Overview
How do you build a resilient, scalable startup in the AI era?
As AI transforms how startups operate, founders have unprecedented opportunities to scale faster with leaner teams. However, navigating cash flow, regional expansion, and building the right financial infrastructure remain critical challenges.
Join us for ShowcACE: Building a Startup that Lasts in the AI Era, co-organised with DBS SME Banking!
Hear practical insights, real-world growth lessons, and AI applications across operations, marketing, and finance from our featured panel:
Candice Ho – Group Head, Business Partnership & Initiative Management, Corporate & SME Banking, DBS Bank
Leonard Loo – Co-Founder & CEO, Voltade
Isaac Timothy Tay – VP, Product, Shopback
Jayce Tham (Moderator) – Co-Founder, CreativesAtWork and Dear.AI
☕ Interactive Showcase & Networking
Beyond the panel, connect with fellow founders over light refreshments and explore curated startup booths alongside DBS Spark GenAI Advisory to discover practical AI tools and financial solutions for your growth journey!
👉 Learn more about our speakers and save your spot here: https://luma.com/jfuqtl4s
Schedule
Date: 19 Aug 2026, Wednesday
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (GMT +8:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Location: The Meeting Point, 73B Ayer Rajah Crescent, 139966
Speakers
Speaker's Profile:
Candice Ho, Group Head, Business Partnership & Initiative Management, Corporate & SME Banking, DBS
• Corporate and Commercial Banking experience in leading banks in Hong Kong and Singapore with various senior management roles in SME including Regional Head SME Product Management – Cash/T&M/Banca/Cards, HK SME Business Head & GBA Liabilities Business Head • Responsible for Business Partnership & Initiative Management, Regional Mid Cap & SME • Past responsibilities include HK SME Business, SME Digibanking, Regional SME Product, SG SME Business • Championed Data Driven Operating Model & Fast Lending for small SME • First Line Defence of Client KYC/CDD including key customer segments of Funds, Fintech, Money Service Operators, eCommerce, GBA and Investment Companies with solid track record ∙ Managed broad spectrum over 200 staff in sales, strategy, data & credit analytics, client servicing, CDD/AML support, operation • Spearhead SME strategy, digitalization, credit scorecard program, GBA connectivity, SME product commercialization
Speaker's Profile:
Leonard Loo, Co-Founder & CEO, Voltade
Use tech as a force for good for the world. First part of my career was building several widely used digital products for the Government, and the Second part is to do the same for the business world.
Speaker's Profile:
Isaac Timothy Tay, VP, Product, Shopback
I am a seasoned executive with an engineering background that has launched and scaled technology companies, specializing in digital products within e-commerce, logistics, and payment sectors across Asia Pacific markets. As the co-founder of honestbee, I spearheaded the company's growth as the first within-an-hour grocery delivery service in Singapore, expanding its presence across eight markets and delivering an annual USD $100 million worth of groceries and food by 2018. In addition to my operational expertise, I have successfully built and led a 100+ product and engineering team, developed technology and product roadmaps, and established Talent Acquisition and People Operations teams to support the company's growth to more than 1000 staff. Currently serving as VP of Product for ShopBack with responsibilities across Product Management and Engineering. Shopback has raised over $200 million from investors like Temasek and Westpac and powers over US$3.7 billion in annual sales.
Moderator's Profile:
Jayce Tham, Co-Founder, CreativesAtWork, Dear.AI
I co-founded CreativesAtWork in 2012 to match media freelancers to potential project owners and provide project management services to ensure that our clients are able to access the right skillsets to create high-quality creative products. With over ten years of experience in industry development in the media industry prior to setting up CreativesAtWork, I oversees the business development aspect of the Company. Since the inception of Company, we matched 300 projects to our freelancers annually and had grow to a size of more than 1,500 freelancers under our network. With a specially curated freelance pool, we ensure high quality, timeliness as well as cost effectiveness of such creative resources for our clients. Other than growing our business, we are also actively involved in charting out the development of the future of the freelance industry. We are involved in several workgroups formed by the Singapore's Ministry of Manpower, NTUC as well as Infocomm Media Development Authority.
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