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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.
The shape is fixed. Exact times, speakers per slot and the order within each act are still moving.
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Act one
Business & Brand
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Open
Doors, registration, open conversations
Coffee, badges, and the first conversations of the day.
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Icebreaker
Opening Chaos
Games and noise until the room stops being strangers.
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Stage
Welcome and framing
What the day is for, and what you are expected to leave with.
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Knowledge Share
Knowledge Share
One system, one soul. The framework you can use on Monday.
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop Session
Founders talking like nobody is listening. You are listening.
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Energy
Energy Booster
Turn to your neighbour. Say the one thing you are taking away.
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Act two
Content & Communication
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Knowledge Share
Knowledge Share
Putting your own ethos into the work, and refusing to apologise for it.
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop Session
The unguarded version of how this stuff actually gets made.
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Live
Lightning Rant
Three volunteers, one rant each. The room picks the winner.
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Break
Lunch at the Fuel Stop
Long tables, proper food, and the conversations that come with them.
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Act three
Systems & Scale
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Energy
Energy Booster
Movement, on purpose, because it is after lunch.
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Fireside
Startup Fxckups
Operators on the record about the decision they would take back.
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Knowledge Share
Knowledge Share
AI that does the work. A real workflow, built live on stage.
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop Session
Tech, money and the systems underneath, without the hype.
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Live
Pitch Fight
How to pitch, then four people pitching, then the judges.
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Breakout
Unconference
The agenda is set in the room, by the room.
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After dark
Close & Afterparty
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Stage
Closing
What happens next, and who to find before you leave.
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Energy
Destiny Draw
You showed up. The universe settles up.
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Open
Open conversations
The part nobody schedules and everybody remembers.
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Afterparty
Eclipse Afterdark
Universal Access holders only.
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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.
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
Finance Lead, Spark Systems // FinTech Panel
Left PwC's audit floor for the FX-trading frontline, building the finance function at Spark Systems from the ground up. Singapore FinTech Association Top 50 FinTech Leaders Asia. Joins the FinTech panel with the operator's view of the numbers behind the hype.
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 Rebel Scale Intensive on 12 November, an RM 1,200 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. Details land closer to the day.
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
No BeyondFest rate is attached to any of these yet. Book the public rate, and if a group rate lands before November we will tell you in time to rebook.
