Ms. Teo has held senior roles in Acer, IBM, 3Com and CSL Hong Kong. She was Yahoo! Singapore’s first general manager in 1999 and launched the world’s first Windows-based smartphone O2 built by HTC in 2002. She has actively taken part in the global start-up scene since 2016, launching other initiatives such as Asia Corporate Women and Startup Asia Women. She is also the Director of PortXL, world's first maritime startup accelerator. As an accelerator, we are empowering startups and in the maritime space, the best chance at success for startups is to engage maritime conglomerates to proof their "product".

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• How PortXL accelerate startups?
• How PortXL helps a startup get the attention of Maritime companies.
• Memorable startup stories like Magnetic.
• Every startup will get very interesting feedback from 20 companies and more than 60 professionals at one goal with PortXL.
• "Scale-up for us are companies who are already generating a revenue of $750,000 and more."
• "90% or 95% of our startups are founded by people who have been in the industry."
• "It is so important in every corporate culture to empower the employees with a "test and learn attitude."

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Joel is the CEO & Co-Founder of  Alloy (www.alloy.ai). Alloy’s platform aggregates and analyzes information from all sources in the supply chain, providing insight and visibility into consumer demand. 

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• How did Joel go from Academia to Supply Chain?
• Data is everywhere, it’s only a matter of how you are going to use it to your advantage.
• Alloy has up to this point 400 connectors to the partners that will continue to grow.
• How retail companies often look at the historical pattern of how much was being purchased and not taking into account that 20% to 25% of the locations were already out of stock.
• Balancing out of stock and overstock and the common categories of inefficiencies that they come across.
• How does Alloy work with E-commerce?
• ” The ones that tend to be the biggest predictors of future performance is historical demand patterns. “
• ” One of the things you have to do as a leader is to trust that the team will treat sensitive information responsibly. “

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Richard White founded software company WiseTech Global in 1994 to help logistics companies manage goods and information across supply chains. WiseTech Global is an innovative global developer of cloud-based software solutions for the international and domestic logistics industries. Since the company went public in 2016, WiseTech’s shares have soared more than five-fold, due to strong growth in revenue and acquisitions worldwide.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• How Richard went from being a musician, refrigeration engineer and repairing guitars for ACDC and The Angels to founding one of the most successful Australian Companies
• The fundamental problem in Logistics from the industry’s inception – Fragmentation.
• 32 acquisitions over the last three years and all of them came with their founders
• Why Richard doesn’t think any freight forwarders in existence today are truly digitalized or digitized.
• “It’s not about being on the Nasdaq or being the London stock exchange or being on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s about being a great company.”
• “You shouldn’t manage people. You should manage yourself and lead people.“

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Prof. Annie has an impressive track record in driving tripartite discussions between the education sector, government, and private organizations, in close areas to supply chain. In her position as Director of the Financial Training Institute (FTI), Centre for Professional Studies (CPS), International Trading Centre (ITC) and Business Families Institute (BFI) at Singapore Management University.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• How important are the Supply Chain and Logistics industries to Singapore?
• Collaboration between Universities and Trading, Trading and Maritime Companies plus the Government.
• Getting started on Maritime Economics Track with SMU.
• 70% of the alumni from the Trading track at SMU are still working in the industry.
• 60 trading and 20 maritime companies got together to educate the current.
• How Supply Chain and Logistics Executives nurture and mentor students preparing them for the future.

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ShipBob is a technology company that streamlines shipping and order fulfillment for e-commerce businesses. Dhruv co-founded ShipBob in May 2014 with Divey Gulati, out of YCombinator. Prior to ShipBob, he spent two years as a software developer at InContext Solutions, another Chicago startup. And previously he spent a few years as a research assistant at Purdue University.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• How is ShipBob unique? What is special about the product?
• Hot manage threats and disruptions in the market
• ShipBob’s International Expansion Strategy
• Lessons learned growing from 100+ employees to 450+ employees
• Every single thing the employees do must be optimized
• Trust that the team around you is as wise as you.

