FORTHCOMING EVENTS
MASSA Forthcoming Events
a. 5 December 2024 — iDeas Xchange 2024/2025 Series: First Series of the Start-up Meet-up & Sharing Session on 5 December 2024
b. 15 January 2025 — Webinar: Timor Leste & ASEAN: Overview & Business Opportunities in Timor Leste for Malaysia
For more information, please contact the MASSA Secretariat at
mail@massa.net.my / massamssc@gmail.com
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5 DECEMBER 2024: MASSA-KolaXus-MAJECA’s iDeas Xchange 2024/2025 Series: First Series of the Start-up Meet-up & Sharing Session on 5 December 2024
The Malaysia South-South Association (MASSA), KolaXus and the Malaysia-Japan Economic Association (MAJECA) will be organizing a Start-up Meet-up & Sharing Session Series.
This Series aims to bring together the members of MAJECA & its co-organisers and the business community to network with selected innovative startup founders & entrepreneurs, to explore opportunity to do business and to partner up strategically in the growing startup ecosystem in Malaysia and beyond. The organisers aim to create & build a platform for the sharing & exchange of innovative ideas and insights.
Each session in this five-part series for 2024/2025 will delve into themes such as:
- • Emerging Technologies
- • Cross-Border Partnerships
- • Growth-Stage Startups
- • Sustainable Development & Social Impact
- • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
This kick-off event in the series will spotlight the opportunity for growth-stage tech startups to showcase their innovative solutions and business models, and explore collaboration opportunities.
This Series will have its first event on 5 December 2024, details are as follows:
Theme: Introducing Tomorrow’s Innovators
Date / Day: Thursday, 5 December 2024
Time: 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm (MYT) *Registration will begin at: 2.30 pm
Venue: Bangunan AmBank Group, 55, Jalan Raja Chulan 50200 Kuala Lumpur (Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/noayyyHPdfMeNcfK6)
Registration: https://forms.gle/vHYHgP8RxfqfZy439
We encourage members to actively participate in this event to hear from entrepreneurial speakers, discover innovative solutions, explore partnership opportunities, and network with a diverse range of business people. There is no participation fee. However, a prior registration is required. Please do not hesitate to reach out to the Secretariat should you need more information.
15 JANUARY 2025: Webinar: Timor Leste & ASEAN: Overview & Business Opportunities in Timor Leste for Malaysia
MASSA is organizing a webinar with the support of the Embassy of Malaysia in Timor-Leste, the Embassy of Timor-Leste in Malaysia and the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) titled “Timor-Leste & ASEAN: Overview & Business Opportunities in Timor-Leste for Malaysia” on the following:
- Date / Day: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
- Time: 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm (Malaysian Time)
- Format: Zoom Meeting
- Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkd-2trzgrGtxajTGnL07fd4EHqdLWiCLG#/registration
Timor-Leste, roughly the size of the state of Kelantan, is situated in Southeast Asia between Indonesia and Australia. In February 2024, Timor-Leste officially became the 166th member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In 2022, Timor-Leste was admitted “in principle” to ASEAN with the country moving towards full membership.
Over the course of the last twenty years, Timor-Leste has warmly welcomed many Malaysian entrepreneurs, who have established and continue to operate their business; and provide employment to a substantial number of Timorese. To date, there are some 200 Malaysian business entities registered in Timor-Leste.
With an abundance of natural resources, Timor-Leste offers a variety of opportunities across industry sectors such as gas & oil resources, renewable energy, fisheries, agriculture and services. For more information on Timor-Leste, you may read MASSA’s feature on Timor-Leste compiled by the Embassy of Malaysia in Timor-Leste.
Cognisant of the developments in Timor-Leste, MASSA has tapped on the insights of various expert resource persons amongst others, H.E. Ambassador of Malaysia to Timor-Leste and the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) and Trade Investment Timor-Leste amongst others, to share their insights and observations at this webinar. This 21 August webinar aims to provide an overview and the potential business opportunites in Timor-Leste that Malaysian businesses can tap into.