is Asia
and what it is that makes it so successful.
11:25-11:40
Bitcoin, is it now or never?
Lulu Yilun Chen, Bloomberg
Bobby Lee, BTCChina
Jack Liu, OKCoin
Bitcoin was once heralded as the future of
finance but it has still yet to break through
into mainstream consciousness.
11:30-12:00
Trailblazer - lost in the jungle of rails
Nick Sutterer, Ruby Expert
Nick Sutterer shares his thoughts on why
one would use open source, how he
created an alternative architecture for Rails
and all the parts in between.
11:40-12:00
Machine learning and Amazon
Werner Vogels, Amazon
Building predictive applications, including
fraud detection, demand forecasting, and
click prediction is seen as one of the key
cornerstones of building a machine learning
platform.
11:45-12:00
Democratisation of opportunity: the
new world of work
Amit Singh, Google
Spearheading Google for work's vision to
forge a new way of working, Amit Singh
shares insight into the leadership of the
man who runs Google's enterprise business.
10:45-11:05
The evolution of mobile messaging
Jonathan Caras, Glide
Tony Jamous, Nexmo
Micha Benoliel, Open Garden
Josh Horwitz, Quartz
Mobile messaging is constantly changing-
from text, to voice, to picture, to video and
beyond; the medium is constantly evolving
but what will be next?
10:50-11:10
Changing the payments market to
meet consumer needs
Maria Gracheva, Yandex
Sam Halse, Adyen
Tim Lee, QFPay
Pamela Ambler, Thomson Reuters
Keeping up with the changing landscape of
payments involves keeping up with
customer expectations - how do you do
both?

12:30
12:40
12:50
13:00 13:00-13:15
DJI: realising the true potential of
drones
Andy Pan, DJI
The world's largest drone company is still
innovating.
13:10
13:20
13:30 13:35-13:45
Finding your niche in enterprise
software - betting on B2B
Judah Hirsch, Salarium
Founder and CEO, Judah Hirsch talks us
through Salarium's success in automising
payments and attracting attention whilst
doing so.
13:40
13:50
14:00
14:10
14:20
13:50-14:10
Selling local to a global audience
Melissa Yang, Tujia
Jonathan Krim, Wall Street Journal
How Tujia sell the local property market to
a global audience. 14:00-14:30
The role of tech in making your mark
Heather Hiles, Pathbrite
The future and importance of technologies
which help people to succeed in their
endeavors.
14:05-14:25
Searching for the best user
experience
Shay Banon, Elastic
Jeremy Ben Sadoun, Algolia
Search engine optimization is all about the
user experience, which is key to successful
search technologies and search solutions.
14:10-14:20
Does the best product win?
Brian Koo, Formation 8
Hugo Burge, Momondo Group
Pamela Ambler, Thomson Reuters
Dave McClure, 500 Startups
When you invest are investing in more than
a product.
14:25-14:40
How to market in the Enterprise space
Nathan Huey, SoftLayer, an IBM
Company
Cloud computing giant, Softlayer, prides
itself in giving customers the highest
performing cloud infrastructure available.
Communicating this often depends on your
marketing approach. Join CMO, Nathan
Huey, as he shares his expertise on the
ever changing field and the SoftLayer story.
12:30-13:00
Things your mobile app is doing
wrong (and how to fix It)
Eric Nakagawa, Facebook
Facebook's developer advocated for Parse
will share his expert knowledge in and
around building and fixing your mobile app.
12:35-13:35 Break
Break
13:15-13:35
From West to East: outsiders making
an impact
Company
Sam Halse, Adyen
Allan Grant, Hired
James Griffiths, South China Morning
Post
How to make an impact in Asia when you
are not from the region.
13:35-13:50
Adding player two: there's no such
thing as the perfect hire
Holly Liu , Kabam
Getting the right people is key to scaling
your company and making sure it is on the
path to success. This is true in all industries
but is there any such thing as the perfect
hire?
13:45-14:05
The fine line between cyber offence
and cyber defence
Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure
With over 20 years of fighting malware and
viruses, he has made the online security
industry what it is today: Mikko Hypponen
enlightens us all on cyber security.

