Welcome to the exciting Business and Tech Gathering in Asia, proudly organized by NFQ x Tech Rocks Asia
🌐 Website: techrocks.asia/
MASTERCLASS: SCALING BUSINESS DAY
Scaling Business Day is a series of masterclasses, where we gather the brightest minds that shape the thriving tech landscape in Asia. With one action packed Scaling Business Day designed to push boundaries and inspired breakthroughs, you can join the masterclasses, get to connect, collaborate, and innovate.
HOW THIS WORKS
Scaling Business Day provides two tracks (Business + Tech) to offer a quality experience. You can check the tracks, mix them to fit your best interests and and enjoy the masterclasses.
THE AGENDA
Business Track
✅ Building and Launching a Successful Digital Product in Vietnam
🎤 Oscar Jesionek & Xuan Nguyen - Co-Founders, Fonos
Join the founders of Fonos, Vietnam’s leading digital audio platform, for an in-depth 90-minute masterclass. Gain firsthand insights into the journey of creating and launching a successful digital product in the Vietnamese market. This session will cover key strategies, challenges faced, and lessons learned in product development, market entry, and scaling within Vietnam’s dynamic digital landscape. Ideal for entrepreneurs, product managers, and tech enthusiasts aiming to understand the nuances of building a digital product in Vietnam.
✅ Start Smart: Key Lessons for Building a Successful Business
🎤 Craig Dixon - Founding General Partner, Accelerating Asia
In this 90-minute masterclass, Craig Dixon—serial entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Accelerating Asia—will guide founders through the essentials for startup success. Learn the top strategies to build a thriving business, the key pitfalls to avoid, and insider insights from over 75 startup investment rounds. Whether you’re a German business leader or a Vietnamese startup founder, this session is packed with actionable advice to turn your entrepreneurial vision into reality.
✅ Mastering the Art of Podcasting
🎤 Joel Kaczmarek - Journalist, bestselling author, podcast host
Step into the world of podcasting with Joel Kaczmarek, one of Germany’s most successful podcast hosts and the founder of Digital Kompakt. IJoël will share expert strategies for creating, growing, and monetizing podcasts, covering content building, securing guests, mastering audio quality, and audience retention. He’ll explore storytelling techniques, branding, and standing out in a crowded market. Drawing from experience with industry leaders and top podcasts, he offers practical tips, lessons, and common pitfalls. Ideal for beginners or scaling podcasters, this session provides actionable insights on crafting compelling episodes and achieving long-term success.
✅ Mastering B2B Sales: Proven Strategies for Sales Success
🎤 Henning Heesen - Founder & CEO, Henning Heesen & Company
Join Henning Heesen, a veteran entrepreneur and sales consultant, for an intensive masterclass on B2B sales excellence. Drawing from his extensive experience in building and scaling internationalsales, Henning will share actionable insights into developing effective sales strategies, coaching high-performing sales teams, and leveraging technology to drive growth. This session is ideal for business leaders, sales professionals, and entrepreneurs aiming to enhance their sales performance and achieve sustainable success in the competitive e-commerce landscape.
Tech Track
✅ Our Journey from Gitflow to Trunk Based Development
🎤 CTO, NFQ Vietnam
Having worked with Gitflow for years, we transitioned to Trunk Based Development to meet growing product needs. This masterclass covers the differences, why we switched, how we restructured our software development lifecycle, the initiatives we set up to foster the adoption, how we used Feature Flags to achieve Continuous Deployment, and how Feature Environments and Non-Regression Tests upped our confidence in shipping to production every day.
✅ To the customer and back
🎤 Vu Dang - Chief Data Officer and Director of AI for Business Growth, MoMo
A big part of data’s appeal is enabling meaningful dialogue with the customer whether through customer service, marketing or other content delivery channels. This requires transparency and fidelity in the flow of data between the organization and the customer. Although the overall challenge is well-studied, the particular constraints of each organization keep it fresh for every data manager. In this masterclass, we discuss several common but non-trivial problems in the context of a relatively complex set of products on the same platform.
✅ The Power of Vector Databases: Challenges, Best Practices, and Future Trends
🎤 Andrew Schwabe - Founder, Chairman, Saigon A.I.
Dive into the world of vector databases with insights on overcoming common pitfalls, strategy to plan for large-scale data, and mastering efficient indexing and querying. Explore emerging tools, integration with AI/ML pipelines, and the exciting applications driving next-generation AI systems. This session is a must-attend for anyone looking to leverage vector databases in cutting-edge AI projects.
✅ Unlocking Business Value with Data & Analytics: A Masterclass in Data-Driven Transformation
🎤 Son Nguyen - Senior Manager, Data Services Delivery, Rackspace Technology; Former Data Center of Excellence Director, Pharmacity
Son will share real-world case studies highlighting the power of data and AI in driving business growth. This masterclass is not about high-tech or deep-tech concepts—it is about practical, foundational technologies. He’ll reveal how integrating data tech and analytics into business operations can lead to game-changing breakthroughs.
FOR MORE DETAILS
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We look forward to seeing you at Scaling Business Day!
