EVENTS CALENDAR

Ten schools and 10 startups that have tapped on the YES! Schools and the YES! Startups schemes will exhibit their innovative and enterprising products/services at the YES! Showcase which will be held at GEW Opening Ceremony.

10:00 – 10:25 Registration (Guests to be seated by 10:25am)

10:30 – 12:00 Start-up Pitches (6 companies)

12:00 – 12:30 Evaluation Session by Members & Investors

12:30 – 1:30 Networking Lunch

12pm: Booths open for sale
8pm: Closing

This workshop will discuss the importance of making impactful presentations and the basic structure of a presentation. Students will be taken through the entire process of creating a power packed
presentation and the usage of audio visual aids.

Students will also be taken through the process of preparing PowerPoint slides and the tools they can use to create the entire presentation.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
• Making Powerful Presentations
• Structuring The Presentation
• Audio Visual Aids
In this workshop, participants will learn:
• What constitutes a Great Presentation
• The Different Parts of a Presentation
• The Usage of Audio Visual Aids
• Preparing PowerPoint slides

Today’s market place for the social venture is overcrowded with competing causes and worthwhile social initiatives seeking sponsorship, grants and the community dollar. Funding good ideas in the social
sector is becoming more and more difficult. Innovation and entrepreneurship is now emerging as an imperative for the social sector to seek new ways of sustaining and growing dynamic social and not-forprofit enterprises that support and deliver positive social change to our communities.

This session, presented by Professor Noel Lindsay, is designed for those working in and starting new ventures that are truly mission-centred social enterprises.

4pm – Registration
4.30pm – Professional Seminar on Social Enterprise
Presented by Professor Noel Lindsay
6pm – Light refreshment

Entrepreneurs Unplugged, Start-Up@Singapore's most popular annual event, will give the audience a chance this year, to get up-close and personal with top-notch successful entrepreneurs from the local scene. Led by a young entrepreneur and featuring a
dynamic duo each in a different stage of their start-up experience, this event promises a thought-provoking and entertaining conversation not to be missed.

Join us and live the life of an entrepreneur vicariously through their first-hand experiences! A riveting and trademark Start-Up@Singapore event not to be missed.

5:30 Registration
6:30 Opening Address
6:45 Entrepreneurship, the Journey
Hear what the entrepreneurs have to say about how they got to where they are today.
7:15 Inquire, Be Inspired
Ask the panelists your burning questions and share your opinions on issues discussed
7:45 Network, Get noticed
Here's your chance to get up-close and personal with the panelists and other like-minded individuals. Who knows who you might meet and what ideas might be born!
8:30 Closure of Programme

TELESEMINAR OUTLINE:
The one thing you absolutely must do before pitching your ideas.
How your competition is helping you... and they don’t even know it.
What two words can overcome any objection.
Why how you say it can be more important than what you say.
When working in your business does more harm than good.

12pm: Booths open for sale
8pm: Closing

12pm: Booths open for sale
8pm: Closing

This workshop will discuss the importance of making impactful presentations and the basic structure of a presentation. Students will be taken through the entire process of creating a power packed
presentation and the usage of audio visual aids.

Students will also be taken through the process of preparing PowerPoint slides and the tools they can use to create the entire presentation.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
• Making Powerful Presentations
• Structuring The Presentation
• Audio Visual Aids
In this workshop, participants will learn:
• What constitutes a Great Presentation
• The Different Parts of a Presentation
• The Usage of Audio Visual Aids
• Preparing PowerPoint slides

The MoneyTree Young Entrepreneur Startup Challenge is focused on helping future Entrepreneurs launch new ideas that could ultimately be turned into profitable ventures. This challenge would allow young Entrepreneurs / aspiring Entrepreneurs to not only learn skills that would sharpen their Entrepreneurial mindsets, but to also provide them with the opportunity to experience the practical applications of the Entrepreneurial skills they have acquired through the MoneyTree Entrepreneur Fast Track program.

Team Registration Starts on 30 September 2009 and ends on 30 Nov 2009. More information available on http://MoneyTree.sg/YES

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Please email YES@MoneyTree.sg for more details or visit our Facebook group for the latest updates. ( Click Here )

More information available on http://MoneyTree.sg/YES

Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2009 Gala Dinner on 17 November at the Intercontinental Hotel. By invitation only.

