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#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong022 The Art of Productivity #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongIf you’ve ever said “I just need more time,” this episode is for you.Dana Leong shares how a weird orchestra dream, a move to Asia, and a market‑entry consultant led him to a three‑block system for his life:Health as the first priorityCreativity split into creating, editing, practice, and learningBusiness development as a weekly non‑negotiableAlong the way he pulls lessons from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, Mozart’s morning routine, Bach’s weekly cantata grind, Steve Jobs’ walking meetings, and even Bryan Johnson’s “dis...
2026-03-0728 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong020 Yao Ming 姚明 | Legendary Impact | #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongDana Leong travels to Hangzhou to join NBA legend Yao Ming for his annual charity basketball weekend—and to find out how Yao turned fame into a platform for rural education, youth sports, and real opportunity. From gala stages to courtside commentary and a powerful moment with a young player on a prosthetic leg, this conversation is a masterclass in quiet, compounding impact.Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UpgradeMePodSupport #UpgradeMe on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/UpgradeMePod#UpgradeMe #YaoMing #Basketball #China #SportsForGood #Inspiration
2026-01-0214 min#UpgradeMe with Dana LeongEric Liu: Digital Twin Wizkid Reveals AI Secrets You Must Know Now 019 #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongAI isn’t just a buzzword anymore, it’s quietly wiring itself into every building, airport, and city on the planet. Eric Liu is one of the people actually doing it. As Founder & CEO of TwinMatrix Technologies and a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, he builds spatial digital twins that turn real-world spaces into living, intelligent systems.In this episode, Eric breaks down what digital twins really are, how they helped major infrastructure like airports cut costs and improve safety, and why AI “right now is the worst it will ever be”—because it’s getting better every single day. He also s...
2025-12-051h 04
Analyse Podcast500 Episodes Later: What I Learned From 11 Years of Podcasting with Bernard LeongFresh out of the studio and we hit our 500th episode milestone, guest host Yana Fry from Yana TV turns the tables on Bernard Leong, CEO of Dorje AI and host of Analyse Asia, in a special ask-me-anything format. We start with Bernard's journey from finding his first guest to navigating 11 years of podcasting, revealing his 12-word life philosophy: "Learn from everyone, follow no one, observe the patterns, work like hell." Following on, Bernard shares how his theoretical physics background provides the tools on everything from digital transformation to building Dorje AI's vision of reimagining ERP systems. The conversation...
2025-11-0355 min
Analyse PodcastMastercard and The Future of Money: Crypto, AI Agents & Digital Payments with Ling HaiFresh out of the studio, Ling Hai, President of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa at MasterCard, joins us to explore how payment networks are evolving to embrace stable coins, AI agents, and the future of digital commerce across diverse global markets. He shares his career journey from management consulting to retail banking and eventually to MasterCard. Ling Hai shares that MasterCard is a global technology company that creates interoperability and universal acceptance, with technology services like cybersecurity, data insights, and consulting increasingly contributing to revenue beyond traditional payment processing. He highlights compelling innovations from Asia Pacific leading...
2025-10-2136 min
Analyse PodcastWhy Data Streaming Is the Secret Weapon for AI Success with Kamal Brar"In the context of where Confluent can play a critical part, it's also the interoperable integration with all the respective AI ecosystems. If you think about what AI is doing, it's working across microservices, working across data lakehouses, databases - could be a different endpoint service. Bringing all that together in a secure and consistent manner, constantly serving that information, is where I think it plays the most pivotal role." - Kamal Brar Fresh out of the studio, Kamal Brar, Senior Vice President of Worldwide ISV and Asia Pacific/Middle East at Confluent, joins us to explore how data...
2025-10-0845 min
#UpgradeMe with Dana LeongTEKTONIK Music 'Sweet Sleep Meditations' Now Entering the 2026 Grammy Awards Voting Ballot for 'Best New Age Album'!TEKTONIK Music 'Sweet Sleep Meditations' Now Entering the 2026 Grammy Awards Voting Ballot for Best New Age Album! On behalf of our own TEKTONIK Music, please spread the word! We're going for Grammy #3!!We’re reaching out to ask our UpgradeMePod community to share this with your music industry contacts. Your votes for our milestone album, Sweet Sleep Meditations, mean the world to us as it enters the 2026 Grammy Awards voting process. Take a listen here: https://tr.ee/Lp924VzZCQReleased November 2024, Sweet Sleep Meditations is a scientifically tested, immersive sonic journey designed to support deep re...
2025-10-0301 min
Analyse PodcastAgent Bricks and How Data-AI Integration Changes Everything with Craig Wiley"85% of AI use cases are being evaluated by the engineer who built it saying, 'yep, seemed to work pretty well.' If you're gonna build a system that's going to be critical to the business, that's going to be important that it gets it right, then you can't do that without evaluations." - Craig Wiley Fresh out of the studio, Craig Wiley, Senior Director of Product Management at Databricks who leads Mosaic AI, joins us to discuss the forefront of enterprise AI from model development to deployment at scale. Beginning with his career journey in ML operations, Craig explained...
2025-09-2628 min
Analyse PodcastWhy True Global Ventures secure the CMS Licence in Singapore & the future of AI & Crypto with Beatrice Lion"We took a longer time, there was a bit of roundabout, but the fact that we actually made like two or three times on whatever investment amount we did in the beginning - that for me was a very pivotal moment. Just because we didn't give up. The line between success and failure is so thin. So the impact of being a VC space is that you really can influence the technology founders that you back." - Beatrice Lion Fresh out of the studio, Beatrice Lion, the chief executive officer and global partner from True Global Ventures, shares the...
2025-09-101h 00#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong016 Future of Music & Media Adams Fan #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongGet ready to explore the future of music and media with Adams Fan, Chief Creative Officer of F5 Shanghai, China’s most awarded independent agency at Cannes Lions. Adams flips the interview with Dana Leong, sharing visionary insights drawn from his trailblazing career leading breakthrough creative campaigns for global giants like Pfizer, Lenovo, Saudi Tourism, and more.Known for blending technology, storytelling and cultural trends, Adams reveals where the music and media industries are headed, and how creators can stay ahead in a rapidly shifting landscape. Dana also shares why he values Adams as a creative kindred sp...
2025-09-0520 min
Analyse PodcastSoutheast Asia 16 Years Later with Michael Smith Jr & Daniel Cerventus LimReuniting after more than a decade since their days in This Week in Asia Podcast from 2009, Michael Smith Jr., co-host of The Generalist podcast, and Daniel Cerventus Lim, semi-retired entrepreneur and community builder in Malaysia, join us for a candid assessment of Southeast Asia's tech ecosystem evolution. In this raw conversation, Michael offers his unflinching perspective on what he calls the 'broken windows era' of Southeast Asian tech, arguing that recent alleged fraud cases like E-Fishery and Tanihub require serious consequences to restore investor confidence, while questioning whether the region was ever correctly modelled for Silicon Valley-style outcomes. Daniel...
