Peter Sage, Principal, is a visionary founder and Chairman of Space Energy. A serial entrepreneur, having launched, operated and brought to success multiple companies, six of which were large enough to qualify for the Entrepreneur Organization membership.  Peter Sage brings to Space Energy twenty years of experience in growing fast-paced enterprises; typically by identifying and creating value propositions to leverage relationships and access required resources. As a frequent public speaker on business topics, Peter Sage is well placed to effectively communicate the vision and developments of Space Energy to the rest of the world.

Peter Sage is an expert in personal development and a qualified trainer for Robbins Research International. He has traveled internationally to mentor and train people from diverse backgrounds (from super achievers and successful businessmen to the homeless, drug addicts and abuse cases) and bring those skills and concepts to the creation and development of the rest of the Space Energy team.

Peter Sage has been featured in various entrepreneurial publications, and was nominated for the prestigious “Extraordinary Lives Award” 2008 by the largest social entrepreneurs’ organization – XL Nation.  Peter Sage is also a philanthropist and an active supporter of multiple charitable causes and serves on the Board of Advisors for INSEAD – a global top five business school and one of the leaders in the field of entrepreneurship education.

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Antony Evans has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD, an MA in Maths from the University of Cambridge and is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP program. Antony Evans is both a Louis Frank and Oppidan scholar and worked for six years as a management consultant and project manager at Oliver Wyman and Bain & Company. Prior to this project Antony Evans co-founded the world’s first pure mobile microfinance bank in the Philippines and launched a mobile app in partnership with Harvard Medical School.

In what they call the “first step in creating sustainable natural lighting,” a group of innovators coming out of Singularity University have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create glowing plants. Admittedly the idea of replacing street lamps with glowing foliage will seem far-fetched to many. But after just three days the campaign has gone viral, already having surpassed its goal of $65,000.

The core team includes Omri Amirav-Drory, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and founder of the gene building startup Genome Compiler, a Singularity University company coming out of the rapidly expanding Singularity Labs. Also part of the core team is Kyle Taylor, a biologist who teaches Intro to Molecular and Cell Biology at the biohacker space BioCurious. The three have now joined forces at Singularity University.

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Hong Yi’s grandparents and father left Shanghai in the ’60s during the start of the Cultural Revolution and moved to Sabah, Malaysia where she was born and raised. Growing up, Hong Yi heard stories about how life was like for them and her relatives in China, but never thought much about it.

After graduating with a Masters of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, she took up an offer to work for Australian architecture firm HASSELL in their Shanghai office, and was completely taken with the city, with its special structures and tensions, its unique history and culture. This inspired Hong Yi to start on creating art using local everyday materials she found in China as her medium. It was an outlet for her to express how much she felt for a place her grandparents once fled from. Hong Yi documents these projects and shares it on her social media platforms.

Known as the artist who ‘loves to paint, but not with a paintbrush’, her works have been featured by media around the world including Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CNN, NBC and the Daily Mail. She has worked with clients such as Hewlett Packard, Unilever, Nespresso, Esquire and Astro, was invited as a presenter at the 6th and 7th EG Conference in Monterey, California, and lectured in design universities Domus Academy and NABA in Milan, and traveled to USA, Italy, Germany, China, Malaysia, Australia and Hong Kong to present her work. Hong Yi was named Esquire magazine’s 12 Brilliant Malaysians and given Perspective Global’s 40 Under 40 Designers award. She currently lives and works between Shanghai and Malaysia.

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Soon Wei, a great-grandson of the Royal Press, a printing company founded in 1938 by family patriarch Ee Lay Swee, is on a mission to revive and enliven this beautiful but dusty printing haven.  He wants to pass on the traditions of this amazing method, as well as preserve an extremely special family history. Soon Wei is working on creating new letterpress products and organizing guided tours by collaborating with local and international designers, artists, writers and community organizers whilst preparing a Revival Plan to restore the press to a living museum, one in which artists can work and live in residency for a couple years at a time, where tourists to the beautiful and artistic UNESCO city of Melaka can visit the space and learn about this ancient printmaking method, and where the heritage and story of the space is celebrated. The Discovery Channel even filmed a documentary of the Royal Press.

Soon Wei also went to Taiwan to view the world’s only complete set of traditional Chinese character molds made out of lead. The travels and ongoing conversations with members of the Ee family sparked off something within Soon Wei’s heart. He was deeply moved by his unlettered grandmother’s entrepreneurial spirit. Soon Wei hopes their collaborative efforts will one day transform the Royal Press a must-visit place in Malacca and an educational hub for rejuvenating the craft of letterpress.

