Boost Conference to bring Dave McClure and Other Silicon Valley and Japanese Entrepreneurs to Jakarta

Jakarta is going to host the first Boost conference in 17-18 January next year at Intercontinental Hotel. Boost is a conference that aims to assist startups in in understanding scalability and growth to go from two bit garage company into a sizable business. With experienced entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, Japan, and Indonesia headlining the event, it's going to be a valuable event for founders to attend and gain insight.

At the moment, the technology startup scene in Indonesia is cooling off a little bit after the explosive growth in 2010 and earlier this year. There's been little evidence that the massive interest in building tech startups in Indonesia has actually amounted to something equally large, but the drive is still there and it has sparked enormous interests from investors across the world, especially from Japan. It's as if the momentum of the technology community is being picked up and responded in kind by foreign companies looking for growth and investment potentials.

It's really not a surprise when you realize that there are 50 million Indonesians online waiting to be enlightened on what the Internet is capable of even if currently the majority of them are only interested in using Facebook or chatting through various instant messaging services. Every Indonesian online, however, is mobile. Indonesia essentially skipped the age of the PC and straight to mobile devices. By 2015, the country is expected to have 100 million people online. As had been written so many times all around the web, mobile is the future of consumer interaction and activity. The opportunity to reach and push this many people to maximize the potential of using their mobile devices is too great to miss.

Some of the speakers, investors and entrepreneurs that are scheduled to attend include Dave McClure of 500 startups, Brent Hurley of YouTube, Antonny Liem from MerahPutih Incubator, Andy Zain of Numedia, Hiro Maeda of Open Network Lab, and Steven Goh of mig 33. You can read more about Boost and register at the website. Registration closes on 19 December.