2025-09-041h 01
Analyse PodcastTransforming Asia's Financial Infrastructure: Stripe's AI and Stablecoin Strategy with Paul Harapin"APAC represents 40% of global GDP. So you can see that there's huge opportunity in a very, very diverse region. The needs of Japan are different to the needs of China. India is exploding with SaaS, software, AI. Australia one of our larger markets, again, very different. And so Southeast Asia, the complexities of Asia make it a joy to work in." - Paul Harapin Fresh out of the studio, Paul Harapin, Chief Revenue Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan at Stripe, joined us in a conversation discussing Stripe's explosive growth in the region that represents 40% of global GDP. Paul...
2025-08-1941 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong015 Neuroscience Genius Tan Le #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongWhatever your brain looks like, we all have something in common, in that there’s an entire universe inside your head and we’ve barely scratched the surface when it comes to understanding how it all works.Today’s guest is a full fledge neuroscience genius, a tech mogul and one of the most influential female entrepreneurs of our time. Multiple documentaries, news segments, magazine covers and one of the most viewed TED Talks on earth, all focus on her life’s work and journey as a trained attorney who pivoted to becoming a renowned...
2025-08-011h 23
Analyse PodcastThe Future of AI Trust: Why Guardrails Actually Accelerate Innovation with Sabastian Niles"You can try to develop self-awareness and take a beginner's mind in all things. This includes being open to feedback and truly listening, even when it might be hard to receive. I think that's been something I've really tried to practice. The other area is recognizing that just like a company or country, as humans we have many stakeholders. You may wear many hats in different ways. So as we think of the totality of your life over time, what's your portfolio of passions? How do you choose—as individuals, as society, as organizations, as humans and families with our lo...
2025-07-0852 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong014 How to Win a Grammy Award #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongDana answers the most popular question he receives, "How do you win a Grammy Award?". What do you think? Did he answer it? What else would you like to know in future episodes? #UpgradeMePod #DanaLeong #Grammy #PaquitoDrivera #Musician #Productivity #StoryTime #Motivation #Podcast--Welcome back to #UpgradeMe. It’s a podcast about the never ending self improvement journey, ideas and life hacks to help you level up and the people who make it happen! Hosted by Dana Leong, a 2x Grammy Winning Musician, a US Music Ambassador and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Support #UpgradeMe:https://www.patreon.com/Up...
2025-07-0416 min
Analyse PodcastTransforming Asia Pacific's Digital Future: IBM's Vision for Enterprise AI with Hans Dekkers"At IBM, we really work on two emerging technologies: hybrid cloud and AI for enterprise. These two are deeply connected. Hybrid cloud for us means that regardless of where the data sits whether the compute is on-premise, off-premise, or across multiple clouds. We believe the client should have the control and flexibility to choose where to run and place their data. If you look at the facts, a very high percentage of client data is still on-premise. It hasn't moved to the cloud for obvious reasons. So, how can you scale AI if you don’t have proper access to th...
2025-06-1529 min
Analyse PodcastFrom Startup Ecosystem Builder to Strategic Investor: E27 and Orvel Ventures with Mohan Belani"If you take a step back and ask, how has the last 10-15 years panned out? The truth of the matter is that Southeast Asia has not done as well as it should have based on the reports and projections that existed earlier. There have been fundamental flaws from a culture standpoint with respect to how the ecosystem has been shaped. I think there has been too much of a mirror of what's happening in Silicon Valley and figuring out how to replicate those concepts in Southeast Asia, whereas there should have been a better, more localized, customized, regional model...
2025-06-081h 01#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong013 Nikhil Bohra: Teenage Mutant Forumla Driver #UpgradeMe with Dana LeongOn this episode of #UpgradeMe with Dana Leong, we take you inside the motivational mindset of teenage multinational cart racing champion and burgeoning formula racer Nikhil Bohra through his regiments, training, trials tribulations and biggest growth opportunities. Buckle up!Welcome back to #UpgradeMePod. It’s a podcast about the never ending self improvement journey, ideas and life hacks to help you level up and the people who make it happen! Hosted by Dana Leong, a 2x Grammy Winning Musician, a US Musical Ambassador and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Join our communities on...
2025-06-061h 15
Analyse PodcastFrom Accidental Hotelier to Longevity Pioneer: An Entrepreneur's Journey with Allen Law"I think the why is so important, but it's always not really being asked. Most people want to know, 'What's your growth look like?' or 'How is this offering different from another offering?' Those are the questions we get most of the time. But going back to the real why we actually do this in the first place is the most critical question if you ask me. For myself personally, it is all about having a positive impact in society. We have chosen to go down the route of wellness, fitness, and longevity to have that positive impact...
2025-05-1839 min
Analyse PodcastBuilding WhatsApp for 3 Billion Users with Alice Newton-Rex"Now, some people are only ever going to want to use WhatsApp to message the people in their life, and they should be able to carry on doing that and have an incredibly simple experience in doing so. But we're increasingly seeing that users want to use WhatsApp for more than messaging close friends and family. It's why we're doing things like business messaging. It's why we built new features like channels and status and updates tab separate from your personal chats. We think that if we carry on getting the core of private messaging right, it also gives us...
2025-05-0536 min#UpgradeMe with Dana LeongTariff-ied! Bunty Bohra #UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 012Today we learn life lessons and productivity wisdom from Bunty Bohra. He is a highly accomplished business executive, currently serving as a partner at Antler, a global venture capital firm, and CEO of Biologic Pte, an advisory and investment firm based in Singapore and the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, India. Bunty has extensive experience in empowering and investing in exceptional founders and creators. Bunty is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s India Leadership Initiative, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, serves on the Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan Finance Group, is a me...
2025-05-021h 26
Analyse PodcastHow Databricks Revolutionize Intelligent Enterprise AI in ASEAN with Patrick Kelly" We did a survey with The Economist globally which obviously included Europe and APAC as well. And we asked the question, 'Does my organization's current architecture supports the unique demands of AI workloads.' Basically 85% said, 'No. We don't have the architecture to support it.' Some partially does, but it needs lots of modifications. So we can still feel a lot of people are still in the early stages and that data point ties back to: 85% of GenAI [proof of concepts] has not gone into production. I think that another interesting point is, 'Does your architecture connect AI application? -y...
2025-04-0641 min#UpgradeMe with Dana LeongStateless Mogul?! Taejun Shins MicroFinance Empire + 1648km Ultra #upgrademe with Dana Leong 01100:00 Intro Stateless Mogul? Taejun Shin’s Journey Begins02:00 The Stateless Hustle: Born Stateless, Built an EmpireHow he leveraged adversity into resilience and entrepreneurial drive.3:15 What Does the World Economic Form Do?!8:53 United Nations 🏛️16:36 A new initiative in Japan seeks to improve child services 🌍25:01 Financial inclusion and transformative education, realistic Ai Strategy 🌍36:39 Crypto can enhance remittance efficiency 50:51 Prioritizing Your Life 🎸01:09:28 Multitasking! Taejun discusses his journey through music, martial arts and sports, emphasizing the importance of flow, balance, sustainability, mental wellness and family time in overcoming challenges and managing stress. 🧠01:16:35 Managing Stress More 🌱01:24:47 Making Important Decisions 🌍--Meet Taejun Shin — a true modern-day polymath, who de...