14:30
14:40
14:50
15:00 15:00-15:15
New industrial revolution: what it is,
when it starts, and why it happens
Jane Zavalishina, Yandex
Big data insights are transforming the
entire financial services sector and giving
power to internet technologies like never
before.
15:10
15:20
15:30
15:40
15:50
16:00
16:10
16:20
16:15-16:35
How returnees are revolutionising the
Chinese startup scene
Victor Wang, ZhenFund
Jonathan Krim, Dow Jones
The technology sector in China is currently
experiencing an upsurge in Chinese
returnees who are now back boning the
startup scene on the mainland.
15:15-15:35
nice won! How China's photo sharing
market is being conquered
Alex Zhou, nice
Jun-Yeob Lee, Financial Times
How nice have turned photo sharing into
China's biggest cultural phenomenon.
15:15-15:40
Analysing algorithms and machine
learning - big data solutions
David Hsieh, Instart Logic
Jane Zavalishina, Yandex
Sheila Lam, Computer World
Potential applications of machine learning
and big data analytics are almost unlimited,
and few know this better than these
experts.
15:30-16:00
Building Elasticsearch: from idea to
{code} to adoption
Shay Banon, Elastic
The open source search technology which
has gotten Elasticsearch to 30 millions
downloads.
15:35-15:55
Diversification: the key to expanding
your user base
Sheng Fu, Cheetah Mobile
How to bring diversification to a company.
15:40-16:00
Future of android and the next 2
billion
Kirt McMaster, Cyanogen
Tom Moss, Nextbit Systems
Jonathan Krim, Dow Jones
In the ever competitive mobile and
technology markets, can android survive,
evolve and prosper?
15:55-16:15
The key to millennial engagement
Ray Chan, 9GAG
Michael Wolf, Activate
James Griffiths, South China Morning
Post
The digitally savvy millennial generation are
the key target audience for so many
companies. So how do you reach them?
14:25-14:40
How to market in the Enterprise space
Company
Cloud computing giant, Softlayer, prides
itself in giving customers the highest
performing cloud infrastructure available.
Communicating this often depends on your
marketing approach. Join CMO, Nathan
Huey, as he shares his expertise on the
ever changing field and the SoftLayer story.
14:30-15:00
Gopher it!
Gautam Rege, Josh Software
Why more of us should be using the open
source programming language and the
beneficial applications it has for us in
everyday life.
14:30-14:55
LINE them up: replicating success
across borders
Takeshi Idezawa, LINE
LINE's expansion outside of Japan.
14:40-15:00
What big data doesn't show us
Linda Jiang, Umeng
Suresh Shankar, Crayon Data
Raymond Russell, Corvil
Are we on the tip of iceberg or where are
we going next with big data?
14:55-15:15
How big data can help save and make
lives
Michael Huang, Glow
Danny Yeung, Prenetics
Saeju Jeong, Noom
How big data will have the most
fundamental impact on people’s everyday
lives
15:00-15:30
Architecting for UX
Josh Holmes, Microsoft
From Microsoft Ventures' CTO in residence,
we hear from this architect evangelist on
how to create the best UX possible.

RISEconf 2015 DAY2(Saturday) Unofficial Schedule by Sh1n0g1
Center Stage Marketing Stage Machine Stage
09:20 9:25-9:30
Opening Remarks
09:30
09:40
09:50 9:55-10:00
Opening remarks
Irene Chu, KPMG
10:00 10:00-10:15
Leap Motion in conversation
Michael Buckwald, Leap Motion
Richard Robinson, Yolu
Leap Motion are developing 3D motion-
control technology for virtual and
augmented reality and doing so with great
success. Michael and Richard will talk both
hardware and software while looking at this
company's creative computing.
10:10-10:15
Opening remarks
Anson Bailey, KPMG
10:20
10:30 10:30-10:45
How both sides can be right and
wrong in equal measure
Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
Taking advice when you first enter the
technology world can be difficult, especially
when both sides can be right and wrong in
equal measure.
10:30-10:45
Marketing your company culture
Nanxi Liu, Enplug
Vinnie Lauria, Golden Gate Ventures
Free food, dogs in the office, unlimited
vacations - company culture is fast
becoming an important consideration in
choosing who you work with.
10:40
9:30-9:50
Why are companies growing so fast?
Jim Kim, Formation 8
Harry Hui, Clearvue Partners
Hanno Stegmann, Rocket Internet
Elzio T Barreto, Thomson Reuters
Technology startups are now growing at a
rate never seen before. However what role
does the VC play in this?
9:50-10:10
20 years of business in China: a
conversation with PCH Founder & CEO
Liam Casey
Liam Casey, PCH
Tim Culpan, Bloomberg
In recent years PCH have diversified into
incubators, design and e-commerce. So
how should we now define PCH?
10:10
10:15-10:30
Brand and character: the relationship
between you and your brand
Andy Dunn, Bonobos
The Relationship Between You and Your
Brand
10:10-10:30
The death of desktop applications
Girish Mathrubootham, Freshdesk
Amit Singh, Google
David Rowan, Wired
More of our working lives are now
conducted in the cloud, each of us are
moving away from the more traditional
applications to its next evolution.
10:15-10:35
Robotic control, automation and
sensing opportunity
Mel Torrie, ASI Robots
Erica Young, Insight Robotics
Feng Wang, Financial Times
Two industry leaders in hardware and
manufacturing tell us the ins and outs of
the world of robotics.
10:45-11:05
Is the tech bubble about to burst?
Peng T. Ong, Monk's Hill Ventures
Bob McCooey, NASDAQ
Jing Ulrich, J.P. Morgan Chase
Ever since the last technology crash at the
turn of the millennium, many industry
experts have looked at the sector and
predicted another meltdown. Does the
number of unicorns tell us the marketplace
is healthy or overheated ?
10:35-10:50
Upgrade your work day with
quantified self and biohacking
Teemu Arina, Biohacker's Handbook
With the help of wearable technologies,
quantified self, and biohacking - what is
possible today and what will the future of
optimized performance bring?
10:45-11:00
Living a complete life
Gloria Ai, iAsk Media
In today’s headline obsessed world, it’s still
important to take time, step back, and
explore the complete picture.