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Jonathan Buford, being the driver behind the business, handling strategy and core development management, in 2011, Jonathan Buford along with Felix Lam founded Makible which enables digital manufacturing by developing 3D printing and related technology for people to create, design and build products. Based in Hong Kong with a dedicated 3000 square foot facility for both development and production, Makible is able to deliver digital manufacturing machines and supplies with a streamlined process. They foresee providing print on demand and digital content in the future as well as applications for creating relevant content.

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Zung grew up in a fisherman’s family and were depressed at his sister’s passing at the young age of 18 years old, and was a college drop out at the age of 21years old during Asian economic crisis. Through his growing years, he quickly found his passion in photography and manages to set up THE PHOTOZ at 24 years old. Without any formal photography and arts education background, his work blossomed and propelled him to be one of the favourite photographers for the high society and Malaysian royalties. Some of his captivating works came from capturing moments of the family of the Prime Minister, Royalties including the wedding of Tuanku Zara & Raja Nazrin -The regent of Perak, and many Tan Sri & Dato’s.

Labelled as the only photographer in Malaysia and probably the world, he has experienced shooting wedding in 6 continents across the world and more than 30 countries. Zung is also celebrated as a personal & official photographer for Anthony Robbins since year 2009 and Anthony quotes “Zung is the most amazing photographer I ever met in the world “

As an international photographer, Zung grew his portfolio with amazing shoots such as Donald Trump in California 2012 , Dalai Lama in Melbourne-2009, Andrea Bocelli in 2010, ‘Around the world’ photo assignment in 6 weeks (6 assignments/6cities/6continents 6weeks/6lenses/ 60,000km travel distant), photo assignments in Antarctica (south pole) for a Swedish explorer in 2012, and 100 days later, arrived Arctic Circle (North Pole) shooting the midnight sun.

With many accolades up his sleeves he was awarded the PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR by WPPM and judges many photography competitions: Canon photo marathon Asia, treasure of rain forest, Swiss luxury watch – Jaeger-LeCoultre.  A believer in promoting the idea of “no dream is too big” through his photos, humble background and talks, Zung encourages youngster to “believe in their dreams, work on dreams, and achieve their dreams “. He speaks not just on his passion but demonstrates his charitable side too with visits to schools in Zambia, Africa to improve school condition, World Vision trip in north Thailand, sponsored ‘beauty and hope” photo shoot for Burmese refugee, and lastly by donating proceeds from the sale of the photo “Jumping Maasai” to Hospic at RM15,000.

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Rizal van Geyzel (apparently his preferred stage name), has finally found his, as quoted by Harith Iskandar, “big balls” in doing stand-up comedy once again after 5 years of being out of the country and far away from the Malaysian comedy scene. Five years ago Rizal van Geyzel who was somewhat known to be the ‘other’ comedian apart from Harith and Jit Murad, left for Miami, Florida to supposedly “study” Hotel Management at Johnson & Wales University.

Now having graduated and only worked in ethnic restaurants in Miami with Mexican folks, he’s back in his home country of Malaysia with a new set of eyes and has found somewhat of a perspective on Malaysian living and ready to hit the stage again! A regular at TimeOut Comedy Thursday, he began to shake off the cob webs in leaving the stage with the crowd still chuckling at some of his Eurasian/Malay antics (having born to a Chinese Dutch Father and a Turkish Malay Mother, Rizal is generally confused with what he is exactly).

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Accomplished in ballet, modern, and Indian classical dance, Datuk Ramli Ibrahim is a cultural icon who has performed internationally for more than three decades. As artistic director of the Sutra Dance Theatre, Ramli has choreographed stunning works and nurtured some of the brightest dance talents from Malaysia. He was instrumental in transforming the dance scenario in Malaysia by boldly charting new paths and single-handedly establishing Odissi as a widely appreciated dance form.

Datuk Ramli Ibrahim has steered a highly successful International Odissi Festival, Stirring Odissi ’08, in Kuala Lumpur; led Sutra at Carnegie Hall, New York ’08 and was most recently featured at the International Dance Festival presented by ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) in New Delhi, 2010.

Datuk Ramli Ibrahim is presently Chairman of the Sutra Foundation. Ramli’s Achievements are The Fulbright Distinguished Artist Award 1999, BOH Cameronian Malaysia 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award, Johan Setia Mahkota (J.S.M.), ANGARAG Orissa 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award, Federation of Associations of Cultural Promotion (FACP), Asia 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award, Natyanjali Trust/Purush Award, Chennai 2009 and Putera Award 2009 (RMC).