2025-04-051h 36
Analyse PodcastBuilding Networks, Not Just Hiring: The Global Talent Strategy with Mark Reinecke"When I discuss with senior leaders, interview them, or assess them for senior roles, they often come to me, and I ask them: 'What makes you unique? How do you see yourself?' Eighty percent of them tell me what they can't do. They talk about their development needs, and I say, 'Is that how you pitch yourself? Is that what you really bring to the table? You sit with a headhunter and tell me what you can’t do—why not tell me what you’re really good at?' Your exceptional value-add, your competitive advantage—that’s what makes an i...
2025-03-2136 min#UpgradeMe with Dana LeongMaking Japan Media Great [Again] #UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 010 Michiko ZentohThrilled to have #UpgradeMePod guest #MichikoZentoh, producer who helped change the face of Japanese travel and culture TV with legends like #AnthonyBourdain, #JackieChan and the #Olympics. Follow https://www.beneroots.jp/ Is there a limit on how free a spirit can be? Are we confined between the guard rails of our parents’ genetics and their nurture? Many times when a spirit is too curious to stay within its own four walls, it ventures to other cities, to other countries, to other continents and even to other altitudes while in search of deeper un...
2025-03-071h 21
Analyse PodcastGambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son with Lionel Barber"They will judge Masa to have been an extraordinarily consequential investor and historic figure in world investing and tech investing because he has made not just spectacular bets—but he's made so many people rich. I mean, with other people's money. All these founders, he's given them money, he's been an enormous disruptor, and he's built global businesses. He's built a huge business in Japan on the mobile operator. So for all these reasons, I know he sometimes feels dissatisfied with his legacy, and he's now trying to build his greatest legacy in the march to artificial general intelligence. Maybe th...
2025-03-0237 min
Analyse PodcastThe eFishery Scandal and its impact to Southeast Asia with Kristie Neo"So that was back in 2021. And then after Revolution Precrafted, there was Zilingo in 2022, and then Tanihub and Investree - which were P2P lenders in 2023(24) - and then eFishery. So actually every single year we've been getting pretty big blow ups. But as I was looking at the cases for each of them, one thing I've noticed is the sophistication of the fraud is actually becoming more advanced." - Kristie Neo Fresh out of the studio, Kristie Neo, an independent journalist covering tech and venture capital, joins us to dissect the rise of startup fraud in Southeast Asia...
2025-02-0946 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 009 Minami (from CREAM)People always ask, what is it like to work in the music industry and how do artists make a living? Can you survive from making content for YouTube? During the pandemic, that question has become much more complex. However, they still say, ‘slow and steady wins the race’. Over the past 6 years I’ve known her, I’ve watched Minami grow in every way while relentlessly releasing songs and music videos on her duo CREAM's YouTube Channel as well as going out and making it happen live on tour throughout the year. Her story is one that drives home a health...
2025-02-071h 09
Analyse PodcastHow Agentforce is Transforming Businesses in ASEAN with Sujith Abraham"What's the point if it's a fast platform, but I still have to go somewhere else? And the last thing is speed. Right now, especially in our region, it's a land grab. When we think about some of the fastest-growing economies in the world—Indonesia, for example, Vietnam, the Philippines—you have hundreds of millions of people here. What we see in every customer I speak to is interest in how they use our platform to move faster, to deploy AI. They don't want to have to build a foundation level of AI, integrating all those elements themselves. They want to d...
2025-02-0237 min
Analyse PodcastUndivided Ventures: AI, Sustainability & Data Centre Technologies with Ariel Shtarkman" Now, the beauty about the real estate industry, if you look outside and you look at the commercial buildings, you have a lot of data generated on a daily basis. The challenge is, what do you do with this data? How do you mine this data in a smart way to give you better investment decisions going forward [or] better decisions on how you run the building? Where are the opportunities to reduce your expenses? On the climate side, how do you reduce your operational carbon? How do you make those buildings better? I think that here, Gen AI, can he...
2025-01-2643 min
Analyse PodcastVirtuals Protocol and the intersection of Agentic AI & Web3 with Jansen Teng"What does great look like? For us, it's being able to achieve this vision of a society of agents. So, if you can show clearly the economic value of a society when agents can influence other agents, agents can influence humans, and humans can influence agents, that would be something that I'll be very proud to say that we've accomplished. Because that's the beauty of really combining breakthroughs on the AI, on the autonomous agent front, and the value add of crypto. This is one of those very rare moments that crypto has that true potential value add, right? As...
2025-01-1457 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 008 Jordan RudessToday, we dive deep into the world of a true virtuoso, Jordan Rudess, whose journey from being a classical pianist at Juilliard in New York to the keyboard wizard of Dream Theater is nothing short of extraordinary. Imagine a young prodigy, trained in the hallowed halls of Juilliard, choosing to abandon the predictable path to explore the uncharted realms of progressive rock. Much like an artist swapping the traditional canvas for the digital screen, Rudess embraces synthesizers and innovation, crafting soundscapes that transcend the ordinary. His story is a symphony of bold decisions and relentless pursuit of musical excellence...
2025-01-031h 32
Analyse PodcastWhy Southeast Asia Matters with Gullnaz Baig"People always ask us this question, what can I learn from that country? People ask us about this from the report especially when we're talking to policymakers, or what should I learn from Malaysia? What should I learn? The thing to learn is to not learn to replicate exactly. But the thing to learn is sort of what are the principles behind what works for them. What are your comparative advantages, Every country needs to be asking that for themselves. So for Vietnam, comparative advantages are things like proximity to China, and an ability at a geopolitical level to navigate between...
2025-01-0150 min
Analyse PodcastThe Transition to Electric Buses: The KMB Experience & Philanthrophy with William Louey“ Yeah. We plan to replace the fleet by 2040. We can't scrap all of them now because each bus lasts 18 years. So we have the depreciation for 18 years. They're all from the U.K. All the buses are from the U.K. All the double-deckers. That's the only country that makes double-decker buses, and it's the same as Singapore. All the double-deckers are from the U.K. Because of COVID, when we replace all these diesel buses with electricity, you need a lot more power and electricity to accommodate this. So the government has to work with us. But today, we can...
2024-12-1743 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 007 Justin BuaIn a world of hustlers, bustlers and innovators, we all seek balance. Combining classical realism at the urban edge of hip-hop and street art, Justin BUA balances being a forward thinking artist while reinventing the classical brush on canvas medium through original caricatures from his colorful youth, statement pieces of pop-culture icons and his one and only globally top selling posterized painting “the DJ”. Even if you haven’t heard of him, you’ve most likely seen his work as it can be seen at The renowned Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on the TV shows he has hosted...
