Seminar Room

Organising an event for start-up or developer communities?

If you wish to request for venue sponsorship, please send in your request below. Events must have an entrepreneurial slant and are beneficial to the Plug-In@Blk71 community at large.

Requests should be sent in at least 2 weeks before the actual event date/s. Rooms will be subject to availbility and the team reserves all rights to reject any requests.

Host an Event at Plug-In@Blk71

June 2014

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18:00 to 21:00 Lean Launchpad Weekly Check-in Session	09:00 to 21:00 Seed Forum pitch training	18:00 to 20:00 SeedForum last minute brief	15:00 to 17:00 Startups and Public Relations 15:30 to 16:30 Kopi Chat@Blk71 with Joe Wilson (Microsoft) 18:00 to 21:00 Lean Launchpad Weekly Check-in Session	09:00 to 11:00 Seed Forum roundup session	09:00 to 18:00 HTML Weekend Crash Course for Students & Non-Tech Professionals
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18:00 to 21:00 Lean Launchpad Finale	15:00 to 16:00 R&D Tax Incentives - The underutilised category of the PIC scheme	15:00 to 17:00 BUSINESS CLINIC SERIES: ACCOUNTING CLINIC	19:00 to 22:00 iOS Dev Scout June Meetup	10:00 to 12:30 Walkabout SG 12:00 to 13:00 REST API best practices
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		16:00 to 17:00 The New Internet Wilderness: What you need to know about 1000 new domain name extensions & IPv6		12:00 to 13:00 Building web apps with Martini-go and Gorm 14:30 to 17:00 iSTARTUP Briefing & US Market Access: Garage Technology Ventures and iAxil – Building World Class Companies with Coaching and Mentoring from Practitioners from Silicon Valley and Asia
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	18:00 to 21:00 NUS Orbital: Facebook Connect and OpenID		18:00 to 21:00 Picking a company secretary for your startup	12:00 to 13:00 Personal Finance for Hackers (& Painters)
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Upcoming Events in June 2014

Jun

15:00

17:00

Startups and Public Relations

Startups = opportunities + challenges

So you have your idea, your product, your company; now what? How do you make it real, make it work? What do you need to do…

…secure funding?
…recruit the right people?
…develop partnerships?
…launch into the market?
…market, promote, sell?

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

15:30

16:30

Kopi Chat@Blk71 with Joe Wilson (Microsoft)

Kopi chats is a series of talks for the start-up community, served specially by NUS Enterprise alongside a good fresh brew of local coffee.
To find out more, go to www.blk71.com, drop us a mail at info@blk71.com, or reach us on +65 6874 1292.

This Kopi Chat will be with Joe Wilson, Worldwide General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism Group, Microsoft Corp

Come join us @ blk 71 for a cup of fresh kopi, some kaya toast and find out what’s brewing with our guest this week :)

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

18:00

21:00

Lean Launchpad Weekly Check-in Session

Lean LaunchPad@Singapore, first launched in June 2013 by NUS Enterprise, is back again!

Adopted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the US through the I-Corp Programme, LLP teaches a proven scientific method to move research/technology from the lab to market. This is done through business model design, customer discovery and agile engineering based on information derived from personal engagement rather than secondhand market research.

Nature of Event:

By-Invite-Only (Not open for walk-ins)

Jun

09:00

11:00

Seed Forum roundup session

Roundup session for the start-ups who participated at the Seed Forum the previous day.

Nature of Event:

By-Invite-Only (Not open for walk-ins)

Jun

09:00

18:00

HTML Weekend Crash Course for Students & Non-Tech Professionals

Learn to code html and walk away with a beautiful webpage you created from scratch -- all in 1 day!

We aim this event to help non-tech professionals to be able to code HTML. If you are non-tech founders, entrepreneurs, community managers, marketing professionals or students and want to learn to code HTML, Join us!

Speakers have great experience building real world apps and they are also from EventNook and Strikingly.The speakers will be sharing their practical hands-on experience with building the real website & products which are being used by thousands of users.

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

18:00

21:00

Lean Launchpad Finale

Lean LaunchPad@Singapore, first launched in June 2013 by NUS Enterprise, is back again!

