It’s no secret that institutions are sizing up blockchain and cousin technologies today. As their tone fluctuates, mainstream media attempts to keep pace with volatility and its sponsors. The disruption of common narratives with Web3, NFTs, metaverses, and Bitcoin are present outside fintech, but these conversations are frequently short-form, narrow views.

Web3 is still a loosely defined phrase, but without scalability, interoperability, and shared security, it’s doomed to the same cycle of euphoria-taboo as the ICO craze just six years ago. The comedy of “Web5” is an easy way to describe the fumble of Web3 as a meaningful phrase today.

We know going backwards won’t heal misunderstandings or improve consumer experiences. A small group of corporations (Big Tech) will feed their needs for profit by any means (especially in this climate of inflation), extorting data like oil in the hopes of slicking more user-activity data products.

Corporations have strangled digital privacy and hampered their reputations, but their need to grow profit margins and public trust can’t end. It’s unrealistic to expect these organisations will grow public trust to the detriment of their other culturally-entrenched responsibilities. 

Also Read: Global Web3 companies on why Asia Pacific is the future of the industry

The everyday internet user is vaguely aware of data privacy. Beyond accepting an occasional cookie policy, users rarely appreciate how Web3 can grant control of the data they produce. The proliferation of Web3 technology educates and motivates internet users to recognise the money they leave on the table in any one-sided data economy.

Web3 should be the cure, but the disease is mostly undiagnosed

Web3 invoking “read + write + execute” is still foreign to most internet users, similar to the moderate-low literacy of average internet users in the late 2000s. Like those free AOL CDs, there’s a plethora of free, easy-to-use Web2 applications available, so venturing into applications establishing data sovereignty requires an educated customer. 

The dramatic changes that Web3 brings are still emerging, and with notable public confusion, the differences in monetisation models are frequently lost in the conversation. With significant benefits ahead, Big Tech has to drive its narrative harder, insisting that its products are safe, trustworthy, and ethical.

This leaves an open lane for Web2/SaaS products to claim some undeserved shine, especially in head-to-head UX and overall task latency. Because dapps require more operations across more systems, they seem closer to the 1990s internet in the eye of the layman. Comparing blockchain transactions and web app latency is an easy way to bend a narrative away from consumer rights towards instant gratification.

Blockchain organisations know this; they’re buckling down efficiency for the bear market. Speed isn’t going to revamp in a glamorous refresh but caching, glossy UIs, and new features give hope to a new swell of users. Some of these components are already in progress, but some solutions require difficult work, especially when acting in the best interest of users over a single chain. 

While tribalism guides Twitter, blockchain organisations behind the scenes are watching liquidity dwindle, affirming their survival needs more than inflows from CEXs. Bridges, oracles, and sidechains are emerging more frequently in smaller-scale structures like app chains, often built as structures to aid traffic between multiple blockchains. Mobile apps today are more interested in a suite of blockchain integrations than a single option, knowing that most users are looking for a series of different dapps and chains. 

With interoperability growing and establishing as a staple need, bridges are pushed to deliver more products more quickly with the goal of streamlining UX. Some products have built to their limit inside the network effects of EVM and are starting to focus on Rust chains like NEAR Protocol, Solana, and Stacks, hoping to cover as many features, dapps, TVL and liquidity as possible. 

Any successful buildout in Web3 requires the availability of secure, reliable, and cost-effective tools at the same [or better] efficiency than Big Tech. Projects like Octopus Network offer tools that address elastic-scaling needs, including a blockchain endpoint, indexer, and explorer.

These solutions, which commonly cost more than US$1 million in their first year to build and run, are provided free to app chains that choose to build on Octopus Network. Compassion in support of growing projects utilising these tools is an often overlooked driver that makes adoption immediately more attainable. 

Accelerating growth in Web3

Octopus Network was designed specifically to accelerate the growth of web3 by directly addressing critical qualities for success,  scalability, interoperability, and shared security. 

• Scalability: Octopus Network resides on NEAR Protocol which utilises a modular consensus called Doomslug in a sharded design, Nightshade. When network congestion is seen, Octopus Network will lobby the validator community to deploy a shard, dedicating a small subset of validators to prioritise Octopus Network transactions. Total chain throughput has been charted at 100,000 transactions per second, with shards commanding over 10,000 TPS without performance optimisation. 

