Pathways to a HUAT 2026! - Business Outlook, New Ideas

Pathways to a HUAT 2026! - Business Outlook, New Ideas
A Joint Event Promoting Technopreneurship & Personal Finance
Calling all Engineers, Business Leaders, Aspiring Entrepreneurs!
Date: Tue 3 Mar 2026
Time: 5.30-8.30 PM
Location: iFast Global Markets - 10 Collyer Quay, #26-01 Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore 049315
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1ccSLt9pE8YiQb8v5?g_st=ic
Highlights for the Event:

• Ramp up your personal finance for 2026, understand the Global Business and Investment Outlook
• Gain insights into Budget 2026 for Professionals and Entrepreneurs
• Build your dream venture via Technopreneurship

Why You Should Be Here?

• Hear from our experts in Personal Finance, Investments, Technpreneurship and Personal Development
• Understand how Budget 2026 will be impacting Businesses in the year ahead
• Network with fellow professionals to widen your business contacts

Stay on top of the Business and Personal Finance Outlook, join us for this learning and networking Event!

Program Schedule:

1. 5.30-6.00 pm – Registration & Networking
2. 6.00 pm – Intro by Chris How of retireby50.me and Financial Advisor
3. 6.10 pm – Intro to IES-INCA by Andy Wee, GM of IES-INCA
4. 6.20 pm - Insights into Budget 2026 and Investment Outlook 2026 by Marcus Low, Investment Consultant Team, iFAST
6. 6.50 pm – Panel Discussion, Q&A with Andy (Moderator), Chris and Paddy
7. 7.20 pm - Dinner and Networking
8. 8.30 pm - End of Event 

Speakers and Panelists:

1. Marcus Low, Investment Consultant Team, iFAST

He is responsible for formulating investment strategies and investment ideas, as well as presenting portfolio propositions. Prior to joining iFAST, he was part of the Investment Team at an Insurance Firm where he was responsible for Fund Selection, Asset Allocation, Asset Liability Management and Portfolio Analytics. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Banking and Finance from the University of London.

2. Mr Andy Wee, General Manager, IES-INCA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyandrewwee/

With a strong engineering background, having spent 13 years in Hewlett Packard in Product Design R&D, Andy has a keen interest in making technology work to create better life for everyone.

In 2014, Andy took time off to pursue a Masters in Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation at NTU's Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre, achieving a Director's List award for outstanding performance.Andy’s interest in technology spans from deeptech, web and mobile app, personal mobility devices, online and offline data storage backup solutions, medical health supplements, natural fertility and beyond.

3. Paddy Tan, Managing Partner, Blackstorm Consulting

Paddy advises business leaders on strategic planning, rapid scaling, growth and positioning, helping them increase profitability and pivot their businesses to gain a competitive advantage in their respective industries.

He specialises in Southeast Asia, which comprises hypercomplex and complicated markets. Together with his team and its wide network of partners and affiliated companies, Paddy helps foreign companies navigate the treacherous markets using smart and innovative strategies. These includes tactics and approaches in structuring company, scaling business and selling product or service offerings.

Paddy was the technical founder of a mobile security software startup, which he sold it in 2011 after 6 years of operating. His vast experience (>20 years) working with startups, government authorities and deal makers have made him the go-to person for fixing and solving challenges in the IoT, FinTech, Education, and Platform ecosystems.

Paddy is also known in the industry as a Fixer, leading a team to solve complex challenges within a 100 days’ timeframe.

Paddy is also a mentor and advisor in several international and regional accelerators namely SOSV, IAPS (Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy), and GCamp. He was also a mentor for BASH (Build Amazing Startups Here) a project by the Singapore government agency, where he offers advice to commercial accelerators, corporations, and institutions of higher learning.

Other accelerators that he mentored at are UOB FinLab, AIRmaker, and SIM Platform E in Singapore.

4. Christopher How, Investment Advisor, iFast Global Markets, Blog Owner @

In 2024, Chris began his My Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) journey when hew learned about Mr Money Mustache and how he managed to retire in his 30s by living a frugal life. The story resonated with Chris because he was somewhat frugal as well and he didn’t like the idea of working for the rest of my life.

When he started tracking my net worth in 2015, he was in the red with -$109,258 due to mortgage debts, however today, he has managed to turn that around with a decent 6-figure positive net worth.

The retireby50 blog was started in late 2016 with the goal of documenting his FIRE journey when Chris was 33, the original purpose of the blog was to act as an accountability partner for his path to FIRE, but it has eventually morphed into a platform to share hus ideas and opinions about on personal finance, investments, work, business and other passions.

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About IES-INCA –

IES-Incubator and Accelerator (IES-INCA) is a strategic initiative by The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) to support engineers in Technopreneurship.

IES-INCA is a platform “by engineers for engineers”. We promote and support entrepreneurial engineers in the scale up stage of their venture through our incubation and acceleration programs. IES-INCA also supports first time entrepreneurs through the ESG Startup SG Founder program. We support engineers with DeepTech innovations to be successful in commercialising their products and service

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