It’s bantu’s 2nd Birthday! 🎉

Celebrate with us two years of social impact x technology

Janelle Lee
bantu
Published in
3 min readAug 24, 2019

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As part of being in our special bantu community the past two years, we are so proud to be able to celebrate our second birthday with you! 🎂🎁🎉

Some of our proudest moments:

Just this year alone, we’re humbled to have been invited to many different events all over South East Asia as guest speakers to share our views on social issues, the social sector landscape and even advice on community management!

Social Service Summit

The Social Service Summit that took place on 16th July 2019 is NCSS’s annual signature event which brings together leaders from the social service ecosystem to build networks and collaborate for change. The theme for this year’s Summit was: Impact through Innovation. We were invited by NCSS to set up a showcase booth!

Co-founder Joshua talking to many many leaders from the social service sector in Singapore

Special shoutout to Mr Vincent Lim, president of HCSA, who gave a warm mention highlighting bantu workspace during his talk when he was discussing about leveraging digital technology and service innovation to serve the social sector better.

Innovfest Unbound 2019

Next up was the annual Innovfest Unbound 2019 that happened from 27th to 28th June at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre! As a pillar event in the Smart Nation Innovations Week, Innovfest Unbound showcased over 100 start-ups and technologies — and we were one of them! We brought the whole bantu team down to showcase bantu Workspace and had so much fun sharing and demonstrating the product first-hand to numerous industry leaders, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and investors.

With our wonderful bantu team!

YSI SEA Sustainability Showcase

Last but not least, this years YSI SEA Sustainability Showcase, themed “Sustainability: Hype or Hope?” was held on the 27th of July and featured numerous projects from YSI SEA’s Southeast Asian Innovation Programme. The bantu team were amazed by the drive and ambition of the youth who were pushing the sustainability agenda forward with their inspirational ideas. We were invited to share our social enterprise with other like-minded, impact-driven individuals who all had a similar goal in mind: to use technology as a force for good and accelerate social impact. Among other things, we also got the chance to showcase ourselves to Minister Masagos Zulkifli himself.

Our co-founders with Minister Masagos Zulkifli

Creating Impact with our Users

Just some of our amazing users in the bantu Workspace community!

We also recently published two Customer Champion stories with our long term clients NUS Caretalyst and Zero Waste SG.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OV2m-jIC30A
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_ESRqKpgt6E

We want to thank each and everyone of you for the support you have given us over the past year and we hope to continue creating social impact together to better the community! ❤️❤️❤️ Find out more about what we do at https://workspace.bantu.life/

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Janelle Lee
bantu
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Social Entrepreneur, Coffee Lover \\ Product Lead @ bantu