Also Read: How to scale voluntary carbon markets with DeFi and Web3

• Interoperability: With the unique development of the Substrate-IBC pallet opening fungible asset transfers and trustless bridges based on merkle mountain ranges, there are at least three ecosystems with cross-connectivity and cross-compatibility available today (and improvements in progress).
• Shared Security: Shared security is built into the infrastructure of Octopus Network through a leased-proof-of-stake (LPoS) model. This mandates that chains configure how much the total validator set will earn [and delegators as contributors to validator escrow] not to pay validators themselves. This elastic market of supply and demand derives equilibrium from the price of each app chains’ core asset against planned rewards. 

For Web3 to mature, there must be recognition of the value of sovereignty, and UX must continue to improve. Bitcoin is much faster than bank wires and low-cost ACH transfers, but Ethereum is not faster than modern cloud computing services or mobile apps.

For the “Internet of Money” mentality to grow in virality, cultural understanding of operating value has to grow too; innovation is blitzing forward, but culture doesn’t shift nearly as fast. 

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The battle for the “Super App” throne in Southeast Asia continues as neither Grab now Gojek, leading tech startups, show plans of slowing down their expansions. The two ride-hailing companies seemed to have found the key to the enormous potential of Southeast Asia’s technology market composed of young and tech-savvy populations. While they have a similar end goal of driving millions of users to dig into their mobile wallets, they have taken different paths to scale. 

Grab: Regional target from the get-go

Grab set its sights on Southeast Asia from the very beginning in a bid to address transportation problems in tier 1 cities across the region. Like other startups, Grab took a growth-at-all-costs approach until it reached a value of $14 billion, signalling a switch to a more strategic model. It chose the route to partnerships with other startups, including HappyFresh, Ninja Van, and Hooq.

Also read: Echelon 2022: The rise of a new startup profitability culture

Gojek: There’s no place like home

Gojek focused on its roots in Indonesia before gradually taking hold of other regional countries. It was the first company in the country to utilize motorcycle taxis for personal transportation and deliveries using an app before adding cars and taxis to the menu. By prioritizing the local market, Gojek built a solid loyal customer base, making it the most-used app in the ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payment segments among Indonesian millennials.

The path forward

One thing to learn from Grab and Gojek is that there is no single way to get to where you want to be. But what makes more sense for startups moving forward? Do Southeast Asia startups have to think regional from day 1? How does regional talent scaling work? What are the pricing, business models, technology, and language considerations when scaling? Which companies have scaled well regionally? What are the critical mistakes when expanding regionally, and how can they be rectified?

Also read: The Big Leap: Bringing retention best practices across SEA

Such questions are best discussed at the Echelon Asia Summit 2022. Klaus Wehage, Co-Founder and CEO of 10x Innovation Lab, will moderate a panel discussion on “Grab vs Gojek model – How should you scale your startup across the region” with founders Jennifer Zhang (Wiz Holdings), Hendra Kwik (Fazz Financial), Ram N Kumar (NirogStreet), and Vincent Fan (Zeek). 

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Echelon Asia Summit 2022 (October 27-28) returns after a three-year hiatus. It aims to gather the most influential decision-makers and industry leaders from the Southeast Asia tech and startup ecosystem.

 Register for Echelon Asia Summit 2022 now!

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What will happen to the Southeast Asian (SEA) tech startup ecosystem after the pandemic?

In Singapore, since mid-2022, as borders reopened and travel became possible again, we have begun to see in-person meetings and events being hosted in the country. In the last week of September, there were at least four events in tech space alone –many of them are making a comeback after two years of hiatus. These meetings open up new opportunities for the regional tech startup ecosystem to connect and collaborate for the betterment of both parties and the ecosystem.

At the end of a major crisis like a pandemic, it is predicted that the startup ecosystem will come out stronger than ever. The numbers have spoken; there are indeed companies being set up during the pandemic or raising funds even at the peak of it.

This leads us to the next big question: How do we ensure this is sustainable?

