Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area, in partnership with Singapore Global Network, is excited to invite you to “Global Innovation Exchange - Singapore.” Singapore is one of the most economically advanced countries in the world with a rising and vibrant innovation ecosystem. This event creates a platform for those interested in engaging Singapore’s ecosystem, to learn about pathways and opportunities to do so.
Ideally positioned in South-east Asia, where the rest of the region is just a hop, skip and jump away, Singapore is a thriving metropolis. Over the years, Singapore has made significant strides in many areas and has attracted an encouraging number of international accolades which recognize the city as vibrant and world-class. New York and Singapore’s ecosystems have a lot to learn from each other.
Hear from:
Darren Lee
Regional Director
Enterprise Singapore
Frances Simowitz
Owner and CEO
WEVE Acceleration
Fabian Tay
Program Director (NUS Overseas College)
National University of Singapore
John-Paul (JP) Parmigiani
CEO & Co-Founder
Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area
During the event you’ll hear:
The key differences doing business in Singapore vs New York
How can someone start scaling to Singapore
How to hire Singaporean talent in New York
Where to find investment opportunities
The strengths in the Singapore market and gaps as well
Where to find resources to help you get plugged in
How Singapore serves as a regional hub in Asia beyond it’s borders
What does the Singapore ecosystem provide in terms of setup support in Singapore
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About Global Innovation Exchange series:
Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area is proud to launch Global Innovation Exchange, an events series focused on accelerating business and collaboration between international innovation ecosystems to advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
New York is a global city; New Yorkers aspire to be global citizens and connect with others to learn, collaborate and scale their initiatives across the world. Global Innovation Exchange provides an opportunity to explore the opportunities, challenges, and approaches of working, scaling or collaborating across specific markets to make social impact. Sessions will feature hearing from those with the experience, networks, and connection to provide valuable insights about these markets.
We celebrate the diverse perspectives of speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including government agencies, startups, investors, and others that can help demystify what it takes to connect to succeed in connecting to these markets.
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals present challenges but also new opportunities for business and collaboration in the process. Tackling the world’s most urgent issues, from climate change to gender equality, requires collaboration, exchange, and global scale.
Every culture and region has unique experiences, communities, strengths, expertise, perspectives to offer to share. This series will focus on learning about the challenges and opportunities to scale your business, initiatives, and investment to new markets and regions.
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About the partners
Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area
Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area is a 501c3 nonprofit supporting innovators accelerating the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. We host collaborative spaces, workshops and events, and business support programs that help impactful ideas take off. Impact Hub is a global association of innovation communities in more than 110 cities, and 64 countries around the world, with a total reach of more than 100M people. 
Enterprise Singapore
We champion enterprise development and work with committed companies to build capabilities, innovate and go global. We also support the growth of Singapore as a hub for global trading and startups. As the national standards and accreditation body, we continue to build trust in Singapore’s products and services through quality and standards. To help businesses navigate today’s business environment, we adopt a company-centric approach, providing programmes and support catered to your company’s stage of growth, industry, and overseas markets of interest.
Together with our extensive network of local and overseas partners, we support the efforts to enhance industry and enterprise competitiveness through the 23 Industry Transformation Maps. We also work with companies to capture new market share through upgrading and innovation; adopt new technologies to improve productivity; facilitate expansion into overseas markets; and strengthen leadership capabilities.
Enterprise Singapore is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Government of Singapore. It was formed on 1 April 2018 to support Singapore small and medium enterprise development, upgrade capabilities, innovate, transform, and internationalise.
Singapore Global Network
Your friend from Singapore
At Singapore Global Network, we are passionate about building connections and creating opportunities for people and businesses. As a team within the Singapore government, we aim to grow Singapore’s overseas networks by building meaningful and lasting relationships with family, friends and partners across the globe.
Whether you are a Singaporean living abroad, someone considering a move to Singapore or just curious to find out more about the opportunities here, we want to help connect you with the right people and resources to get you started. We hold similar networking and information events globally and in D.C. and would love to see you at future events - please use the registration link to sign-up for future communications about these opportunities!
Find out about what we do at: singaporeglobalnetwork.gov.sg.
NUS Overseas College
NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach. Its initiatives and global connections support a range of entrepreneurial journeys and foster ecosystem building in new markets. These initiatives augment and complement the University’s academic programmes and act as a unique bridge to industry well beyond Singapore’s shores.
WEVE Acceleration:
Our mission is to enable global market access and business growth for innovators entering new markets by providing world-class knowledge, connections, and resources. WEVE Acceleration is NYC’s premiere acceleration program for international startups expanding to the US. Formerly NUMA New York, WEVE enjoys more than twenty years of experience introducing the world’s most promising startups to the world’s largest market. Since opening our NYC office in 2017, we’ve accelerated over 120 startups from 25 different nationalities, and counting.
