Opportunity: Meet the Buyer in Malaysia
Application deadline: 30 August 2024
Time: Meetings on an ongoing basis
Malaysia is fast becoming the place to be for innovative tech companies looking to grow across Southeast Asia. Not only is their ICT (Information and Communications Technology) market set to hit $36bn by 2028 but some of the world’s leading tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and Tesla, have set up hubs in the country.
If you’re looking to take your tech business to the next level, it should be the first stop on your road to growth. But how do you get there?
Join us for our virtual Meet the Buyer event, where you’ll get personalised insight into growth opportunities for your business in Malaysia. And meet the partners who’ll help you take your next step.
What’s included?
First, you’ll get a free consultation with WIPPD to assess the market fit for your product or service.
Then, following a successful consultation, you’ll have a 1-2-1 virtual meeting with Sunway Group to explore the next steps to get your business into Malaysia.
Finally, you will get the chance to join us on a potential trade mission in Malaysia in October 2024
About our partners
Sunway Group
Sunway Group is a leading Southeast Asia conglomerates with a presence in more than 50 locations worldwide. It has 13 business divisions including real estate, construction, retail, and hospitality. And has a strong focus on ESG, with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals included as a core part of their corporate strategy.
WIPPD
WIPPD are a boutique consultancy, specialising in shaping, planning, and executing commercial strategies for companies venturing into the Southeast Asia market.
Who is this opportunity for?
Sunway Group is actively looking for businesses that can help them solve challenges across the following sectors:
- Energy consumption - reducing energy consumption, specifically electricity, with a focus on implementing sustainable solutions.
- Solar - tackling spatial constraints on rooftops resulting in a limited percentage of solar energy utilisation, and implementing incentives that encourage business units to increase their solar energy usage.
- Waste management - establishing sustainable practices for effective waste stream management.
- Data management - difficulties in data collection, adherence to compliance indices and managing suppliers.
- Smart surveillance systems - integrating smart surveillance systems across residential and commercial assets, utilising in-house machine learning to enhance surveillance capabilities, specifically focusing on crime detection.
- Industrial automation - embracing generative AI companies specialising in applications related to industrial automation, particularly in areas like IoT manufacturing and factory automation.
- Enterprise technology - finding enterprise solutions to address relationship management and people management challenges, focusing on enhancing talent management and recruitment processes, mitigating communication breakdowns between teams and departments, and improving the monitoring of business meetings.
For more information, please visit this link, or contact Vikkrama Kumaravale.
Please note:
This event requires pre-approval to attend to ensure that your offering meets the relevant demand and/or criteria. This event is free for Santander Navigator Grow subscribers, £150 for Prepare subscribers, and £250 for Explore subscribers. Payment will only be taken once we have confirmed your place with Sunway Group.
Exclusive Santander Navigator offer for techUK members
techUK have an exclusive access offer for members to the Santander Navigator platform. Santander Navigator is a trade facilitation platform for UK tech and digital businesses trading across global markets. The platform will help your business identify potential growth opportunities and make connections with a global network of over 250 approved providers covering 40 global markets. These specialist providers will save you time and money by offering a range of solutions to enable you to identify and overcome the regulatory and compliance challenges within trading internationally.
As techUK members, you will get free access to the ‘Prepare’ subscription package on Santander Navigator, a saving of £1,800 on the standard cost for this level of subscription. This package will give you access to curated international trade insights, activities and a range of export related solutions. The ‘Prepare’ package includes tools such as:
- Events & Training – Grow your skillset with training or connect with global opportunities through a series of webinars, or face-to-face meet the buyer/meet the expert type events
- Business Insights – Stay on top of your markets with a range of tailored export insights.
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