Next Bank Singapore Meetup
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A special Amazon Web Services event
Thanks to AWS, we'll be having this meetup at their large open events space, with talks from their Head of ASEAN and India Richard Harshmann, and from Eric Tachibana, their ASEAN tech evangelist and lean expert.
AWS will kindly provide some drinks and pizza to get us going, and we can also then carry on downstairs in the nearby bars.
Big thanks to Amazon Web Services!!
On arrival at the security desk on the ground floor, please provide photo id then head to Level 10
More on our speakers:
Richard Harshman
Richard Harshman is the Head of ASEAN and India for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Richard leads the team that helps businesses of all sizes across ASEAN learn about AWS
and implement the cloud computing platform, allowing them to save money, accelerate their time to market, and focus on their core business.
Richard has over 12 years of experience in sales, channel development and general management in the United States and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, Richard held management positions at Akamai Technologies in Australia and Singapore.
Eric Tachibana
Currently, Eric Tachibana is a Professional Services Consultant for Amazon Web Services, covering Platform Strategy and Transformation. In this role, Eric helps large enterprise customers across Asia with the organizational transformations necessary to deliver maximum benefits from the Cloud Operating Model.
Previous to his role at Amazon, Eric was the Asia Pacific COO for UBS, across the Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Asset Management Chief Technology Office where he was responsible for the management of Innovation, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, and Enterprise Social Networks.
Before UBS, Eric was with Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he served as APAC Technology and
Operations COO.
Prior to his years in banking, Eric was an entrepreneur, focusing on the financial services space for over
14 years - creating, building, and eventually exiting, successful small and mid-sized companies in Silicon
Valley, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the U.K. Today Tachibana continues his entrepreneurial endeavors as a regional angel investor, strategic adviser, and mentor for young, developing entrepreneurs, serving as founding non-executive advisor for 9 companies ranging from IT, to F&B, to
retail/fashion.
Eric is also an author of 8 books on technology development and innovation management and continues to earn regional industry recognition as an adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore and Thammasat University business schools.
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We welcome all those bankers, technologists,creatives, innovators, startup entrepreneurs and policy makers in Singapore's financial services sector.
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