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Gopi Sekhar has over 27 years of work experience involved in Trading, Rubber and Palm Oil processing. He now runs Sekhar Research Innovations (SRI) which was founded by Malaya rubber technology legend, the late Tan Sri Dr B.C. Sekhar. His production process experience ranges from installation and up-grading capacity to running a wide variety of large production units. Gopi Sekhar spent the last decade with specific involvement in rubber technology, development of processing technologies and application solutions. Having personally developed several new proprietary technologies of commercial significance related to rubber recycling and incorporation of recycled content into value added applications focus of activities are primarily in Rubber.

Gopi Sekhar has then co-invented numerous technologies with late Dr. B.C. Sekhar that would apply very well in glove, condoms, catheters, devulcanized compounds, cost effectively large batch of tire crumbs with consistent performance and introduced recycled automotive scrap fibre for automotive & furniture upholstery applications.

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Born in a Thai refugee camp, Kosal Khiev’s family fled to the U.S in 1981. Kosal’s family left the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge war for the promise of peace and prosperity in America. Instead of the American dream, Kosal’s family lived in grim public housing with scarce social services. Kosal Khiev admits to making poor choices as a teenager that led him into more violence, poverty, and eventually prison. At the age of 16, he was arrested in a gang fight and charged with attempted murder. Kosal Khiev was tried as an adult and sentenced to 16 years in a state penitentiary.

While serving 14 years in prison he discovered spoken word poetry from a former Vietnam War veteran. Spoken word became his creative channel to tell his own story and transform his anger, regrets, and experiences into a poetic art form. Upon release in 2011, the U.S. government deported him to Cambodia, a country he had never been. Since his arrival, Kosal Khiev has used poetry to uplift his situation, with compelling performances at NERD night, The Body Open Mic series, and Mao’s. Kosal has also been selected as the first artist-in-residence with Studio Revolt, a new media lab based in Phnom Penh, where he is collaborating on “Spoken Kosal: Verses in Exile,” a series of short films featuring his poetry. He cites Rainer Maria Rilke, Etheridge Knight, Tupac, and Eminem as some of his favorite poets. He has additionally lectured at the Royal University of Phnom Penh on the topic of US immigration and its juvenile detention system. He hopes one day the U.S. will repeal the unjust deportation law so that families can reunite. Until then, Kosal Khiev lives as an exiled American in Phnom Penh where he continues to share his story and art at open mics, universities, and public stages.

Represented Cambodia as a Cultural Olympiad for the London games last summer, and took the award for Best Poem Performance on Film for “Why I Write” at the Berlin ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in October of 2012. Upon completion of the Germany trip, Khiev became one of 15 contributing authors in a new anthology titled Phnom Penh Noir, edited by Christopher G. Moore, which also includes Roland Joffe, director of “The Killing Fields.” For 2013, Kosal Khiev will continue to showcase his literary skills through performances in the Phnom Penh art scene, the upcoming Angkor Art Expo, or wherever his Cambodian passport allows. He is also working on completing an as yet untitled documentary directed by Masahiro Sugano.

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Cheryl Tan – A Jazz Vocalist & Az Samad – A Guitarist-Composer

Cheryl Tan is a jazz vocalist and actor. Trained in multiple disciplines, she believes in utilizing the entire breadth of sound available to her to create a unique vocal palate rather than accepting the limits of genre. Cheryl Tan has studied under Chris Dingman, Connie Crothers, Anthony Braxton, Noah Baerman, Alvin Lucier and Jay Hoggard. She once got to sing with Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin. Tan has been heard in New York, Japan, San Jose, Singapore and Malaysia with such diverse collaborators as hip-hop group Blue Belts, the Sam Friedman Quartet, OperaOggiNY, Michael Veerapen, John Thomas, Az Samad, Daniel Foong, Zahid Ahmad and more.

Guitarist-Composer-Educator Az Samad has recorded with Grammy Winners Flaco Jiménez & Max Baca; graduated & taught at the prestigious Berklee College of Music; performed in the United States, Europe & Asia; and appeared on 16 CDs ranging in styles from Tex-Mex, Contemporary Jazz to solo acoustic guitar. His works have been described as “richly textured, poetic and atmospheric”.

Together, the duo pose musical power and grace.

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Derek Sivers – Entrepreneur and TED Fellow

Derek Sivers founded CD Baby in 1998, which went on to become the largest seller of independent music online, generating $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek Sivers sold the company for $22 million, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Derek Sivers is a frequent speaker at TED Conferences, with his videos attracting more than 5 million views.

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Myshkin Ingawale – Co-Founder of Biosense Technologies and TED Fellow

A TED 2012 Fellow, Myshkin Ingawale is the co-founder of Biosense Technologies, a medical device venture focusing on point-of-care non-invasive diagnostics. In the past, Myshkin Ingawale has worked at McKinsey & Company as a business consultant and a researcher affiliated to MIT’s Senseable City Lab.

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