🌟 The Topic
Going global: Structural Foundations with Singapore as a Springboard to Drive Founder's Global Ambitions
🎤 Speakers
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Sophia Ng | Executive Director, Enterprise Singapore
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Clara Liu | Partner, Han Kun Law
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Ying Yi Siow | Partner, Shook Lin & Bok Singapore
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Moderated by: Rufus Sorsa | Associate Partner, Antler
💎 Panel discussion:
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Discuss what it takes, in terms of jurisdiction and foundational set up, for tech founders seeking to build globally minded companies?
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Learn the importance of this set up and considering areas like neutral operating base, access to international capital, and a robust regulatory environment.
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This panel will move beyond the superficial narratives to address the concrete legal, structural, and compliance realities founders must navigate along with the pros and cons this brings.
👀 What you can expect:
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Holding structures & capital access: how the location of an entity can increasingly dictate how founders can engage global institutional capital, and how to structure it correctly
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Navigating structural set up: understand the limits of offshore incorporation and how to manage intellectual property, data residency, and talent distribution
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Ecosystem support: understanding the local landscape and its ecosystem
🤝 Smarter Networking with Walnut AI
This event is partnered with Walnut AI, an agentic networking platform. The goals and offers you share during registration will be used to create your Digital Twin, an AI agent that represents you and works behind the scenes to match you with the right fellow attendees. So instead of cold-scanning name tags, you'll walk in already knowing who's worth meeting.(No app to download currently, everything happens through email.)
🌐 Networking over food and drinks with fellow builders and the Antler team and partners
Antler is where founders come to go further, faster. Antler is the world’s most active early-stage investor, backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey - and supporting them from inception to scale. Across 30 cities worldwide including Singapore, we partner with founders to remove the barriers to building by connecting them with world-class peers, validating business models, and providing initial capital. To date, Antler has backed more than 1,800 startups globally, including the likes of Airalo, Lovable and PixVerse.
🌟 About This Side Event
This side event is a companion sessions to AGI Playground 2026 and is a free, approval-required event.
AGI Playground is the annual gathering where AI founders, engineers and operators come to build together - with speakers and guests from OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Cursor, MoonshotAI, Minimax, Unitree, and more. The annual event draws 1,500+ AI-native builders each year.
Have not signed up yet? Complete your registration for AGI Playground 2026 here: https://luma.com/n9r72dc9
