We’ve finally brought the event that started it all back to Hong Kong with Startup Saturday: Mobilliance 2013 and what an amazing return it was!
On 12 October 2013, at The Vine Centre in Wan Chai, 300 startups, entrepreneurs, media and investors spent a day at our 1-day conference hearing from all types of mobile startups – from Yat Siu of Animoca to Junde Yun of AppAnnie all the way from Beijing to Stephen Forte of AceeleratorHK’s final live talk on cross-platform before he leaves to open his new accelerator in Palo Alto – even though it was a long weekend it was THE startup event to be at in Hong Kong this year and we are very proud and happy of the community we’ve helped build over the past 3 years.
Fret not there will be more – we’re planning the crowdfunding conference now for either a December or January date. And we have a few other events planned in between those as well.
In the meantime have a look at this amazing photo gallery put together by photographer Martin Bednar.
It’s also great to hear what you thought of the event – here are some of the emails and tweets we’ve received about the event:
Hey guys, thank you for all the organization today. Great panels & talks! – Wendy Chen, Omnistream.co
Serious, nicely done. Good talent choices, engaging and relevant. – Paul Harris
What a great event and fabulous takeaway! – David Wu
Thanks to @startupshk for inspiring Mobilliance 2013 mobile startup conference. It was well worth visiting from Guangzhou. – Jari-Pekka Raitamaa.
Thanks to @startupshk for an insightful and fun Startup Saturday event. Excited to see how big this will grow over next few years. – Ben Wintle
thanks to @startupshk and @smecchk The Mobilliance 2013 is awesome! #SUSHK – Vicky Hei
The Mobilliance event was refreshingly good! Thanks to @startupshk and the comedic MC talents of @casey_lau #sushk – B Dowding Young.
Great to see some successful HK start-ups with serious traction on stage – Charlotte Felix
Great talk by @simonhk at #sushk. Pivot is esp hard when u have passionate paying users. Focus on the big picture & extract learning. – Thomas Pun
This inspiring speech is #TED grade!! Thanks @dszuc #sushk – Cedric Delzenne
@ysiu great speech at #sushk @startupshk, totally feeling ur words about investor community needing to invest in innovation!! – Micheal Michelini
You can see all the tweets from the event under the #SUSHK hashtag here.
And all the Instagram photos that were taken here.
We’d also like to thank again our co-organizer SCC and all our volunteers on the day: Vanessa Chan, Mavis Ho, Louis Lo, Angie Choi and Maggie Cheung, Ivy Shum, Ruby Law, Mita Bijlani, Dickson Tsui, Skye Cheung, Holly Yan, Maggie Cheung, Mavis Chan, Erick Leung, Ankit, Kurt Fung, Aleksandar Solum, Jie Min, Fernando Gros and of course our very own Charlie Sheng – who did so much to make this event a success!
And a huge thanks to our sponsors 8 Securities, SoftLayer, eMarsys and Cooley who helped make this event a reality!
Finally 8 Media is putting together a highlights video for everyone to see. We’ll post that as soon as we get it!
The photos above are some highlights – see tons more photos on our Flickr page here or tag yourself in the Facebook album here.
