Alden specializes in strategy and was a strategic planner back in his creative agency days. He heads the business side of VAV Apps, a second-screen advertising platform that uses inaudible audio recognition technology. He is responsible for the partnership with Astro in Malaysia and other international partnerships.

Chief Strategy Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd

Alden Adison

Addie specializes in creativity and was the idea guy that builds many of his venture. He heads the business side of MusixMusix business, an online music-streaming service that provides value-added music for F&B and Retail. He is responsible for the partnership with major chain stores and digital marketing.

Chief Marketing Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd

Addie Anson

Improve retail sales and branding through the power of music. With technology, music can be repurposed to benefit retailers, artistes and labels alike.

Power of Music

Time:
15:30 - 15:45

Addie Anson

Alden Adison

Chief Marketing Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd

Chief Strategy Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd

Speaker/Panelist:

Dr. Siva has been an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor over the last 35 years and has a Ph.D in Venture Capital from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, MBA with Distinction from University of Hull, UK and LLB (Hons) from the University of London. He is the President of the Malaysian Business Angels Network (MBAN), the Association that represents high net worth Angel investors in Malaysia. He was also on the Management Committee of the Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (MVCA) for 10 years until 2018. He was also the Founder & 1st President of TeAM, the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia.

Head, Forum & Corporate Communications
KLJamm

R Ramani Ramalingam

Dr. Siva has been an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor over the last 35 years and has a Ph.D in Venture Capital from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, MBA with Distinction from University of Hull, UK and LLB (Hons) from the University of London. He is the President of the Malaysian Business Angels Network (MBAN), the Association that represents high net worth Angel investors in Malaysia. He was also on the Management Committee of the Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (MVCA) for 10 years until 2018. He was also the Founder & 1st President of TeAM, the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia.

President
Malaysian Business Angels Network

Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah

Ricky T.C. Fung is known recently as the person who represents the recording industry in Hong Kong for more than a decade in recording industry matters. To those who are over 40 years of age would probably recall and recognize him as one of the few key figures that created the highly successful Canto Pop market. This phenomenon made Hong Kong a regional music centre in South East Asia.

CEO
IFPI (Hong Kong Group) Ltd

Mr. Ricky Fung BBS

Monica Tong has held roles, spanning over 15 years, in public relations, marketing and talent management in the music industry. Upon her return to Asia, she began a new professional career in industry media and publishing, establishing an instant network and access to some of Asia's leading music companies and content creators. Today, her role at Music Press Asia continues to forge new relations with brands in the region and increase understanding of Asia's music industry in the fast lane.

VP Public Policy Asia
Universal Music

Ang Kwee Tiang

After working as a Forex Trader in Los Angeles for 6 years, Gumilang decided to go back to Indonesia on 1990. With his friends, he establish an Artist Management company called 'The Art Circle' as Marketing Director. On 1992, Gumilang established independent label company called KAMA Records. Gumilang joined BMG Indonesia in 1994 as an A&R Director then in 1999 he become General Manager, focusing local department and sales division. Until 2001 he was Managing Director in BMG. In early 2005, Gumilang joined PT. Musica Studio's as a Managing Director. Musica is one of Indonesia's largest record companies which were incorporated in 1970. Since 2005, Musica turn in to a Music Company, not longer a label company. Gumilang's successful carrers grew to his satisfaction and become more involved in associations where he is able to voice market issues in order to develop and grow the music industry in Indonesia further. Alongside as one of the members of the Board of Directors at PT. Musica Studio's, Gumilang is also one of Board of Directors at ASIRI (Sound Recording Industry Association of Indonesia). In 2014, Gumilang became Chairman of ASIRI.

Chairman
ASIRI

Gumilang Ramadhan

Monica Tong has held roles, spanning over 15 years, in public relations, marketing and talent management in the music industry. Upon her return to Asia, she began a new professional career in industry media and publishing, establishing an instant network and access to some of Asia's leading music companies and content creators. Today, her role at Music Press Asia continues to forge new relations with brands in the region and increase understanding of Asia's music industry in the fast lane.

Head of Editorial Direction
Music Press Asia

Monica Tong

NePt Japan is a professional consultant, specialized in marketing and PR for the creative content and entertainment industry, based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 2015, the state-of-the-art international agency has succeeded in representing and promoting Japanese cultural content and arts, in the area of music, animation and other exciting audio-visual content for the export market. Our agency’s functions include brand management, business development & marketing, business matching, talent management, and international mission coordination. To date, we’ve represented a myriad of industry clients of all sizes in as many as 20 over international and domestic trade shows, which includes: Japan Expo, Anime Expo, Middle East Film & Comicon and Kota Buku.

Founder
NePT Japan

Karen Sakurai

Siva Zaphod Chandran is the founder of VIMA, Asia's 1st and Biggest Independent Music Awards. The platform has a reach into more than 40 countries and has helped recognize, market & fund the development of the global independent music market over the past 11 years.

