This year’s IGNITE was held on June 24 and 25 at Makati Shangri-La, Manila and organised by Techshake, dentsuX, and Brainsparks
IGNITE, an international gathering which aims to promote collaboration between startups, mainstream industry, and investors has wrapped up its Manila chapter this year. Held on June 24 and 25 at the Makati Shangri-La, the event was packed with businesses and innovation industry leaders focussed on Asian leadership in innovation, with the theme “Innovating Asia: Shaping the World”.
The event was attended by more than 2,000 stakeholders from multiple sectors including startup founders, accelerators, and incubators, corporations, international and local investors, as well as key players in the government.
It also featured 80 speakers from across the globe. Some notable ones include Dentsu Aegis Network Philippines’ Chief Executive Officer, Donald Lim; Active8me’s Chief Executive Officer and two-time Olympian, Jeremy Rollestone; HubSpot’s Marketing and Business Development Director in APAC, James Gilbert; IE Business School’s Adjunct Professor of Business Analytics and Business Intelligence, Joseph Curto Diaz; and Cashalo’s General Manager, Hamilton Angluben.
The event hosted regional pitch competition WILDFIRE, which was presented by FutureNow Ventures and co-presented by Seedstars.
Over 140 companies and investment offices attended over 400 meetings in the business matching event MATCH. Startup exhibitors and mainstream industry from countries such as Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan also showcased innovative solutions brought by companies from
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IGNITE also partnered with business networking app Brella to facilitate networking meetings throughout the day and helped set up over 1300 networking meetings to foster further collaborations.
According to FutureNow Ventures Founder John Orrock, IGNITE managed to bring a “balanced interaction of content tracks and facilitated 1-on-1 sessions such as business matching”.
IGNITE was first organised in 2017, and has grown from a one-day event with more than 500 participants to a two-day event with over 2000 participants in 2019.
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