Some of the leading players in the ecosystem may have the answer. They have done more than just raise massive funding rounds in the past years. Many of them have worked with different kinds of partners in growing their businesses; they have also pivoted and experimented with new tech to seize new opportunities.

Also Read: Echelon 2022: The rise of a new startup profitability culture

This might be how sustainability looks like for the startup ecosystem. Gone are the days when it would rely heavily on external funding to get through another day. A truly strong ecosystem is made of companies building solutions to the biggest problems we face today; they have also found a way to support themselves through their various revenue channels.

In achieving their goals, these companies do not work in silos. Instead, they open themselves up to collaborate with different players in the ecosystem, from government agencies to family offices.

These companies consider how their operations impact the environment and society. They are fully aware that a massive profit can never replace the future we owe to the next generation; they are figuring out ways to mark their milestones without sacrificing what is essential.

Beyond the technological innovation we build today, these companies are also looking at up-and-coming innovations. As we transition from Web2 to Web3, we are working to improve how we are doing things –and how the blockchain and related technologies can help in the process.

This is why, for Echelon 2022, e27 has prepared two days of connection, discovery, and learning. As a platform that aims to help companies with the tools to build and grow their businesses, we are going to host a highly curated business event. This year’s event specialises in sustainable growth for the SEA startup ecosystem –especially as we make a move forward.

Join us in this journey to build a more sustainable tech startup ecosystem.

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Customers are the life-blood of any business. But in a world with millions of alternatives, customer retention may be tricky for most companies.

And companies should care about keeping regular customers around; data shows that increasing customer retention by just 5 per cent can increase profits by 25 to 95 per cent.

Also read: How the future of growth through data-driven decisions would start

Retaining customers is highly rewarding for companies. Customer retention strategies, however, can be very challenging especially in today’s business landscape where companies are faced with rapid technological advancements, evolving customer behaviour, and customer expectations that are becoming more and more personalised.

So let’s dive deeper into building effective customer retention strategies

Echelon 2022 invites industry leaders to join the discussion on the current trends and best practices of customer retention.

We are gathering together Southeast Asia’s industry leaders to talk about their experiences, insights, and tips on creating experiences that connect them better with their customers to share knowledge and technology with their peers.

The aim of this roundtable discussion is to tap on the collective experiences and expertise of the participants and share it with the community for the greater benefit of the SEA tech startup ecosystem. After the event, participant profiles and discussion insights will be published and shared with the e27 community.

Also read: ‘The next generation of unicorns will be from greentech’: Wavemaker Impact’s Steve Melhuish

Participants will get the opportunity to discuss about:

• Context on how they provide the best app experience for their customers, and their current practices in customer retention
• Challenges they face in their company growth
• Omnichannel marketing and the challenges they face in maximising each platform
• Digital footprint of each company and their growth metrics

As industry leaders, participants will also be asked to share best practices and future trends they foresee on user campaigns, customer engagement and customer retention.

This roundtable discussion is co-hosted by e27 and CleverTap

If you’re interested in joining the discussion, let us know.

 

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Konvy, a beauty e-commerce company based in Thailand, has secured US$10 million in a Series A round of funding from Insignia Ventures Partners.

The company will use the capital to expand its omnichannel and international distribution for health and beauty brands and for hiring.

“With this round of funding, we are aiming to scale up our distribution capabilities to help more local and global brands and solidify our position as the platform of choice for beauty brands in Thailand and Southeast Asia,” said Konvy CEO and Co-Founder QingGui Huang.

Launched in 2012, Konvy carries more than 1,000 global and local beauty brands, ranging from skincare and makeup to perfumes. The products are offered through various channels, including its in-house e-commerce retail platform, marketplaces, and over 800 physical retail stores.

Also Read: Echelon 2022: The search for alternative funding options for VCs

Konvy’s brand portfolio includes globally recognised brands like L’Oréal, Shiseido, Sulwhasoo, Eucerin, and La Roche-Posay.

Health & beauty is a fast-growing sector in Thailand. Thai consumers purchase products through e-commerce and social media platforms. Within the beauty segment, skincare products have the highest revenue share of 42 per cent.

In 2021, Thai beauty, health, personal and household care was estimated to be US$4 billion and is expected to grow to US$6.4 billion by 2025.

