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11 years in Asia's digital world turned into awe-inspiring talks for your enjoyment."Mister Asia" - Mike Butcher, TechCrunchTRANSCRIPT
Benjamin Joffe
Speaker Profile
“Mister Asia” • 11 years in Asia in the digital space
• Japan, Korea, China • Also lived in USA, Singapore, Germany and France for a wider perspecDve.
• 100+ keynotes across 17 countries • Private events such as MicrosoG Startup Series, Dell InnovaDon Summit, P&G Innovasia (only external keynote to this annual event aMended by P&G’s CEO, CTO and 700 APAC execuDves).
• Top public conferences such as LeWeb (#1 Internet Conference in Europe), Stanford, Berkeley, SXSW, PICNIC, LIFT, GMIC, Virtual Goods Summit, European Commission…
4 years 1 year 6 years
“We are Western centric and understanding the nuances in digital socializaDon will help enhance our digital strategies. Benjamin’s presentaDon highlighted many gaps in my understanding.” James Kaw, Director, P&G Research & Development
– Mike Butcher, TechCrunch
Why Invite Me?
1. Learn about Asia’s innovaFons – China boasts the largest mobile
and Internet populaDon, and online gaming market
– The fastest Internet in the world is in South Korea, 3x faster than US
– Japan has the world’s highest 3G penetraDon, over 95%
2. Challenge preconcepFons – “Everything from the US is great” – “Everything from Asia is weird” – “InnovaAon is done by geniuses” – “Entrepreneurship is a Western
concept”
3. Open eyes on the new ways of being global
What ideas do I share?
• Topics – Asia & innovaDon – Crossing of Technology, Sociology, Anthropology
– Virtual economies – Digital “third places” – ArDficial arDficial intelligence (AAI)
– Online social dynamics
Content Impact for the West How tech travels across borders & cultures
Things that “don’t exist” CreaDve & social places
Those small tasks humans sDll do beMer Web social psychology
The 5C’s of innovaFon: Copy, CombinaDon, CompeDDon, Constraints, Context Techno-‐Darwinism: How environment, mutaDon and struggle for survival shapes innovaDon
See over 50 presentaDons at www.slideshare.net/plus8star
Interviewing Takeshi Natsuno Legendary inventor of Japan’s “i-‐mode” (GMIC, Beijing 2011 | 1,500 parDcipants)
Asia panel with Internet Leaders from Japan, Korea, China & SE Asia
(LeWeb, Paris 2010 | 2,500 parDcipants)
Keynote “From Digital PanopAcon to Noospehere” (LIFT, Korea, 2009 | 560 parDcipants)
Interviewing Niklas Zennstroem Co-‐Founder of
(GMIC, Beijing 2011 | 1,500 parDcipants)
In the Trenches • Expert research & strategy
• In 2003, I founded +8* (www.plus8star.com), which advises the most innovaFve companies in the world by leveraging the best pracDces from Asia. – Our team includes Japanese, Korean and Chinese
consultants and researchers. – Clients are MNCs, startups, including Asian companies. – We also consult to creaDve strategists at IDEO and
thought leaders at Harvard Business School.
• Hands-‐on with startups • We ran innovaFon workshops for the Augmented Reality firm Layar, advised blogging plaqorm Tumblr on its Japan market entry strategy, and researched best pracDces for Virtual World IMVU.
• I am also an angel investor in global startups – CMUNE | Leader in 3D Social Games (Beijing) – MYGENGO | Human TranslaDon Plaqorm (Tokyo)
“Within a few weeks we have idenDfied and roadmapped various product enhancements as a direct result of our learnings from +8*. It is an invaluable reference that I consult oGen when considering new product enhancements” | Lee Clancy, VP Product Management, IMVU
Events & Advisory • Founder of Mobile Monday Beijing,
a monthly event for mobile industry professionals in China – 37 events (3,000 aMendees, 130 speakers) – Selected among “China’s Top 100 mobile
industry influencers” in 2007 & 2008 – Senior Expert with EU DelegaDon to China
• More events in Asia – Co-‐Organizer of tech events in Asia – Advisor to the first TEDx event in Beijing
• Advisor & Mentor to startup incubators – 500 Startups (Mountain View, USA) – Chinaccelerator (Dalian, China) – YeDZen (Gaming incubator, San Francisco)
• Personal stories • I have amazing stories to share about many top companies, entrepreneurs, business models, and can demonstrate cross-‐border influences and deconstruct stereotypes.
• Everyone is an innovator!
Contact me at
[email protected] TwiMer | @benjaminjoffe
Skype | benjaminjoffe