BEYONDFEST 2026: SYSTEM AND SOUL

Friday 13 November 2026

Greybox GMBB

2 Jalan Robertson, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.

Programme 8am to 5pm. Open networking until 6pm.

Co-created with Synapze, venue partner GMBB.

This is not a conference.

It's an intervention.

No corporate decks.

No sit-down passiveness.

No death by slides.

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 full day across three tracks. Business and Brand, Content and Communication, System and Scale.

Knowledge Shares, Eavesdrop Sessions, Pitch Fight, Lightning Rant and Unconference breakouts the room runs itself.

EARLY FLIGHT, 20% OFF, ENDS 15 OCTOBER 2026 AT 23:59

General Access RM 268 (early flight RM 214.40)
Planetary Access RM 548 (early flight RM 438.40)
Universal Access RM 1,488 (early flight RM 1,190.40)

Standard pricing resumes 16 October 2026.

WHAT EACH PASS INCLUDES

General

• Full day, 13 November, doors to close
• All three tracks
• Opening Chaos, Lightning Rant, Eavesdrop Sessions, Pitch Fight, Unconference, BX, Destiny Draw
• Fuel Stop food and coffee all day
• Base launch kit. Lanyard, General Access badge, tote, notebook and pen, sticker sheet
• Open seating

Planetary

Everything above, plus

• The Long Table. Private catered lunch with the speakers, 50 covers only
• Eclipse Afterdark entry plus one drink
• Priority seating. Front two rows held until ten minutes before each block
• Premium launch kit. Event t-shirt, cap, access wristband

Universal

Everything above, plus

• Rebel Scale Intensive seat, Thursday 12 November. RM 1,200 value
• A warm introduction to a named speaker at The Long Table
• Front row held all day
• Reserved Afterdark table with two drinks
• 30-minute 1:1 with Miah after the event

Eclipse Afterdark, the official afterparty, is open to Planetary and Universal holders only.

THE LINEUP

Fourteen confirmed. More names land through October.

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
Head of Startups, Business Development // Amazon Web Services
Founded a venture-backed startup and helped build MENA's first unicorn before 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.

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.

Grace Yeo
TEDx Speaker and Sales Coach
Sold her first deal at seven, auctioning Pokemon cards on a school bus. Built a six-figure marketing agency and runs a renovations company in Indonesia. Moderating Pitch Fight, keeping the pitches honest and the panel sharp.

Teng Chan Leong
Chief Executive, Skribble // Founding Member, 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. Joins the Content and Communication Eavesdrop and the Pitch Fight judging panel.

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.

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!

Full lineup, agenda and speaker announcements at www.thebeyondfest.com.
Questions? Reach out to me, jeremiah@thebeyond.cc.