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Knowledge Share
A tight talk with one system and one soul. Take the framework home and use it on Monday.
The Beyond // Beyond Fest 2026
System & Soul BeyondFest 2026, a one day founder festival at Greybox GMBB, Kuala Lumpur, Friday 13 November 2026
One Day
in
Kuala Lumpur
Friday, 13th of November
For founders building a business worth selling, not just a job with better hours.
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This is not a conference. This is an intervention.
BeyondFest is the flagship gathering of The Beyond, a community of Rebelpreneurs moving from freelance work to a business worth selling. No corporate decks. No lame networking. No death by slides. Three rules we enforce, which is exactly why the room stays awake all day.
This year's theme is System and Soul. The System is the framework, the tactic, the repeatable how. The Soul is the human truth underneath it that makes anyone care. A talk that carries only one of the two gets a polite thank you, goodbye.
- Interactive formats
- Diverse perspectives
- Actionable insights
- Community
- Memories
Previous launch
// The Beyond
Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution. Let's create something meaningful together.
Experience
Eight formats
Every hour of the day runs on one of these. No keynote marathons, no panel that forgets it has an audience.
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Eavesdrop Session
Two founders talk like nobody is listening. You are listening. That is the format.
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Unconference
The agenda is set in the room, by the room. Bring the problem you actually have.
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Pitch Fight
Pitch, get hit, adjust, pitch again. Feedback loud enough to be useful.
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Lightning Rant
Audience volunteers rant about something to get it off their chest, and either win or lose the room.
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Startup Fxckups
Operators and builders spill the tea on their biggest boo boo failure, not just the glitz and glam of success.
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Destiny Draw
You showed up with your energy, so the universe rewards you with prizes to elevate your journey.
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Energy Boosters
Short, physical, slightly ridiculous. The reason the room is still sharp at 4pm.
Running order
The day
One room, three tracks, and a night that carries on afterwards.
Crystal Lim hosts. The shape is fixed, exact times and a few slots are still moving, and the final running order is set on 9 November.
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Act one
Business & Brand
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Open
Doors, registration, open conversations
Badges, coffee and the walkway stands open. The room starts talking well before the stage does.
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Icebreaker
Opening Chaos
Games and noise until the room stops being strangers. Nobody sits down quietly.
Jeremiah Su
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Lights down
The opening
Dark room, loud sound, and the film that starts the day. Closer to a gig than a conference.
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Stage
Welcome and framing
What the day is for, and what you are expected to leave with.
Jeremiah Su
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Knowledge Share
System and soul, set up
The framework and the human truth underneath it, and why a business needs both to hold.
Ghazanfar Iqbal
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop Session
Three founders talk like nobody is listening. A fourth chair, the Curious, asks what you were going to ask.
Voices Marco Iannitto, Daniel Woodroof, Poe Aye · Curious James Clanfield
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Energy
Energy Booster
Turn to your neighbour. Name the one thing you are taking away, and the one thing you will do about it.
Dr Sharone Wang
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Act two
Content & Communication
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Knowledge Share
Your ethos, out loud
Putting your own point of view into the work, refusing to apologise for it, and watching where it shows up in the content.
VJ Anand
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop Session
Content and communications with the guard down. Three voices, one Curious, four microphones and no slides.
Voices Teng Chan Leong, Nur Farzana Abdul Rahman, Sofea Mastan · Curious Kristina Gazi
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Live
Lightning Rant
Three volunteers from the floor, one rant or rave each, against the clock. The room votes and there is a prize.
Jeremiah Su, with three of you
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Break
Lunch at the Fuel Stop
Proper food and the conversations that come with it. Planetary and Universal eat at the Long Table with the speakers.
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Act three
Systems & Scale
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Energy
Energy Booster
Movement, on purpose, because it is after lunch. Led by a physiotherapist who does this for a living.
Dr Sharone Wang
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Fireside
Startup Fxckups
One founder puts their worst decisions on stage and a founder coach asks the questions. The one block where nobody gets to look clever.