Nature of Event:

By-Invite-Only (Not open for walk-ins)

Jun

15:00

16:00

R&D Tax Incentives - The underutilised category of the PIC scheme

Are you looking to differentiate your company through innovative ideas? Is your target product or process unique to the market? You maybe undertaking "R&D" activities that can give you tax rebates.

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

15:00

17:00

BUSINESS CLINIC SERIES: ACCOUNTING CLINIC

Accounting One-To-One Consultation: Start-ups typically face accounting issues - whether is it book-keeping, tax, CPF calculation etc

NUS Enterprise organize regular one-to-one consultations with certified advisers from an accounting firm. These clinics occur regularly on a monthly basis.

Do note that these clinics are only eligible for start-ups which are registered with Plug-In@Blk71 :)

*Due to limited slots per session, starts-up will be queued accordingly for the subsequent sessions and you will be informed upon confirmation of your slots.

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

19:00

22:00

iOS Dev Scout June Meetup

Monthly meetup of iOS Developers in Singapore

Tentative Agenda:

7:00PM: Harshit Agarwal & Subho Halder to talk about an iOS security automation tool they are building
7:45PM: Subh will speak about Enterprise iOS Development
8:30PM: Show & Tell by Members

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

10:00

12:30

Walkabout SG

Go behind the Scenes of Singapore’s Technology Movement
Walkabout Singapore is a city-wide open house event for technology startups. Check out the spaces, see how the companies work, and meet the people behind the innovative companies of Singapore.
Join us on this June 13th to see the unique offices behind the companies you know and love. The goal is simple: to put Singapore’s vibrant tech scene on the map and to inspire each other and the growing generation of entrepreneurs.

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

12:00

13:00

REST API best practices

API-fy EVERYTHING with Arul Kumaran.

Arul is a prolific open source contributor, known for his open source REST framework Restler.

He has helped his customers implement tonnes of API backends and is continuing to do so. Learn from the Master of REST himself as he explains what it takes to build a performant, standards-compliant and easy-to-use API backend for your frontend apps.

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

16:00

17:00

The New Internet Wilderness: What you need to know about 1000 new domain name extensions & IPv6

“Batten down the hatches, mates, it’s gonna get ugly! Relatively speaking.” - Jack Sparrow
The New Internet Wilderness:
What you need to know about 1000 new domain name extensions & IPv6

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

12:00

13:00

Building web apps with Martini-go and Gorm

Chang Sau Sheong, engineering director at Paypal SG and well-known Ruby/R hacker, will share with us his latest projects with martini-go and gorm and what he loves above golang!

Find out more and learn about his latest knowledge acquisition in the golang!

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

14:30

17:00

iSTARTUP Briefing & US Market Access: Garage Technology Ventures and iAxil – Building World Class Companies with Coaching and Mentoring from Practitioners from Silicon Valley and Asia

Come spend an afternoon with Henry Wong, Managing Partner of Garage Technology Ventures and iAxil to learn about the iSTARTUP programme and discover, explore and unleash the US market.

Seats are limited, please RSVP early.
• Date/ Time: 20 June 2014, 3:00 pm to 5.00 pm (registration starts at 2:30pm)
• Venue: Plug-In@Blk71, Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #02-18

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

18:00

21:00

NUS Orbital: Facebook Connect and OpenID

NUS Orbital Mission Control Session #6: Facebook Connect and OpenID
Presenter: TBA

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

18:00

21:00

Picking a company secretary for your startup

Join us for our two hour compliance tour, covering how to make the most of a chartered company secretary.

Apart from eating up my start-up funds, what role can a company secretary play? How do I tell the difference when there are so many ‘me-too’ company secretaries?

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)

Jun

12:00

13:00

Personal Finance for Hackers (& Painters)

What does it take to survive (and thrive) in Singapore as a maker?

Christopher Ng Wai Chung, currently a private investor, with a long successful career history with Singapore Mercantile Exchange, and Account Technical Lead (SGX) with HP, and a prolific user of R for purpose of statistical analysis, will share with us what it takes to be risk takers, entrepreneurs, hackers and painters in (Sunny and Expensive) Singapore. :-D

Nature of Event:

Public Event (Open to the public community)