2024-12-061h 01
Analyse PodcastThe China Business Conundrum with Ken Wilcox"But what I didn't realize is that the main reason they wanted us in China was so that they could study our business model and figure out how to copy it over time. And that was something I wasn't expecting, but I should have. If I were less naive, And if I were better prepared, I would have realized that was the intention. So the original title, the working title I had for my book, which I had to change because the publisher didn't like it, my original title was 'One Bed, Two Dreams' (同床异梦). Because that's a phrase that most Chinese ar...
2024-12-0357 min
Analyse PodcastExtraOrdinary: From Stay-at-Home Mom to Global Entrepreneur with Yvon Bock"So, my definition of being fearless is not about no fear, but it's having that courage to face your fear, to conquer whatever adversities that are thrown your way. it is part of the entrepreneur journey. We are always faced with fear of failure. Self Doubt is how to pick up our courage and face them and use these challenges to become your catalyst for innovation, the catalyst for growth, the catalyst for your success." - Yvon Bock Fresh out of the studio, Yvon Bock, Founder and CEO of Hegen, shares her inspiring journey from stay-at-home mom to world-class...
2024-11-2641 min
Analyse PodcastUnlocking the Power of Generative AI in Dow Jones with Ingrid Verschuren"So, we are very conscious of the fact that we license the content from other publications. And as I mentioned previously, we do that through licensing agreements. We are transparent with the publishers about what happens with their content. We ensure that they are being fairly compensated for the content that we use. But, as a result, when we started talking about how we wanted to use Gen AI, we actually felt that we had an obligation to go back to publishers and ask for additional licensing rights. Part of that, I think, is driven by the fact that Dow...
2024-11-1931 min
Analyse PodcastFrom Research to Real-World Impact: AI in Action with Sun Sumei"The efficiency on top of the efficacy because it is critical that we will achieve this balance of cost and performance. And in addition to that, I think one more aspect we are putting emphasis is actually how, in the new era of AI, all pervasive intelligence and pervasive connectivity, how do we bring human, AI, and machine into a cohesive coexistence and also cohesive collaboration so that we are able to have actually the AI machine support human, empower human, and at the same time. We look at actually the design of the workflows so that we are able...
2024-11-1425 min
Hard Working DadCheck Yourself at the Door" | Hardworking Parents Club PodcastWelcome to Episode #5 of the Hardworking Parents Club Podcast - "Check Yourself at the Door"!
In this episode, RJ Horner and Curtis Leong explore the importance of self-care for parents and discuss how being aware of our own attitudes and behaviors can impact the home environment. Learn strategies to “leave stress at the door” and bring your best self into family life, creating a positive, happy home for everyone.
What You’ll Learn:
Why self-care is essential for parents
The power of awareness in managing your moods and reactions
Simple techniques to release work stress before stepping through the door
H...
2024-11-1015 min
Analyse PodcastThe e-Conomy Southeast Asia 2024 Report with Sapna Chadha, Fock Wai Hoong & Florian Hoppe"The key message of the report is that the fundamentals of this region are critical, they’re clear, and businesses are doing exactly, I think, what they need to do for us to move ahead." - Sapna Chadha "Given that one of the other themes we’ve had this year is trust, having a strong regulatory foundation and good constructs around that for digital financial services is critical to unlocking the next wave of growth here." - Florian Hoppe "All 10 ASEAN nations have announced their own national strategic AI initiatives or plans, and ASEAN itself has actually released a report and...
2024-11-0540 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 006 Cookie MarencoFollow Cookie Online:
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If you’ve ever traveled all the way around the world in order to meet your neighbor, or learned a valuable life lesson by taking the long route, then this is the story for you. Over the past 4 decades, hidden away in the hills of my tiny hometown in Belmont, California lies OTR Studio. It’s a full functioning ultra-high-definition recording studio that rivals any in the world. At the studio, Gold Record Selling Artists, Grammy Winning Musicians and Acad...
2024-11-011h 17
Analyse PodcastData Centres in the Era of AI with Jay ParkFresh out of the studio, Jay Park, Chief Development Officer of Digital Edge, explores the rapidly transforming landscape of data centres in the Asia-Pacific region. Kicking off with the story of Jay’s remarkable career in building cutting-edge data centres, we dive into the explosive growth fueled by AI and the innovative cooling and energy solutions Digital Edge is pioneering to address environmental challenges. Jay also examines the impact of advanced AI chips on next-generation data centre engineering and shares his vision of what great would look like to design efficient and sustainable infrastructure in one of the world’s fa...
2024-10-2947 min
Analyse PodcastResetting Expectations on Southeast Asia with Arnaud Bonzom"So that's why if you have 1 billion to invest, we're not expecting the same return as if you invest 10 million. At that time, when all this money flowed to Southeast Asia, people there thought, "Oh, we made it. Now the world is looking at us. We're finally a good ecosystem.' Everyone was ready to invest in us, but that was just the tide, right? And when the tide recedes, the first place the money will leave is Southeast Asia because it's not offering the best returns. So, the money is going out, and I don't think it's coming back...
2024-10-231h 04
Analyse PodcastLearnovate, AI and EduTech with Joon Nak Choi"The humans are going to be empowered to become superheroes like Tony Stark, and because you have your loyal A.I. assistant, Jarvis, doing all this stuff in the background, that's the example I always use when I give lectures on this topic. What ends up happening is that you need to make sure you can use A.I. correctly. If you offload too much, offload inappropriately, or become too dependent on AI for tasks where you shouldn't be dependent, then suddenly, you're no longer Tony Stark. You're one of those fat human descendants in Wall-E. The ones who can't...
2024-10-0754 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 005 George ChenWe often take certain things for granted, especially when it comes to the autonomy of how a restaurant works. If designing and running one of the biggest and busiest restaurants in the Bay Area isn’t a big enough task for you to underestimate, imagine conceptualizing and running sixteen of them. Maybe it would take someone with the business sense of a Wall Street banker, the mental fortitude of a China Town Big Boss, the connections of a million-miler doing deals from Shanghai to San Francisco and someone who sees and jumps at opportunities to improve their industry on an...
2024-10-0458 min
Analyse PodcastAI, Creativity and the Human Element with Tan Siok Siok"Well, I think AI makes us, makes me more human in terms of understanding that nirvana or the ultimate achievement is not to be perfect. The ultimate achievement is to be authentic, present, and yourself. I guess it exists in this human dimension. One of the things you realize is that when something is too perfect, whether it's your selfie or something you've written, people start to distrust it. Right now, if I generate or design something, or if I write something and it sounds too fluent and flawless—without accent, pauses, or mistakes—people might suspect that it's not Siok...
