Wayah Surya Wiroto joins Endeavor Indonesia as the new Managing Director with a background in Strategic Planning and Organizational Development for over 20 years. 

Wayah spent over 4 years in GE Indonesia in different functions namely Country Sales Director GE Renewable, and Market Development Director GE Global Growth Indonesia. Wayah also served as HRD Director and Corporate Planning & Learning Director of PT. Multistrada Arah Sarana Tbk. since 2011 – 2014. 

Prior to that, Wayah was the Vice Rector for International Collaboration and Marketing Director of Universitas Bina Nusantara in Jakarta Indonesia. Currently sits as External Advisor at YCAB Foundation since 2011. 

He earned a Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering from Bogor Agricultural University in 1993, MSc in Community Nutrition from SEAMEO TROPMED, Regional Center for Community Nutrition at the University of Indonesia in 1996 and PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Institute of Agriculture Policy, Market Research and Economic Sociology, Bonn University, Germany in 2002. 

Backed by 18 years of solid experience, Exabytes powers its 100,000 worldwide customers (from individuals, small and medium sized businesses, to government and public listed companies) with the 3 most important values in mind: Simplify, Innovate and GROW, using the power of technology. 

At the heart of our products and technology is an enthusiasm to energize customers’ online web presence, digital marketing, website creation solutions, business startup solutions, and more. 

Accelerating Asia is an accelerator VC that runs programs for early-stage startups and investors. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Accelerating Asia's early-stage VC fund focuses on pre-Series A startups with untapped potential that are 6-18 months away from institutional funding. Accelerating Asia invests up to S$200,000 in pre-Series A startups, and the current portfolio covers ten countries in Southeast and South Asia including Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Malaysia. 

With most angel investors and startup programs in the region focussed on ideation-minimum viable product stage startups, and venture funds focused on solid product-market fit, startups with a robust product at early stages of customer traction are often overlooked. That's where Accelerating Asia comes in. Accelerating Asia unlocks potential in startups. Our accelerator and venture capital model is designed to support pre-Series A startups to fast track growth and drive success. 

At the core of the work we do is the guiding belief that entrepreneurs are one of humanity's greatest catalysts for positive change. 

Accelerating Asia is an accelerator VC that runs programs for early-stage startups and investors. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Accelerating Asia's early-stage VC fund focuses on pre-Series A startups with untapped potential that are 6-18 months away from institutional funding. Accelerating Asia invests up to S$200,000 in pre-Series A startups, and the current portfolio covers ten countries in Southeast and South Asia including Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Malaysia. 

With most angel investors and startup programs in the region focussed on ideation-minimum viable product stage startups, and venture funds focused on solid product-market fit, startups with a robust product at early stages of customer traction are often overlooked. That's where Accelerating Asia comes in. Accelerating Asia unlocks potential in startups. Our accelerator and venture capital model is designed to support pre-Series A startups to fast track growth and drive success. 

At the core of the work we do is the guiding belief that entrepreneurs are one of humanity's greatest catalysts for positive change. 

Raunak Mehta is the Chief Commercial Officer of Igloo, a Singapore-based full-stack insurtech firm that enables smart, digital insurance for the Internet economy. He heads the commercial business at Igloo that includes business development, marketing, operations, insurance partnerships and fundraising.

Raunak has extensive experience in the e-commerce and technology space, having helmed leadership roles at some of Asia’s biggest e-commerce brands such as Flipkart, and one of Asia Pacific's top online fashion retailer ZALORA Group, together with a stint at Publicis Groupe.

Since joining Igloo in 2018, Raunak has spearheaded the company’s market entry into Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia, while establishing partnerships with industry leaders viz. Lazada, Shopee, Bukalapak, AIS, RedDoorz, Foodpanda & UBP across a range of insurance products. Igloo today works with multiple insurers in the region notably Sompo, Allianz, Baoviet & MSIG.

Raunak holds a Master of Business Administration in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

Rama Mamuaya is the founder and CEO of DailySocial.id, Indonesia’s leading innovation company. Rama has a big passion on digital transformation, startups and an advocate for tech-entrepreneurship. He has spoken on international stages to worldwide audiences about tech policy, innovation, entrepreneurship and digital ecosystem. 

A passionate technologist, Rama’s first contact with computers was at the age of 7 when his father, a computer engineer, introduced him to programming. Ever since, Rama has made computers, internet and everything digital, as his life’s personal and professional pursuit. 

