Introducing the Warung Tech Index: A data-driven view on the digital journey of traditional trade in Indonesia

8 March 2022, 12:00 pm SGT / 11:00 am JKT

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To capture the impact of the digitalisation of mom and pop stores in Indonesia, DealStreetAsia is creating the Warung Tech Index. The index will capture the digitisation journey of the warungs as well as gauge the opportunities and challenges of the road ahead, and whether models developed for one market can more efficiently address the challenges of similar markets across the region.

The session will include an introduction of the keynote findings of the Warung Tech index, followed by a discussion on the digitalisation of warungs involving Howard Gani, CEO of Buka Mitra Indonesia and Khailee Ng, Global Managing Partner at 500 Global. Aspects that will be covered will include the current ecosystem that warungs operate in, the private investments powering the transformation so far; some of the notable results; as well as lessons learnt and refinements introduced to warung tech.

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Howard Gani
Howard Gani

CEO
Buka Mitra Indonesia – Bukalapak

Khailee Ng
Khailee Ng

Managing Partner
500 Global

Joji Philip

Founder & Editor-in-Chief DealStreetAsia

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Howard Gani

Howard is an all-round business leaders with a strong background in a variety of field, such as business & product initiatives, partnership and dealing management, and disruption & growth hacking strategy.

Howard started his first career at Ericsson Australia as an Engineer. Before he came back to Indonesia, he finishes his MBA Degree in INSEAD. Then he continue his journey to work at Bain & Company for more than 3 years, before he joined Bukalapak.

Currently, Howard holds the role as the CEO of Mitra Bukalapak at Bukalapak.
Buka Mitra Indonesia - BukalapakCEO
Buka Mitra Indonesia - Bukalapak

Khailee Ng

Khailee Ng is a managing partner at U.S. venture capital firm 500 Global and its 500 Southeast Asia family of funds. He has led more than 180 seed investments in Southeast Asian tech startups, including unicorns Grab, Carousell, Bukalapak, Carsome, Prenetics, and other regional champions. Prior to 500, he was the founder of Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon) and Malaysia’s largest online media company, Says.com (acquired by Media Prima).

As new technology and evolving consumer landscapes continue to disrupt industries, Khailee focuses on discovering patterns of economic opportunity and backing the entrepreneurs who realize them. His investment activity and commentaries on industry trends have been featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune.
500 GlobalManaging Partner
500 Global

Joji Philip

Joji is the founder of DealStreetAsia. He is a 24×7 information enthusiast, currently based in Singapore, and leads a pan-Asia team. Prior to this, he was among the most prolific journalists in India, and chronicled the communications/telecoms segment, breaking some of the biggest stories in these sectors, during his tenure at The Economic Times, and Business Standard. Since 2013, he has also been with Mint, a financial daily from HT Media Ltd. Joji has won the Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Journalism in March 2006. He is a twitterholic and a soccer fan who is only off the internet when motorcycling in the Himalayas.
dealstreetasiaFounder & Editor-in-Chief
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