2024-09-2346 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 004 Nathan East
#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong - Nathan East Episode
Whether you know it or not, you KNOW Nathan East. Not only is he “A” bass player, he is THE bass player.
You can mention pretty much any important figure from music in the last 5 decades and it’s a solid bet he’s been involved with a collaboration.
From the smooth grooves of Barry White to the innovative beats of Daft Punk, Nathan’s bass has been the backbone of countless hits. His collaborations span genres and generations, making him a true titan of the music industry.
2024-09-061h 13
Analyse PodcastDisrupting E-Commerce: How Shein and Temu are Challenging Amazon's Reign with Jing Yang"Temu was launched in the US, their first market in September 2022. That is when Shein just started to gain a lot of traction. There's a lot of attention being paid to Shein. In the beginning, many people thought that Temu was a copycat of Shein because they both sold goods from China using this direct-from-China shipping model. However, I think the competition has evolved quite differently now, and Temu has done business and operational innovation that has made others, including Shein, have to catch up." - Jing Yang Fresh out of the studio, Jing Yang, the Asia Bureau Chief...
2024-08-1246 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 003 DJ QbertVery few people have attained the level of innovation in their craft as DJ Qbert. The saying “If You Build It, They Will Come” was written about guys like him. Years before rising to global fame, he had already been discovering and perfecting a huge number of turntable routines and tricks that would become standardized scratches, staple sounds in hip-hop, pop culture caricatures in TV/Film/Video games, a focus within numerous music and sound production schools and the absolute metric of talent at the famed Disco Mix Club aka the DMC International DJ Competition. Qbert has bravely and prid...
2024-08-021h 27#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 000 IntroWelcome back to #UpgradeMe. It’s a podcast about the never ending self improvement journey, ideas and life hacks to help you level up and the people who make it happen! Hosted by Dana Leong, a 2x Grammy Winning Musician, a US Musical Ambassador and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
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2024-07-1900 min#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 002 Dr. Ta-Lin HsuThere are a number of sayings in business that ring true and are constantly repeated like a broken record. ‘Time in the market beats timing the market’, ‘location location location’, ‘A lot of it (business) has to do with luck’, ‘know thy customer’ and the list goes on and on.
In as many ways as we can count, Dr. Ta-Lin Hsu has played a most impressive game of career chess. Joining the Hambrecht & Quist Group as a general partner in 1985, then founding H&Q Asia Pacific in 1986, there have been a series of household names incubated under his wing such as...
2024-07-0539 min
Analyse PodcastHow Netflix bring Asian Content to the Global Audience with Minyoung Kim“The most important lesson that I have learned is really Know your audience. You need to really understand your audience, and what they want because oftentimes the content executives make the mistake of programming for themselves rather than the audience. And I actually went through the exact same mistake when I first started, because I believed what I like is what audience like. So I think that's like the number one rule, really trying to understand the audience. That is number one. And as an individual, for me. I don't think it's only in Asia. I think globally building a re...
2024-06-1835 min
转角的清吧L09｜参加《跃上高阶职场》教会我的那些事儿两年前的这个时候，Leong 参加了职场真人秀《跃上高阶职场》的拍摄，也是在这档节目中，他被大家所熟知。那参加这档真人秀，他有哪些幕后的感悟和收获？看到的未必就是真实的，台前的场景背后，真实的情况是怎样的？本期节目，Leong 就为大家分享一些参加《跃上高阶职场》的收获。主播：梁伟丰，NOTE DUET音乐香氛主理人 / 创意顾问 / 音乐人制作人：董小北，内容工程师内容大纲：03:10 参加《跃上高阶职场》的感悟07:35 摄像机被隐秘安装在看不见的地方08:59 拍摄没有对白脚本，也不会有 take two 的拍摄09:24 踏入拍摄场地后，必须全程带麦10:05 选手要带麦回家，家里也安装了摄像头11:32 生命无 take two，请小心演绎11:48 每个人的生活本身就是一场真人秀13:11 真人秀需要考虑综艺性15:34 合理的要求是训练，不合理的要求是磨炼18:00 快乐不是一种情绪，而是一种决定18:14 命运不是用来接受的，而是用来改变的19:09 当面对瑕疵和不完美都能释之以怀时，生活就奈何不了你20:14 疫情期间，花式度过在酒店隔离的一周23:40 躲在角落里，用代号与上海同事沟通29:54 听到有人叫“梁老师”，就知道ta看过真人秀了31:34 看到的未必是真实的32:41 真人秀总有“秀”的部分，其实小龙是一个情绪稳定，能够说真心话的人
2024-06-1337 min
Analyse PodcastGoogle & Sustainability in Europe with Adam Elman"We have these very ambitious goals and we've spoken about a few, but there are many others in Europe. In particular, the E.U. and countries like the U.K. have very ambitious climate goals. For Google, we want to be part of the solution. So, good for me is, we make progress on our goals in our own operations, but we really want to help others. And we actually have this as a global goal rather than a regional goal, an ambition to help others save a "gigaton" worth of emissions every year from 2030 onwards. A "gigaton" is the...
2024-06-1330 min
#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong#UpgradeMe with Dana Leong 001 Cung LeFor as long as we have existed, hand to hand combat has been a vital measure of our tribal value and the purest metric of our rank. Dominant alphas have been decorated in spoil and treasure, conquered borders and later wore gold on their fingers necks and waists.
Cung Le is a multi-disciplinarian martial artist, an actor in Oscar Nominated Films alongside actress Zhang Ziyi of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the head coach and mentor for Ultimate Fighter China and the founder of his very own “fight or flight” school where he makes “Rambo First Blood” look like chi...
2024-06-071h 08
Analyse PodcastProduct Management in a Scale-Up with Isaac Tay"If I were to summarize it, your job as a product manager is to deliver the right product to the right users, to solve the right problems at the right time. Now, your role is very contextual because you will focus on different parts of that statement, depending on the founders, the stage of life of the company, which industry it is and everything else. There are some core functional skill sets that you can't run away from, and you must have them. But I don't think there is a cookie-cutter template on what you must do to succeed in...
2024-05-141h 04
Analyse PodcastDeploy and PropTech in 2024 with Jordan Kostelac"I think the biggest learning that I had, and, by extension, JLL [Jones Lang LaSalle] in my last capacity was that it's not sufficient to take these companies and then just let them in the door. You can't hand one of your business clients the keys and expect them to drive. So, one of the first cohort companies in Urban Lab was a robotics company, and we created a revenue-sharing agreement with them any property that you get into through us, there's a revenue share. But the downstream incentives weren't sufficient enough. We didn't provide enough tools to people who...
2024-05-0153 min
Analyse PodcastAkamai Cloud Computing & The Age of Edge AI with Jay Jenkins"So already this year we've rolled out 10 of these regions. So two in APJ and Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. But 75 of these locations by the end of the year along with our core computing regions will give us 100 locations where customers can run these workloads, and we're not going to stop there. So we're going to have hundreds of these regions over the next few years, and we're going to focus on those locations where hyper-scalers don't have compute. Africa and South America, for example, have been extremely underserved when it comes to computing capabilities. There's a huge potential...