In 2008, he founded DailySocial.id which started as his personal tech blog and has now evolved into Indonesia’s leading technology and innovation enabler with clients ranging from Indonesia’ top banks, insurance companies, Fortune 500 companies and even multinationals as well as global corporations. DailySocial.id is based in Jakarta. 

Rama is currently pursuing his MBA degree, specializing in Corporate Finance, Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Quantic School of Business & Technology, in Washington D.C. He holds Bachelor of Science degree in Computer & Information System Management from Tarumanagara University. 

James Tan is Chairman at the Action Community for Entrepreneurship, the national private sector-led organization responsible for Singapore's startup ecosystem. Established in 2003 by the Ministry of Trade & Industry, ACE leads strategic community efforts to promote entrepreneurship, scale startups and build champion enterprises. 

James Tan is also Managing Partner at Quest Ventures, a leading venture fund for technology companies that have scalability and replicability in large internet communities. Prior to this, James was co-founder and COO of 55tuan, a NASDAQ listed e-commerce group that grew to more than 200 cities and 5,000 employees across China. 

As the first Singaporean and one of the rarefied few foreigners to found a public listed internet company in China, and for his investments in the next generation of entrepreneurs, James was recognised as an outstanding overseas Chinese by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China. For his outstanding global contributions, James received the Alumni Award from the University of South Australia. 

James currently serves as advisor, board member or trustee on the Applied Innovation Institute, Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia, Beijing CYL Joint Committee on Entrepreneurship Development, National Research Foundation CGAP Fund, Social Impact Catalyst, Sports Excellence Business, and Vietnam Angel Network. 

James has been guest speaker at China-focused and entrepreneurship events such as ITB Berlin, Private Equity Insights, Stanford-PARC Digital Cities, SWITCH, and World Islamic Economic Forum. He is an advisor or mentor at Chinaccelerator, Founder Institute, and PSA unboXed. He has guest lectured at Fudan, IE, Tsinghua, and UC Berkeley. 

James is a graduate of the University of South Australia and received scholarships from both Beijing and Singapore governments for his MBA from Tsinghua University in partnership with MIT. He studied and dropped out of computer science at NUS during the first dot-com era to work on two-sided markets. 

For leisure, James enjoys photography and has been featured in ComputerWorld, Readers' Digest, and commercially represented by Liaison Agency. He backpacks Asia and volunteers in marine conservation as a PADI scuba-diving and DAN dive-safety instructor. 

Rashvin is the Group CEO of Biji-biji Initiative, which is one of Malaysia's pioneering and award-winning Social Enterprise that champions sustainability. Biji-biji Initiative comprises subsidiaries across few industries, in Ethical Fashion, Circular Economy Solutions, and their latest venture ME.REKA, which is an innovative and alternative education model, designed to build 21st Century talents. Rashvin plays a regular role in global programs and speaking engagements, he was a panel speaker at the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) in 2020, Asian Financial Forum 2021, and was selected as an Obama Leader in the Asia Pacific inaugural cohort 2020.   

 In 2019, Biji-biji won the Common Objective (CO) Leadership Award in the UK, and in 2018 Biji-biji was recognized as the Social Enterprise of the Year at the Sustainable Business Awards and got their World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) certification. In 2015, Biji-biji won the coveted SME Innovation Challenge by Alliance Bank, is the first and only Impact Driven business to win the award. Rashvin graduated with an Accounting and Finance degree from Bristol Business School, United Kingdom. He spent 4 years of his early career in the corporate world, as a Manager at the Advisory Division of PwC Malaysia. 

Wai Hong Fong is Chieftain and Co-Founder at StoreHub, an omnichannel operating system for over 15,000 retail and restaurant businesses across Southeast Asia. Raised in Malaysia, Fong spent four years in Singapore as an ASEAN Scholar and lived in Melbourne for a decade. Soon after completing his BA at the University of Melbourne, Fong co-founded OZHut – a multi-niche online retailer – and served as managing director for five years. 

Fong was also named Australia's Best Young Entrepreneur in 2011 by StartupSmart and amongst Melbourne's top 100 most influential people by Australian daily The Age, that same year. Fong spent a year and a half studying Mandarin in Shanghai and eventually returned to Malaysia in 2013, and founded StoreHub. 

