The Ecolabs Centre of Innovation for Energy is established (jointly by NTU, Enterprise Singapore, and SEAS). To build and accelerate deep-tech energy innovation capabilities in Singapore to support the nation’s future energy transition. This joint initiative aims to help Singapore based energy Start-ups and SMEs by providing them with essential translation facilities and connections, such as research & development manpower, lab infrastructure, testbed sites and business opportunities to help them successfully commercialise and scale their innovation efforts.

A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and Graduate colleges. It also has a medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, established jointly with Imperial College London. Ranked amongst the world’s top universities by QS, NTU has also been named the world’s top young university for the last seven years.

Hyundai Cradle, the Center for Robotic-augmented Design in Living Experiences. Formerly Hyundai Ventures, CRADLE strengthens HMG’s core automotive business and expand into new and adjacent markets to enhance transportation on and off the road. Offices in Silicon Valley, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Beijing.

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 66 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 4,300 retail financial centers, including approximately 2,400 lending centers, 2,600 financial centers with a Consumer Investment Financial Solutions Advisor and 1,700 business centers; approximately 16,600 ATMs; and award-winning digital banking with nearly 38 million active users, including approximately 29 million mobile users.

Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and approximately 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) represents the interests and provides a common platform for companies in Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Management, e-mobility, smart grids and Financial Institutions to meet, discuss, collaborate and undertake viable projects together. The Association is a non-profit, non-government business association, and its mission is to assist its members in achieving sustainable growth locally and regionally through business and market development. SEAS plays a strategic role in supporting and promoting Singapore’s vision to be a global centre for sustainable energy, where products and solutions are developed and exported. For more information about what the association does and its services, please visit www.seas.org.sg

City of Berlin, Germany

AsiaBerlin, powered by the State of Berlin, forms the collective platform that brings together communities within the startup ecosystems across Asia and Berlin.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s legacy closely traces the birth and evolution of Silicon Valley. For nearly six decades, the firm has represented the technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation.

SparkLabs Foundry, provides a real-time proprietary platform of over 10 million global startups to help multinational corporates & local, state, federal agencies accelerate their innovation programs and stay ahead of their competitors.

Invest Stockholm is the official investment promotion agency of Stockholm. We work with the marketing and development of the Stockholm region as a business destination under the brand Stockholm – The Capital of Scandinavia. Invest Stockholm is a subsidiary of Stockholm Business Region, owned by the city of Stockholm.

Equilibrium, a new platform that provides smart sustainability automation. It harnesses the power of AI, Automation and APIs to help your company be a climate leader faster and smarter.

GDP Venture is a venture builder, focusing on digital communities, media, commerce and solution companies in the Indonesian consumer internet industry. Founded in 2010, GDP Venture is not only about venture capital. It is about growing Indonesia's economy. Our purpose is to create a healthy ecosystem that produces world-class digital companies, supported by teams of great technopreneurs, engineers, product people and marketers.

The emergence of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory™ at Arizona State University is rooted in the conviction that we can and must make a meaningful contribution to ensuring a habitable planet and a future in which well-being is attainable for all humankind.

This laboratory draws on ASU’s deep commitment to use-inspired research, our ongoing work in sustainability and service to the global community in which we live, explored across five core spaces: Discovery | Learning | Solutions | Networks | Engagement

Founded in 2010 by Techstars alongside the White House’s Startup America Initiative, GAN was launched to align the accelerator industry around globally accepted best practices and create a standardized model for their success.

Today, GAN (independent from Techstars since 2014) has more than 100 accelerators in their community, running programs in 120+ cities all over the world, which have supported a total of more than 10,000 startups. Corporate groups like Comcast, SendGrid, UPS, and many others are seeking to build meaningful relationships with the startups in the GAN community.

Located in the heart of central Florida, NeoCity is a 483-acre master planned intuitive community of innovation where live, walk, and play is seamlessly integrated.  As a smart urban center, NeoCity offers an environment where startups, academia, and private sectors companies can thrive and grow. 

Bespin Global is the first East Asian company to be positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services for four consecutive years and is the first Korean company to be placed in the Leaders quadrant this year. The company supports all major public cloud platforms and offers cloud managed service globally through its proprietary platform, OpsNow. Recognized for its skills and growth, Bespin Global China has a significant presence in the Chinese MSP market. Bespin Global is also quickly expanding in the Middle East & Africa region through its MEA arm.

For more than 35 years, SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ: SIVB) and its subsidiaries have helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB Financial Group's businesses, including Silicon Valley Bank, offer commercial and private banking, asset management, private wealth management, brokerage and investment services and funds management services to companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB Financial Group operates in centers of innovation around the world.

Founded in 1920, The Chosun Ilbo is the nation’s top newspaper to mark its 101st anniversary this year. In addition, The Chosun Ilbo has the largest circulation in Korea, being the only daily newspaper in the country with more than 1 million paid copies. Chosun Ilbo is growing into a comprehensive media group with 10 million audience through various media such as broadcasting, Internet, and mobile as well as newspapers.