Thursday 20 June, 2019
Hi <<First Name>>,
Early bird discounted tickets for Global INSEAD Day 60th Anniversary of INSEAD celebration in Singapore are selling fast. Get yours now. Please read on below to find out more about other upcoming events.
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them" The Dalai Lama
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INSEAD Entrepreneurship Club - What's Your Story Slam
Tuesday 09 July, 7.00pm – 10.00pm at The Projector
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So it’s finally here…. WYSH together with The INSEAD Alumni Entrepreneurship Club of Singapore is hosting the first Whats Your Story Slam series at the Projector on July 9 - doors open at 7pm.
What is a Story Slam?
The Story Slam is a live storytelling competition. True stories told live! Storytellers have 5 minutes each to tell a story, based on a theme chosen for the event. No notes allowed.
What is the theme for the Story Slam?
Theme for the July show is RISK.
Talk about the time where you went all in, decided not to go for it, stood in the sidelines, ran the probabilities in your head and made that call, or took a chance. Talk about the time when you went outside your comfort zone and took that leap of faith. What happened?
Who takes part in the Story Slam?
Story Slam features people like YOU, entrepreneurial spirits within and outside the INSEAD alumni community, with a great story to tell - entertaining the audience with the unpredictable, hilarious, and poignant turns that their lives have taken. We would love to hear from you! Pitch your story (or stories) on the theme by June 20.
Email us your pitch either via a voice message +65 84280925 or email to Anna Ong MBA'09J. If your story is selected, you'll get to do a coaching session a week before the show with storytelling coach, Anna Ong.
We're happy to reveal the first storytellers:
- John O'Shea MBA'09J, Partner Good Pharma Consulting
- Craig Bristol Dixon, Co-founder Accelerating Asia
Interested in attending? Get your ticket(s) here.
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $10 - use promocode: RISK
- INSEAD Non-NAA members and a guest each pay: $20
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INSEAD Healthcare Club Alumni Dinner
Thursday 20 June, 7pm at Tanjong Pagar
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We gather a small group of INSEAD alumni working in the healthcare industry and based in Singapore. The objective is to get to know each other and enjoy the moment. This is healthcare, be ready to joke about the molecular weight of the latest mabs, the latest M&As, or simply talk about where we decided to go on holiday... Do not expect anything transactional, no sales pitch*, and bring the most important thing - you. RSVP to Mariko to obtain the venue details.
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INSEAD CBD Alumni lunch
Friday 21 June, 12 noon at Wine Connection in Capital Square
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Please join us for our regular INSEAD CBD Lunch! Catch up with alumni friends and meet new ones in and around the CBD at 12pm on 21 June at Wine Connection. Order with Waitrr (founded by an INSEAD alum) and your food will come to the table, and you’ll avoid the hassle of queuing. Please RSVP to the INSEAD Lunch - CBD Whatsapp group. No ticketing required - just RSVP.
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INSEAD Wine Club – Encore Champagne tasting
Thursday 27 June, 7.00 - 9.00pm at Shangri-La Hotel, Wine Secret Cellar - sold out
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Join us for INSEAD Wine Club "Encore" champagne tasting!
By popular demand and following our secret champagne tasting in March which was sold out, we are doing another one in June! We will be tasting 4 different Champagne with a secret twist to it. This exclusive blind tasting will be conducted by the French Sommelier Stéphanie Rigourd from Vintage. Shangri-La 'secret wine cellar' will be dedicated to us and allow for an exclusive networking and fun tasting and learning.
Price includes 4 glasses per person and some finger food.
Please book early as seats are limited to 20 pax.
For any questions about the event, please contact Mimi Giraud GEMBA'18 and call +65 96571610 if you are lost.
This event is sold out
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INSEAD Jurong Inaugural Alumni lunch
Friday 28 June, 12.15 at Mian Mian - Westgate Mall
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Join other alumni in the Jurong area for a casual get together over lunch. The inaugural lunch will be held at Miam Miam, Westgate Mall #01-21/22, Singapore 608532.
No ticketing required - just RSVP to Irwing Antonio MBA'18D through the Jurong Whatsapp group.
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South Beach Tower Alumni Lunch
Friday June 28 12.15 at Vatos Urban Tacos
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Please join us for the June edition of our INSEAD South Beach Tower Alumni Lunch! Catch up with alumni friends and meet new ones in and around South Beach Tower, Suntec, and City Hall on Friday 28 June at Vatos Urban Tacos, 36 Beach Road, Singapore 189766. Please RSVP to Juan Bengzon MBA'10D.
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INSEAD Wine Club - Riedel Wine Glass Masterclass: size and shape do matter!
