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Building a $50M Payment Rail Across SEA
with Budi Santoso — CEO, PaySwift
Budi shares how PaySwift grew from a Jakarta garage to processing $50M in monthly cross-border payments. We dive into navigating 5 different regulatory regimes, the stablecoin strategy, and why SEA SMEs are desperate for faster payment rails.
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AI in Healthcare: From Lab to 89 Hospitals
with Dr. Wei Lin — CEO, MediSync AI
Dr. Wei Lin discusses the unique challenges of deploying clinical AI in Southeast Asian hospitals — from regulatory hurdles with HSA to training models on diverse patient demographics.
The Pasabuy Economy: Cross-Border Commerce Filipino Style
with Maria Santos — CEO, Bangkok.ph
Maria explains how Bangkok.ph digitized the traditional Filipino Pasabuy shopping-by-proxy model, growing to 50,000+ orders and building a network of entrepreneur agents across the Philippines and Thailand.
Gamifying Education for 30 Million Indonesian Kids
with Dewi Hartono — CEO, KiddoLearn
How KiddoLearn went from zero to 35,000 monthly active users by making screen time productive. Dewi shares their partnership with Indonesia's Ministry of Education and the secret behind their IDR 29K/month pricing model.
Retail AI: How ShelfWise Cut Waste by 30% in Hong Kong
with Derek Fung — CEO, ShelfWise
Derek explains how demand forecasting AI is transforming inventory management for Hong Kong's largest retail chains, and what it takes to land a pilot with ParknShop.
WhatsApp-First Hiring: Disrupting Blue-Collar Recruitment
with Aisha Kadir — CEO, HireFast
Aisha reveals why WhatsApp is the killer platform for blue-collar hiring in Malaysia, how their NLP bot matches workers in under 24 hours, and the massive untapped market of 10M+ blue-collar workers.
Carbon Credits on Blockchain: Vietnam's CleanTech Play
with Nguyen Thanh — CEO, GreenChain.io
Nguyen discusses why blockchain is the right infrastructure for carbon credit markets, navigating Vietnam's evolving ESG regulations, and the enterprise sales cycle for sustainability tools.
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