Thursday 04 July, 2019
Hi <<First Name>>,
Thank you to those who reached out to our call for volunteers! We, the executive committee of the National Alumni Association of Singapore (NAA), still have some amazing volunteering opportunities for alumni interested in helping organise social and family events. Contact us for more details.
Tickets for Global INSEAD Day 60th Anniversary of INSEAD celebration in Singapore and member-only event Thinking Strategically about Impact with Prof. Jasjit Singh are selling fast. Get yours now. See you all at First Friday Drinks tomorrow!
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." Marcus Aurelius
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First Friday Drinks at Brotzeit Somerset - bring a guest ;)
Friday 5 July, 7.00 - 10.00pm at Brotzeit Somerset
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We invite Alums from ALL INSEAD programs to join us on Friday, 5 July 7-10pm for our monthly Alumni Social & Networking drinks. We will be heading to venue that's new to the group and extremely central, and this month's theme is 'bring a guest!' Grab your partner (in business or in life), a hot date, a fun friend, a summer visitor, or a fellow alum you haven't seen in awhile, and invite them to join us!
Brotzeit is focused on authentic German food and drink in a contemporary, warm and welcoming atmosphere. We have chosen the Somerset outlet for its extremely central location here (steps from the Somerset MRT) at Discovery Walk at 313@Somerset, 313 Orchard Road, #01-27 Singapore 238895 . There will be a dedicated space for our group on the mezzanine level.
Your Singapore NAA Social Committee has negotiated with Brotzeit, which will be kindly offering the first 50 paid-up NAA Members who RSVP on the Event Site below and enter before 8:00PM a complimentary drink on arrival... . We look forward to seeing you and your guest there for a Cheers! ;)
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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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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 more storytellers:
- Andrea Abbate, LinkedIn
- Christopher Tarr, Samsung, MBA'05D
- Craig Bristol Dixon, Accelerating Asia
- Gil Gaeta, Google, MBA'07D
- John Chen, Aloha Poke
- John O'Shea MBA'09J, Good Pharma Consulting
- Maryline Goblet Marquet, MBA'09J
- Shailene Zhu, Lazada, MBA'15D
- Virginia Brumby, Survival Chic MBA'09J
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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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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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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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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Thinking Strategically about Impact with Prof. Jasjit Singh
Professor Lecture Series
Wednesday 28 August, 6.00 – 9.00pm at INSEAD
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 Event organised in collaboration with Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of Singapore.
Capitalism relies on a well-functioning market to allocate societal resources efficiently: producing goods and services society values, and in the process also creating jobs and wealth for people. However, market outcomes do not always align with societal objectives, such as on issues like environmental degradation or social inequality. Who should be addressing these challenges?
We will argue that different kinds of organizations – such as non-profit vs. for-profit - are best seen as complementary means of pursuing societal progress. We as individuals need to identify important societal needs we care about, and contribute to these in a manner consistent with our personal goals as well as the unique advantages and constraints of the context in which we pursue these.
Jasjit Singh has been an INSEAD professor since 2004. His teaching and research interests include Strategy, Innovation, Inclusive Business, Sustainable Development, Impact Investing and Impact Evaluation. He also regularly gives speeches on these topics, and advises investors, companies and impact ventures on how to think rigorously about their impact.
Jasjit has written numerous articles for leading academic journals as well as case studies that have won prestigious awards. He earned a PhD in Business Economics (Strategy) at Harvard Business School and an MA in Economics at Harvard University, having earlier obtained a BTech in Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Delhi and a double-MS at Georgia Tech.
This is an exclusive event for INSEAD NAA and HBS Club members. Seats are limited!
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $20 - use promocode: IMPACT
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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.
- Saturday, 6 July, 2019, 2.00pm: Harvard Club of Singapore - High Tea & Fine Jewellery
- Wednesday, 10 Jul, 2019 06:00pm - 08:00pm - Reimagining Banking: Journey of the World's Best Bank
- Thursday, 11 Jul, 2019 07:00pm - 09:00pm - Techniques To Be More Persuasive in Your Negotiations
- Wednesday, 17 Jul, 2019 06:30pm - 09:00pm - Panel: The Future of Work
- Thursday, 18 Jul, 2019 07:00pm - 08:00pm - DUAL Drinks - Hosted by Harvard
- Thursday, 12 Sep, 2019 06:00pm - 09:00pm - DUAL LGBT Drinks
Career Opportunity – System Administrator, BEARS; a lab headed by the University of Berkeley, in Singapore. SG citizen n PR preferred but not mandatory. CV to christopher.soyza@bears-berkeley.sg by 5 July 2019.
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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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