MaGIC, Uber and Digi are on a hunt to look for ASEAN’s next big idea. This collaboration initiated a 2-week ideation lab to help ASEAN entrepreneurs grow their impactful business. For aspiring startups, this is an opportunity to win an international exposure trip to San Francisco. 

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Futurist Dr Stefan Hajkowicz is the Senior Principal Scientist in Strategy And Foresight at CSIRO and also author of the book, ‘Global Megatrends’. He looks into his crystal ball and tells us if our future is dystopian or utopian.

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Feruni Ceramiche gives the traditional tiles industry a grand makeover with its state-of-the-art, premium ceramic and porcelain tiles at competitive prices. By 2019, the global market size for ceramic tiles is projected to be worth US$112.3 billion, paving the way for Feruni to capture a meaningful slice of the Asia Pacific market. An Endeavor entrepreneur, CC Ngei, founder of Feruni Ceramiche recently participated at the International Selection Panel in Bali and he shares their plans for growth. 

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The annual Trainers Conference is back this October with the theme Catalyse, Elevate and Grow. This conference shares the future trends of the HR industry and uncover emerging technologies in training and learning and development.

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The first and only dedicated internationally recognized school of pageantry in the whole of the Malaysia that offers university endorsed courses in the competitive field of beauty pageants, self deportment, modelling and runway events.

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The Body Shop in February unveiled a pioneering new global CSR strategy that underpins all aspects of company operation. The new Commitment entitled Enrich, Not Exploit is an extensive programme of global activity and measurable targets that touches all areas of the business, to be delivered by 2020. ‎International Director of Corporate Responsibility and Campaigns at The Body Shop, Christopher Davis believes that crazy people change the world and that’s why they have set crazy targets with the new Commitment. 

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Most companies suffer from genuine talent shortage. It could stem from flawed hiring processes to flawed employer branding. Chris Greenough is a founder of Potentio which is a company that focuses on building digital teams for creative agencies. With the access to 150 million talent profiles worldwide, Potentio shares what are the hurdles that Malaysian entrepreneurs have to face when it comes to creative talent recruitment.

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TEDxKL is back for the eighth time this year with the theme “Resonance”. Daniel Cerventus, the organiser of TEDxKL shares how things have fared since its first talk and how he keeps it fresh every year. 

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AXA Affin General Insurance recently won double awards at the Asian Banking and Finance Insurance Asia Awards 2016. They have grown over 1.4 million customers in Malaysia and has a strong footprint of distribution channels including brokers, bank partners and over 4000 agents nationwide. With us today is Rebecca Tan, CMO at AXA Affin talks about how they are embracing digital innovation into their products.

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Small companies in the palm oil industry view the downstream sector with apprehension due to the high capital and R&D needed to establish refineries and the production of oleochemicals and oleo derivatives. However, our guests today, Rosidah Radzian, Director of the Product Development Research & Advisory Services and Yeong Shoot Kian, Head of Synthesis & Product Development Unit, disagrees. The opportunity lies further downstream, in the realm of end products.

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