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Karl Siebrecht is the co-founder and CEO of Flexe. He is a seasoned technology executive, with leadership experience in both startups and large, global corporations. Prior to co-founding FLEXE, Karl was CEO of AdReady, a Seattle-based advertising technology company. He is also a founding Board member of EnergySavvy, a SaaS-based solution for energy efficiency management. Previously, Karl was President of Atlas at aQuantive, before its $6B acquisition by Microsoft, and earlier in his career, he was a Manager at Bain & Company in Boston and a Diving Officer in the U.S. Navy.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• From a diving officer to the CEO of a technology company
• What are some of the large scale clients that you work with? Walmart, WholeGreens, Casper.
• On-demand warehousing vs traditional warehousing ANALOGY to cloud computing vs data centers
• Accountability for the goods in the warehouse – is it on Flexe or the operators?
• Move FAST and DON’T BREAK things!
• Surround yourself with great people!

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Sabine has been dedicated to the logistics sector for close to two decades. After she joined Deutsche Post DHL she took several roles as Consultant, Project Manager, Associate Partner, after that in 2003 she was appointed SVP Head of the Corporate Organization. Starting with 2010 CEO DHL Consulting. Together with her team at DHL Consulting, they passionately guide global logistics executives to effectively tackle and overcome supply chain challenges.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• Client challenges – automatization and digitization. Lowering costs – because logistics is a low margin industry – being efficient is a big topic.
• What digital solutions are applicable/mature today to boost up logistics performance?
• IoT Impact in Logistics – improving delivery times, delivery customization.
• Can you give us some examples of successful RPA (Robotic Process Automation) implementation?
• Warehouse networks fully automated – no humans needed.
• How long before digitalization will help make the logistics process paper-less? DHL Consulting took 1.5 years to get paperless and they are a consulting business.
• You get what you have the courage to ask for! Advice for young people starting their career.

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Inna Kuznetsova is President and Chief Operating Officer of INTTRA, leading sales, service delivery, marketing, strategic alliances, product management, IT infrastructure and software development. Before joining INTTRA in early 2015 Inna was the Chief Commercial Officer at CEVA Logistics and prior to that spent 19 years at IBM, where in her last role she was the Vice-President, Marketing & Sales Enablement for IBM Systems Software.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• Regional P&Ls versus the allocating resources for IT development  
• Connect initiative by INTTRA 
• Blockchain - what is the potential in building a network? - not a solution to all pains - where it works and what areas it doesn't 
• 3 areas we are looking for when hiring:  professional skill, understanding of IT, understanding of the industry  
• Importance of pairing people with complementary skills 
• What is career success? Is it only about money and power?

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Meeta Vouk is the director of IBM Singapore Research Center and previously Chief Data officer Blockchain technologies. The topic of our discussion will be Blockchain and we will discuss some of the practical case studies it is already used by clients across the region and the globe.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• Microloans based on peer identity in areas where people have  no official papers
• How the blockchain story is different from the RFID story for logistics
• In 5 years we will not use the word "blockchain" anymore
• For any long supply chain with a big number of middlemen, blockchain can be a huge disruptor
• Smart-contracts and enforcing the rule of - not to spending money you don't have.
• Teach kids art and philosophy and then show them technology as a tool to solve the problems we really need to focus on.

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Laura Behrens Wu is the founder and CEO of Shippo. Laura, 26 years old, and Simon Kreuz, 28 years old, they started Shippo in 2013. Laura had her first experience with a startup while working as an intern at a startup company LendUp, which was a Y Combinator alumni startup (as the combinator that invested in Dropbox, Airbnb, and many other top startups). She grew up in Germany, China, Ecuador, and Cairo went to school in Switzerland and started Shippo in the U.S.

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Some of the highlights from the episode:

• Shopify, Facebook Marketplace - Partners
• Offering shipping options to grow their business
• Building tech experiences
• Helping them FedEx to reach more clients - smaller
• Competitor or not - Amazon.com or Alibaba - how do you compete with this guys?
• Amazon is driving the shipping standard - so our clients come to us for help to compete
• Customization and authenticity - tell a certain story - millennials
• Talking about a hard time when being an entrepreneur - founders go through a huge amount of pressure.

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