SparxUp Awards 2011 Winner List

SparxUp Awards 2011 has been in final stage. After going through judgment process, finally the SparxUp Awards winners are decided. They are divided into 8 categories. They will still compete to get the Best of the Best 2011. Last year, Gantibaju and LewatMana are chosen as The Best Rising Star and The Most Promising Startup. This year, the awarding night will be held at Kempinski Grand Ballroom, Grand Indonesia, on October 21^st , 2011.

There are three winners for each category, except for Best WAP that only has 1 winner. Totally, there are 25 startups and products awarded. They are:

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Asia’s Top 50 Apps Winner List

The winner of Asia’s Top 50 Apps has been announced the Techventure last week. The winners are announced at the event on the second day, 14 October 2011. However, it would be grateful to know the main winner of this event. e27.sg as one of the committees also announced the winners completely yesterday.

Asia’s Top 50 Apps this year is quite different from last year. There is no Top 10 Apps but there are 5 special awards based on the juries’ judgment, as stated by Joash Wee – e27 Community Manager via email. As written on e27, the Top 50 nomination based in the public vote has sent pitch from their product with 3 screenshoots to juries to find 4 winners and 1 the most voted winner.

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HootSuite will hold Meetup in Jakarta and Bandung

As written on DailySocial, HootSuite starts to pay attention to Indonesian users and plans to hold meetups. Now, the information about the meetup, as called HootUp announced and will be held in Jakarta and Bandung.

The HootUp for Jakarta will be held in Emax Semanggi, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 50 No. 52 Jakarta – 12930, on October 18th 2011 at 7:30pm to 20:30pm.

While in Bandung will be held at Hummingbird Eatery, Jln. Progo No.14 Bandung on October 19th 2011. This event will start at 6:30pm to 20:30pm. This event is for free and open for public. There will be free dinner for the first 15 participants in Bandung.

The registration for the event in Jakarta is available here and for event in Bandung here. The event in Jakarta will present Aswin Utomo. I also will present to share the knowledge about HootSuite in Bandung. I am personally using this Canadian social media dashboard. I choose the pro facility because of some reasons. One of them is the analytics facility.

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Event Report: Indigo Fellowship Roadshow in Yogyakarta

Last Sunday, DailySocial wrote about the Indigo Fellowship Roadshow. The roadshow has been held in Bandung on October 7th, October 9th in Yogyakarta, and October 11th in Jakarta.

DailySocial attended the Indigo Fellowship Roadshow in Yogyakarta that was held on October 9th, 2011 at Dixie Café, Jln. Affandi Number 40B Yogyakarta 55281. In this event, there were two speakers who won the Indigo Fellowship 2009 and 2010. They are Dibya Pradana – founder Ayofoto.com (the 2009 winner) and Arief Widhiyasa, founder Agate Games Studio (the 2010 winner).

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After Jakarta, Startup Weekend Indonesia will Come to Surabaya

Some days ago, I read a post on Facebook Group of Suwec about the information on Startup Weekend Indonesia. Last May, Startup Weekend Indonesia for the first time was held in Jakarta in October and next, it will be in Surabaya.

As the Startup Weekend in Jakarta, this event is the series of event to Global Entrepreneur Week 2011 that will hold in November. This event is organized by Indonesia Technopreneur Community (ITC) with Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneur Center (UCEC). This event is supported by Universitas Citra Surabaya, International Design School and Outsource Indonesia.

This event will be held for 54 hours (3 days), from Friday to Sunday on 21-23 October 2011 at Universitas Citra Surabaya, International design School and Outsource Indonesia.

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Indigo Fellowship RoadShow to Three Cities in Indonesia

Indigo Fellowship will start the roadshow to three cities on 7th, 9th, and 11th of October 2011 in Bandung, Yogyakarta, and Jakarta.

Indigo Fellowship is an appreciation program to person or groups for their digital innovation and the advantages of the applications for other people. This event also tries to take the role to support the entrepreneur growth in digital industry.

The theme for Indigo Fellowship this time is “Digital Creativepreneur for Nation Competitiveness”. This program will select the digital creative innovations and they will be announced in Indigo Award on November 17th, 2011. There are four categories of the awards: Mobile Content & Application, Web Based Content & Application, Business Application, Digital Animation/Comic.

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SparxUp Awards 2011 Presents Dr. Serkan Toto and Some Other Speakers

SparxUp Awards 2011 has been in the last period of registration. The information about the conference including the ticket price, schedule and speakers has been published as well. The SparxUp conference will be held on October 21st, 2011 at Kempinski Grand Ballroom, West Mall Grand Indonesia, Jakarta. This conference will be held from 8:30 am to 03:00 pm and will be continued with awarding night starting from 7:00 pm to 09:00 pm.

This year, SparxUp Awards will present 5 speakers. They are Dr. Serkan Toto – independent consultant (web industry, mobile, social gaming) in Japan who also writes for TechCrunch.com, Steve Tan – technology and communication expert and media and telecommunication lawyer, Evan Spytama – Regional Manager of PopCap for SEA, Danny Wirianto – SemutApi Colony founder and CEO Merah Cipta Media and Merah Putih Inc, also Pambudi Baskara Sudirman – HHP Business – Samsung Electronic Indonesia, while the moderator is Rama Mamuaya from DailySocial.net.

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Jakarta Founder Institute Offers Scholarship With Female Founder Fellowship Program

It is the last week for the registration of Jakarta Founder Institute. The 9th October 2011 will be the last day to register.

Jakarta Founder Institute will start this program on October 26th, 2011 until February 6th , 2012. It is targeted to get 30 participants to join the course with the curriculum that is needed to build and develop startup, supported also by links and guidance from local and international experienced mentors.

As written previously on DailySocial, there are 14 people has been accepted to join JKFI and the number is increasing. Previously, there were 7 female participants, and now becomes 8 participants.

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Here It Comes Again: Asia’s Top 50 Apps

The awards for application in Asia, Asia’s Top 50 Apps, comes and opens chances for application (web-mobile) based in Asia to send their application to join the first step of the event.

As what happened last year, in the first stage, the participants can do online register or nominate their favorite application here and let the visitor of the site to vote the submitted application.

From the information received by DailySocial, Asia’s Top 50 Apps 2011 is an award for web and mobile application innovation and for building the awareness of developers about their application. This event is held by SingTel Innovation Exchange which is a part of Accelerate@TechVenture and organized by e27.

The event of conference and the awarding will be on October 14th 2011 in the same time with the Accelerate@TechVenture Forum. The coming event will be the second annual event. You may still remember that last year there is 15 applications from Indonesia is on the Top 50 Most Popular application. GantiBaju.com was on the 10 Top apps.

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