10:50
11:00
11:10 11:10-11:25
Flash Link: A button to control your
world by Misfit
Sonny Vu, Misfit
A little wearable button with a lot of
different functions - Sonny Vu
demonstrates Misfit Wearables' newest
product.
11:20 11:20-11:35
You're unique, just like everyone else!
Salone Sehgal, Truly Social Ltd.
Salone Sehgal pioneers ‘Flirtual Reality’ and
user experience for female gamers.
11:30
11:40
11:50
12:00
12:10 12:10-12:20
The end of money as you know it
John Lunn, Paypal & Braintree
The changing face of fintech
12:10-12:25
One man brand
Girish Mathrubootham, Freshdesk
Checking in on your customers to better
understand your company's big picture.
12:20 12:20-12:35
Technology: changing security with
IoT
Terence Yap, Guardforce HK
What tech is doing now to protect our
hardware and where it's going to go in the
future.
11:20-11:40
One plus two equals success
Pete Lau, OnePlus
How OnePlus 2 will change the way you
launch into the mobile market
11:25-11:45
The battle for indoor drone
dominance
Junyang Woon, Infinium Robotics
Iris Leung, e27
Making the dream the reality - Junyang
Woon talks to us about bringing drones into
our everyday lives.
11:40-12:10
PITCH final
11:45-12:00
Good Morning Vietnam - drone below
the surface
Romeo Durscher, DJI
With the use of drone technology, we can
learn more than we ever imagined about
the world we live in.
12:00-12:20
Co-piloting the drone industry
Romeo Durscher, DJI
Jono Millin, DroneDeploy
Feng Wang, Financial Times
Partnering cloud-based software solutions
for commercial drone operations with a
leading drone manufacturer is proving to be
very smart move for DroneDeploy and DJI.
Romeo and Jono tell us how this came
about, how it benefits both parties and
what it means moving forward.
12:20-13:00 Break 12:25-12:40
Social engagement - sharing your life
online
Jeffrey Huang, 17 Media
The man on a mission to disrupt mobile
media.
11:50-12:10
Most common mistakes in moving into
new markets
Gerald Eder, Compare Asia Group
Shobhit Shukla, Adnear
David Lee, Shakr Media
Gwendolyn Regina Tan, Mashable
Moving into new markets needs careful
consideration, even if you're neighbours.
11:00-11:20
The future of marketing in an
augmented reality
Ambarish Mitra, Blippar
Blippar’s amazing technology uses mobile
devices to expand our view of the everyday
world.
11:35-11:50
The fragmentation of news
James Riley, InnovationAus.com
Nellie Chan, LinkedIn
Jill Grinda, Reuters News Agency
Exploring compartmentalisation in news
and the increasing number of verticals for
media to cover
10:45-11:05
Is the tech bubble about to burst?
Peng T. Ong, Monk's Hill Ventures
Bob McCooey, NASDAQ
Jing Ulrich, J.P. Morgan Chase
Ever since the last technology crash at the
turn of the millennium, many industry
experts have looked at the sector and
predicted another meltdown. Does the
number of unicorns tell us the marketplace
is healthy or overheated ?
10:50-11:10
The now of wearable technology
Nelson Zhang, Wearhaus
Juliana Chua, Zensorium
Manav Gupta, Brinc.io
Yuanyuan Li, Mobvoi
The variation within the wearable industry
is vast and undeniably growing - we hear
from founders at the forefront of today's
wearables market.
11:05-11:20
Real time delivery has real time
impact
Artur Bergman, Fastly
The quicker we get results the faster we
can act. In some cases this is days or hours
but in the case of Fastly it is measured in
milliseconds as they strive to make the
internet a faster place.
10:45-11:00
Living a complete life
Gloria Ai, iAsk Media
In today’s headline obsessed world, it’s still
important to take time, step back, and
explore the complete picture.

