Summarizing a remarkable event, Meet Magento 2019 Singapore

Meet Magento is an annual event for Magento developers and retailers to enhance their knowledge of the latest eCommerce trends and technologies.

Each year the Meet Magento conference takes place in more than 40 countries including North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Indonesia), East Asia (Japan), South Asia (India), Europe (Germany, Spain), Middle East (UAE) etc.

Meet Magento SG 2019

The venue for this years event was Hotel Marina Bay Sands and the date was 22nd of August 2019.

Similar to last years, the day started with “Registrations and Welcome Refreshments” at 8 AM. The event was attended by locals and international attendees including Founders, CTOs, Entrepreneurs, Business Developers, Data Scientists, Ecommerce Consultants, Retailers, and Developers.

• Global Tech Company Ranosys Technologies was Event Organizer.
• More than 35 speakers were covering gripping topics.
• 20+ sponsors with Google and PayPal being the PLATINUM  Sponsors.

Attendees were really excited for the remarkable day ahead.

The stage is set! #mm19sg pic.twitter.com/OdQUwkNTcB

— MarshaMarshaMarsha (@MarshaMarshaMa_) August 22, 2019

A great start to a great event #MM19SG !! pic.twitter.com/6zuKOamNa3

— Brent W. Peterson (@brentwpeterson) August 22, 2019

And #mm19sg starts with a bang! Thank you @ranosys pic.twitter.com/09ziodzrP3

— Hashid Hameed (@hashid_hameed) August 22, 2019

Event Begins (Welcome Remarks)

COO of Ranosys, Sushma Vyas started the event with ‘Welcome Remarks,’ followed by Nicholas Kontopoulos‘s covering first keynote on ‘BRAND UTILITY: The Purpose of Purpose.’

Nicholas Kontopoulos

Nicholas started by presenting a great quote from ‘Father of Business Consulting’ Peter Drucker. He covered the first special keynote of the day and explained the purpose of purpose.

Kicking the talks off at #MM19SG is @NicholasK71 – digging into the purpose of purpose. pic.twitter.com/UbFbX6zrgz

— Ben Marks ✈️ #CHS! (@benmarks) August 22, 2019

Profound message by @NicholasK71 Purpose is not a luxury, it is foundation. And referring #StartWithWhy by @simonsinek. #Magento #MM19SG pic.twitter.com/i2fNfuSfGc

— Vatsal K Shah (@vatsalshah) August 22, 2019

Bloody good talk by @NicholasK71 – if you can watch this online do so #mm19sg pic.twitter.com/F1LD6WD3gx

— Karen Baker (@wsakaren) August 22, 2019

Monisha Varadan

After Nicholas, Monisha Varadan covered a great topic “Why Performance on the Web Matters”. She explained why performance optimization is so important in today’s generation and how fast loading website can drive more revenue.

She also gave an overview of Google Pay and how it is changing the term ‘Online Payment’. Today n numbers of brands are utilizing this mode of payment and multiplying the revenue.

Below are few tweets from Monisha’s session:

Some honest comparisons on how Magento performs against other platforms @VaradanMonisha #MM19SG pic.twitter.com/RHDKouh5it

— Brent W. Peterson (@brentwpeterson) August 22, 2019

Interesting stats from @VaradanMonisha Great to see her on stage again #mm19sg pic.twitter.com/3MEQY1d7yO

— MarshaMarshaMarsha (@MarshaMarshaMa_) August 22, 2019

Stop at google booth to have your website lighthouse check.@MeetMagentoSG#MM19SG pic.twitter.com/43KyJvHyWQ

— Pradeep Mudaliar (@pradeep_m_2) August 22, 2019

After the morning refreshments break, the event advanced into two different tracks simultaneously: Business Track and Solution Track.

First Panel Discussion

Swat Kumar hosted an interesting panel discussion with Jason Lee, Vitali Zagorodnov, Michal Lojewski, and Anand Ramdeo. They discussed ‘how shopping experiences are influencing customer buying patters.’

Experience Driven Commerce! Connecting the dots. Interesting panel chat @MeetMagentoSG #MM19SG pic.twitter.com/MjBNc9qKfW

— Justin Thomas (@KTPL_Justin) August 22, 2019

Personalisation not always works, all you need is to collect possible information from customers and design best possible shopping experience.#MM19SG @MeetMagentoSG pic.twitter.com/GsdmY0LhWx

— Piyush Lathiya (@piyush_lathiya) August 22, 2019

Second Panel Discussion

Topic “Mobile First: Myth or Reality” was discussed in the second panel discussion and it was hosted by Terence Rajah and the panelists were Isabella Zhou, Vikrant Shukla, Pan Xiuling, and Ankit Agarwal.

It was a great panel discussion about “Optimize Mobile eCommerece”!! @agarwal_ankit21 @vikrantshukla #MM19SG #Magento #adobe pic.twitter.com/KBCGB0hUpF

— Ketika Maheshwari (@mketika05) August 22, 2019

Vatsal Shah

An interesting topic “Paradigm Shift – eCommerce SI to eCommerce Agency” for all the Entrepreneur and Business Owners was covered by Vatsal Shah. He explained in detail how to cultivate agency culture and transform it to new level.

Differences between tech SI and agency. Check where you stand and what’s your next goal. A session from @vatsalshah on journey from #ecommerce SI to agency.@MeetMagentoSG #transformation #businessgoals pic.twitter.com/ku8VmEIKG1

— Justin Thomas (@KTPL_Justin) August 22, 2019

@vatsalshah speaking on shift from SI to Agency #MM19SG #Magento pic.twitter.com/guW636RsYw

— Mage Monkeys (@magemonkeys) August 22, 2019

Dana von der Heide

Entrepreneur & Founder at Parcel Perform Dana von der Heide covered a wonderful topic “Succeed in the Post-Checkout Experience”

When your #ecommerce delivery process give poor experience customers don’t buy again. Good tips by Dana from @ParcelPerform at @MeetMagentoSG. #MM19SG pic.twitter.com/ukmL5WVQO6

— Vatsal K Shah (@vatsalshah) August 22, 2019

Ben Mark

The event was not finished yet, as Ben Mark senior Magento Evangelist (Magento, an Adobe Company) covered most interesting Keynote of the day “The Future of Magento”.

Ben says “The future of Magento is you”. Go to www.magentoassociation.org/join and sign up today! #MM19SG @benmarks @magento pic.twitter.com/lOJEPsFxXH

— Tracey ✈️ (@iopflygirl) August 22, 2019

“Our future very much depends on your involvement” Thanks @benmarks #mm19sg pic.twitter.com/iK5CFppaA8

— MarshaMarshaMarsha (@MarshaMarshaMa_) August 22, 2019

Futue of #Magento is all upon community involvement @benmarks take @MeetMagentoSG #MM19SG pic.twitter.com/54ZVdfibkn

— Justin Thomas (@KTPL_Justin) August 22, 2019

After Party

No Magento event is over until there is an After Party. Event sponsor Ranosys Technologies thrown an excellent After Party where everybody interacted with each other and enjoyed the evening.

Mind blowing after-party thrown by @ranosys, Thank you.????????????‍♀️????????#MM19SG @benmarks @MeetMagentoSG @magento pic.twitter.com/AjR2Ws5vPH

— Aureate Labs (@aureate_labs) August 22, 2019

At the end a huge thanks to all the speakers and sponsors for organizing this remarkable event. See you all next year at Meet Magento Singapore 2020 (#MM20SG), until then keep loving this beautiful world.