Vincent Kok is a pioneer in Malaysia's digital industry. He transitioned from what was then Apple Malaysia's marketing department to become the first registered Google Advertising Professional in the country. In 2004, he started  charkueyteow.com, a food blog that would eventually lead him down an entrepreneurship journey, though he did not know it at that time.

In 2014, he founded VMO, streamlining event venue bookings. He later co-founded eatcosys which has subsequently become Incite Innovations, empowering F&B and retail entrepreneurs. His journey earned him recognition in Malaysia's Digerati50 list in 2018, solidifying his role as a digital industry leader.

He nows spend part of his time giving back to the community that has enriced his life, the start-up community. Vincent Kok is a coach and mentor to start-ups and he also conducts training on the entrepreneur mindset to corporations

Tham Keng Yew is a Malaysian entrepreneur and operator with deep experience building digital businesses across food technology, e-commerce, groceries, and digital marketing. He is currently the CEO of Food Market Hub (FMH), where he leads growth, strategy, and execution for technology solutions serving the F&B industry.

He is also Managing Director of Supplybunny, a groceries e-commerce platform, and Kemon Digital, a digital marketing agency that helps brands improve customer engagement, online sales, and marketing performance. Keng Yew brings a practical founder-operator perspective to mentoring, shaped by years of building, scaling, and commercialising technology-enabled businesses in Malaysia and the region.

As a mentor, he helps students sharpen their understanding of customer pain points, business models, go-to-market strategy, digital adoption, and execution discipline. His mentoring style combines commercial clarity, entrepreneurial realism, and a strong bias toward turning ideas into measurable business outcomes that can survive beyond classroom theory and pitch decks.

Reuben Ch'ng is the founder of Daily CMO, a marketing education platform built for Malaysian SME owners and marketers who are serious about execution. 

He runs workshops, events, and content, focusing on closing the gap between marketing knowledge and what actually gets done in the real world.

With an experience that spans agency work, leading marketing at a data science company, and building a recording studio, he has operated across creative, technical, and commercial contexts before landing on education. 

Through Daily CMO, he designs and delivers programs on marketing, AI tools, and lead generation, partnering with practitioner-level experts who know their craft but don't always have a stage to share it from. He's less interested in theory and more interested in what's working right now, on the ground, for businesses who wants to grow.

Heislyc Loh is a community builder and thought  leader on technology startups entrepreneurship in the Southeast Asian region. He founded StartupMamak in 2011, an 18,000-strong community for tech startup explorers, talents and founders to exchange knowledge and connections.

Heislyc is also the Managing Director of Founder Institute Malaysia, the world's premier startup launch program for talented entrepreneurs in 180 different cities. Heislyc is currently growing Devs Asia as a platform to gather top tech talents to help businesses outsource their software product development.

Mohd Atasha is a seasoned leader in the digital sector with a track record of fostering international investments and job creation, as well as serving as an advisor for global tech startups and esteemed organizations like Alibaba Group and the United Nations. He currently serves as Director at Alphaus Cloud and is passionate about helping others reach their goals, both professionally and personally, always open to creating new possibilities for people and organizations .

Atasha is active in Tech Startup ecosystem dealing extensively with founders, investors, corporate & government. Prior to this, Atasha was responsible for Malaysia’s special project, negotiated on behalf of the Malaysian Government to attract Foreign-Direct Investment High Impact Projects (Fortune-500 listed companies).

Dr Aly was 23 years old when he graduated as a medical doctor, and by 26 he had to sell off 2 of the 3 private clinics he co-owned. The old saying that doctors make bad business people, is really a very old saying.

While it wasn’t easy, the journey to shift from being a typical doctor to a doctorpreneur took many years for Dr Aly, as there were not many other doctors whom he could rely on as a mentor. Aside from the medical aspect, Dr Aly love for business got him involved with a business networking group and he served 2 terms as the President, where he led a group of 80 business owners and entrepreneurs of different industries, which saw them double up their collective annual revenue.

Aside from that he also co-founded a small media startup company and co-hosts a weekly podcast called The 2 Docs, that speaks on contemporary issues and entrepreneurship.

