How One Singapore Startup Wins Against Megacorporations

January 28, 2016

How One Singapore Startup Wins Against Megacorporations by Alireza Yaghoubi (Founder of AirGo) at Slush 2014.

Alireza Yaghoubi – Founder of AirGo
Alireza Yaghoubi is an award-winning designer and entrepreneur who has gained international recognition for designing AirGo, an ergonomic passenger environment that has been described as “the future of airlines seating” by mass media in over 15 languages. Alireza is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the Singapore-based startup, AirGo Design which is currently developing new seating technologies for a more comfortable travel experience with smaller carbon footprint. The company is the first to advocate a major transition in the travel industry since the 1960’s. Alireza is also a multidisciplinary scientist at the Center for High Impact Research in University of Malaya. At the age of 24, he is one of the youngest scientists in the world whose works have appeared on the front cover of many prestigious journals such as those of Royal Society. His broad scope of research ranges from fundamental studies on synthesis of nanomaterials to more practical applications such as renewable energy and biomedical implants. Alireza is an engineer by training and has graduated as the Frederic Barnes Waldron student of mechanical engineering

// Slush 2016 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30th – December 1nd! //

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In 2015, Slush brought together 15.000 attendees, including 1.700 startups, 800 venture capital investors and 630 journalists from exactly 100 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their business to the next level.

Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Although Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become one of the leading events of its kind in the world, the philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.

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Visuals by VAU Company – http://vau.company/
Speaker pictures by Tailorframe – http://www.tailorframe.com/
Sound design by Tapio Hakanen a.k.a. DJ Orkidea – http://djorkidea.com/

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