For start-up communities or companies out there, there is one competition that shouldn’t be missed. ASEAN E-Media Startups Competition is a medium to bring forward and choose technologically innovative individual/companies to further enhance their project. USD10,000 equity-like loan wait the winners!!
The detail of this competition taken from the contest page.
The finalists will be invited to the capacity building workshop to sharpen their business plans, the output of the workshop will be rated and the winners will receive incubation supports as well as USD 10,000 equity-like loan for seed/startup fund per venture.
Who’s eligible
● Internet-based independent media startups in ASEAN focusing with mininum 6 months of existence.
● Demonstrating measurable and scalable social social impact.
● Example; News site, bloggers network, video podcasting and other innovative models using new media tools such as twitter and feeds.
Key Selection Criteria
● Innovativeness
● Social impact
● Financial sustainability
● Scalability
● Ethics
Please submit your short online application form no later than 15 Feb 2009 by clicking here, successful applications will be asked to submit more information at the later stage.
Perhaps local blog and news aggregator and bookmarking such as newly re-designed blogitude or negaraku eligible to participate.
Jobstreet.com’s 8th career and training fair is back and on show now at Midvalley Exhibition Centre. It brings hundreds of companies with thousands of jobs to be filled up by potential candidate. The jobs fair that run annually is a much sought after event especially for the fresh graduates, unemployed and employees who are looking for other path of career or better opportunities.
In a gloomy economy situation like now, it is expected this year event will draw more visitors than the past year’s event. Beside the jobs fair itself, there are also resume and clinics are open to everyone.
Career fair like this is the best place to pursuit your dream in whatever field. It gather a lot of companies from different industry in one roof. to offer different range of jobs and offer.
For those that currently in job, don’t miss the training fair. It exhibit different type of courses and certifications that you need to further strengthen you career. Usually some of them come with special offer only on event like this.
The Event Detail.
Date: 16 ~ 18 January 2009
Time: 10am ~ 7pm
Venue: Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (KL)
Fee: Free
We’ll heading there shortly hunting for job for my wife who has been on temporary ‘leave’ for about a year now. Wish us luck!
Forget Windows 7 for a while, lets go for some serious business here.
Microsoft’s TechNet MSDN Technology Summit will be back this 15 January. This one day event bring speakers who will talks about the latest technology and innovation from Microsoft.
Venue: KL Convention Centre, KLCC, Kuala Lumpur
Date: 15 January 2009 (thursday)
Time: 9Am – 6PM
Among the highlight would be Internet Explorer 8, virtualization, Hyper-V, scalability, security, Microsoft Sharepoint and etc. The topics suited mostly if you’re in the infrastructure management, desktop/server/network/security division or, IT professional and application developer although everybody else can still attend.
The event is free and opportunity not to be missed for those who’re interested to have first look and depth knowledge about Microsoft new offering.
All attendees will get a copy of Windows 7 beta DVD. Yeah, that is the bonus!
Almost forgotten about this event if not I’m doing some housekeeping on my email. Yeah, Youth 09 kicked off this evening at the same venue last year, PWTC.
Contrary to Youth 08 which gains huge attention from bloggers/webmaster because of The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award that open to anyone (who own websites),it seems like Youth09 has got little coverage from the local blog sphere. Don’t you think??
Date: 9-11 January 2009
Time 10:30am – 9:30pm
Venue: Putra World Trade Centre, KL
Entrance: Free
Last year, we’re attending the first day event all the way from Seri Kembangam to watch The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award ceremony. We manage to shot few photos and write something that can be viewed here and here.
But not this year though . Probably I’m not that young anymore and the schedules does not fit my interest anymore.
If you plan to come, don’t worry, the 3 days event are full with workshop, exhibition, games (full schedule here) and etc. But If I were to choose the stars of the show that suite the spirit of entrepreneurship & photography, it would goes to the Entrepreneur Convention and Photography workshop by Shutter Asia. Unfortunately the Entrepreneur convention is not free, unlike this event.
But anyway, kudos to the organizer for being able to conduct another similar events this year.
If you’re an entrepreneur or entrepreneur wanna be, there are 2 exciting events are going to happen next week that you sholdn’t miss.
The first one is the ‘What’s Hot in 2009‘, the event brought by the collaboration between Cradle Investment Program with Entreprenuews.my. This event brings a number of expert panel to talk about the emerging trends and technologies in 2009 and the challanges behind it.
Date : 12th January 2009 (Monday)
Time : 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Venue : Plug & Play Technology Garden(Map Below)
Suite 7.01, Level 7, The Gardens South Tower
Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur
Entrance : FREE but limited to 100 participants .Seats are limited so Register Now.
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The second event is MIRC Micro Financing Expo 2009 which happen to be at the same day. The speaker would be somefrom from banks that offer micros financing packages
Date: 12th January 2009
Time :9am
Venue :Seng Peng Hall, Wisma Chinese Chamber, KLSCCCI, Jalan Ampang, KL.
Entrance : It is a multi-lingual event and free for
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