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The University of Adelaide (Singapore) is organising the Entrepreneurs’ Challenge (eChallenge), which is a business plan competition, aiming to foster the successful development of ideas into investment-ready, early-stage companies. The eChallenge ends with the Evening Talk and Cocktail Reception, and an Award Presentation Ceremony.

The event commences with an Evening Talk on ‘Why Entrepreneurship is Important’, presented by Professor Noel Lindsay. The night closes with an Award Presentation Ceremony for the winning teams of The University of Adelaide eChallenge - Singapore.

• Presentation by Professor Noel Lindsay on
  ‘Why Entrepreneurship is Important’
• Cocktail Reception
• Award Presentation Ceremony: The University of Adelaide eChallenge -Singapore

Have you ever wondered how young entrepreneurial journeys begin?

After our 1st launch in June 2009, The StartUp Story is back again. This is where new local startups will gather and share their entrepreneurialstories.

Come and join us to learn from the young entrepreneurs who have
been there and done it.

1430: Registration
1500: Young Entrepreneurial Stories Sharing Session
(A total of 4 StartUps)
1600: Panel Discussion on Youth Entrepreneurship
1700: Refreshment and Networking Session

Visit http://www.thestartupstory.com for more details.

For more information, do forward your enquiry to
onghanying@projectsenso.com

Had enough seminars and inspirational talks on entrepreneurship? Why not walk the talk and do something different?

As Singapore’s population begin to age, it becomes important to recognize that the aged can play an important role in our economy.

Who says the aged can only work in fast food restaurants or take up sanitary jobs? Be an entrepreneur that engages this alternate workforce!

In this workshop cum incubation session, you will have a chance to dabble in real entrepreneurship projects and find out about an alternate form of
entrepreneurship – one that challenges your understanding and beliefs of what
entrepreneurship is.

930am: Registration
10am to 11am: Seminar by Terence Thaver from Silver Co-Op
11am to 12pm: Incubation introduction by Lee Junior
12pm onwards: Light refreshment

Organised by Enterprise Centre of Singapore Polytechnic, the Enterprise Challenge is all about money-making with a tinge of Creativity & Innovation!

Students will run stalls that are set up at the Plaza (near to Dover MRT) to compete for the most profit! In addition, on the last day of the event, SP’s very own young start-ups will also share their experience on how they overcame all odds and took the opportunity to become Entrepreneurs!

18 Nov to 20 Nov Daily
11am to 7pm

Students will set up stall and sell their creative or innovative products/services.

Open to ALL SP Students. Students are required to submit their application online via www.sp.edu.sg/enterprise. Shortlisted applications will be given the opportunity to run a stall to compete for most profits!

Contact Person:
Joyce Neo
Joyce.neo@sp.edu.sg

12pm: Booths open for sale
8pm: Closing

2pm to 4 pm - Technology poster display & showcase
4 pm to 5 pm - Conducted tour to School of Engineering & Information Technology
Concurrent sessions in CTIC
2.30 pm – Sharing session by NYP alumni
3.30 pm – Sharing session by local entrepreneur

1330hr Registration
1400hr Welcome Address
Dr Jasmine Kway, Director, Industry Liaison Office
1410hr Market Trends and Insights (See programme details)
Mr Chris Somogyi, Senior Strategist, Intellectual Ventures
(See Speaker’s bio )

1500hr NUS Media Research Focus:
1. Assoc Prof Ong Soh Khim (Mechanical Engineering)
Topic: Augmented Reality In Assistive Technologies
2. Asst Prof Tan Ping (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Topic: Presentation on: (1) Image-based Architectural Modeling
and (2) Auto-sketch.
3. Dr Newton Fernando (IDMI – Mixed Reality Lab)
Dr Owen Noel Newton Fernando is a Research Fellow, KEIO-NUS Connective
Ubiquitous Technology for Embodiments (CUTE) Center
Topic: Feeling Communication: Social and Physical Interactive
Communication and Entertainment
4. Prof Prof Leow Wee Kheng (School of Computing)
Topic: Computer-assisted Simulation Planning and Evaluation of Complex
Cardiac Surgeries
5. Asst Prof Steven Zhou (Electrical & Computer Engineering
Director, Interactive Multimedia Lab
Topic: Mixed Reality Research and Applications at Interactive Multimedia
Lab, NUS
1730hr Refreshments and Networking

This workshop will discuss the importance of making impactful presentations and the basic structure of a presentation. Students will be taken through the entire process of creating a power packed
presentation and the usage of audio visual aids.

Students will also be taken through the process of preparing PowerPoint slides and the tools they can use to create the entire presentation.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
• Making Powerful Presentations
• Structuring The Presentation
• Audio Visual Aids
In this workshop, participants will learn:
• What constitutes a Great Presentation
• The Different Parts of a Presentation
• The Usage of Audio Visual Aids
• Preparing PowerPoint slides

Gala dinner and awards presentation.

BANSEA is proud to be part of 2009 Global Entrepreneurship Week by organising a half-day workshop focused on New Venture Creation and targeted at entrepreneurs.   If you are eager to learn practical fund raising strategies and tools to woo investors as well as see things from investors’ perspectives, do register early for this workshop as seats are limited.  You will gain a fresh perspective by drawing from our successful angel trainers in various areas of writing and pitching business plans and equity financing mechanism.  Learn the dos and don’ts from these 2 angels’ personal experiences with start-ups they have invested and mentored.  You will walk away inspired by our dynamic angel trainers to enhance and grow your business.

This programme is customized with two sessions to discuss, amongst others:

1st session: Mr Pierre Hennes, Co-Founder and Partner of Upstream Ventures, Deputy Chairman of BANSEA, Committee Member of the SVCA and Charter Member of TiE Singapore

Workshop Program Outline

• 09:00-09:30 Welcome & Registration
• 09:30-11:00 1st session
• 11:00-11.15 Tea Break
• 11:15-12:45 2nd session
• 12:45-13:30 Lunch

Early Bird Rate applies till 6th November!  Please register online via: http://www.apesnap.com/event/nov19bansea and do refer to same link for more details. For further enquiry, kindly contact Ms. Kelly Han at +65 6777 7139 or kellyhan@bansea.org.

Become the JA Titan of Industry!

Run a virtual company and compete in a computer‐simulated business environment. Whether this means running your business into the ground or to high efficiency based on the quarterly business decisions you make about your product’s price, production level, marketing, R&D, and more. Sink or swim, you walk away understanding critical business practices and the effect management decisions have on a company’s success.

Morning workshop to discuss each of the key business decisions – product price, production, research and development, marketing, capital investment, and charitable giving.

Competition in teams of 3 will be held the next day to crown the JA Titan of Industry!

JA Titan provides practical information about business and the economics of life.

Workshop – the following key topics related to running a business will be
discussed:
- Price
- Production
- Research and Development
- Marketing
- Capital Investment
- Charitable Giving

The students will learn how the different key business decisions will affect their company’s optimal efficiency. They will practice using these decisions in a computer simulation and will be taught what they need to know to possibly become the ultimate Titan of their industry.

Competition will be held the next day. Though the students are taught all the concepts, they will need to develop their own strategies for success and win.

Number of students per team = 3

Grade: Sec 3 to JC2 or Poly 3rd Year

Material requirement: one computer / laptop per team

Registration via JA Singapore website: http://singapore.ja.org
Questions: admin.sg@ja.org

The 3rd Little Pig was written to inspire Youths to learn and follow the footsteps of successful young entrepreneurs.

Premising on the classic tale of The Three Little Pigs; the original parable that narrates the experiences of the third little pig is use to reflect key issues relating to entrepreneurship.

It also documents the life experiences of 8 Singapore entrepreneurs, below 27 years old. Readers will gain deeper insights in business, through the eyes of these young entrepreneurs. The 3rd Little Pig aims to inspire youths in Singapore to break away from conventional business norms and embrace different possibilities and opportunities.

The 3rd Little Pig book is available at all leading bookstores in Singapore.

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During the recent global financial turmoil, conventional financial markets are badly affected compared to the Islamic financial market. This resulted into
the Islamic financial system being viewed with measure of envy and respected.

Genuine interest is emerging worldwide in Islamic finance as an acceptable alternative.

This is the opportunity for you to get insight of the various instrument of Islamic financial system.

Topic covers: Islamic Banking, Finance, Investment and Property Inheritance.

Register now, sits are limited. For foreign participation: special arrangement can be made for lodging and transportation.

Islamic Business Talks – Covering Banking, Finance, Investment and Property Inheritance

To book a sit, send particulars via
Email: ibrahimariff@yahoo.com
Or fax: 63466856
Or mail to: Kesuma, Singapore Post Centre P.O.Box 361 S(914013)

SEMINAR OUTLINE:
The one thing you absolutely must do before pitching your ideas.
How your competition is helping you... and they don’t even know it.
What two words can overcome any objection.
Why how you say it can be more important than what you say.
When working in your business does more harm than good.

This workshop will discuss the importance of making impactful presentations and the basic structure of a presentation. Students will be taken through the entire process of creating a power packed
presentation and the usage of audio visual aids.

Students will also be taken through the process of preparing PowerPoint slides and the tools they can use to create the entire presentation.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
• Making Powerful Presentations
• Structuring The Presentation
• Audio Visual Aids
In this workshop, participants will learn:
• What constitutes a Great Presentation
• The Different Parts of a Presentation
• The Usage of Audio Visual Aids
• Preparing PowerPoint slides

Held in conjunction with the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), the forum looks at the rising trend towards Green Entrepreneurship. The forum will be gleaning, from our very own local Green Entrepreneurs, valuable insights on capturing opportunities in this new market.

The objective of the forum will be to highlight the importance of Green Entrepreneurship, especially in a world of increasingly limited resources. The forum will also highlight challenges facing Green Entrepreneurship and whether the current economic downturn affect the rise of Green Entrepreneurship. The speakers will also share, in particular, their strategies to remain relevant and competitive.

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To create a platform in which youths aged 17 – 25 are given the opportunity to:

• Acquire the knowledge and skills to start and operate a business
• Have a hands on feel as to what it takes to run a business / project
• Acquire the ability to generate ideas and evaluate their commercial viability
• Focus on creating a profitable enterprise / venture
• Experience pitching for funds to finance their enterprise

This workshop covers

• The Do & Don’t of an Entrepreneur
• The right mindset
• The introduction of MoneyTree YES Challenge (Singapore)
• Networking Session

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Workshop ( Limited to 100 pax only)
Pre-Registration is required. Registration will close on 10 November 2009.
Cost: No Charge but bring plenty of call cards (Self-made ones are fine)

Ever thought of wanting to learn about the stock market in a fun yet meaningful way? Dividends is an interactive board game about stocks, shares, dividends and profits! Learn how stocks and dividends work; use the laws of supply and demand to your advantage; and master risk and value assessment as you buy and sell your way to the top of the stock market!

Find out if you have what it takes to be a great investor and stand to win attractive prizes!

This programme is suitable for anyone age 10 and above. $10 per participant.

7pm – Introduction to Dividends
7.30pm – Dividends Playing Round
9.00pm – Reflections, Announcement of Winners and Prize Presentation
9.30pm - End

Email your name, contact number, organisation and occupation to education@yea.sg

How to confront the typical problems all entrepreneurs face in starting up their business – finding new sources of revenue which is profitable, sustainable and capital efficient, to securing the commitment of their people and the loyalty of their customers. In addition, appreciate the financial aspects of the business and successfully manage the various stages of the corporate life cycles and thereby grow the business.

Please register at:
http://www.apesnap.com/event/1me

Investment $498 (includes lunch & refreshments) Early bird: Only $398 – If registration/payment by 20 October 2009

Become the JA Titan of Industry!

Run a virtual company and compete in a computer‐simulated business environment. Whether this means running your business into the ground or to high efficiency based on the quarterly business decisions you make about your product’s price, production level, marketing, R&D, and more. Sink or swim, you walk away understanding critical business practices and the effect management decisions have on a company’s success.

Morning workshop to discuss each of the key business decisions – product price, production, research and development, marketing, capital investment, and charitable giving.

Competition in teams of 3 will be held the next day to crown the JA Titan of Industry!

JA Titan provides practical information about business and the economics of life.

Workshop – the following key topics related to running a business will be
discussed:
- Price
- Production
- Research and Development
- Marketing
- Capital Investment
- Charitable Giving

The students will learn how the different key business decisions will affect their company’s optimal efficiency. They will practice using these decisions in a computer simulation and will be taught what they need to know to possibly become the ultimate Titan of their industry.

Competition will be held the next day. Though the students are taught all the concepts, they will need to develop their own strategies for success and win.

Number of students per team = 3

Grade: Sec 3 to JC2 or Poly 3rd Year

Material requirement: one computer / laptop per team

Registration via JA Singapore website: http://singapore.ja.org
Questions: admin.sg@ja.org

This workshop will discuss the importance of making impactful presentations and the basic structure of a presentation. Students will be taken through the entire process of creating a power packed
presentation and the usage of audio visual aids.