“Over the past few years in Southeast Asia, we have seen the rise of the omnichannel commerce platform, widening the connectivity of brands to end consumers. In Thailand, Konvy has already been leading the health and beauty market with an increasingly multi-channel approach, leveraging both the country’s affinity for beauty products and purchasing behaviour through various online platforms,” said Yinglan Tan, Founding Managing Partner at Insignia Ventures Partners.

Konvy previously raised seed funding from Alpha Founders Capital and ECG Ventures Capital.

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The Asia Pacific is home to 450 million smallholder farmers who account for more than 80 per cent of the region’s food production.

Despite being the key to addressing food security, smallholders are underserved and lack access to basic tools that can unlock the full potential and value of their farms. Most commonly, smallholder farmers struggle to access suitable farming inputs, better farming practices to produce better yield and quality, and connections with the right buyers for the right prices.

It does not help that the current agricultural value chain is highly inefficient – with layers of intermediaries standing between smallholders and consumers. This means more hands vying for their slice of the pie and lesser profits for farmers.

For example, returns from small-scale rice farming are only between US$2 – US$6 a day per farm. It is not surprising that many choose to leave the land, putting more pressure on a system at its breaking point.

To make farming a profitable profession, we need to ensure that the people growing the crops are rewarded fairly for their work. And that starts by placing the farmer at the centre of an ecosystem of integrated solutions.

Introducing the ecosystem concept

Many are familiar with the success of Apple’s ecosystem and the value that it brings to its users.

While any individual Apple product is good on its own merits, the Apple ecosystem is not about a single product. It is about a whole array of technology and offers, from Apple or external partners, that, when used together, is more than the sum of its individual parts.

Similarly, a farmer-centric ecosystem in agriculture involves an interconnected and interdependent network of diverse providers that address various farmer needs throughout their farming journey.

Also Read: Can agritech solve the world’s growing food security problem?

This is a concerted effort across the value chain, from suppliers of farm input and agronomic expertise to providers of farm services, financial and insurance services, tools for smart agriculture, and linkage to the offtake market, food processing companies and consumers.

Furthermore, just as Apple led the orchestration of their ecosystem, an ecosystem in agriculture requires a trusted party to convene partners that share a similar vision of continuously creating new value for farmers and the whole community.

Syngenta has taken the lead in catalysing this unique Farming Ecosystem, whereby the benefit to farmers is not merely derived from individual transactions but elevated overall through new value architecture and customer experience.

Technology is a key enabler of the farming ecosystem

Many services in an ecosystem rely on various technologies to complete a holistic offering. This does not refer only to the big, transformative technologies. Even the simplest of technologies can make a huge difference in emerging markets.

Soil testing, for instance, can determine the current fertility and health of soils so that farmers can apply the right amount of fertilizer. This helps manage the use of inputs compared to the current norm of blanket application and greatly reduces the overall cost to the farmer. Some examples of emerging technologies in this area include devices that provide real-time analysis and results.

Another example is using AI-assisted recognition of high-resolution images to identify pests or diseases affecting different crops. Through this, farmers can obtain an accurate and immediate diagnosis, followed by advice on solutions such as optimal pesticide use.

Equally, digital platforms can provide farmers with live access to the latest knowledge to support better crop decisions and respond quickly to challenges. It is a powerful tool to connect farmers, suppliers, retailers and consumers at scale and facilitate communication and transactions among them. During this process, valuable data is also generated and shared, building trust between each stage of the production chain.

Partnerships are key to the ecosystem’s success

As a leading Ag company, Syngenta is pioneering and convening CENTRIGO Farming Ecosystem alongside partners to develop a scalable combination of physical and digital (also known as ‘phygital’) solutions that will empower farmers to overcome inefficiencies, improve livelihoods and ensure the resilience of food security in the Asia Pacific.

The quality and reliability of partnerships within such an ecosystem will determine its strength and success. If you are a technology provider or an investor, now is the time to get involved.

Meeting the food demands of consumers will require connecting millions of farmers through innovative technologies, an opportunity you don’t want to miss.