Voice Tengku Wazir Aziz · Curious Ben Bagg
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Knowledge Share
AI that does the work
A real workflow built live on stage, not a slide about one. Agents that read, reply, book and write back into the system.
Marko Filipovic
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop Session
AI, money and the systems underneath a company that scales. Three voices, one Curious, and no hype allowed.
Voices Shi Mei Chin, Hayley Pang, Nicole Chin · Curious Firuz Alimov
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Live
Pitch Fight
First, how to build a pitch that lands. Then four founders pitch it for real and the judges answer out loud.
Grace Yeo runs it · Special guest judges Cradle and SIDEC
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Breakout
Unconference
The agenda is set in the room, by the room. Put your topic up, take a corner, run it yourself.
You, if you want it
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After dark
Close & Afterparty
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Stage
Closing
What happens next, and who to find before you leave.
Jeremiah Su
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Energy
Destiny Draw
Prizes drawn from the people in the room. You have to be standing there to win.
Jeremiah Su
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Open
Open conversations
An hour with nothing scheduled in it. The part everybody remembers.
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Afterparty
Eclipse Afterdark
A private room off site once the main stage is done. A reserved table and two drinks with your name on it.
Universal Access only · Venue, dress and the rest revealed to holders, and to nobody else
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Built for
Rebelpreneurs
- Brand builders
- E-commerce
- Entrepreneurs & founders
- Start-ups
- Content creators
- Community leaders
- Marketing agencies
VJ Anand
Founder, Ballsy // Formerly ECD, VaynerMedia EMEA
Grew VaynerMedia's APAC team, then built GoJek's in-house creative agency behind some of Southeast Asia's most-shared campaigns. Now runs Ballsy, a modular brand consultancy breaking the traditional agency mould.
Ghazanfar Iqbal
Former Founder, Unicorn and Big Tech Operator // Angel Investor
Founded a venture-backed startup and helped build MENA's first unicorn. Most recently Senior Investors Manager for AWS. Published author of Bytes Beyond Borders, his memoir on building a career from a rocky start in Pakistan. Hosted BeyondFest 2025 at the AWS campus and returns to the stage in 2026.
Nicole Chin
Head of Marketing Technology and Growth, Mindvalley
Nicole started in management consulting, Boston Consulting Group included, before moving into technology. She took Photobook's app from 600,000 to 2.5 million downloads, and has led growth teams through revenues from $4 million to $100 million. At Mindvalley since 2020 she runs product growth, lifecycle marketing, analytics and the martech stack underneath them. Her line on all of it: a growth strategy is not a marketing or a product strategy, it is a company strategy.
Hayley Pang
Head of Ecosystems and Channel Partnerships, Xendit
Hayley traded law for tech and has since worked across travel tech at Klook, the creator economy at The Nas Company, and fintech at Fave and Pine Labs. Through it all, she's been driven by connecting people, building partnerships and solving problems together. Today, she's at Xendit tackling one of Southeast Asia's biggest business headaches: payments.
Grace Yeo
TEDx Speaker and Sales Coach
3x founder and a serial sales officer, Grace started her journey auctioning Pokémon cards on a school bus. Built a marketing agency in Singapore, then a renovations company in Indonesia. Now she runs Pitch Please Sales Academy and will moderate Pitch Fight, keeping pitches sharp and panels honest.
Marco Iannitto
Founder, TechDel Consulting // Formerly Ferrari, Bugatti, Rimac
Twenty years inside three of the most unforgiving brands in automotive, Ferrari, Bugatti and Rimac, where launch dates hold and every detail gets finished. Now founder of TechDel Consulting, taking the delivery discipline of a hypercar programme and pointing it at founders trying to scale. Returns to the BeyondFest stage after 2025.
