Kelly Tan is one of Malaysia’s most prolific sporting figures and is the only Malaysian with membership to the LPGA Tour, the richest and most competitive ladies golf tour in the world. Hailing from Batu Pahat, Johor, Kelly began playing golf at the age of 12, and by the time she was 20 years old, she won the Malaysian Open three times. As an amateur, she represented Malaysia in major golf events such as SEA Games, Asian Games and the World Amateur Championships. Her consistent play has awarded her many accolades in the golfing arena; especially when she prevailed at the grueling LPGA Tour qualifiers and earned her Tour Card at the finals of the 2014 LPGA Tour season. Kelly is needless to say, now a professional golfer and recently represented Malaysia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

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‘Data Scientist’ has been termed as the sexiest job of 21st century. It is no surprise today that data scientist (or related roles such as data manager, statistician, data analyst, etc.) is one of the most sought career paths. The advancement of data science careers is a great thing for women, who are generally underrepresented in tech industries.

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A young company based out of Penang has taken the world by storm with a simple but effective idea of developing professionally designed templates for various industries.

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Recognizing Malaysian women’s potential for entrepreneurial success, the National Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Malaysia (NAWEM) is organizing their newest event called Sharx Tank - an event focused on women with a business plan or startup idea to catalyze their businesses. Chairperson of NAWEM, Fadzilah Ahmad Din, sits down with us to give us a glimpse of the upcoming Sharx Tank event and to discuss entrepreneurial women in the competitive climate of the startup culture and how close we are to achieving diversity in the world of startups.

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Startup Weekend is an international program that provides action-based entrepreneurial education primarily through 54-hour immersive events where participants pitch ideas, form teams, and launch companies. Startup Weekend is part of Techstars, Inc., a global ecosystem that helps and supports entrepreneurs build great businesses wherever they choose to live.

In line with that, Startup Weekend KL will be hosting Kuala Lumpur’s first Startup Weekend Women's Edition in partnership with Google Malaysia, Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre, Gorgeous Geeks, StartupMalaysia.org and Lean In Malaysia. Their goal is to encourage and inspire more female leaders in startup teams and to connect more women to the vast number of resources and mentors available in our startup community. Startup Weekend KL: Women aims to help pave the road to equality by talking about tech, taking action, inspiring other women, and normalizing the presence of women in these environments.

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Davi has an impressive range of compositing experience and works with us as a compositing tutor. Davi was Senior Compositor on ‘The Dark Knight’, ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ and ‘Australia’. She also composited the Davy Jones character for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest’ and the Hall of Prophecies sequence for ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’.  Most the students at ESCAPE are absorbed into the large VFX Studios situated in London.

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Munas is extremely known for her business acumen, project management and business creativity skills. The key outstanding factor about Munas is her ability to juggle raising her 2 daughters single-handedly without a maid or family members in Malaysia and running several businesses and travelling globally to speak. She is commonly seen with her children travelling everywhere with her and attending her events as well as her workplace or meetings.  We discuss her book Supermumpreneur.

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The 1st female British High Commissioner to Malaysia shares how doing business in the UK will evolve post-Brexit and projects on women empowerment and youth engagement.

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The perfume industry took over the world in the last century and we see many innovations and recently, scientists are trying to create a scent that’s out of this world; the scent of a comet.  Jo Malone London is a brand that was born in 1992 but has took on the world with scents personal to each user.   How do you build a global brand and yet keep it personalised at the same time?

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Formerly from the banking and insurance industry, Datin Zahidah is planning to define flagship corporate responsibility practices for KB Group. She is also the key Relationship Director, positioning the capabilities and potential of KB Group to further both social development and business objectives.

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