Thursday 12 September, 6.30 - 9.00pm at INSEAD
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Size and shape do matter for Wine tasting and appreciation!
Join us for a unique wine and glass tasting experience where we explore how the different shape and size of a glass can affect your perception of wines! Victor Ulrich, Vice President of Riedel Crystal Asia, will personally guide you through this exclusive masterclass using Riedel Performance, the latest Riedel collection of glassware.
The price includes:
- 4 different wines comparison tasting (Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Oaked Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc) using 4 different Riedel varietal glasses
- A demonstration of decanting
- Lindt Chocolate pairing
- At the end of event, participants will take home the glasses which they used for tasting (*)
Some finger food (light buffet) will be provided.
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $120 - use promocode RVU
- INSEAD Non-NAA members and a guest each pay: $150
Please contact Mimi at +65 96571610 if you have any questions.
(*) RIEDEL PERFORMANCE tasting set 5884/47 Recommended Selling Price is: $204.00
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Negotiation Skills Workshop: Become an Effective Negotiator
Career Development & Lifelong Learning Series
Saturday 22 June, 1.30pm – 6.00pm at The Herencia (Crane Club) - sold out
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Do you have the necessary knowledge & skills to secure what you desire? Have you ever felt uncomfortable in a negotiation? Do you feel unsure negotiating over salary, a work assignment or even where to go for a meal?
INSEAD NAA Career Development & Lifelong Learning brings you this workshop that will equip you with necessary tools to become an effective negotiator. You will not find simplistic methods in this workshop. Top negotiators know there is no single framework, whether “win-win” or “win-lose,” that works every time. Instead, over intense half day workshop, you will sharpen your skills as you learn new best practices and personalize techniques that can work in your next negotiation.
This is not a lecture course. Instead, you will be put to the test. You will negotiate with different partners in a wide variety of situations. By identifying your own and your partner’s negotiation styles and then working with them, you will forge better deals. Feedback, including videotaping and real-time peer feedback, will help you hone your edge.
 This power-packed workshop will be conducted by Kunjal Patel. Kunjal is the Head of Business at Nielsen Singapore and has been passionate about negotiation as a subject since early days in his career. He is an Oxford MBA and has 17 years of experience in commercial leadership, consulting and entrepreneurship. He has used his negotiation skills in the fields of M&A, corporate turnarounds, larger partnerships etc.
To keep the workshop meaningful and interactive, we are keeping the size of the workshop limited to 15 participants only.
This event is sold out
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Career Superdrive Playshop
Career Development and Lifelong Learning Series
Saturday 20 July, 2.00pm – 5.00pm at INSEAD
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Seriously, Play with your Career! A Board game-based Playshop for Career Discovery
Do you feel uncertain about your career direction? Unsure about how to make career choices? In this ever-changing environment, with an explosion of options and expansion of pathways, you need to take agency and drive your own career discovery-- a discovery of yourself, your story, your situation and your career strategy.
Career discovery goes beyond job search, and seeks to integrate your personal needs and preferences with the external world, so that you can achieve your goals. What if there were a fun, interactive way to do this?
INSEAD NAA Career Development and Lifelong Learning bring you this Career Superdrive board game playshop where you actively play and participate to:
- Uncover gems about your personal and professional priorities and motivations
- Imagine how one would navigate potential career decisions and scenarios, and spark action plans
- Have meaningful conversations in a fun, relaxed space, and learn from others' experiences and perspectives
 The playshop will be facilitated by Darlene Uy MCCC'18Feb-S, Co-Founder of the career design company My Working Title and co-creator of Career Superdrive board game. She holds an Executive Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD (2018) and has worked in supply chain management and learning & development in companies like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Essilor. She is passionate about guiding others through their self-discovery journeys.
To keep the playshop meaningful and interactive, we are limiting the size to a maximum of 25 participants only.
For more details, please contact event organizer, Ankit Kedia MBA’14D
- INSEAD NAA members pay: $20 - use promocode: PLAY
- INSEAD Non-NAA members pay: $50
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INSEAD Entrepreneurship Club event - Mindfulness for Entrepreneurs
Tuesday 2 July, 7.00pm – 9.30pm at location to be confirmed
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The INSEAD Alumni Entrepreneurship Club of Singapore is hosting the first of its Talks by ALEX series. We’re bringing you a highly experiential evening on Mindfulness, specifically from entrepreneurs' perspective. ALEX stands for alumni experts, and our alumni expert on this topic is Sriven Naidu MBA’07J.
