Abdullah Khurshid's Contact Details

Abdullah Khurshid's Company Details

Padang & Co

Singapore, , Singapore • 11 - 50 Employees
Management Consulting

The Padang & Co story started with Singapore's first major public hackathon, UP Singapore, in 2012. Padang means green, open field in Malay. We are champions for Open Innovation, bringing people together, and creating the occasions and environments for their creativity to flourish and innovation to emerge. The world's leading corporations and organisations come to us with both conventional and non-conventional business problems. We scout for innovative, agile startups and SMEs globally, to find those game-changing ways that solve the problems and run pilots with a view to scale those solutions.To catalyse these collaborations at scale, and address more of Southeast Asia's challenges today and opportunities of tomorrow, we curate thematic communities: Agriculture, Food, Health, Smart(er) Cities, and Sustainability. These change the way we innovate to drive sustainable growth, meet the global Sustainable Development Goals and achieve Net Zero targets by 2030. By accelerating scalable, sustainable innovation, millions more people in the region are nourished, healthy, productive, and economically empowered."Padang" in Malay means "open field". It is also the name of an important historical landmark in the heart of the civic quarter of Singapore, where Padang & Co is headquartered. Padang & Co provides our private, public and people sector partners the space to adopt a range of open innovation practices to solve problems and develop new opportunities. Our business is all about providing a stimulating environment and the conditions to provide meaningful, impactful outcomes. That's what we do. We create the conditions for creativity and innovation to emerge and grow.Padang & Co is a subsidiary of Newton Circus, a technology company that invents communities and services designed to make cities more liveable, competitive and sustainable.