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Entrepreneurs have been living in a world run by the rise-and-grind mentality, working themselves to exhaustion with their cash-burning and growth-at-all-costs business models. But, unfortunately, times are changing, and the hustle culture will not cut it in today’s startup landscape.

 The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken markets across the globe, making it dangerous for startup founders to rely heavily on venture capital (VC). So while the startup ecosystem remains filled with opportunities, the question remains: how can founders build a path to profitability now that cash burning and accelerated growth are losing their effect?

Also read: Echelon 2022: The search for alternative funding options for VCs

Shaping a new culture

Capital efficiency is becoming the culture more than speed and amount of growth. Growth remains essential, of course, but it should no longer be the only goal. Working on growth and profitability is a balancing act that startup founders may want to master to avoid crashing down. Resiliency in models and a long-term outlook will help them find their footing in a COVID-hit fundraising ground.

Developing a new founder’s mindset

The post-pandemic era requires a fresh perspective to navigate. Capital constraint, instead of cash burning, helps a new business to harness its ability to operate efficiently and to develop creative and logical ways to invest since too much capital comes with risks of bad investment choices and waste of resources.

Also read: The evolution of early-stage investing and fundraising in SEA

Learning about sustainable growth

Startups must learn how companies evolve and pivot to profitability and sustainable growth in today’s climate. This is one of the topics that will be tackled at the Echelon Asia Summit 2022. Experts will hold a panel discussion about “Breaking away from the cash-burning model and focusing on achieving sustainable growth.” Jeremy Au, Chief of Staff at Monk’s Hill Ventures, will moderate the discussion among Toh Ting Feng (GetGo), Ahmad Rizqi Meydiarso (Feedloop), Wilson Yanaprasetya (Dagangan), and Zheng Wei Quah (Accredify). In addition, they will attempt to answer the questions that startup founders should ask to survive the current environment, such as:

• What actions are startups asking to get to profitability?
• Google’s Sundar Pichai recently said that fun shouldn’t be equated to money. Is that a problem for startups these days, especially in all the large fundraising rounds in the past few years?
• How has the culture changed as your startups moved to the profitability model?
• Do more profits equal more bonuses and benefits?
• Are founders thinking of bridge rounds to close the financial sustainability gap?

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Echelon Asia Summit 2022 (October 27-28) returns after a three-year hiatus. It aims to gather the most influential decision-makers and industry leaders from the Southeast Asia tech and startup ecosystem.

Register for Echelon Asia Summit 2022 now!

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English teachers of public schools in rural Thailand are not so fluent in the language. Private classes are available, but they are expensive for parents. This creates a hurdle in the career growth of rural students.

Takarn Ananthothai, former President of the non-profit AIESEC Thailand, believed there must be a better way to help local people learn English.

With this goal in mind, he asked his friend and ex-management trainee at Uniqlo Thailand, Juice Chuencheewan (who later married him), to start an edutech startup and onboard globally certified part-time teachers to address this problem.

That was the genesis of Globish.

Globish, which stands for Global English, provides online English and Chinese communication courses to professionals, kids, corporates, and schools in Thailand. It uses a simplified version of English used by non-native speakers consisting of the most common words and phrases.

Also Read: BrightCHAMPS acquires SEA-focused edutech startup Schola for US$15M

The core curricula focus on building communication confidence using post-method pedagogy combined with local contexts matching learners’ behaviours.

“At Globish, students can attend one-on-one and one-on-five discussion classes, one-on-ten instructor-led classes, AI pronunciation practices, and offline workshops using real-time updated e-learning content. They get all this in one course,” Ananthothai explains. “The variety of class sizes, teachers’ nationalities, peak time slots management and teacher incentives allow us to control the quality. Besides, we have in-house video calls and a teacher rating system.”

Students can attend live classes daily, book anytime, and speak a new language practically within six months at less cost.

In 2021, the firm expanded into Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. It hired local management and set up a subsidiary. It will focus only on business English courses in the country. The curricula and packages have been customised accordingly.

Globish’s target customer base is working professionals aged ~30 years (70 per cent) and industrial and tech companies and kids aged eight to 15 (30 per cent).

The startup employs 175 people (130 in Thailand and 45 in Vietnam).

