{"id":15344,"date":"2018-05-30T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=15344"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:58:22","slug":"ignite-2018-to-open-bigger-local-and-global-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2018\/05\/30\/ignite-2018-to-open-bigger-local-and-global-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"IGNITE 2018 to open bigger local and global opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>IGNITE<\/strong>, the premier innovation conference,\u00a0will have its second staging on <strong>July 16 \u2013 17, 2018<\/strong> at the Makati Shangri-La, Manila. The event aims to create local and global opportunities for the young and flourishing startup community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15345\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Email_Banner_Header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Email_Banner_Header.png 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Email_Banner_Header-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">IGNITE 2018 is organized by TechShake and dentsu X in collaboration with Brainsparks and Flyspaces. It is a two-day conference that will feature world-class keynote speakers and business matching opportunities that will allow participants to collaborate with exciting innovators and established institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The international gathering of innovators will bring together around 1,000 multi-stakeholders including startup founders, corporations, international and local investors, as well as important key players in the government, accelerators, and incubators. It will feature activities such as breakout sessions, panel discussions, and business matching with established corporations, startups,\u00a0and innovators from the private sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15346\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite1.png 587w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite1-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Expected to attend this year\u2019s summit are leading investors and companies such as TenX, KK Fund, Fenox Venture Capital, Dentsu Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, PLDT Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, CNTTECH, Unilever Foundry, Quad X, Security Bank, Fujitsu, QuadX and many more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Last year\u2019s conference gathered more than 600 participants and allowed several participating startups to close deals and investments post-event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15348\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite3.png 568w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite3-290x218.png 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite3-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This year, IGNITE 2018 will be bigger. To be invited are more than 40+ speakers from various parts of the world: UK, India, China, Singapore, Japan, Korea and other countries in the region. IGNITE will also serve as a venue for the biggest curated Business Matching activity between Startups and Corporates as well as Startups and Investors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15357\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite-Poster-2018-A3-1-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite-Poster-2018-A3-1.png 724w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/05\/Ignite-Poster-2018-A3-1-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>IGNITE is not to be missed. Capture the great opportunity it offers. You may register and buy your event pass at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ignite.ph\">https:\/\/www.ignite.ph<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What: IGNITE: The Philippines&#8217; Premier Innovation Conference<br \/>\nWhen: July 16 to 17, 2018<br \/>\nWhere: Makati Shangri-La, Makati Ave. cor. Ayala Avenue, Makati City<br \/>\nWebsite:\u00a0https:\/\/www.ignite.ph<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release with minor edits made by Philippine Primer editors.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGNITE will serve as a venue for the biggest curated Business Matching activity between Startups and Corporates, and Startups and Investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4270,68,2562],"tags":[2190,5048,498,5049,4497],"class_list":["post-15344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-makati","category-conference","category-convention","category-forum","tag-business","tag-ignite-2018","tag-makati","tag-startup-events","tag-startups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15360,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions\/15360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}