Silicon Valley Insights: 2024 Singapore Growth & AI Summit with Sean Ellis

Meet Sean Ellis, Global Thought Leader on Growth. 

Understand the mechanisms behind the rapid scaling of major tech giants, explore how to implement growth tactics in real-world scenarios and hear how actual Unicorns have implemented his strategies

Agenda:

Summit: 9 AM to 12 PM

• 09:10 AM - 09:40 AM:   Breakout Growth with Sean Ellis
• 09:40 AM - 10:10 AM:   Strategy & AI with David Isaac
• 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM:   Fundraising in a Tech Winter - Denes Ban
• 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM:   Break
• 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM:   Fireside with Keynote Speakers
• 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM:   Growth at scale & data-driven experimentation with Amplitude

Speakers

Sean Ellis

Global Thought Leader on Growth.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanellis/

Understand the mechanisms behind the rapid scaling of major tech giants, explore how to implement growth tactics in real-world scenarios and hear how actual Unicorns have implemented his strategies

Sean Ellis is co-author of Hacking Growth, published by Crown Books division of Random House and available in 16 languages.

Sean helped build the initial growth engines for several highly successful startups. At Uproar and LogMeIn, he drove the process from inception to IPO. Then later in his career, he narrowed his focus and led the early, most important phases of startup growth engine development at Dropbox, Lookout, and Eventbrite, all of which reached multi-billion-dollar valuations.  

After several years as a founder and CEO at two venture-backed startups, Sean is now once again focused on his area of unique expertise - helping startups build their initial growth flywheel. Focusing on one startup at a time, Sean embeds full-time with the founding team to build the growth flywheel on a solid understanding of their unique product/market fit. This leads to faster, leaner, and more sustainable growth acceleration. 

When Sean is not growing startups he teaches growth at leading business schools such as Harvard, UC Berkeley Haas, CKGSB (Beijing), Imperial College BS (London), INSEAD (France), and through the GoPractice Immersive Simulator Program. Sean also hosts The Breakout Growth Podcast, where he and co-host Ethan Garr interview business and growth leaders to understand all facets of their breakout growth engines.

Denes Ban

Fundraising in a Tech Winter

https://www.linkedin.com/in/denesban/

Find out what investors want to see from entrepreneurs in a bear market - a practical, from-the-field, no-nonsense keynote on fundraising from Denes Ban, one of the world’s leading tech investors and fundraisers.

As a serial entrepreneur turned serial investor, Denes Ban is a Managing Partner of OurCrowd, one of the world’s leading Venture Capital platforms – US$2.5billion invested in 400 companies and 5 incubators; and the Chief Growth Officer of Happiness Capital, the global venture capital arm of the LKK Group.

Denes has privately invested in over 100 companies (of which 15 are unicorns). His exits include Uber (NYSE: UBER), Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), Beyond Meat (Nasdaq: BYND), CyberX (acquired by Microsoft), Corephotonics (acquired by Samsung), Briefcam (acquired by Canon), Replay (acquired by Intel), and many more. Denes founded a number of start-ups in the past decade, including founding and selling an HR company and co-founding PocketGuide, one of the world’s leading travel apps and a TechCrunch pitch winner.

Denes personally raised over a billion dollars. After watching great companies (many of which were his) miss the boat when pitching to investors, he developed an acclaimed Fundraising Masterclass and a proprietary Fundraisability Score tool that can predict companies’ chances to be able to fundraise. He helped thousands of entrepreneurs around the world, has been lecturing at universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, Kellogg, advises VCs, accelerators, individual companies, governments and has been featured on TechCrunch, Wired, Forbes, CNBC, and many more.

“We have had 1000s of International CEOs, including some of the world’s most well-known founders in our programs. Denes’ Fundraising Workshop is a must for any entrepreneur out there" - Bo Ji, Vice Dean CKGSB and Cambridge University

Denes acts as Senior Advisor to one of Asia’s largest single family offices where he advises the family on private and impact investments and also acts as Senior Advisor to one of the world’s leading family office networks with over 500 single family offices. 

 Through his ‘Sales and Fundraising Masterclass’ and ‘Founders Academy’ Denes has trained thousands of CEOs, entrepreneurs and GPs around the world. He lectures at universities such as Harvard, Kellogg, and INSEAD, and has been featured on TechCrunch, Wired, Forbes, CNBC, and many more. He sits on the Advisory Board of Cambridge University’s Innovation for Impact and Lifestyles Magazine, the world’s leading philanthropic journal.

David Isaac

Strategy & AI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidisaacm/

David is Managing Principal of Causality, builder of venture building and technology for founders and C-Suites to increase the speed with which they can make better, quantified growth decisions around product and go-to-market strategy with rapid product-market fit testing, scenario modelling and risk management. Both AIPath.one (Product Strategy and GTM Automation) and StratOps.one (Augmented decision and strategy roadmapping for Product and business leaders) are self-serve SaaS that augment how leaders build, launch and grow. 

David has spent most of 2 decades working for and with the C-suite building, launching and growing what's next for their corporate ventures & startups. He has worked on strategy, digital transformation and the process-tization of Growth with the C-Suite for some of ASEANs largest companies on their most strategic initiatives.

He has run commercial due-diligence work amounting to close to SGD 900 Mn in transactions in ride-hailing across SEA. He has held positions as ASEAN Innovation Co-lead at EY Parthenon for 6 markets in Venture Building, Innovation, Digital Transformation and internal consultant training around digital business models,  led an international business model design project for Samsung Product Innovation Team, was Chief Growth Officer for a public listed marketing and technology business, led product and strategy for C and A round funded startups and had a modest exit in a turnaround business he helped grow 450%. In his free-time, he mentors companies to onboard innovation, has supported 100s of early stage startups in value proposition and business model design for Founders Institute, Daimler Startup Autobahn, judged at SLUSH and various international startup competitons and been commercial champion for innovative startups in the deep technology commercialisation ecosystem.   In research, his personal focus is in developing thought leadership for innovation in product and marketing execution methodologies that are fit for corporate venture building and his prospective PhD will be titled “Integrative Strategies for Venture Growth: Bridging Product Management, Marketing, and Customer Experience in Startup Ecosystems." 

 In 2015, he founded RE-PC.org, a volunteer organisation redistributing laptops to children of low-income households to creating educational opportunity, extend hardware lifespans & reduce e-waste.

Amplitude

Growth at scale with data-driven experimentation with Amplitude

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. 

Over 2,700 customers, including Atlassian, Canva, Dropbox, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Shopify, and Walmart, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. 

Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2024 Report.

Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.