1920T2 NewYorkCity/Participant Information/Wan Ding Yang

About Ding Yang

SMU email: dywan.2018@sis.smu.edu.sg
Academic Year: 2
Degree: Information Systems
LinkedIn: Ding Yang
Applying for Subsidy: Yes

Why TSM New York City?

• What motivates you to join TSM? TSM is a great opportunity to explore and get real world experience in terms of entrepreneurship.

• Why pick New York City? New York’s tech scene is expanding. With huge venture-capital investment, tech giants and tons of local startups in the city. With other industries such as finance, media and advertising, greater gender and racial diversity and the city’s centuries-old status as a center of global commerce, New York provides a contrast to Silicon Valley, which has been criticized for being out of touch with the rest of the country and overly homogeneous in both company employees and the people for whom they create products.

Starting a business

• What types of business interest you?

Anything that revolves around Technology really, but primarily cybersecurity or analytics.

• What plan do you have in starting a business? (list existing business)

Before coming into University, I participated in ICE71 Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. My idea revolved around automating the process of helping SMEs get around with the PDPA regulation without the need to train, retrain employees to save cost while abiding by the new regulation. I presented to a board of Directors and was given an opportunity to expand my idea, however, as I was more inclined to focus my time on school, I kindly declined.

Since then, I have participated in many hackathons to keep the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit burning, to constantly innovate and think out of the box.

Also, I have a tiny instagram shop selling some of my semi-precious gemstones but I have not been updating it since army :) https://www.instagram.com/krxpire/

Past Experiences

I was awarded a scholarship by Kaspersky to participate in the Global Cybersecurity Camp 2018 in Korea earlier this year. I interned at InsiderSecurity, a cybersecurity startup in Singapore before University and the experience allowed me to get involved with the cybersecurity startup scene in Singapore.

CitiHackathon 2019 - Best Application Award Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp 2019 - Bronze Award Bits & Bolts NUS IOT Hackathon 2019 - 2nd Runner Up HackoMania 2019 - 2nd Runner Up (Rakuten API) LIT Hackathon 2019 - 1st Runner Up & Special Recognition Award HackSmith v2.0 (Singapore Cybersecurity Hackathon) - Honorary Tool 7th Singapore Games Creation Competition 2012 - 1st Place Scinemation 2011 - 1st Place & Best Presentation Award

ICE71 Inspire Bootcamp (Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship Camp)

What keeps you ticking?

I want to keep chasing after my dreams and burn so bright that I can light up others up!