Daniel Woodroof
Founder and CEO, Pandan Social // Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026
Raced Formula 3 across Asia before the funding ran out at 18. Still a director and equity holder in Stratos Motorsports, his father's team and Asia's most successful karting outfit, 28 Asian Karting Championship titles. Now leads Pandan Social, acquired by global consultancy Ruder Finn in 2023, and named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026.
Teng Chan Leong
CEO, Skribble // Founder, SAMA
Runs a Malaysian creative and content business, and co-founded the Strategic Asia Marketing Alliance, uniting leading agencies across APAC around one standard of local excellence.
Shi Mei Chin
Founder and CEO of CFOi // FinTech Panel
Top 10 Women voices in fintech, Shi Mei helps founders and finance leaders turn finance from a back-office function into a growth engine. Through CFOi, Shi Mei embeds CFO expertise into operations, provides leadership and communication training, and implements systems that scale with your business. The goal: faster, smarter decisions and more time to focus on building.
Marko Filipovic
Founder, BooSend.ai // AI Knowledge Share
Built BooSend into a Meta Tech Provider, running AI sales agents inside Instagram DMs, WhatsApp and Telegram, trusted by more than 5,000 creators. His agents read a comment, hold the conversation, then book into a calendar and write into a CRM, so an Instagram post turns into a meeting with nobody touching it. Takes the AI Knowledge Share track with real workflow builds, live on stage.
Nur Farzana Abdul Rahman
Panellist // Younger Generation Mindset
Advises decision makers across banks, FMCG and automotive to decode what Gen Z actually thinks instead of what brands assume. Brings Gen Z lens to how the next generation approaches business and marketing.
Poe Aye
Founder, FACE // Founder, Kickoff Marketing
Built FACE, the Bangkok collective connecting founders, entrepreneurs and investors across Asia, on an event format borrowed from Shark Tank and The X Factor. Also founded Kickoff Marketing, her B2B lead generation and community building firm, on ten years in digital marketing and media. Spoke at BeyondFest 2025 on brand building and live pitch craft, and co-organises The Beyond's December Bangkok edition at the St Regis. Her 2026 format is being confirmed.
Dr Sharone Wang
Physiotherapist // Founder, Living enFLOW
Fifteen years rehabilitating bodies, now coaching the minds inside them. Her enFLOW movement practice runs the energy resets between programme blocks.
James Clanfield
Business Coach // Creator of the PILLAR Method
Business coach for founders and creator of the PILLAR Method, his framework for building a business around the life you want. Left 13 years of school leadership to build a location-independent business, now run from wherever his family lands next.
Ben Bagg
Founder, Nectar Group // Afternoon Failure Session
Founder coach out of Malaysia and host of the BeeCore podcast. Takes the afternoon session where founders put their worst decisions on stage and the room takes them apart. The one block on the programme where nobody gets to look clever.
Firuz Alimov
The AI Collective, Kuala Lumpur // Writes Beyond The Model
Builds The AI Collective's Kuala Lumpur chapter, connecting practitioners across Southeast Asia with the global AI ecosystem. Writes Beyond The Model, where he looks past the AI headlines to understand where the real infrastructure, capital and opportunity are moving: sovereign AI, Southeast Asian language models, edge silicon, and agentic AI beyond the usual capitals. Followed by 8,000+ people on LinkedIn.
Kristina Gazi
Neuroencoding Business Mentor // Formerly Oil and Gas Lawyer
Neuroencoding Business Mentor and former oil and gas lawyer, she helps founders grow via strategy and personal mastery. She's mentored 700+ entrepreneurs, founded a 1,100+ women founder community across 40+ countries, hosts the Meant for More podcast, and leads 80+ speaking engagements breaking through procrastination and anxiety.
Crystal Lim
Host, BeyondFest 2026 // B2B Influencer and Corporate Storyteller
Holds the room for the whole programme. Known as the “Toifie Queen” on LinkedIn, Crystal is recognised for her signature “toilet selfie” stories, which she shares with her community of over 40,000 followers through authentic storytelling and conversations around leadership, business, branding, workplace culture and the human side of organisations.
