As a startup begins to scale up, it looks toward both regulated and unregulated geographies, and each comes with its own set of challenges. For a company venturing out of Singapore, meeting these challenges is often more hard, considering how business-friendly the island nation is.

• What are the best practices to build a business across new geographies without overriding the compliance barriers?
• How to stay innovative in a highly regulated market?
• How to strategize a company’s growth in the face of changing laws?
• Working with local talent and building teams: Which sections should be managed by local teams and the head office?
• How to build capabilities at the headquarters to manage business in regulated and unregulated markets without attracting penalties and compliance concerns?
• Case studies on markets to prioritize and lessons learnt

Most businesses, whether startups or traditional SMEs, need to build a community around their products and services to stay relevant and be successful. It could be a formal membership like a subscription-based product or just a group of loyal fans or customers cheering for the brand.

• Why building community is more important today than just networking?
• How to engage your community in the early days of business to turn them into loyal customers?
• Building your influencers versus working with influencers for engagement
• How can each person in your organization play a role in building a community?
• The art of communication: How to differentiate between meaningful engagement and unspecific messaging

Funds are looking to invest aggressively in Southeast Asia. Fashion industry, agriculture and food, labour, healthcare services, manufacturing, and construction tech are well poised to gain from the bull market in the first three quarters of 2019.

• The business and opportunity trends for the coming financial year
• What's the next big thing in tech and innovation?
• How to estimate a startup’s worth?
• APAC's growing sectors in 2019

A CXO is not merely to plan and direct action, but to inspire, empower belief and transform. Powerful technologies like the cloud and artificial intelligence are quickly shifting what it means to compete, making it all the more important for leaders to bring digital transformation.

• The responsibility of C-suite in evolving the culture at every growth stage of a company
• The qualities of today's successful leader
• How to tackle company crisis?
• How to be hands-on in company's day-to-day operations while creating a strategy to build a successful brand?

Emotional intelligence remains a key ingredient in the development of corporate leaders. To be the kind of leader that inspires happier teams, you need to ensure you’re focusing on influence rather than power, to achieve strategic outcomes. That means towing a delicate line between exerting the kind of pressure that inspires critical, creative thinking and creating a workplace that allows people to feel relaxed and confident in their abilities. The relationship between power and influence is vital to good leadership.

Today everyone–young or old—has an idea to build a business. But would the idea be a commercial success? Estimates show only one out of every 5,000 inventions undergo successful product launches to the extent they result in a good return for their inventor.

• How to take your idea from invention stage to the market stage, and defining the refinement process
• How to gauge whether an idea is worth pursuing?
• How much should you invest initially?
• Going with a fund or finding corporate incubation: What works and why?