Richard Koh

Chief Technology Officer Microsoft Singapore

Richard Koh is the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Singapore. In this role, he is responsible for engaging with key executive leaders across government, industry, and academia, bringing in the macro technology landscape and helping customers leverage technology innovations for their digital transformation. His focus areas include guiding technology policies, standards, legal and regulatory matters, security, privacy, and compliance decisions.

Siew Choo Soh

Managing Director & Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data | AI Technology DBS Bank

Siew Choo Soh joined DBS in late 2014 to drive the enterprise-wide technology solutions for Core Banking, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Audit. She led a major transformation in the technology talent pool and DBS's architecture, including the insourcing of technology resources, re-architecture of major platforms towards cloud-native architecture and Agile as a business practice for large scale programmes. In 2017, she led the ANZ merger integration across five markets into DBS and created the Enterprise Data Platform to transform DBS into a data-driven company.

In 2018, Siew Choo was appointed as the Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data Analytics Technology. In this role, she is responsible for driving the Digital Bank transformation, wealth management priorities, including Robo-advisory, and the ecosystem's build-out via Open API across multiple countries. In addition, she is also responsible for driving the reorganisation of the technology and business groups for consumer banking, enterprise core banking and enterprise data into a platform model, adopting truly Agile ways of working and cloud-native architecture.

Prior to joining DBS Bank, Siew Choo spent over 19 years at JPMorgan playing various senior technology leadership roles based in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. During this period, she led many multi-year technology build-outs to support JPMorgan's aggressive business expansion for Equities and Transaction Banking across Asia.

Santhosh Viswanathan

Managing Director – Asia Pacific & Japan Intel Corporation

Santhosh Viswanathan is Vice President of Sales, