Met Guy Kawasaki!

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Went to the Netbash @WCIT event at Nikko Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Monday - it was a real blast!

The highlight of the day was definitely meeting Guy Kawasaki - the ex Apple evangelist and currently a venture capitalist. A very natural speaker who connected well with the audience. Also, got one of his really funky namecards - his name in silver font on a black background on the front, and his email and cell on the back.

Way cool!

Other speakers in the event were Colin Wong (ex-Googler and currently a VC), Terry Thoren (he used to head the animation firm which producted The Simpsons) and Mahmoud Bouneb (GM of Al Jazeera).

The attendance was probably too small for a star-studded speaker list (200 people at most), but some of the who’s who of the Malaysia ICT world was there. I shared the table with the CEO of Skali (Tengku Farith), MD of Friedchillies.com (Adly Rizal) and my good friend Razlan Mustapha, the COO of Urekalabs (picture on the left here). Also spotted were Josh Lim (Advertlets.com), Dato’ Ghazi Sheikh Ramli (former senator and now president of MAKRI), Roni Mustapha (CEO of Urekalabs) and Ashran Ghazi (CEO of Asiastream Group and President of NEF).

Also bumped into a couple of old acquaintances - John Lim, ex-Cyber Village who is currently the CEO of Beauty Impress, as well as Hamdi Mokhtar, CEO of Innovasia. John was one of my earlier mentors who inspired me to start marketing online. Hamdi, on the other hand, was an ex Telekom scholar just like me. Together with another ex Telekom scholar, Nik Shazwan Azam (the entrepreneur behind CeriaTone), they started off in the IT solutions space before parting ways.

Will blog about the content of the talks later - right now I am still starstruck!

Addendum: Guy has blogged about his trip to Malaysia - complete with pictures of Batu Caves and Thien Hou Temple. Here’s the link - http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/05/forty-five-hour.html

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