Sharon is currently Vice-President of Design and Communications at Inmagine.

As a member of the senior leadership team, Sharon leads the Creative and Communication Department across the Group. She has held senior positions in companies such as J. Walter Thompson, Publicis, Havas Worldwide, Cheil Worldwide, and Bray Leino Splash before joining Inmagine.

She is strategic and results-driven with over 15 years of working experience building brands across various industries.

With a First Class Honours degree in Visual Communication Design from Middlesex University, Sharon has led multiple teams throughout her career with her strong leadership skills and is well known in her industry as a change catalyst, and a hybrid creative with a “can-do” attitude.

Melanie Ng is the Head of Performance & Insights at TIME dotCom Berhad, a leading telecommunications company in Malaysia. She has over 10 years of experience in media and marketing, and is passionate about creating and executing innovative strategies that deliver value to customers and stakeholders.

She leads and manages several station programs and on ground projects, such as the recent brand refresh with their 2G fastest speed launch. She also oversees advertising and promotion executions for TV programs, TV station key events, and other media platforms.

She is an active member of the Malaysian Marketing Association and the Asia Pacific Media Forum.

Richard Ker is the founder and Chief Storyteller of RK Digital, a digital marketing agency focusing on creative storytelling.

With over 250k followers on social media, he believes in sharing inspirational and innovative stories, a niche that has helped him go viral on social media more.

A viral marketer & ecosystem builder previously attached to MaGIC, Cyberview and Aerodyne Group, he has more than 20 years of experience in tech, entrepreneurship, social media & digital marketing. He is a 4 times TEDx speaker and shares about businesses, tech and Malaysian
success stories.

Richard Ker Digital is a digital marketing agency focusing on creative storytelling. With a belief that stories speak to the heart of audiences, RK Digital emphasises on utilising authenticity and passion to relate to consumers.

RK Digital is a growth partner for companies who
are looking to grow their organic following creatively. RK Digital is founded by Richard Ker, a tech influencer and viral marketer with over 250k followers on social media.

Thomas Yang is a Notion Consultant & Ambassador who helps businesses create digital workspaces that provide all functionalities inside one place.

He has a background in software engineering and game development, and is passionate about leveraging technology to optimize workflows and automate tasks. He is also an avid user of Notion AI, a tool that generates formulas and charts based on natural language prompts.

Thomas shares his insights and tips on Notion through his LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, where he also engages with the Notion community.

Donald is the founder of Howuku, an all-in-one website analytics platform for growth marketers.

Frustrated by the high costs of traditional conversion optimization agencies and tools, he developed an affordable AI-powered solution to democratize access to website optimization.

With over 10 years of experience in software development, specializing in UI/UX, Donald is passionate about making website optimization accessible to companies of all sizes. He believes every business should have the opportunity to optimize their website without budget, time, or knowledge constraints.

Under his leadership, Howuku has achieved significant milestones, including recognition in the 2021 ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator Cohort 3 and TOP100 Echelon Asia Summit 2023. In his free time, Donald enjoys a nice cup of coffee at a cafe and indulges his passion for chess.

He started his career as a musician, music producer then business owner when he started The Cat Studio.

Reuben started doing marketing for himself, learning through trial & error – before helping other businesses.

One of his earliest tactics to market his music school was to print and deliver flyers by hand. Over time, he began to do more advanced marketing.

When he was a music producer, he worked on various projects for brands like Ridsect and History Channel. Some of his work appeared in cinemas and broadcasts.

In 2016, Reuben joined MobileAds.com as a business development lead. Over a tenure of nearly 2 years, he helped the company secure 6-figure advertising campaigns with brands like Nandos, TNB Malaysia, and Proton, by knocking on doors. Those years built up his salesmanship.

Today, he mainly spends his time at Cat Insights, a digital marketing company he set up to help companies grow revenue.

As a teacher, he teaches marketing courses at LEAD and Spiccato and has trained companies like MediaPrima Digital, Heineken and Capitaland. Also as head of marketing, he lead marketing for LEAD.

Jasmine Yap’s journey in the digital marketing world began 4 years ago, and it has since blossomed into a fulfilling career. Today, she humbly serves as the Assistant Manager of Performance Marketing at Juwai IQI, a renowned PropTech company in Malaysia.

At the heart of Jasmine’s work is her love for social paid advertising. Through her dedication and expertise, she led her team to generate more than 26,000 leads within a year, increasing the year-over-year leads by 73% while managing to reduce the budget by 25%. 

Jasmine has also conducted more than 60 hours of training sessions, equipping hundreds of students from various organisation with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in digital marketing.

Shafiqah had her start in communicating with people at a grassroots level as an activist, which has been invaluable in her current role as the Creative Director of ZUS Coffee, where she strives to connect with people on a deeper level.

In addition, Shafiqah has worked in various branding and advertising SMEs, gaining a wealth of knowledge and experience along the way.

Her time as a Community Manager at Canva was particularly rewarding, as she was able to build a vibrant creative community across 7 countries.

Through her experiences, Shafiqah has learned that it’s not enough to simply be for the people – it’s essential to be with the people too.

This guiding principle has shaped her work and drives her to create meaningful connections with audiences in all of her endeavours.

Faisal Hourani is the founder of SnapMetrics, a marketing analytics tool for agencies that helps them save time and deliver better results to their clients.

He is also the founder of WebMedic, a website maintenance and optimization service that helps online businesses grow without hiring or managing developers and designers.

Faisal has over 10 years of experience in web development, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship. He has worked with clients such as Samsung, DiGi, Pos Malaysia, and Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion.

He is passionate about building innovative solutions that make a positive impact on the world.

