WELCOME TO THE SINGAPORE CHAPTER OF THE GLOBAL ASSOCIATION FOR VR AND AR
WHY JOIN VRARA SINGAPORE?
Global businesses in Singapore are as diverse as the products and services they sell, however they all have one thing in common: They see Singapore as the Asian capital of cutting-edge technology and entrepreneurship. This together with the country’s plan to invest billions into science and technology over the next five years makes Singapore Asia’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. Singapore has a startup ecosystem ranked in top 10 in the world. This together with the country’s plan to invest billions into science and technology over the next five years could make Singapore a ‘got to’ destination as a global innovation and entrepreneurship hub. VR and AR could be a driving force in this.
As such, the VRARA Singapore chapter aims to grow and connect the industry’s relevant stakeholders and businesses in the region. VRARA Singapore will help you scale your VR/AR businesses, gain useful feedback and industry insight, as well as bringing together VR/AR companies, organizations, experts and enthusiasts. VRARA Singapore could help you fuel your VR/AR projects, gain useful feedback and industry insight. With bringing together all local VR/AR companies, organizations, experts and enthusiasts we will create a strong alliance of like-minded people capable of changing the industry landscape and bringing the technology to the masses.
Together we are creating a strong alliance of like-minded and experienced professionals interested in evolving the industry’s success in the South East Asian region and globally. VRARA Singapore also works across the globe with other VRARA chapters, giving you worldwide reach and potential.
NEWS
THE TEAM
Chapter President Position Available— please contact pradeep@thevrara.com for more information.
Chapter VP Ahmed Aqeel
Ahmed is Co-Founder of Ministry of Immersion, a platform connecting people to build & play experiential games and sports. He envisions a seamless world for viewers, players, and makers weaving VR, AR, and all immersive realities together. Over the last 15 years in Singapore, Ahmed has built engaging social games and innovative digital experiences for startups, academia, and enterprises. He was a Founder in Residence at Entrepreneur First, working on a hospitality focused AI & robotics startup. As a part of Manulife Singapore’s Strategy, Transformation, and Experience Marketing Team, he led their interactive consumer experiences, and digital presence. Prior to that, he founded a venture studio, developed new products & experience design for multiple B2B and consumer focused cloud start-ups like Circles.life, Ematic Solutions, and Guava Pass (ClassPass). After starting his career at Apple, and Game Ventures as a developer, Ahmed transitioned to Experience Design, Production & Community building after stints at MIT Game Lab, and the Game Lab at Singapore University of Technology & Design.
Chapter VP Khalid Imtiaz
A commercially savvy business leader with over 15 years of experience, Khalid is a strong advocate for customer experience, product strategy and data in SaaS, ecommerce and AR/VR. He has a track record of delivering highly complex solutions to customers across the globe, he has spent the majority of this career helping businesses, retail and government enterprises incorporate cutting edge solutions that add both commercial and experiential value.
As the Business Head at Evolve Innovative Solutions, Khalid is the interface between customer business needs and seeing them developed in customer ready solutions using cutting edge technology in AR or VR.
Chapter VP Bell Beh
Bell is the Co Founder and CEO of Buzz AR. Buzz AR digitalises every inch of the physical space, transforming how people eat, shop, play and live. She started Buzz AR, while studying Law and Technology at UC Berkeley, and recently, she’s been the pioneer in implementing this emerging technology at Singapore’s premier luxury shopping destinations with participation from the Singapore's government agencies. In the near future, her team believes that stores will be like websites, websites will be like stores. Bell’s personal mission is to make AR accessible to all and execute the power of immersive technologies to enhance the reality of everyone, especially to the weaker groups and people with little exposure, she devotes her life to this mission.
Advisory Board
Yogesh Dayal is based in Singapore and currently mentors and consults with local tech companies. He is passionate about Emerging technologies like AI, especially in the areas of Machine Learning and Neuroscience inspired AI. Yogesh is also Director at Kayu Partners, where he leads investment strategy in tech startups in the region. In his previous stint, he spent more than 2 decades with IBM as their Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for operations of large organizations across Singapore, Europe and India.
Rajiv Madane has worked in the Banking and FinTech ecosystems with various multinational companies in USA, Europe and Asia Pacific for over 30 years. Rajiv has held leadership positions in companies like FIS Global, Wipro Technologies, ACI Worldwide, Fiserv, and until recently with Virtusa, as Head of Innovation labs in Asia Pacific where he helped launch the APIX platform (API Exchange between banks and fintechs) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He has been involved in FinTech solutions for core banking, digital banking, cards, payments, treasury, trade, etc. covering Retail Banking, SME Banking, Corporate Banking and Wealth Management business segments.
NETWORK
Connect and build strong relationships with key players in the VR/AR ecosystem through VRARA or partner-hosted events.
COLLABORATE
Work with innovators in the VR/AR ecosystem across all verticals, from original content creators to innovative hardware companies.
RESEARCH
Gain unlimited, exclusive access to VRARA research and publications, or, when applicable, receive discounts to third-party reports.