Dr Ingky aka Dr Lim Ing Kien is the world's pioneering Digital Doctor. He currently manages 4 skin clinics in the Klang Valley and has a robust social media presence on all major social media platforms.

Dr Ingky is a technopreneur, founder of Skynfyx (World's First Digital Skin Clinic) and as well as a Founding Advisor to TAMP Inc based in San Francisco which creates telehealth services for hospitals all over the world.

Dr Ingky believes that change is the only constant and in order for one to change; one must learn, relearn and reflect on one's own ethos. 

Kenneth Ho is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor from Malaysia. He is best known for being the founder and executive director of BEAMSTART, a platform helping business owners find clients, investors, and skilled-talent online. 

Today Kenneth spends most his time building BEAMSTART, aiming to turn the platform into the go-to platform for business opportunities across Southeast Asia. He believes that having the right support and backing would not only allow entrepreneurs to build better companies, but in the long term cultivate a stronger economy. 

BEAMSTART today has offices in 3 countries, and millions of visitors from over 60 countries. The company has also gone on to invest in close to 10 new spinoff ventures such as esports/gaming, news/media, and SaaS solutions.

Dato' James Foo known as the "Business Macgyver" and is recognised as a global serial entrepreneur, published author and a sought-after keynote speaker. He is a leading expert, speaker, author and entrepreneur in the field of business growth. 

James pursued his entrepreneurial calling when he co-founded his first business in 1997. At that time, his goal was to be like Richard Branson, owning 400 companies. Today, he has founded over 80 companies in 3 countries across 13 trade sectors. 

He also serves as co-founder of Authority Institute and is the co-creator of the New Profits Framework (https://authority.institute/jvprofits/). He has spent much of the last decade mentoring entrepreneurs and business owners to help them scale and grow their companies. 

Sai Kit is the Chief Executive of Captii Ventures, a corporate venture capital arm of Captii Group, that he helped set up in late 2014. Captii Ventures is now a multistage investor in technology companies in Southeast Asia. 

Besides heading venture investment activities, Sai Kit has also been involved in M&A, investments and corporate restructuring activities, as well as leading a digital and mobile advertising business within the Captii Group. He is a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK (ACCA). 

He now serves as the Honorary Secretary of Malaysia Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (MVCA). He is also a local leader of Kuala Lumpur chapter of Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator.

Kim Lim is the CEO and co-founder of PichaEats, a food business rebuilding lives of refugees in Malaysia. 

PichaEats was part of the MaGIC (Malaysia Global Innovative and Creativity Centre) Global Accelerator Program, e@Stanford program in San Francisco, the Westerwelle Foundation in Berlin, and a grantee under the Air Asia Foundation. 

PichaEats was also the winner of The Chivas Venture 2017/18 in Malaysia and thrived into the Top 5 at the international level, the winner of Allianz's "Empowering Future Generation" in Munich, Germany, Booking Booster's Top 10 sustainable venture with Booking.com and recently Top 10 Asia’s Social Enterprise. 

The company represented Malaysia to participate in a program organised by Chivas and Skoll Centre in the University of Oxford. In 2017, she was awarded THE EDGE Inspiring Young Leaders 2017 awards, listed Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, Prestige 40 under 40 Malaysia and recently, Asia Tatler's Generation T.

It can be said that Chef Chua was born into the F&B business as he started helping out with his family’s catering business since he was thirteen. Convinced that cooking was his calling, Chef Chua started out as a trainee chef at Swissôtel the Stamford in 2003 and has never looked back since. Dedicated and hardworking, Chef Chua worked his way up to Equinox Restaurant before joining Unilever.

Chef Chua has demonstrated his culinary prowess at many culinary competitions as a member of the national team, winning awards such as the gold medal and first runner up at the MLA Blackbox Global Final at Dubai 2008, gold medal and first runner up for the gourmet team challenge at HOFEX 2009 and he was also a core member of the Singapore national culinary team, who returned home victorious having clinched two gold medals at the Culinary World Cup 2010 in Luxembourg.

He has participated in numerous culinary competitions both locally and internationally representing Singapore and most recent won the gold medal and overall champion for the restaurant of the nation category in Food Fair-Korea 2012. Besides a passion for food, Chef Chua is also an avid reader and traveler.

