Slush expands tech startup event to Kuala Lumpur with KL Slush’D 2023
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Slush, the tech startup event started in Finland, is expanding with a new conference this fall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The KL Slush’D 2023 event will be an extension of the global startup event, Slush, coming on October 26, 2023. I’ve been to the Helsinki event multiple times — the last time in late 2019 just as the pandemic was hatching abroad. It’s a fine gathering of global tech leaders.
The aim for the Malaysia event is to help spread the tech religion around the world and spark “a powerful AI revolution” in the region. Malaysia has a rising startup ecosystem and it’s seeking to follow in the footsteps of its Finnish predecessor.
The theme for KL Slush’D 2023 is “Shock the System”, with a focus on the disruptive power of AI. The event aims to bring together 1,000 inspired and influential leaders in AI, including startup founders, operators, investors, and visionaries from both local and global AI communities.
“When I came to Kuala Lumpur last year, I spent months working in the most underground of places, hacking away with a team of local developers in the tropical heat,” said Damon Grow, cofounder of KL Slush’D, in an email to GamesBeat. “We were in a run down, three-times burned former cinema hall with rain crashing on the tin roof and neon lights flickering against the stripped concrete walls. I was literally in Cyberpunk’s 2077 ‘Night City.'”
Grow added, “You have to be on the ground and experience the tech ecosystem to truly understand why Malaysia is becoming the next epicenter of Southeast Asia’s digital economy. Malaysians are real hustlers – working hard to get things done, and buzzing with the
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