CEO
Global VIMA

Siva Zaphod Chandran

Fred Chong is the Founder and Group CEO of WebTVAsia, one of Asia's fastest growing media entertainment companies with 15 offices across 11 countries since 2013. With diversified businesses in digital media, film TV, artiste, events, marketing, training and technology, WebTVAsia's video network of 3,000 channels surpasses 20 billion minutes watch time monthly and reaches 330 million subcribers worldwide. Fred is also and award-winning filmmaker and musician with recognition at film festivals in New York, Osaka, Busan and Beijing. He advocates innovation and commercialisation of intellectual properties as the key to success as a media entreprenuer and content creator. His biggest motivation is to build an ecosystem that launches a new generation of Asian creators to produce world-class content.

Group CEO
WebTVAsia

Fred Chong

Altimet is an award-winning rapper, songwriter and producer that has had 14-chart-topping, #1 songs from his part 4 solo albums and has bagged many awards since. To date, Altimet is the first rapper in Malaysia to grace the Anugerah Juara Lagu stage 5 times since 2012, with his song 'Kalau Aku Kaya' being the first hip-hop song to win 3rd place, and winning the "Best Performance Award" for 'Amboi'. Most recently, 'Bunga' has been nominated as one of the finalists for the upcoming AJL33 in 2019.

Not only was Altimet hailed 'Man of the Year 2016' by August Man Magazine, he was also named 'Alpha Man' by Glam Lelaki Magazine in the same year. Apart from travelling the globe to perform on international stages, and returning with new experiences to share on stage as well as on TV, Altimet is also the world's first rapper to be featured on the Waze app. His dual-language voice prompt was heard worldwide in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Artiste

Altimet

A savvy, experienced, battle-scarred professional, who is still in love with brand building after more than 27 years in the hard, tough advertising and communication world; across Naga DDB, Ogilvy & Mather and Havas. He has been managing brands in many different industries; from telcos to tobaccos and from soft drinks to beers. His passion in brand building drove him to develop innovative advertising ideas and making meaningful brand connections for his clients. Andrew is currently the President of 4As Malaysia.

Chairman
4As

Andrew Lee

Born in Sungai Petani Kedah. She and her family moved to Kuala Lumpur since 1988 where she continued her education in Australia. Upon graduation, Dianne came back to work in the financial sector with various multinational financial institutions such as Hong Leong Securities, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Merrill Lynch. Dianne left the financial in 2016 to setup M Academy China. M Academy China is an artist training pop music academy. Our goals are to find, train and produce new pop singers for the international market. M Academy China is based in the prestigious upmarket mall of Taikooli Sanlitun North (managed by HK Swire Group). Occupying nearly 5,000 sq ft, M Academy China has two big studios, one vocal training studio, music room, training class as well as affliated recording studio. Like our motto, LET YOUR STAR SHINE, M Academy China aims to train its artist to shine like a STAR.

CEO
M Academy China

Dianne Tan

Born in Sungai Petani Kedah. She and her family moved to Kuala Lumpur since 1988 where she continued her education in Australia. Upon graduation, Dianne came back to work in the financial sector with various multinational financial institutions such as Hong Leong Securities, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Merrill Lynch. Dianne left the financial in 2016 to setup M Academy China. M Academy China is an artist training pop music academy. Our goals are to find, train and produce new pop singers for the international market. M Academy China is based in the prestigious upmarket mall of Taikooli Sanlitun North (managed by HK Swire Group). Occupying nearly 5,000 sq ft, M Academy China has two big studios, one vocal training studio, music room, training class as well as affliated recording studio. Like our motto, LET YOUR STAR SHINE, M Academy China aims to train its artist to shine like a STAR.

CEO
M Academy China

Dianne Tan

Louis (BSc Computer Eng.), hails from the Silicon Valley start-up world in California. After leaving his first job at Inform Technologies Ltd, in 2009, he has since returned to Malaysia. He has since been closely involved in the creation of many successful start-ups ranging from Technology Consultancy - Red Ape Solutions, Global Shopping - Shopandbox.com, Luxury Villa Rentals - TheLuxeNomad.com, MBRS/XBRL Training & Conversion - Formis-training.com, and a local pet food brand - PledgeCare.org.

CTO
Amadeus Digital Express

Louis Tan

Sam is the CEO of pitchIN, an Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platform registered by the Securities Commission. In 2018, 75% of the funds raised on ECF in Malaysia was done on pitchIN. More information at www.equity.pitchin.my. Sam was also named FinTech’s 2018 Prominent Personality of the Year.

CEO/Co-Founder
pitchIN

Sam Shafie

Riza Saian was appointed as the Group CEO in October 2017. Riza was instrumental in setting up MyCreative in 2012, being its first Chief Financial Officer. Riza is a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ). Previously, he was the Finance General Manager of Media Prima Berhad, in charge of its Group Treasury & Financial Operations and also the Chief Financial Officer of TV Network. Trained with one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms for more than 10 years, Riza has developed unique perspectives in Accounting, Finance and Treasury with concentration on assurance services, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence and valuations with clientele spanning within Europe, Middle East, North America and South East Asian countries. Following on from its humble beginning, MyCreative now has 4 business divisions namely Private Debt, Private Equity, RIUH and CENDANA.

