More than 125 IAB SEA+India members representing 45 companies joined us in Singapore on the 20th August for our second Members Evening of the year, making it one of our largest member connection events with member company representation up more than 50% from January!
Members from across Southeast Asia and India came together for a few hours away from meetings, screens and formal industry events, and by the end of the night there had been plenty of new introductions, familiar faces reunited, and plans made between members for catch ups in the coming weeks.
A very special thank you to Google for supporting the evening, bringing plenty of energy to the quiz and making one of our largest member connect touchpoints to date possible.
A little healthy competition
As in January, we hosted another way to meet people with an IAB SEA+India pub quiz by taking inspiration from Tiffin Time to randomly create teams.
Google, our event sponsor, helped make the quiz particularly memorable in one round, by including a few pieces of company trivia that caught the room by surprise. Who knew Google was originally called BackRub?
After quite a lot of friendly shouting, prizes for runner ups, the winning team was announced as “Puss in Boots”, captained by Kamanasish Chowdhury from Magnite, with teammates from StackAdapt, The Trade Desk, Smartly, Zefr and Analytic Edge.
Member connections help enable industry progress
One attendee described IAB SEA+India as “the glue that allows for more exchanges and emulation”, while another said it was their favourite IAB evening yet because of “the right mix of mingling and fun”. Perhaps our favourite comment came from an agency leader who admitted they had stopped attending industry events altogether, but would now “come to this every time”.
And because our community now extends beyond its human members, our furry friends made an appearance too. Members who had shared photos in our dedicated “Pets of IAB SEA+India” WhatsApp group found their pets (unfortunately just their photos, not themselves!) waiting for them in the photobooth, resulting in some of the evening’s best pictures.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the evening such an enjoyable one, including those who travelled to Singapore to be there. We will see you at the next one!