StoreHub is the operating system of successful omnichannel businesses. Our platform enables more than 15,000 restaurant and retail entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia to automate the growth of their revenue and customer base, as well as the entire process of running their operations. 

StoreHub was founded in 2013 by Wai Hong Fong and Congyu Li, starting off as an all-in-one tablet-based Point of Sale (POS) system that helps business owners manage and grow their store from a single platform. Since then, it has expanded its cloud-based offering to include a powerful QR loyalty cashback program, QR table ordering system, food delivery service and an easy-to-adopt ecommerce platform.

IdeaSpace is a non-profit organization running founder-focused programs for early-stage tech startup founders solving emerging market issues. 

We believe that technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship are critical to the Philippines’ long-term growth and development and that startup founders play a major role in shaping the future of industry, community, and society. Since 2012, we have been helping technology entrepreneurs develop and scale tech- or tech-enabled innovations and transform these into stable, scalable, and sustainable businesses. 

We offer an acceleration program, an alumni program, an Opportunity Fund, and an external relations program, ensuring that we give founders the support they need at the critical phases of their businesses. 

Chia is a Principal at Saison Capital, a VC fund, investing in startups globally and in all verticals, but especially in emerging markets like Southeast Asia and India. Saison Capital is backed by Credit Saison, one of Japan’s largest consumer credit companies/credit card issuers. We invest in Pre-Seed to B stage companies and funds across South East Asia and India, but can look into any vertical globally. They are especially interested in fintech infrastructure/embedded finance (non-fintech companies that want to build fintech infrastructure). Some of their investments include Grab, building Grab Financial, Shopback, Ula, Bukukas, Koinworks, etc, and their fund investments include top regional SEA funds like Beenext, Cyberagent, as well as top global funds like Quona and Better Tomorrow Ventures. 

Previously, he was the 5th employee for Antler (pre-team accelerator + early-stage VC), investing and setting up offices in Europe, as well as building out an e-commerce company in Pakistan/Sri Lanka for Rocket Internet that was bought by Alibaba. 

On the side, he is co-founder of Shaper Impact Capital, a platform and newsletter that helps early-stage startups with an impact connect with resources they need for their next stage of growth, and runs good-admission, a HBS admissions advice-for-charity platform. He is an angel investor into marketplace/consumer platforms. 

His educational background includes a law undergraduate from Cambridge, and a deferred Harvard MBA. He likes indie music, hiking and writes about venture capital. 

Dustin Jefferson S. Onghanseng is the Co-Founder and CEO of uHoo, a Singapore-based global environmental health platform. 

Prior to starting uHoo in 2014, Dustin worked as a Senior Consultant with Deloitte where among his many successful strategic initiatives he developed a corporate strategy that helped turnaround Deloitte South East Asia to profitability and grew revenue by 20% annually for 2 consecutive years, improved business processes of various Fortune 500 and large local companies that resulted on average, a 10% reduction in workflow time and enhanced corporate governance and regulatory compliance. He advised life sciences and healthcare firms in the USA, Singapore and Malaysia and helped them raise 8-figure US$ rounds for further growth. Dustin also worked as an Analyst for BDO Raffles Consultants where he was responsible for developing an overseas market entry strategy that resulted in the successful overseas expansion of a Taiwanese-listed manufacturing firm into India. 

Born and raised in the Philippines, he finished a Bachelor’s of Computing majoring in eCommerce, plus two minors, at the National University of Singapore (NUS) under full scholarship by the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). He completed an MBA specializing in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from The Hongkong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) where he met his co-founder Brian Lin. Both eventually dropped their classes in the middle of the MBA program and launched uHoo. 

Lee Williamson is a Hong Kong-based journalist with a decade of experience in the Greater China region. 

Formerly in the editor’s chair at Time Out Beijing, he now heads up editorial for  Generation T, Tatler Asia's content and events platform for the Leaders of Tomorrow. He was selected as a WAN-IFRA Young Media Leaders Fellow 2020.  

Generation T is a content and community platform for young leaders shaping Asia’s future. We celebrate the entrepreneurial drive and disruptive spirit of entrepreneurs and creatives across the region. 

Today, our “T” represents the Leaders of Tomorrow. Our first product, and today our flagship, is the “Gen.T List,” 400 Leaders of Tomorrow who are redefining their industries or breaking new ground. This list has become the definitive index of young leaders in Asia. 

Generation T operates in eight territories across Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia.