Join us for an Ask Me Anything networking session with Peng T. Ong, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures, Angky William, Co-Founder & CTO of STOQO, a B2B platform that aims to streamline the F&B supply chain in Indonesia, and Thuc Vu, Co-Founder & CEO of Ohmnilabs, which provides telepresence robots and end-to-end robotics solutions for businesses.

Peng, Angky, and Thuc will be answering questions live from the audience and also questions submitted by attendees prior to the event. You can ask them about anything from VC investing, food logistics, robots, tech trends and developments in Southeast Asia's booming tech ecosystem.

We will also discuss summer internship and career opportunities for Monk’s Hill Ventures and our portfolio companies. To cap the evening, we will have a networking session over light bites and drinks after the talk.

Agenda:

6.30pm-7.15pm: Networking
7.15pm-8.30pm: Ask Me Anything - Robots, B2B Food Logistics, and Tech VC Investing
8.30pm-9.00pm: Final networking and close

Date: November 18, 2019

Venue: Event Center, 2nd Floor, Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 North Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale

About the Speakers:

Angky William, Co-Founder & CTO of STOQO

Angky William is the CTO & Co-Founder of STOQO, a B2B marketplace for small food & beverage outlets to source fresh, reliable, and competitively-priced ingredients. Passionate about automation and streamlining supply chains, William has been building multi-platform technologies for Stoqo to serve tens-of-thousand customers in Indonesia. He previously worked as Software Developer at Amazon’s advertising & marketplace sector and also interned at Microsoft. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Angky was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.

Thuc Vu, Co-Founder and CEO of Ohmnilabs

Dr. Thuc Vu is the CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. OhmniLabs creates its own telepresence robots and provides end-to-end robotics solutions for businesses. Their massive library of tech modules, proprietary ultra-lean development & manufacturing process allows them to take the horizontal approach at unmatched speed, cost, and margin. They see fast growing demand from clients such as ANA, SOMPO, Toppan, Genentech, and Ball Aerospace. Today, Ohmnilabs have provided over 800 robots in 27 countries.

Thuc previously founded Katango and Tappy which were acquired by Google and Weeby.co, respectively. Thuc is originally from Vietnam and has deep expertise in game theory, machine learning, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD from Stanford and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science.

Peng T. Ong, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures

Peng is a veteran entrepreneur with over 25 years of industry experience as both an entrepreneur and an investor in Silicon Valley and in Asia. He is currently the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Monk’s Hill Ventures – an early-stage tech Southeast Asian venture capital firm. Prior to Monk’s Hill Ventures, he was a Venture Partner at GSR Ventures in China. The firm is known for its successful investments in companies like Didi Chuxing and Qunar. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded a series of successful companies today including Electric Classifieds (today known as Match.com), Interwoven and Eccentuate, which combined today generate over USD$1 billion in revenues annually.

About Horizon Connect

Founded by a group of senior technical leaders with ties to South East Asia, Horizon Connect is a cross-Pacific boutique tech advisory & consulting firm. Our new talent practice helps executive & senior tech talent from the SF Bay Area connect to various unicorns & leading tech organizations in South East Asia. As part of helping build the US

SEA tech bridge & raising the SEA tech ecosystem profile here in the Bay Area, we run a slack group for SEA tech companies to connect directly with talent here in the US and a newsletter for all SEA tech events occurring in Silicon Valley. https://www.horizonconnect.com. Our Slack group: http://bit.ly/hcslackgroup Newsletter sign up: http://eepurl.com/gBs0zL

FYI: We're also holding another event SEA Connect: The Technification of Service Verticals in Southeast Asia with Peng T. Ong, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Monk's Hill Ventures, Angky William, Co-Founder & CTO of STOQO and Antoni R. Lewa, former Product Manager at Ninja Van & Grab, with Christina Hsiang, CEO & Founder of Startups Greater Asia as moderator

Venue: American Bookbinders Museum, 335 Clementina St.

Date & Time: November 20, 2019, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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