Raymond Foo is the Senior Marketing Manager of SEAGM, a global online game e-commerce with 10.2 million total active users.

He leads the marketing outreach and engagement initiatives, focusing on growing the business via a highly efficient bottom-funnel strategy.

Winning the Best In Brand The Star SOBA Awards 2021, Raymond has further strengthened SEAGM’s presence in the consumer mind. He also strives to bring the gaming communities and industry players together via shared interests to ultimately further SEAGM’s mission of developing a sustainable gaming ecosystem.

Nicholas is the founder of UXAgents a user experience consultancy focused on helping clients build better digital products.

He also a self-professed UX Evangelist that has been working in the digital marketing, and UX field for the last 14 years. Nicholas is experienced in running startups, building agencies and connecting founders to the right partners for their business growth.

He has personally invested, advised and worked alongside startups and brands such as Nike, Spotify, Netflix, Allianz, Maybank, GAB, Axiata, U-mobile, WOBB, General Assembly, Nuffnang, Naluri and MoneyMatch to name a few.

In his 14 years, he held roles such as creative director, product lead, innovation & technology director and worked in both global and local agencies such as Media.monks, C27, Publicis One, Compass Interactive and Ogilvy.

He aspired to be an inventor. Inspired by the futurism of TV shows like “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!”, and “Back to the Future”

Azlan pursued formal education in Robotics Engineering. In his final year, Azlan built a wearable device for stroke patients to supplement their rehabilitation. For his invention, he received multiple awards from organizations like Samsung, IM4U, MCMC and more. The confluence of events at this time of his life introduced Azlan to the world of entrepreneurship. In 2016, a few months after completing his formal education, Azlan and Kim (his business partner) co-founded Otomate Me.

Otomate Me is a SaaS company focused on serving businesses with unique and highly contextual communications needs. Serving organizations like UOB, POS Malaysia, Cookhouse and Kantar – Otomate Me has helped businesses large and small increase their sales, elevate customer experience and retention, boost organizational productivity and make meaningful progress towards their mission.

A passionate guy. Believe in doing something to change the world and will never stop working on it.

RewardinMe™ – a Subscription-based Gamification Engagement Platform that enables companies in any industry to boost engagement, reduce the cost of acquisition and increase brand awareness. The platform is very effective at improving marketing and business results and it is probably the most flexible, easy-to-use and efficient tool for designing and executing marketing gamification campaigns. We strongly believed this could be a turn key element for businesses to Entertain, Reward & Engage customers in the moments that matter.

Work hand-in-hand with team with proven track record of achieving business results by developing effective gaming campaigns in Malaysia & Indonesia in past 5 years. We also a Create@ Alibaba Cloud Global Startup Contest 2021, ASEAN Top 20 Finalist & Selangor Accelerator Programme Top 20 Startups, 2022.

Cheryl is a freelance copywriter with clients from Hong Kong, Singapore, the US, Portugal, Australia, and Malaysia in the lifestyle space.

She was also a trainer, creating a copywriting course and bootcamp with Crunch School — an initiative by Crunch to equip aspiring and intermediate writers to kickstart their freelance copywriting careers.

Cheryl also previously guest lectured at IACT, teaching Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) Advertising & Design students about copywriting, campaigns, and advertising.

Very much a community person, Cheryl is also passionate about personal branding on LinkedIn and is a moderator of a global copywriting Facebook Group (Freelance Copywriter Collective) that’s over 18k members strong.

In her spare time, her interests include personal development, yoga, and studying copywriting legends like Eugene Schwartz, Joe Sugarman, and David Ogilvy.

Ann Lee is the Chief Operating Officer at Youbeli.com, a premier multi-category online marketplace in Malaysia established in 2015.

Youbeli.com offers an impressive product selection of local and international brands with up to 3million sku, spread across categories including Fashion, Mobile and Gadgets, Home and Living among others. Youbeli.com helps retailers set up their online business easily, and supports the local brands to sell across the region. The company has enjoyed successes by partnering with PChomeSEA, the largest e-Commerce marketplace in Taiwan, as well as collaborating with Blibli.com, top e-Commerce marketplace in Indonesia.

Ann has more than 13 years of Project Planning, Management and Development experience in multiple industries including property and township development, tech-startup community development as well as online platform management. 

She was one of the pioneer team members of SITEC (Selangor Information Technology and E-Commerce Council) executive unit. Specialize in building tech-startup community, organizing world class E-commerce and tech-startup events. Experienced in event planning and coordination, entrepreneurship development, business partnerships enhancement. 

She was the Head of Strategy for Cuti.my – No.1 Online Travel Platform in Malaysia. In 2019, she led the team to growth hack and quadruple user base within 3 weeks and increase brand exposure by strategic alliances with market players. 

Before joining Youbeli.com, she spent a year handling the investor relations of Fonebud IoT Bhd, a platform providing services related to IoT, and led the product pitch of Mobile Sharing Assistant – MSA, the world’s first travel assistant that integrates with wifi hotspot, translator and power bank.  

Having the experience of entrepreneurship, the knowledge of varying industries and the passion to help startups who are embarking on a similar journey, Ann is more than happy to share her experience and knowledge in order to uplift startups who are on a remarkable path to success.

Grace is currently a digital marketing manager for LintraMax, a SAAS company.

She has a master’s in communication, bachelor’s in finance and is still an avid learner on Coursera. 

She is passionate about communication that starts with purpose, believing that the ‘why’ should drive content messaging and every other step in the marketing funnel.

In the past 12 years, she has acquired skills in media, entrepreneurship, and picked up a critical marketing role in F&B when Covid hit in March 2019.