Jeremiah Su
Founder, The Beyond // Founder, BeyondFest
Having exited his communications agency he started in 2014 last year, he now focuses on the business of community building for rebel builders and operators to scale without founder loneliness, to achieve that million dollar exit or payout. Founder of the Beyond community and BeyondFest, he's here to stay and slay the day!
Access
General Access
Full-day access, all Knowledge Shares and sessions, networking breaks, unconference access, basic swag, lunch and refreshments.
RM 268 save 20%
Planetary Access
Everything in General, plus the Long Table lunch with the speakers, priority seating and the premium launch kit.
RM 548 save 20%
Universal Access
Everything in Planetary, plus a seat at The Million Ringgit Brand Strategy on 12 November, an RM 1,000 workshop on its own, a warm introduction to a speaker at the Long Table, the front row all day, a 30-minute 1:1 with Jeremiah after the event, and the only way into Eclipse Afterdark, with a reserved table.
RM 1,488 save 20%
Eclipse
Afterdark
Private afterparty for Universal Access holders only. Off site once the main stage is done, with a reserved table and two drinks. The venue, the dress and everything else is revealed to holders, and to nobody else.
Venue
Greybox GMBB, Kuala Lumpur. A raw white-brick room on Jalan Robertson, rigged for one long day and one loud night.
Where to stay
Five beds within walking distance of the room, cheapest walk first. Book direct with the hotel. Distances are straight line from GMBB, so the walk is a little longer than the number.
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130 m
Grand Mercure Kuala Lumpur Bukit Bintang
117 Jalan Pudu. The shortest walk on this list by some distance, near enough that going back to your room between sessions is a real option. Upscale rooms and a pillarless ballroom, sitting where Bukit Bintang runs into Chinatown. Walking route
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190 m
citizenM Kuala Lumpur
128 Jalan Pudu. A two minute walk and the easiest morning of the five. Small rooms, big lobby, the kind of place you can work from at 7am. Walking route
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640 m
Berjaya Times Square Hotel
1 Jalan Imbi. Sits on top of the mall and on the Imbi monorail, so it is the simplest arrival if you are coming in from KL Sentral or the airport bus. Biggest room count on this list, which matters if you book late. Walking route
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810 m
WOLO Kuala Lumpur
Corner of Jalan Bukit Bintang and Jalan Sultan Ismail. Design led, right on the Bukit Bintang strip, and a two minute walk from Jalan Alor if the afterparty is not enough. Walking route
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1.1 km
JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur
183 Jalan Bukit Bintang. The one to book if you are bringing a client, or if you want the day to end in a proper bath. Furthest on the list and still a walk, not a ride. Walking route
Grand Mercure is the only one of these with a BeyondFest rate. It is released through a booking form the hotel issues, and that form has not reached us yet — this line becomes the link the moment it does. Book the other four at the public rate, direct with the hotel.
Free pass
Take The Million Ringgit Brand Strategy on Thursday 12 November and a General Access pass to BeyondFest comes with your seat. That is RM 268 of this festival, included.
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Thu 12 Nov
The Million Ringgit Brand Strategy
A half-day build session, 9am to 1:15pm at Dream Factory, GMBB — the same building as BeyondFest, the day before. You write your own positioning, messaging, voice and offers, with AI doing the typing and you making the calls. Run by Jeremiah Su and Reuben Ch’ng of Daily CMO. Bring a laptop.
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RM 1,000
Forty seats, and what each one carries
The fee covers the workshop, the prompt vault, the printed workbook and a follow-up session thirty days later — and the General Access pass to BeyondFest on 13 November. Malaysian companies registered with HRD Corp can claim the whole fee from the levy they already pay.
Already holding Universal Access? This workshop is the pre-day your pass already includes, so there is nothing to buy here. The workshop is run by Daily CMO, not by BeyondFest, and is booked on their site. HRD Corp grant applications close Friday 6 November.
