Startup Lokal v.69: The Trend of Travel Startup
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Indonesia, a country blessed with heavenly archipelago of unrivaled beauty and diversities of its culture provides enormous opportunities for startup founders to take full advantage of it. Tiket.com, Tripvisto, Indonesia Flight-you name it-are bunch of names trying to taste the huge cake of Indonesia Travel Industry.
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In this #StartupLokal meetup, we are delighted to be able to invite those known-players in the industry to share their views and insights of travel industry in Indonesia. They will also share about the landscape and opportunities, the trend, challenges and the survival guide, and so on!
And without further ado here are our speaker short profiles:
Sumartok
Founder & CEO, Tripvisto
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Sumartok was previously working with various multinational companies in telecom and digital media industry for 10 years. He started his entrepreneurship journey since October 2011. He was failed at the first company but quickly wake up and build Tripvisto on August 2014. Tripvisto is a leading Indonesian online tour and activity marketplace, dedicated to providing Indonesian travellers with tour & activity packages for popular international and domestic destinations.
Marcella Einsteins
Co-Founder and CEO, Indonesia Flight
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In 2012, Marcella Einsteins founded “Indonesia Flight App” which is the first locally-made flight booking application for Indonesia.
Indonesia Flight App has grown 200% every year since its inception. Notably not one Rupiah is spent for marketing toward the application, since there was no budget allocated for it. The whole growth has been purely organic
In 2013, she founded another application for train booking called “Tiket Kereta Api App”, which has become the number 1 train booking application on Google Play in Indonesia today.
Our moderator:
Natali Ardianto
CTO of Tiket.com
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Natali is an uber geek and an entrepreneur seasoned by experience. A very experienced CTO with extensive technological knowledge.
As Co-Founder and CTO of Urbanesia.com, He helped Urbanesia reach Alexa ID rank #217 with just one server! Urbanesia has received investments from a Singapore venture capital and now acquired by Kompas Digital.
He also built Tiket.com, an award winning startup company, who won several awards such as Bubu Awards, AICTA Awards (ASEAN ICT Awards) and Sparxup Awards. Natali personally help Tiket.com won the Telkom Indigo Awards, and also GIST Tech-I Awards (Global Innovation through Science and Technology), an initiative by Barack Obama and run by the Department of State.
Event Rundown:
18:00 - 18:45: Registration + Dinner + Networking
18:45 - 19:00: Opening by MC & Startup Updates
19:00 - 19:05: Opening Speech by StartupLokal as organizer
19:05 - 19:15: Opening Speech by Telkom as Host
19:15 - 19:45: Keynote 1 by Sumartok of Tripvisto.com
19:45 - 20:15: Keynote 2 by Marcella Einsteins of Indonesia Flight
20:15 - 20:30: Panel Discussion
20:30 - 20:45: Q&A
20:45 - 21:15: Closing remarks, photo session, & networking
Moderator: Natali Ardianto of Tiket.com
Please come early at 06.00 p.m. to have your dinner (served for 100 pax).
*Details on the rundown is subject to change without prior notice. If you have news for Startup Updates or you'd like to pitch at our event, please email us your material at all@startuplokal.org StartupLokal event is supported by Telkom Indonesia.
This event is FREE. We don't want to limit the participants and we want to keep this high quality event FREE so please help us by attending the event with the intention to learn and have your full attention to the speakers. There's available time for networking BEFORE and AFTER the event.