Join us to learn why a mindfulness practice may be even more crucial for entrepreneurs than for senior executives. Experience a simple but effective foundational exercise to re-balance ‘doing’ and ‘being’ modes. And finally, understand and choose the most suitable options for practice that will meet your priority outcomes.
 Sriven brings 20 years of experience across Singapore, UK, France, Canada, India, ASEAN and Bhutan to his delivery of leadership develoment programmes. His teaching focuses on the growth and resilience of leaders and their organisations. Sriven has cross-sector versatility derived from a management and governance career that spans the private, public and academic sectors.
Drawing on scientific domains such as Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionary Psychology, Organisational Sociology, Economic Networks, Cognition & Decision-making, and Mindfulness, he has delivered a wide range of multidisciplinary sessions, including Mindfulness-based Strategic Decision-Making for Leaders.
Sriven is a certified executive coach with an LLB from National University of Singapore and an MBA from INSEAD. He has won teaching awards, is Singapore’s Global Ambassador to the Royal Society for the Arts (UK), and a strategic advisor to Para Limes, a multidisciplinary institute for the study of complex systems.”
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $ 15 - use promocode SN07J
- INSEAD Non-NAA members and a guest each pay: $ 45
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NAA Malaysia - Future of Work Conference
Saturday 6 July, 8.30am – 6.00pm (Malaysia Time)
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AI, automation and robots are fundamentally changing the work humans do and the relationship between humans and machine. Business leaders, innovators, scientist, politicians, economist as well as civil society, academia and other stake holders, all agrees that the world around us is changing – but how?
At Future of Work Malaysia, we ask our leaders, thinkers, innovators, disruptors, what that means for us here.
On the four key panel sessions: Public Policy; Finance and Economics; Education & Human Capital and Technology - questions are posed regarding how we can expect our work life to change as we both compete and complement AI in the near future.
Conference website
- INSEAD NAA members: The INSEAD Malaysia Alumni Association will sponsor a third of the price for INSEAD alumni that are up to date with their membership. Please contact Olivier Too EMBA'17Dec (Tel/WA: +60108279813) for reimbursement
- INSEAD non-NAA members: RM300
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Empowering Women through Financial Education - We Want You Lah!
Call for volunteers for Sunday 14 July
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INSEAD Alumni INDEVOR Club (social impact club) of Singapore is happy to launch its first official event with Aidha
Here’re 4 easy steps to join lah:
- Step 1: Select which of the following days on 14 July, or 25 Aug you have 2.5 hours from 10am - 12.30pm
- Step 2: Register by sending your CV to Kimber Lee MBA'18D and specify your available date(s) and preferred topic: Business Planning or Financial Planning
- Step 3: Receive students proposal by email from Aidha before the class
- Step 4: Conduct 1 on 1 or small group sessions with students to review their proposals during the class
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De-Globalisation and Sino-US Conflict: Causes and Implications
Saturday 24 August, 8.30am – 5.00pm at INSEAD
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The US-China conflict and what it means for doing business
Tensions and turbulent shifts in trade policy, economic power and geopolitics are creating new uncertainties for business organisations. The last 30 years provided a stable rules-based framework, globalisation opened up many new markets for trade and investment, and multinational corporations built globally integrated supply chains. Today, we see the United States struggling to maintain supremacy, China rising, resurgent nationalism across the globe, and the democratic model losing its sheen.
HE Jawed Ashraf, High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Singapore, noted at a recent INSEAD Forum, “that we are all being untethered from our moorings. It is no longer a case of history moving forward in linear fashion. We are entering an unpredictable world where we will all have to reckon with finding strategies that enable us to prosper in different sets of circumstances, different markets and different environments.” The challenge for corporate leaders is to be aware of impacts beyond our direct control.
This means that business leaders, investors and consultants cannot continue ‘business as usual’ and ignore the shift in paradigm in the global order, but have to develop a new ability: the ability to understand, assess and navigate the shifting political and economic eco-system and its evolving opportunities and risks.
The purpose of this one day crash course in international political analysis is to help you develop this ability.
- INSEAD NAA Members: $ 680 - no promocode
- INSEAD NAA Non-members: $ 890
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Global INSEAD Day 60th Anniversary of INSEAD @ INSEAD Asia Campus
Friday 13 September, 10.00am - 11.30pm at INSEAD
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Join us in Singapore on Friday, September 13 to celebrate this year's Global INSEAD Day (GID) commemorating 60 years of excellence.
 The full day celebrations will take place at INSEAD Singapore campus (1 Ayer Rajah Avenue) and end with a party till late at one of the great clubs of Singapore. Tickets will include access to activities organised by the INSEAD National Alumni Association of Singapore including a keynote speech by HE Mr Marc ABENSOUR, the Ambassador of France to Singapore, professor lectures on business as a force for good, panel discussions, and an evening of sumptuous celebrations at the Leadership Development Centre restaurant with cocktails and free-flow of drinks.