Timothy is the Chief Investment Officer of Sandbox Capital, an investment holding company that consists of several next generation family business owners in Malaysia. Sandbox Capital was established with the goal of helping next generation business owners to diversify their investments regionally and worldwide, and at the same time, help to add considerable value to their portfolio companies by leveraging on the expertise, network and experience of each business owner in Sandbox. 

In addition to his work in Sandbox Capital, Timothy also manages his family office which invests in several early stage startups in SEA, US and Hong Kong as well as in public markets. As a mechanical engineering graduate, he utilizes his analytical problem solving skills that he learned over the years to improve productivity and finances of his portfolio companies and at the same time help them to sustainably grow in the years to come. 

Timothy, as a 4th Generation in his family business, hopes to share his family values and business experiences to the community, hoping to create a next generation of aspiring entrepreneurs. 

A seasoned marketing, communication veteran, brand specialist, she has helped to create some of the most award-winning campaigns on the back strong brand strategies, that has helped win numerous awards both locally and regionally.

Bringing these skills to the current capacity as Head Strategic Communications for the TNB Group, has led to TNB becoming 16th ranked among global utility brands today. By creating and reinforcing the TNB Brand story through branding, strategic partnerships and stakeholder engagement.

Mark has built leading digital businesses globally since the late 1990s and is currently an early-stage investor in Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. After an early career at HP and Bain in Silicon Valley, Mark joined Yahoo! in 1999 and led the launch of Yahoo! sites around the world. He built product teams in Europe, Asia and Latin America, increasing international revenues from 10% to 30% of Yahoo!'s business, and later became VP of the search business unit for Asia, based in Seoul, Korea.

Mark founded a Shanghai based travel startup in 2006 and was a founding member of AngelVest, a leading angel investment network in China. He joined Microsoft’s online services business in 2009 as managing director of Southeast Asia, a region with over 600 million people, leading MSN, Hotmail, Windows Live and Bing.

Mark then moved on to a pan-Asia role growing Vistaprint’s businesses across the region, serving on the corporate executive committee and on the boards of multiple subsidiaries. He became the chief digital officer for Aegon Asia in 2014, leading digital transformations, incubating new fintech businesses and investing in early stage insuretech ventures.

As the startup ecosystem in Southeast Asia matured, Mark shifted his focus to helping young companies with strong sustainability missions grow. He joined the founding team of Beam Mobility in 2019, and co-founded Asia Sustainability Angels in 2021 where he invests at the intersection of environmental sustainability and tech entrepreneurship.

Currently the Executiver Director of Popular Meadow Sdn Bhd, Dr Kong Group of Companies and Mission Esprit Group of Companies, Datuk Grace main roles and responsibilities encompass various aspects of leading and managing the overall group of companies.

Ranging from: Business and Marketing Strategies for the overall Group of Companies for the next five to 10 years, Financial Management and Performance, Cash Flow Management, Product Development & Management, Human Resources Development and Management, Legal & Compliance, Operation Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Venture strategy.

Known for her multitasking skills, she is also a social trainer/facilitator and have trained more than 500 participants/Agents in the past eight (8) years on sales related trainings and personal/corporate grooming.

Geetha has been with KASS since 2006, upon completing her pupilage at a reputable law firm in Malaysia. In 2007, she trained under European Trademark Attorneys at a well-established IP firm in France. On top of managing local and international portfolios, she handles domain name disputes and provides assistance to franchisors and franchisees (in the form of franchise agreement drafting, franchise registration support and professional advice).

Geetha is also a Business Strategy Coach with 10X CEO Coaching Group, empowering entrepreneurs with knowledge, skills and tools to create breakthrough organisational results; Digital Victory Advisor for the Malaysia Productivity Corporation, coaching digital and tech entrepreneurs; Professional Mentor with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol, mentoring law students on challenges faced, life goals and assisting them in pursuit of their desired career paths; and a member of the Malaysian chapter of the 30% Club, which supports sustainable business-led change to improve gender diversity in their commitment to bringing more women onto Malaysian corporate boards.