2024-04-1745 min
Analyse PodcastSaison Capital and Real World Asset Monetization in Crypto with Qin En Looi"The one thing that has become quite clear in Asia, at least it's direct to retail - the government is not ready. The market is not ready. And there still needs to be a very high level of consumer protection. A lot more of a B2B-to-C approach. Where, let's say today's Web3 companies will need to partner up with existing licensed entities, whether they be licensed startups or even licensed institutions to provide their offerings to the retail. That's actually really good. Because it provides safeguards. We saw what happened last time when we didn't have those safeguards. So...
2024-04-0945 min
Analyse PodcastDigital Report 2024 and why Generative AI did not show up this time with Simon Kemp"The key thing that I realize every time I look at the data is that the media is telling us a lot of nonsense. I think that the one thing I know is that the data tells a very different story to the media headlines. So I suppose my advice there is, never to accept clickbait at face value. If you're building a marketing plan, do your due diligence, and check the data because the data always surprises me. The one thing I know is that I'm always surprised. There's your key takeaway.” - Simon Kemp Fresh out of th...
2024-04-031h 06
Analyse PodcastIs TikTok going to be banned in the US? An Asian Perspective with Jing Yang"If we assume that happens, I'm sure TikTok, let alone ByteDance as a company as a whole, will survive - and maybe even continue to thrive after this. Because, let's put things into perspective, right? TikTok has more than 1 billion users globally and then the US represents just a little over a 10th of that, 170 million. So I'm not saying that it's not going to impact TikTok and ByteDance. But does it pose an existential threat? Probably not. I believe given we already talked about how ByteDance has been super profitable. I think that, even if they get banned in...
2024-03-2646 min
Analyse PodcastThe 3AC Demise with Kyle Davies"What we did instead is we did not. The market rallied. We were just clouded in our judgment and we were not scaling the firm the way we should have. So that was probably one big one. The other one was after the liquidation I should have just had blinders on to the media and focused on creditors only and probably just had a round table and said these are what I think the options are. What do you think the options are? And if that were the case I think we probably wouldn't be in bankruptcy. We would've found...
2022-12-0851 min
Analyse PodcastAnalyse Asia & China with Carol Yin & Bernard Leong"So, because I think the way I've always been thinking about this podcast is (as) a brand, I think we talked about it just now, the quality of the guests we curate is now a challenge for everyone who wants to get onto the show as well. And I've been very methodical about the selection of guests. I would rather have no episodes, but the quality of the guests must be there. And I'm very mindful of that and the topics I want to go for (are) very deep." - Bernard Leong Fresh out of the studio a...
2022-11-1154 min
Flo Women’s Club 女人同學會E2: Flo with Lilian Leong: 接觸多啲新事物係一件好美好嘅事Lilian自命是個勞碌半生的achievement junkie，趕獎趕威趕叻。 曾任廣吿公司、Tech startup 公司CEO及COO；多次轉行的經驗令她明白世界天天在轉，只有不斷學習，才可以避免固步自封，真心欣賞身邊的事物。"Learn. Unlearn. Re-learn" 理論的奉行者。 多年来發現要學的新事不少，要拼棄的舊想法更多。最近學懂心無旁騖，只做開心的事。本集是Flo Women's Club 的第二集podcast，今次訪問另一位主持Lilian, 目的係想讓大家認識我哋。You can read more about Lilian hereFlow of this podcast:What I learned about "change" in the advertising worldMy first big pivot: from advertising to media planningStarting in a new industry taught me about vulnerabilityHow to problem-solve in a lean, mean startup company"Just because you've done it before doesn't mean there's not a better way to do it."Change can be difficult, but change can also be a beautiful thing.Immediate satisfaction cannot sustain long term happiness.My motto呢一集 podcast 嘅 bonus reading Buy us a coffeeFollow us on Instagram and FacebookSubscribe to our newsletterCreative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.comTags #Flo women's learning club, #personal stories, #lilian leong, #梁芷茵, #初創
2022-07-0741 min
Analyse PodcastGlobal Coin Research & Web3 101 with Joyce Yang, Jin Kang & Daniel Kim"I want GCR to build its brand verbally from the founders that we support. And we don't even ever have to promote ourselves at any point, it's that founders are able to recognize our value- add, or introduce us to projects and identify our unique position, that we can support them in ways that VCs or crypto investors cannot do. It's something that I think will really speak to the hard work that we do without ever having to promote ourselves." - Joyce Yang Fresh out of the studio, Joyce Yang, Jin Kang and Daniel Kim from G...
2022-02-191h 27
Analyse PodcastWhat just happened to the Tech Giants in China? with Shai OsterIn episode 345, Shai Oster, Asia Bureau Chief from the Information joined our returning host, Bernard Leong to answer the most important question in Asia, "What just happened to the Chinese tech giants?" We dived deep on why they are facing a regulatory crackdown and its downstream impact not just to Chinese tech CEOs stepping down from their jobs but also to the successful US companies from Apple to Tesla that are based in China. "What Alibaba and Tencent have done is created national banking infrastructure. In China, national infrastructure is a national security. It's like highways, it's like...
2021-10-0755 min
Analyse PodcastAsk Me Anything (AMA) with Bernard LeongIn our episode 300, our host Bernard Leong will be interviewed on everything under the sun on Analyse Asia. With the interview conducted by Carol Yin, co-producer of the podcast, Bernard started with a couple of major announcements for Analyse Asia. Next, Bernard answered many interesting questions posed from the audience of the show such as: (i) the evolution of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southeast Asia, (ii) who will win the race between Grab and Gojek, (iii) fun and interesting facts about the podcast from how Bernard selects his guest to getting a prominent guest on the show via a...
2019-06-0147 min
Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongAsk Me Anything (AMA) with Bernard LeongIn our episode 300, our host Bernard Leong will be interviewed on everything under the sun on Analyse Asia. With the interview conducted by Carol Yin, co-producer of the podcast, Bernard started with...
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2019-05-3147 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 299: Can we invest into technology companies from China? with James HullJames Hull, co-host of China Tech Investor podcast and founder of Hullx, joined us to discuss whether we can invest into technology companies from China. We start our conversation with James' background and how he came to China and work in the realm of investments with different funds and capital groups. James explained how he assembled together a portfolio of technology companies and discuss the major misconceptions about investing into Chinese companies. Last but not least, we dig deeper into the Chinese technology companies in the ecommerce category, Luckin Coffee's IPO and Tencent's future prospects in gaming. ...