Students will also be taken through the process of preparing PowerPoint slides and the tools they can use to create the entire presentation.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
• Making Powerful Presentations
• Structuring The Presentation
• Audio Visual Aids
In this workshop, participants will learn:
• What constitutes a Great Presentation
• The Different Parts of a Presentation
• The Usage of Audio Visual Aids
• Preparing PowerPoint slides

To appreciate Evolution of Selling Enhances Selling Edge. Relationship Selling Creates Client Loyalty Leading to High Performer’s Profile. Understanding Human Behaviour in Selling Helps to Differentiate the Offerings and Sell Value, not Price.   

Do you like taking risks?
Can you differentiate between the ‘bull’ and the ‘bear’?
Are you savvy in handling your finances?
Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

Ride the waves of the tumultuous financial and stock markets as you navigate your way through the various career and investment decisions you make.

Pit your skills against participants from different schools and emerge as champion!

0815 – 0900: Registration
0900 – 0930: Briefing on game rules and game play
0930 – 1130: Board Game Competition
1130 – 1145: Prize presentation

Organized by the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise (CIE), Republic Polytechnic, the National Pushcart Challenge is an annual inter secondary competition that seeks to promote the enterprising spirit and engage secondary school students in entrepreneurial learning via the pushcart retail platform.

Through the Entrepreneurship Education Programme (EEP), students will pick up key skill sets related to key skill sets related to their business start-up before participating in this annual nationwide competition.

Come on down to Causeway Point to catch the intense competition and witness the crowning of the National Pushcart Champions!  

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SPEAKERS

- Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur, Lecturer at Haas & Stanford University - Serial entrepreneur of 8 start-ups & author of “Four Steps to the Epiphany”

- Seth Sternberg, Co-Founder & CEO, Meebo – 90 million users worldwide

- Saeed Amidi, Founder & CEO, Plug and Play Tech Center - One of top angel investors in SV whose investments included Paypal etc

- Ernest Garcia, CEO, Direction 21 - Specializes in US-Asia operations

- Jasmin Young, Co - Founder, Can-Care Lifetex (Moderator) - Cofounded a post-mastectomy lingerie company

http://rainmakers.nusea.org/

Put on the hats of a CEO, CMO or CTO in ExoroGame™! ExoroGame™ is a business simulation game that allows players to
experience running and managing the procurement, marketing, product development, financial management and sales aspects of a company.

Participants compete with other companies in an open market to try and be the company with highest networth.

You can sign up by yourself or form a team of 3 other friends to play! For anyone age 18 and above. $15 per participant.

7.00pm – Introduction to ExoroGame™
7.15pm – Trial Round 1&2
7.35pm – ExoroGame™ Playing Round
9.30pm – Reflections and Prize presentation.
10.00pm - End

Highly interactive and hands-on, this special
InnoWorks™ programme leads participants to
realise the importance of innovation in business
and everyday life. Participants will be equipped
with production ideation and innovation
techniques to Spark that winning innovative
idea!

The highlight of this workshop is a visit to the
red dot design museum, an exclusive
exhibition venue for red dot award winners,
further enhancing participants’ learning as well
as placing in perspective the practical journey
of developing innovative concepts to commercially viable products.

InnoWorks™: Spark That Idea! is open to both students age 4-above and adults alike. $15 per participant.

1pm – Introduction to Innovation in Business
1.30pm – The Importance of Innovation
2.00pm – red dot design museum visit
2.45pm – Innovation Techniques to Spark That Idea!
3.30pm - End

To Understand Your Customers to do an Effective Needs Analysis for Customer Satisfaction. This Leads to Customer Service Miracles to Wow Them! This coupled with Projecting the Constant Image of Excellence helps to meet and exceed Customer Expectations.

Organized by the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise (CIE), Republic Polytechnic, the National Pushcart Challenge is an annual inter secondary competition that seeks to promote the enterprising spirit and engage secondary school students in entrepreneurial learning via the pushcart retail platform.

Through the Entrepreneurship Education Programme (EEP), students will pick up key skill sets related to key skill sets related to their business start-up before participating in this annual nationwide competition.

Come on down to Causeway Point to catch the intense competition and witness the crowning of the National Pushcart Champions!  

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