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Hong Kong, A Hotbed of Web3.0, AI and Venture Capital Activity

By Catherine Yong|2024-11-05T17:23:19+08:00November 5, 2024|Categories: AI, Experiences|Tags: Hong Kong, incubator, venture capital, Web3.0|

A raft of initiatives were announced during the two-day Cyberport Venture Capital Forum 2024 (CVCF) in Hong Kong recently, for example the Web3.0 Investment Circle’ (W3IC) and an AI subsidy scheme, all of which aligns with the Hong Kong government’s commitment to accelerate venture capital activity and development of the Web3.0 and overall IT ecosystem. Georgina Chu zooms into a few notable ones with CXpose.tech. CVCF 2024 had attracted over 2,600 attendees from the AI, Web3, and venture capital ecosystem, and during a keynote on the second day, Cyberport’s Chief Corporate Development Officer, Georgina Chu, shared about interesting developments ... Read More

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Cloudera Helps Enterprises Achieve Cloud Goals with Prioritized Investments and Recipe Book of Use Cases

By Catherine Yong|2024-11-01T12:38:44+08:00November 1, 2024|Categories: AI, Data|Tags: data management, hybrid cloud, private cloud, public cloud|

Cloudera execs from its CEO to its SVP of Product Management, share their perspectives with frank comments about cloud adoption, customer use cases, partnerships, coopetition, and how prioritized investments are helping enterprises achieve their cloud goals. Cloudera’s Chief Revenue Officer, Frank O’Dowd described cloud consumption as an important measure of the ability to take advantage of the technology and move forward with it. “Cloud consumption means you are using the cloud platform that you made a purchase. And our growth rate right now in cloud consumption (at 42%) is higher than that of all our competitors.” This is no ... Read More

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How Software is Changing the Way We Respond to Emergencies

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-29T07:05:33+08:00October 29, 2024|Categories: Experiences, AI|Tags: critical event management, emergency management|

From critical event management to mobile apps and AI, Motorola Solutions is adding more cogs to its emergency management software machine. All of us deal with pressure in different ways, but technology has a way of improving how we approach and manage it. Until not so long ago, an operations manager at a power plant might have reached for a large binded folder to find answers to prevent a potential shutdown. Thumbing through evacuation plans, site schematics and other details, he or she would try to figure out how to keep workers safe, who to call and what to ... Read More

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Ingredient Innovation Gets A Huge Automation Boost

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-28T11:41:50+08:00October 28, 2024|Categories: Data, Experiences|Tags: automation, ingredient innovation, mouthfeel|

Tate & Lyle, a global leader in ingredient solutions receive a huge automation boost with an industry-first automated laboratory, which aims to deliver faster and more accurate ingredient design, accelerating go-to-market for new food products. Members of the media were treated to a tour of Tate & Lyle’s automated lab aptly called the Automated Laboratory for Ingredient Experimentation, or AlFIE, that is located in Singapore, just one of its Customer Collaboration and Innovation Centers around the world. A look at ALFIE, at Tate & Lyle's Singapore site. The lab overall consists of two systems, one designated for ... Read More

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How to Fundraise for Early-Stage Startups

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-25T13:16:14+08:00October 25, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: event, fundraising, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Startup - Field Guide, venture capital|

A startup workshop during the Cyberport Venture Capital Forum 2024 featured the co-founder of a VC that had successfully picked five $1B+ unicorns from the earliest stage. During one maximum capacity startup workshop in Hong Kong, co-founder and managing director of SoGal Ventures, Pocket Sun, shared very practical advice about how to raise funds, giving unique perspectives into investors’ as well as founders’ mindsets. The workshop which caters to early-stage startups; especially ones that are founded by women, was an insightful and revealing one for this journalist who is finally dipping her reporting toes into the world of venture ... Read More

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The Seamless Convenience of a Digital National Identity Platform

By Catherine Yong|2024-11-03T15:38:37+08:00October 23, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: digital, featured, identity, national identity|

CXpose.tech recently caught up with HID’s APAC execs, to find out more about how their organization enables a digital national ID platform, and why physical ID is not going away anytime soon. HID's APAC regional senior manager for Citizen ID Solutions, Adrien Lemoine, shared that Philippines national digital ID journey began in 2022 when the country’s newly-elected president himself decided to migrate physical document issuance to the digital world. If one has even dabbled with digital finance services, they may find they have had to sign up for an account digitally, be it on their computer or mobile phone. ... Read More

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A Quick Look at Machine Learning Models with Cloudera’s Chief AI Architect

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-23T10:27:48+08:00October 21, 2024|Categories: AI, Data|Tags: large language models|

Verta’s founder and now-Chief AI Architect at Cloudera, Manasi Vartak, sat down for a brief chat with CXpose.tech at the sidelines of Cloudera’s EVOLVE24 New York conference. It’s not everyday that one meets the creator of an AI-based startup from MIT, so the idea was to demystify AI as much as possible, while unravelling more about the problems Verta wanted to solve. Verta, is an MIT startup that built software infrastructure for enterprise data science and machine learning teams to rapidly develop and deploy machine learning models. Manasi Vartak founded Verta, based on her PhD thesis, a decade ago, ... Read More

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“Innovation in Healthy Foods is Hard!” – Hexa Food Founder

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-21T17:26:26+08:00October 15, 2024|Categories: Data|Tags: featured, food innovation, IoT, Startup - Spotlight, traceability|

Hexa Food founder, Gary Gan, opined that the U.S. has "the junkiest foods" and discovered when he ‘volunteered his body for science and blood tests’ that two weeks of eating healthy barley oats comes to naught after just three days of junk food ingestion. This hands-on R&D approach to ‘product development’ should come as no surprise, because the HEXA brand name is a blend of the words ‘Healthy’ and ‘Extra’. Gary Gan's entry into the food business was not a deliberate choice, but a ‘putting out the fires’ response when Krisanya, the popular Malaysian atta flour maker, faced a ... Read More

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Cloudera Demonstrates Enterprise AI is a Team Sport at EVOLVE24 New York

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-14T15:19:03+08:00October 13, 2024|Categories: AI, Experiences|Tags: customer, featured, go-to-market, partnership|

Enterprise AI is a team sport. This has never been truer than when Cloudera announced their second batch of Enterprise AI Ecosystem collaborateurs, and its execs double clicked into how they are doing it, at its New York conference. After announcing the Enterprise AI Ecosystem last year, Cloudera has made huge strides forward with three additional members, Anthropic, Snowflake, Google Cloud, that were announced during its global annual flagship event, EVOLVE24, in New York. A press release described the ecosystem as an initiative that brought together a diverse group of industry-leading AI providers, and had the objective of delivering comprehensive ... Read More

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VC Vibes and Hitting the Founders-Market-Product Jackpot

By Catherine Yong|2024-10-15T10:36:10+08:00October 6, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: founders, market, product, Startup - Field Guide|

According to former Spotify executive, Sriram Krishnan, venture capital (VC) is generally applicable to very particular industries that are high-growth and have very, very big markets. Software-based companies that solve big problems generally require venture capital, he said. And it is software-based companies, specifically fast-growth software-based companies, that is the reason for Kearny Jackson’s existence. “That’s the world that Sunil and I, operate in,” he said, adding that his co-founding partner Sunil Chhaya is based in New York, while he is in San Francisco. And there are many of these types of companies that the Kearny Jackson (KJ) venture ... Read More

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