Mr. Kandiah has experience in assisting local and foreign clients in obtaining patents, registered trademarks and registered designs, having done so since 1987. Has has vast experience in assisting inventors in obtaining strong patents that provide broader scope of exclusivity of the invention; conducting freedom to operate (FTO) analysis; conducting patent, design infringement analysis; assisting ip owners obtain favourable terms in licensing of their IP right; creating new products or processes together with clients that do not infringe third party patent or design rights; carrying out valuation of patents. assisting clients in the formulation of their IP strategy and management of IP assets.

Mr. Kandiah has been identified as one of Asia’s leading business lawyers by the Asialaw Leading Lawyers Survey and was counsel in several landmark cases on IP law in Malaysia. Mr. Kandiah has presented numerous papers at IP and technology conferences in Malaysia and overseas. He is a Past President of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Association (MIPA) and the Malaysian chapter of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), former member of the Management Committee of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA).

Throughout my career I helped various companies in different industries to develop product, services and business models to grow their organisation.

Over the past 20 years, I have developed more than 20 products from scratch and filing 2 patents. As and speaker, trainer and consultant I have been engaged with thousands of participants during seminars and events, sharing my vision of Industry 4.0. Due to my years of experience in Europe and Asia I have support MITI and FMM in their committees to design roadmaps and strategies for the implementation of new technologies, processes and training in Malaysia. Innovation and sharing my experiences has always be my passion.

Passionate about talent development and entrepreneurship, Nurul Hafiza Abdul Halim believes a strong start-up ecosystem will catapult Malaysia’s standing as an innovation-driven economy.

Bolstered with experience in various tech verticals, including green technology, fintech, digital marketing, and health tech, Nurul is keen to be part of the start-up boom. Analytical and quick-witted, she is also armed with professional experiences in recruitment, as well as a deep understanding of public affairs, in particular government agencies, she is able to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and innovators with policymakers and regulators.

In 2017, she established her own training and development company, which focused on training corporate businesses in the areas of sales and marketing. She holds a Human Resource & Development Fund Trainer certification. She is currently working on her latest venture to aid the commercialization process for the healthcare technology company, CS Leaflabs, of which she is a co-founder.

I'm an engineer by training, but am fortunate to gain enough exposure to teach myself UI and product design, obtain certification for Professional Scrum Master I, and be involved in product management.

I have vast experience in running tech startups as well as managing engineering, design, product, people, and fundraising matters. 

While I've always been acquiring more skills to increase the breadth of my skillset, I still maintain a great depth of my skills in engineering by today's standards, by keeping myself up-to-date with the latest advancements.

Despite my past position as CTO, my expertise goes beyond engineering and technical leadership, to even design, product, company operation, investor matters and more."

I joined the Patent Department of NBS Intellectual with the aspiration to adopt dynamic approaches in prosecuting cases of intellectual property rights on behalf of our clients. I hope to bridge the gap between scientific innovations and commercialization using the intellectual property (IP) platform using my various expertise.

I now handle local and international portfolios of patents and industrial designs, which include search and opinion, infringement analysis, patent drafting, filing, correspondence and office actions, including those of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), European Patent Organization (EPO), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Japan Patent Office (JPO), IP Australia, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), etc.

Highly dynamic, results-driven, and strategic professional, with more than 10 years of experience in the marketing & media industry. 

Expertise Area: Marketing & Branding, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Demonstrate proven capability to drive company success and achieve business goals and objectives. Exemplify competency to complete projects on time with utmost quality to optimize business resource allocation. Exhibit exceptional work ethic with the ability to coordinate with professionals at all levels of the organization. 

Possess excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, and communication skills; multilingual in English, Mandarin, Malay, Hokkien, and Cantonese.

My expertise in research and development, coupled with my love for training and mentoring, allows me to inspire and empower others in the F&B industry and beyond. 

Over the past decade, I have honed my culinary skills and developed a keen eye for research and development during my tenure in the Food and Beverage industry. 

As the Program Director of a training school in Cambodia, I demonstrate proactive leadership, guiding aspiring individuals on their journey to success.  I am also an entrepreneur with a successful pandemic business, The Fudge Works.