Group CEO
MyCreative Ventures

Riza Saian

Head of International partnerships for MIDEM “Home of the Global Music Community”, Stephane Lefevre comes from the music industry. He developed distribution and trade marketing for indie labels and major companies as Sony Music and Warner Music. Entrepreneur, Stephane also founded a digital creative startup in Paris for music and fashion.

Marketing/Sales/Strategy
Reed MIDEM

Stephane Lefevre

Para R, Founder of PR Worldwide Started operating in 1999, been promoting all forms of live entertainment, family, music, comedy and musical events for all age group. Yearly shown include Disney On Ice and recent shows include Maroon 5, Alicia Keys and Taylor Swift.

Chairman
ALIFE

Para Rajagopal

Kenny currently serves Chairman of the Recording Industry of Malaysia (RIM). RIM represents over 270 locally incorporated recording companies and businesses, all of which are involved in the production, manufacturing and distribution of local and international sound, music video and karaoke recordings. RIM members also participate in the entire music industry ecosystem through discovering, building, nurturing and investing in recording artistes and their careers, as well as through encouraging and providing a base for songwriters.

Chairman
RIM

Kenny Ong

Datuk Jake Abdullah is the Chief Executive Officer of Astro Radio at Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad. Since December 19, 2013, Mr. Abdullah has been instrumental in setting up two Astro affiliated radio stations in India (Aamar FM and Power FM) and two in Jakarta (Gen FM and Jak FM). He holds an MBA from University of Liverpool and has attended the Harvard Senior Management seminar and training. His experience in the media industry is beyond measure as he has tried it all. Manager, Chief Content Officer, Chief Executive Officer and a professional disc jockey, name it, he's been it. In 2012, he had a brief stint as the Chief Executive Officer of iM4U. This CEO breaks typical thresholds by being unconventional. From operating Malaysia top 11 FM brands and helming Rocketfuel Entertainment and from being a professional DJ to conducting leadership talks to senior managers and universities across the country. He has also been Instrumental in setting up leading radio stations in India, Indonesia and China and sits on the Board in Adrep China.

CEO
Astro Radio

Datuk Jake Abdullah

While the domestic and South East Asian market promises lucrative opportunities for the creative and business communities, the panelist will share the macro level prospects in the Asia Pacific region especially the mega markets in Asia.

Big, Bigger, Biggest

Time:
16:45 - 17:45

Ang Kwee Tiang

Gumilang Ramadhan

Mr. Ricky Fung BBS

Dato' Norman Abdul Halim

VP Public Policy Asia
Universal Music

Chairman
ASIRI

CEO
IFPI (Hong Kong Group) ltd

Festival Director
KL Jamm

Speaker/Panelist:

Moderator:

With limited marketing and distribution resources, independent labels and aspiring artistes/songwriters face an uphill task to get their music across to fans. Fear no more as these speakers share their success stories and useful insights on niche and specialty marketing… the "Indie Way".

Indie Way

Time:
15:45 - 16:45

Fred Chong

Siva Zaphod Chandran

Karen Sakurai

Monica Tong

Group CEO
WebTVAsia

CEO
Global VIMA

Founder
NePT Japan

Head of Editorial Direction Music Press Asia

Speaker/Panelist:

Moderator:

Modeled by K-Pop training module, M Academy is one of the leading talent agencies in China with a holistic strategy on talent scouting, talent development and talent marketing. Watch out for the C-Pop Wave!

C-Pop

Time:
14:00 - 14:30

Dianne Tan

CEO
M Academy China

Speaker/Panelist:

Get ready to be rocked as Amadeus presents their latest innovation to maximize the true value of music assets, to be conveniently consumed and efficiently commercialized.

Music IR 4.0 Rocks!

Time:
12:30 - 13:00

Louis Tan

CTO
Amadeus Digital Express

Speaker/Panelist:

Great idea but limited capital… find out fund raising mechanisms and opportunities for music related projects in the form of equity, joint ventures, loans, crowdfunding, etc.

No Money? No Problem

Time:
11:30 - 12:30

Riza Saian

Sam Shafie

Darren Choy

Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah

CEO/Co-Founder
pitchIN

Group CEO
MyCreative Ventures

Managing Director
Warner Music

President
Malaysian Business Angels Network

Speaker/Panelist:

Moderator:

Discover the global opportunities for labels, publishers, artistes, technology companies and other music industry professionals at the largest music trade show on Earth.

South East Asia and Beyond…

Time:
11:00 - 11:30

Stephane Lefevre

Marketing/Sales/Strategy
Reed Midem, (France)

Speaker/Panelist:

A crash course with the biggest names in the recording, live and radio broadcasting business. Learn how the industry addresses the digital opportunities and challenges to adapt to the new consumption pattern and behaviour.

My-Jamm

Time:
10:00 - 11:00

Datuk Jake Abdullah

Kenny Ong

Para Rajagopal

R Ramani Ramalingam