Watch out for the remaining program to be revealed soon. Seats are limited, get your early bird tickets today, only till 13 August!
EARLY BIRDS: From 13 June till 13 August
- INSEAD Alumni NAA members, Students, Faculty and Staff: SGD50 - use promocode: GID190913
- INSEAD Alumni non-NAA members and other INSEAD friends: SGD80
LATE BIRDS: From 13 August till 13 September
- INSEAD Alumni NAA members, Students, Faculty, and Staff: SGD100
- INSEAD Alumni non-NAA members and other INSEAD friends: SGD130
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INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum - "Excellent Execution 2"
Friday & Saturday 20 - 21 September, 8.30am – 5.00pm at Accenture Madrid Digital Hub, Madrid, Spain
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The INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) 2019 is back with the theme "Excellent Execution 2: Deeper". This year we will continue to incorporate the INSEAD IEF’s successful ingredients:
- top entrepreneurial speakers from the INSEAD world
- a high achieving audience
- actionable insights and takeaways from useful workshops
We are also adding a new angle to our successful formula: a deeper venture pitch contest.
The 2019 IEF will see 200 INSEAD entrepreneurs and investors gather in Madrid on 20-21 September to learn more about the basics of entrepreneurship, sales, crisis management, HR, B to C, cash management, the relationship between corporate and startups, and more.
With a series of world leading keynote speakers, panelists from the global INSEAD community – including GEMBAs, MBAs and Executive Education alumni – and hands-on workshops, it is THE annual event for any entrepreneurial-minded alumni that should not be missed.
Keynote Speakers
Come and learn from Michel de Rovira MBA'04D Co-Founder of Michel et Augustin; Luca Verre MBA'14J Co-Founder of Prophesee; Bruno Bouygues MBA'02D, President at GYS; Stephanie Bompas MBA'00D, Chief Executive Officer at CMV Informatics; Arnaud Bonzom, Co-founder at Map of the Money; Saskia Gentil EMBA'16Dec, Vice President, Global Sales at CWT Meetings & Events; Xavier Milin TGM F/F'11Jun, Director at Basics Finance, Director at Startup Leadership Program…and more!
Book your ticket now.
We look forward to seeing you in Madrid!
- INSEAD NAA members: € 247.50 - use promocode IAAMEMBER
- INSEAD Non-NAA members: € 275
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The Distinguished Universities Alumni League (DUAL) is a umbrella of 20 university alumni clubs (Harvard, LBS, Columbia, INSEAD...). Click here for more details on events. DUAL is on Facebook - stay connected.
- Thursday, 20 June, 2019 – DUAL Drinks – hosted by U of Michigan
- Friday, 21 June, 2019, 6.00 pm: Stanford Club of Singapore is extending an invitation to NAA members for their upcoming Inter-Alumni Summer Social at the Providore to "mix + mingle with the finest + brightest alumni and young professionals in Singapore." Invite your friends and RSVP by clicking “going” on our Facebook event page. Hashtag #insurewithshenton to enjoy a complimentary glass of wine and join our lucky draw. The event is co-organized by the Stanford Club of Singapore and Shenton Insurance.
- Saturday, 22 June, 2019, 1.30pm: Singapore Youth Action Plan - June
- Monday, 24 June, 2019, 7.00pm: In Conversation with Curtis S Chin, former US Ambassador to the ADB
- Wednesday, 26 June, 2019, 6.00pm: DUAL LGBT Drinks
- Saturday, 6 July, 2019, 2.00pm: Harvard Club of Singapore - High Tea & Fine Jewellery
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Office Bearers
President: Cintia Tavella MBA'07D
Vice-President: Amit Puri MBA'06J
Secretary: Jaz Athenia Chua TIEMBA'16Jan
Treasurer: Abel Van Staveren EMBA'08D
Executive Committee
Social Events & IAF: Virginia Brumby MBA'09J
Clubs & Groups: Rani Francois-Marie Saad AMP'15D
Clubs & Groups - elect: Julie He MBA'13D
Career Development & Lifelong Learning: Ankit Kedia MBA’14D
Marketing & Communications: Jean-Francois Legourd MBA'12D
Sustainable Innovation: Reshmi Rajendran EMBA'16D
Digital Innovation & FinTech: Laurent Simon TGM F/S'14Jul
Treasurer - elect: Amy Xu MBA'14J
Executive Director: Nathalie De Spiegeleire
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