Interestingly enough, this was my 2nd conference on SME that I had attended in a period of 1 week. I had received the invitation from the organisers to join the Malaysian Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Congress on 18 August 2009 at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre.

The 1-day congress was titled ‘Overcoming Adversity: How SMEs Do It‘, there were well over 300 participants who came, as far of as Penang to network, learn from the panel speakers and mingle.

Here’s the program for the day:

• Registration & Networking
• Welcome Address by Mr Wayne Lim, CEO Malaysia SME
• Presentation by Dr Clara L Chee, Founder Clara Group of Companies
• Tea Break
• Presentation by Mr Jeffrey Soo & Ms Michelle Hah, Fire Fighter Industry Sdn Bhd
• Presentation by En Mohamed Ali Noordin, Abx Express (M) Sdn Bhd
• Opening Ceremony, Lunch, Networking & Lucky Draw
• Presentation by Dang Tai Luk, Founder of myNEWS.com (Bison Stores Sdn Bhd)
• Panel Discussion
• Closing Address, Coffee, Networking and Lucky Draw

All in all it was a great session of learning from the pioneers, I was impressed with the sit-down course dinner, the wealth of knowledge from the various speakers, their humble manner in sharing their past on how they started their business. Clearly starting a business is not easy, many have put their tears, blood and sweat into making their dream a reality.

The sponsorship from the 3 main giants Cisco, Celcom & TM made the event accessible for everyone and on top of everything, I was lucky enough to win the SME Premium membership worth RM888.

So glad to be on the right track road of a successful photographer cum Entrepreneur.

Thanks to Michael Chan from MMS Advertising for this shot

I’ve just attended a two day event (12 & 13 August 2009) titled ‘Women Entrepreneurs Conference’ organised by Gorgeous Geeks at Technology Park Malaysia in Bukit Jalil. The conference has been nothing but empowering and mind-blowing. We had the chance not only to network but be exposed to social networks, technology, grants and utilising the Internet to its highest potential.

We were given inspirational and motivational talks by leading entrepreneurs which kept our mind racing with innovative ideas and forums which consisted of a range of panels discussing issues on business and marketing.

Here is a brief breakdown of the 2-day program:

Day 1

Session 1 – Started with Dr. Dominic Lau who spoke about Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Click on Dominic Lau to download the seminar notes.

Session 2 – We had 4 panelist: Dolly Kee – Director of Image Power, Laletha Nithiyanandan – Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group – MD Salt Media Consultancy & Dato’ Susie Yeoh – CEO Uptrend Network spoke about ‘The Journey of Entrepreneurship’.

Session 3 - Oon Yeoh – Columnist & New Media Editor & Colin Wong the founder of Sharein who spoke about Social Web Media for Business.

Session 4 - Another forum titled “Redefine Working Culture in the Digital Age’, panelists were Alecia Heng – President GG, Hoe Kian Choon – Sales GM Coway, Nadiah Tan Abdullah – HRD Microsoft Malaysia and Thomas Low – eHomemakers.

Session 5 – We were enlightened about the available financial support and grants for SMEs, Panelists were from MDeC, MAVCAP and SMIDEC.

Day 2

Session 1 – Forum titled Leverage on Social Web Media Marketing for Modern Business, panelists were Christ Tan – Chur Associates, Kid Chan – Kid Chan Studio, Timothy Tiah – Nuffnang Tand Tan Yet Mee – Emmagem

Session 2 – Product & Marketing Positioning, Applying the Blue Ocean Strategy by Sharon Ang from Laurent Bleu Skin

Session 3 - The Online Opportunity – Why We Should Be Selling on eBay by Carol Fung

Session 4 - Another forum titled ‘Journey for Financial Support & Grant for Business – part 2′ by Christy Lee – MAVCAP, Eliza Noordin – Teak Capital, Koh Lee Ching – Calms Technologies, Siti Mariam Abdullah – Clear Insight Technology

Session 5 – E-Payment for E-Commerce by Terry Yee from ipay88

Session 6 - An interesting talk by Hanson Toh, Google Country consultant on ‘Letting Customers Find You & your Products on the Internet’

Here are some shots taken by Eric Chan who was the designated photographer (yes yours truly decided to participate in the conference for once!)

Alecia Heng, President of Gorgeous Geeks

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