2019-05-2351 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 298: Employee to Entrepreneur with Steve GlaveskiSteve Glaveski, host of Future Squared podcast and founder of Collective campus, returns to our podcast to discuss his latest book "Employee to Entrepreneur: How to earn your freedom and do work that matters" and offered his thoughts to how the podcasting movement in Asia Pacific is evolving. We dived deep into why and how Steve wrote the book and his thoughts on how one should build the entrepreneurial mindset in his or her career. Podcast Information: RSS Feed Apple Podcasts Himalaya Spotify Libsyn Google Play Overcast FM SoundCloud Twitter Facebook Video Facebook Page Linkedin Stitcher C...
2019-05-1644 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 297: Gojek vs Grab - Dawn of the Super App with Jon RussellJon Russell, reporter from TechCrunch, joined us in a conversation about the continuing war between Gojek and Grab with the dawn of the super app. We started our conversation on Honestbee's recent predicament, the growth in series B-D funding for startups across Southeast Asia and Eduardo Saverin's B-Capital recent raising of 406M for their fund. Then we dived deep into Grab vs Gojek and their narrative from fundraising valuation to the paradigm of super app, and discuss whether each of them can pull it off with their different strategies from Grab's financial services to Gojek's multiple acquisitions in the...
2019-05-1029 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 224: Nokia Networks, Smart Cities and IoT with Danial Mausoof - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongDanial Mausoof from Nokia joined us in a conversation to discuss the company’s current focus in carrier networks, the upcoming 5G networks and Internet of things (IoT) initiatives across Asia. He discussed how Asia businesses and governments are currently figuring out the strategy behind their IoT & smart cities initiatives, where the key applications currently The post Episode 224: Nokia Networks, Smart Cities and IoT with Danial Mausoof appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-12-1728 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 223: Tata Communications & Perspectives on IoT & Mobility with Anthony Bartolo - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongAnthony Bartolo from Tata Communications joined us in a conversation on mobility and Internet of Things (IoT) and their impact on the enterprise level across Asia Pacific. Anthony begin the conversation on his work with Tata Communications and how carrier networks and IoT are changing the landscape in asset management and other applications such as The post Episode 223: Tata Communications & Perspectives on IoT & Mobility with Anthony Bartolo appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-12-1239 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 222: The SoftBank Vision Fund with Tim Culpan - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongTim Culpan from Bloomberg joined us in a two part conversation on the high impact news from Asia’s movers and shakers. In the second part of our conversation, Tim covered Japan’s SoftBank US$100B Vision Fund and discussed the mission, vision and structure behind this massive fund that is poised to overshadow all the venture capital The post Episode 222: The SoftBank Vision Fund with Tim Culpan appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-12-0432 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 221: The Toshiba Chip Unit Deal with Tim Culpan - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongTim Culpan from Bloomberg joined us in a two part conversation on the high impact news from Asia’s movers and shakers. In the first part of our conversation, he covered the backstory, drama and conclusion to the Toshiba’s chip unit deal and examine why Apple is involved with at least two of the major bidders. The post Episode 221: The Toshiba Chip Unit Deal with Tim Culpan appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-12-0126 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 220: Digital in Asia Pacific 2017 Part 2 with Simon Kemp - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongSimon Kemp, founder & CEO of Kepios and global consultant from We Are Social, joined us in a two part discussion on the state of digital in Asia Pacific. In the second part of our conversation, we discussed the emerging social media trends that spanned across China, Japan & Korea and rest of Asia Pacific. The post Episode 220: Digital in Asia Pacific 2017 Part 2 with Simon Kemp appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-11-2938 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 219: Digital in Asia Pacific 2017 Part 1 with Simon Kemp - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongSimon Kemp, founder & CEO of Kepios and global consultant from We Are Social, joined us in a two part discussion on the state of digital in Asia Pacific. In the first part of our conversation, Simon discussed the major trends that have emerged in his report distilling from global to Asia and why voice The post Episode 219: Digital in Asia Pacific 2017 Part 1 with Simon Kemp appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-11-2523 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 218: Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific with Xu Haoliang - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongXu Haoliang, Assistant Secretary General for the United Nations and Director, Regional Bureau for Asia & the Pacific joined us in a conversation to discuss sustainable development in the Responsible Business Forum 2017. We discussed how the UNDP are working with different stakeholders from businesses, NGOs and UN agencies on the sustainable goals and how The post Episode 218: Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific with Xu Haoliang appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-11-2325 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 217: Brinc, Hardware & IoT in Asia with Bay McLaughlin - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongBay McLaughlin, COO and co-founder of Brinc joined us in a conversation to discuss the evolution of his company, Brinc and where it is now heading across Asia from China to southeast Asia and other parts of the world. In our conversation, we dived deep into major trends and challenging issues on hardware and Internet The post Episode 217: Brinc, Hardware & IoT in Asia with Bay McLaughlin appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-11-1727 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 216: Indian Titans Leadership Crisis with Andy Mukherjee - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongAndy Mukherjee from Bloomberg Gadfly joined us in a conversation discuss the recent Indian titans leadership crises from the Tata Group & Infosys. We discussed the business structure, key people, background and recent corporate governance troubles behind the Tata Group & Infosys and discuss whether these issues will percolate to the rest of the other The post Episode 216: Indian Titans Leadership Crisis with Andy Mukherjee appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-11-1031 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 215: Stripe in Asia and the Startup Stack with Piruze Sabuncu - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongPiruze Sabuncu from Stripe joined in a conversation to discuss the company’s footprint across Asia and how they are helping the startups from Asia to scale to the rest of the world. We discussed their recent one year anniversary celebrations where they unveiled the startup stack and the key tools which most startups are using The post Episode 215: Stripe in Asia and the Startup Stack with Piruze Sabuncu appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-11-0423 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 214: #AskGaryVee & Vayner Media in Asia with Gary Vaynerchuk - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongGary Vaynerchuk is here to discuss his companies: Vayner X and Vayner Media and his insightful perspectives on entrepreneurship and family business. We dived deep into his understanding of social media from US to Asia and how it has evolved, his life principles in bridging strategy & execution with a customer centric driven approach. Last The post Episode 214: #AskGaryVee & Vayner Media in Asia with Gary Vaynerchuk appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-10-2929 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 213: China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Robert Koepp - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongRobert Koepp from the Economist corporate network joined us in a conversation to discuss the government of China’s Belt and Road initiative. We discussed the impact of the Belt and Road initiative to the Asian economies and the geopolitical, trade and financial risks that potentially impact China’s most important infrastructure project across Asia and Europe. The post Episode 213: China’s Belt and Road Initiative with Robert Koepp appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-10-2742 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 209: The Thailand Startup Ecosystem with Michael Waitze - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongMichael Waitze, founding partner of Metaliq & host of Asia Tech Podcast joined us in a conversation to discuss the Thailand startup ecosystem. We discussed the interesting startups, incubators, accelerators and investors in Thailand and explore how the