Rob Davidson |  Rob Stanley |  Entrepreneur 27 – Justin Lee |  Johan Bax |  Edward Dixon

Rob Davidson Senior Lecturer Business Travel and Tourism, University of Westminister
Rob joined the University of Westminster in 1998, after spending nine years in France teaching at two universities (Lille and Montpellier) and at the ESSEC-Cornell Institute of Management in Paris. His main areas of expertise are conference and business travel. He has written widely on these themes and he also regularly speaks at international conferences on the theme of trends in business tourism. Since 2002, Rob carries out ongoing research on current and future developments in the conference and incentive industry worldwide as business tourism Industry Analyst for Reed Travel Exhibitions. He was nominated Meetings and Incentive Personality of the Year in 2005, at the Meetings & Incentive Travel Awards in London. In 2006 and in 2007, he was nominated for Conference & Incentive Travel magazine’s ‘Power 50’- the 50 most influential people in the UK conference industry.
Rob Stanley Senior Vice President and Managing Director Asia-Pacific, Responsys
Rob Stanley is Managing Director, Asia Pacific and Japan, for Responsys Asia, a leading provider of strategic, Individulaized Life Cycle Marketing solutions and marketing automation technologies. Based in Singapore, Rob currently leads a team of mulit-disciplinary experts in effective marketing. He has worked with many leading brands such as Air Asia, Citibank, ESPN, Intel, StarHub, and Zuji, enabling them to use the online medium to target customers in a cost effective way with measurable ROIs. Prior to joining Responsys Asia, Rob served at Epsilon, DoubleClick and Vignette. With over 10 years of senior management experience in Asia, and 13 years of experience in Interactive Marketing, Rob has been well-recognized by the interactive email marketing community. Currently, he is:    Co-chairman of the E-marketing Council in Singapore    Member of the Direct Marketing Association of Singapore (DMAS) Executive Council
Johan Bax Director,Log On
John Bax is Director at Log On, a Dutch based company that specializes in the creation of mobile applications and products for the event and tourism industry. Johan has over 9 years of experience in the world of ICT/ Telecommunications in project- and programme management, consultancy and business development. He regularly speaks at international conferences about the use of mobile applications to enhance networking and interactivity at events. Log On’s key product is the Event Assistant, a unique application that helps people participating in an event by meeting their needs for information, communication and interaction through their own mobile phone. The Event Assistant has won eminent industry awards:    EIBTM WorldWide Technology Watch 2006    Winner Vele d’ Oro 2007
Edward Dixon Managing Director, Porter Novelli Singapore
Edward is managing director of Porter Novelli Singapore. He has more than 20 years of corporate communications and public relations experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has extensive experience in corporate communications, consumer branding, employee communications and CSR experience. In Singapore he leads a team of executives who manage a broad range of consumer, corporate, government and technology clients. Ed also is responsible for the Porter Novelli network across Southeast Asia. Prior to his Singapore assignment, Ed was executive vice president at Porter Novelli New York, where he led multiple global accounts including HP, the Financial Times, McAfee Security, Bank of America and Timberland. Prior to joining PN in 1998, Ed spent 14-plus years as an in-house corporate communications officer at MasterCard and Citibank. Ed was vice president of global communications at MasterCard International, and was assistant vice president & public affairs officer for Citibank’s Global Consumer Bank. He holds a master's degree in public communication from Fordham University.

Justin Lee Co-founder of E27 Singapore

Justin Lee graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with Honors in Information Systems and a Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship. He spent a year at Stanford University in California, USA studying the unique entrepreneurial nature of Silicon Valley by attending classes at the Stanford Technology Venture Program (STVP). During the year in Silicon Valley, he was actively engaged in the community through his participation in numerous industry/developer conferences, entrepreneurial organisations and even pitched to Venture Capitalists. Upon returning to Singapore he co-founded the Entrepreneur 27 Singapore branch that is now the organiser of the largest Web 2.0 UnConferences and the innovative GARAG3 Interactive Digital Media incubator in Singapore. He was also a judge for the youth category at the StartUp@Singapore business plan competition. Since 1996 he's also been involved in conducting training sessions for programming, 3D animation, webdesign and Macromedia Flash. About Entrepreneur 27 First founded in 2005 in Silicon Valley, E27 consists of a group of young individuals with a passion for technology and entrepreneurship. The "27" in E27 represents their youth focus on entrepreneurs below 27 years old. Although this is more a figurative expression, than a binding rule towards the target attendees and members. E27 firmly believes that the younger generation, having grown up in an era dominated by internet and mobile technology, possess the tech savviness and cultural awareness to create the successful enterprises of tomorrow. Initially, the group started out by bringing together young entrepreneurs to share their experiences and show their creations. To facilitate the platform, a series of conferences were iniated especially geared toward young professionals. E27 used the unique format of the “unconference” for these events. Rather then a top-down format with pre-determined programmes, the content of unconference sessions are driven by the participants before and during the event. Applying the "wisdom of crowds" concept, which advocates that the cumulative knowledge of many exceeds the specialised expertise of a few. The Singapore branche of E27 was set up in January 2006 by young entrepreneurs who returned from a year-long technology entrepreneurship program in Silicon Valley. E27 Singapore provides an open forum for the stimulation and exchange of ideas. To date they have held 4 major unconferences that have attracted hundreds of attendees and showcased the hottest startups in the industry. They have also developed operational ties through co-organising events with influential student groups of INSEAD MBA, NUS, SMU and Raffles Institution. In October 2007,Facebook Developer Garage: In October 2007, they launched the inaugural Facebook Developer Garage for Asia and went on to successfully create an event for 150 developers who came together to discuss and ponder the future of Facebook Applications in Asia.

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