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Announcing Startup Asia Jakarta!

For Bahasa Indonesia version of this post, click here.

We wrapped up Startup Asia Singapore just over a month ago. The response has been great, and it motivates us to keep moving and building. At the end of Startup Asia Singapore, I said that we would be announcing our next city very soon. And here it is.

That city is Jakarta, Indonesia. Startup Asia Jakarta will be held on June 7 and 8. In fact, some local friends tell me that Startup Asia Jakarta is the first international startup conference ever held in Indonesia. I’m not sure if that’s true or not, but we’re delighted to go there in any case. Our team has also been learning a lot from our Indonesian friends. It has been a humbling experience. The people in Jakarta are amazingly friendly and of course Indonesia is oozing with tech potential. And the world is watching. Over the last four weeks, we’ve had some team members traveling back and forth to Jakarta to lay the foundation for this event. The reason we chose Jakarta is mainly because of demand. Quite a few friends from Indonesia visited our Startup Asia Singapore conference and many wanted it to be held in Jakarta. Our Jakarta conference will be held at the Upperroom Jakarta, a gorgeous conference and exhibition space located in the heart of Jakarta. The exhibition hall for startups and sponsors will be at least twice as large as the one we had in Singapore. You can also expect a larger crowd, and a good mix of local and international participants. For the Jakarta conference, we will also run a 30-hour Hackathon focusing on mobile hacks. Details of the Hackathon will be released at a later date. Our list of local speakers, so far, includes:

Andy Zain — Director at PT Skybee, Founder, CEO at PT Numedia Global
Anthony Liem — CEO of Merah Putih Incubator
Edi Taslim — Vice Director at Kompas.com
Andi S. Boediman — Director at Ideosource

On our international list there are, for now:

Remco Lupker — Co-founder at Tokobagus
Tatsuo Tsutsumi — Partner at GREE Ventures
Takahiro Suzuki — Head of CyberAgent Ventures Jakarta
Steven Goh — Co-founder at mig33

There will be more exciting speakers coming up and we will announce them as soon as we receive confirmation.
Startup Arena

Our event is created for entrepreneurs. So we’re putting a huge focus on Startup Arena, where a group of selected startups across Asia will battle for US$10,000.

In the four weeks following our Singapore event, we learned that two startups who competed at Arena have already received fundings, and there are more to be announced soon apparently. While we can’t claim any credit for their successes, we do like to think that Arena is a great springboard for startups in Asia. So if you think your startup has what it takes, come and compete at Arena on June 7 and 8.