nascent ecosystem is evolving in the past few years. Last but not least, we discussed how the The post Episode 209: The Thailand Startup Ecosystem with Michael Waitze appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-10-0442 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 208: Microsoft Enterprise in Asia Pacific with Ricky Kapur - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongRicky Kapur, the general manager from the Enterprise Group in Microsoft, Asia Pacific joined us to discuss the footprint of the Microsoft Enterprise in Asia Pacific. Ricky discussed how Microsoft is working with companies in Asia, leveraging on their technologies in cloud computing, AI and Internet of Things to tackle digital transformation & disruption. Here The post Episode 208: Microsoft Enterprise in Asia Pacific with Ricky Kapur appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-09-2837 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 207: The Shenzhen Startup Ecosystem with Jan Smejkal - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongJan Smejkal, China & Asia Pacific community director of Startup Grind joined us to discuss the Shenzhen startup ecosystem in China. He provided an comprehensive overview of the interesting startups, incubators, accelerators and venture capital firms within Shenzhen and most importantly, how the major players such as Huawei and Tencent are currently interacting with them. The post Episode 207: The Shenzhen Startup Ecosystem with Jan Smejkal appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-09-2132 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 206: Carousell & Scaling in Asia with Marcus Tan - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongMarcus Tan, co-founder and president of Carousell joined us in a conversation on his company which he co-founded and where it is heading after their series B round with leading investors such as Rakuten Ventures & Sequoia Capital. We discussed the humble beginnings of Carousell as a mobile marketplace and how the company has scaled The post Episode 206: Carousell & Scaling in Asia with Marcus Tan appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-09-1729 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 205: Qtum Foundation from China to Global with Patrick Dai - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongPatrick Dai, co-founder & chairman of Qtum foundation joined us in a conversation to discuss the backstory behind Qtum Foundation. We discussed the mission and vision of Qtum as a open source blockchain project emerging from China and now armed with a global team that is spread across the world. We discussed the technologies and The post Episode 205: Qtum Foundation from China to Global with Patrick Dai appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-09-1327 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 204: Myth Busters, the China Edition with John Artman - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongJohn Artman, editor in chief for Technode and host of China Tech Talk podcast joined us to debunk the narratives on China that has been propagated from different parts of the world. We began with his story and how he came to China. In our discussion, we dissect the different myths about the Chinese government, The post Episode 204: Myth Busters, the China Edition with John Artman appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-09-0144 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 203: Weibo is not Twitter of China with Matthew Brennan - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongMatthew Brennan from China Channel & host of China Tech Talk podcast joined us on a discussion on Sina Weibo and why it is not the “Twitter” of China. We discussed the origins, the products, revenue & business models in Weibo, and how it was spun off from its parent company, Sina. Matthew also explained The post Episode 203: Weibo is not Twitter of China with Matthew Brennan appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-08-2727 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 202: Japan Startup Ecosystem in 2017 with James Riney - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongJames Riney from 500 Startups, Japan joined us in a conversation to discuss the evolution of Japan startup ecosystem. We discussed where the 500 Startups Japan fund is now, some interesting tidbits on what is happening with the ecosystem there, and his perspectives on payment startups versus banks & whether ICOs will displace venture capitalists. The post Episode 202: Japan Startup Ecosystem in 2017 with James Riney appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-08-2320 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 201: Cherubic Ventures & Taiwan Startup Ecosystem with Tina Cheng - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongTina Cheng from Cherubic Ventures joined us in a conversation about the firm’s investments across the region from Greater China to US. We discussed the mission, vision and management team behind Cherubic Ventures and discuss how they looked at founders & startups as an early stage investor. Last but not least, she also shared her The post Episode 201: Cherubic Ventures & Taiwan Startup Ecosystem with Tina Cheng appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-08-1829 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 200: Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongOur host, Bernard Leong is on the hot seat for this special 200th episode to be interviewed by Charles Reed Anderson. Bernard discussed his day job, his time in Singularity University at Silicon Valley last year and work achievements to date. In the same conversation, he offered his perspectives in how the major ecommerce battles The post Episode 200: Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-08-1337 min
Analyse PodcastSpecial Episode: BAT in Southeast Asia with Bernard Leong on China Tech Talk - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongBefore the special episode 200, we have a special episode from China Tech Talk hosted by John Artman from Technode & Matthew Brennan from China Channel where our host Bernard Leong was recently chatting about the entrance of Baidu, Alibaba & Tencent in Southeast Asia. In the conversation, we discussed the chronology to how the The post Special Episode: BAT in Southeast Asia with Bernard Leong on China Tech Talk appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-08-1153 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 155: 5 Predictions for Asia in 2017 with Sameer Singh - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongSameer Singh from App Annie and our host Bernard Leong offer their five predictions to what will rock the Asia landscape in 2017 and examine side events that hit the road ahead after a turbulent and unpredictable 2016. We discuss: (a) Softbank’s gambit with Sprint & T-Mobile, (b) Asia messaging apps vs Facebook & Whatsapp The post Episode 155: 5 Predictions for Asia in 2017 with Sameer Singh appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2017-01-0419 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 154: The 5 Major Events in 2016 with Sameer Singh - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongSameer Singh from App Annie and our host Bernard Leong discuss the five major events which rocked the Asia landscape in 2016: (a) Softbank’s acquisition of ARM for US$32B, (b) Pokemon Go, (c) Uber and Didi’s deal in China, (d) the Indian unicorn startups apocalypse & (e) the ecommerce war between Amazon & Alibaba in The post Episode 154: The 5 Major Events in 2016 with Sameer Singh appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2016-12-2926 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 84: The Five Predictions on Asia in 2016 with Sameer Singh - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongStarting the new year, Sameer Singh, author of Tech-Thoughts.net and our host Bernard Leong discussed the five predictions on Asia technology landscape 2016 in the second part of the two-episodes arc. Building on their earlier conversation on the five major events that rocked 2015, they forecast the events in 2016 which will shape the technology landscape The post Episode 84: The Five Predictions on Asia in 2016 with Sameer Singh appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2016-01-0126 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 25: The Apple Watch Conundrum in Asia with Sameer Singh - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongSameer Singh from Tech-Thoughts is back for an interesting discussion with Bernard Leong on the three major topics which dominate the Asian technology and business landscape. Discussing in depth the Apple Watch conundrum, they explained why there are flawed misconceptions from western analysts on the Apple Watch market in Asia. The discussion also revolved around The post Episode 25: The Apple Watch Conundrum in Asia with Sameer Singh appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2015-04-0348 min
Analyse PodcastEpisode 12: New Questions in Mobile, the Asia Edition - Analyse Asia with Bernard LeongSameer Singh (@sameer_singh17) from Tech-Thoughts.net comes online with our host Bernard Leong (@bleongcw) to discuss and debate with an Asian perspective on Benedict Evans’ recent piece “New Questions in Mobile”. We first return to a lost discussion where we discuss Uber and its recent problems in Asia and categorically provide an answer to some US The post Episode 12: New Questions in Mobile, the Asia Edition appeared first on Analyse Asia.
2015-01-1049 min