The language learning market growth in Thailand and Vietnam is estimated to be at 5 per cent CAGR. Thailand’s market size is around US$100 million, and Vietnam’s is about US$300 million.

While many edutech players exist in Thailand, such as Skilllane, Conicle, FutureSKill, and Caribre, Globish doesn’t compete with anyone in the adult education market. However, in Vietnam, it competes with Topica Native. In the kids’ segment, Globish’s main rivals are LingoAce, PalFish, and Scholar.

Global ambitions

Globish plans to penetrate new domestic and international markets, such as the UAE, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. It will hire native coach teams of more than 400 individuals from various countries, such as the UK, the US, South Africa, Egypt, India, Ukraine, and the Philippines. The plan is to increase to 1,000 coaches to support the market expansion and achieve 500,000 classes by the end of 2022.

It has set an ambitious target of generating an income of US$35 million by 2025. “We have started expanding to one new country. We plan to add three more and reach 100 schools in a few years,” he adds.

Last week, Globish announced a US$2.5 million Series A raise from the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), Premier, N-VEST Venture, Top Itthipat, ECG Research, 500 Tuktuks, and Stormbreaker Venture. The fund will be used to upgrade the organisation to become the edutech leader of ASEAN. The capital will help it extend its platform beyond languages to other skills.

In a limbo

The lack of trust in online education for parents and schools has been a severe issue in Thailand. During the pandemic, parents were fed up with seeing their kids in front of the laptop for six hours a day learning in a one-way classroom at school. Because of this, online extra-curricular classes were perceived as boring and ineffective.

It is also challenging and requires lots of money to set up a concurrent classroom management system and prepare a pool of teachers and a tech platform. Raising venture capital is tough compared to the Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore markets. So it is tough to compete with global business by being local.

The government slowly realises the potential of edutech. “DEPA puts a lot of emphasis on education, and our funding is proof. We are the first government-funded startup in the history of Thailand. However, the government needs to do more to promote the edutech sector,” Ananthothai signs off.

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Echelon 2022 aims to provide intimate and focused discussions on key topics and business matching services to facilitate business-driven connections during the two-day event. e27 will curate and invite key stakeholders of startups, investors, corporates, and ecosystem enablers to drive towards fruitful business outcomes at Echelon. 

Here’s the full list of the speakers for the 2022 edition, which will be co-located with SWITCH at Resorts World Sentosa from 27 to 28 October 2022. Learn more here. 

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In a digital world where millions of data are coming in from millions of sources, there is no excuse for not making data-driven business decisions. But most companies are oftentimes left wondering where to start.

There are many considerations that companies have to look into when they go down the path of making data-driven decisions for their growth. This includes platform, costs, and challenges of setup and maintenance considerations, outside of the actual operations.

Enter open-source databases.

Also read: Echelon 2022: The rise of a new startup profitability culture

In a nutshell, an open source database is a database application wherein the code is free for everyone to view, download, modify, re-use and distribute, allowing users to create a system based on their own unique requirements. This allows companies to analyse massive data from a continuously growing number of sources at a lower cost.

But how can companies get started on utilising open-source databases? And is it the right path for them? 

Open-source database as a managed service? Industry leaders will weigh in

Echelon 2022 invites industry leaders to join the discussion on the current trends and future possibilities of open-source databases.

We are gathering together Southeast Asia’s industry leaders to talk about their experiences, insights, and tips on working with data for operations and growth.

The aim of this roundtable discussion is to tap on the collective experiences and expertise of the participants and share it with the community for the greater benefit of the SEA tech startup ecosystem. After the event, participant profiles and discussion insights will be published and shared with the e27 community.

Also read: The Big Leap: Bringing retention best practices across SEA

Participants will get the opportunity to discuss about:

• Context on how they measure their growth and performance
• Challenges they face in their company growth
• Experiences, best practices, and challenges in dealing with data in operations and growth strategy
• Actionable insights they could implement in their own companies

As industry leaders, roundtable participants will also be asked to share best practices and future trends they foresee on open source data platforms.

This roundtable discussion is co-hosted by e27 and Aiven, Echelon 2022’s Preferred Cloud Database Partner.

If you’re interested in joining the discussion, let us know.

 

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