12:30
12:40 12:40-12:55
The evolution of 'the agency': the
disappearance of differentiation
Company
Stephanie Marchesi, FleishmanHillard
With increasing competition, agencies are
racing to stand out.
12:50
13:00-13:05
PITCH winner announced
13:10
13:20
13:30
13:40
13:50
14:00 14:00-14:15
Keeping it fresh: how to stay ahead in
the food delivery game
Roger Egan, RedMart
Lucas Englehardt, WaimaiChaoren
George Chen, South China Morning
Post
Online retail in the food sector is ever
increasing in popularity with consumers.
But with more and more startups entering
the market, those at the top they have to
stay ahead of the game.
13:40-14:00
How do you make wearables easy to
use?
Sonny Vu, Misfit
Tim Culpan, Bloomberg
Wearables are seen as revolutionary but
can they be made easy to use?
13:00
13:05-13:25
How to get a real time education
Dun Xiao, 17zuoye
Amie Tsang, New York Times
Education is no longer just confined to a
classroom. You can find an education
anywhere you can connect to the internet.
13:10-13:25
Sport as a marketing tool
Patrick Murphy, Catalyst Media Group
Chris Stafford, FanDuel
Sport can act as a unifying force and
communication tool all across the world.
12:55-13:15
Secure online log-in through the
power of mobile
Karan Henrik Ponnudurai, Celcom
Axiata Malaysia
Jaikishan Rajaraman, GSMA
David Corbin, Tech in Asia
A conversation about mobile technology's
advances from two of the industry's biggest
players, Celcom and GSMA.
13:15-13:40
Machine Vision: In conversation with
Movidius
David Moloney, Movidius
Abhimanyu Ghoshal, The Next Web
The CTO of the global leader in mobile
vision process technology for connected
devices gives the inside track into their
progress and what they see their
technology accomplishing down the line.
13:25-13:40
Investing time, not money will inspire
the next generation
Tony Conrad, True Ventures
Jalak Jobanputra, FuturePerfect
Ventures
When we hear about building the next
generation it is often in reference to the
next technical advancement, however it
should also apply to people as well.
12:20-13:00 Break
12:35-12:55
How translation technology is
transforming communication
Ryan Rogowski, Waygo
Richard Lai, Engadget China
Ryan Rogowski of Waygo will show us first
hand how his technology operates, then
will be joined onstage by Engagdet editor-
in-chief, Richard Lai, to talk about
innovations in the translation market and
the potential in both mobile apps and
hardware over the next few years.
12:25-12:40
Social engagement - sharing your life
online
Jeffrey Huang, 17 Media
The man on a mission to disrupt mobile
media.
12:55-13:10
Transforming the digital landscape
Roy Zhou, Yoyi Digital
Normandy Madden, Thoughtful Media
Group
Opportunities and challenges for building
brands and driving performance in a multi-
screen era with fragmented audiences.
13:40-14:00
Mobile, first and foremost?
Ray Chan, 9GAG
Yat Siu, Outblaze
Gwendolyn Regina Tan, Mashable
How much attention do we need to give to
mobile in an era with fragmented audiences
and devices?
13:25-13:40
The next internet
Saeju Jeong, Noom
Danny Yeung, Prenetics
Joel Neoh, KFIT
The young generation of ambitious serial
entrepreneurs intent on making a mark and
disrupting their industries.

14:10
14:20
14:30
14:40
14:50 14:55-15:00
Breakthrough HK winner
Winner of the Breakthrough HK competition
announced
15:00
15:10
15:00-15:20
Has the ride sharing economy
peaked?
Joe Lee, Kuaidi Didi
Susan Li, CNBC
Kaudi Didi has recently come to the
forefront of the technology world raising a
staggering round of financing totalling over
2 billion. But where does the ride sharing
economy go from here and has it now
reached it’s zenith?
14:15-14:35
First steps, how to grow a company in
online infant care
Liu Nan, MIA
Normandy Madden, Thoughtful Media
Group
How the infant care market is now using e-
commerce to tap into a multi million dollar
market
14:35-14:55
How enterprise has left its legacy
roots behind
Rod Drury, Xero
Anne Raimondi, Zendesk
The enterprise market has come a long way
in a short space of time where once big
legacy companies ruled the roost, we now
have more agile companies who are willing
to adapt quickly to help business.

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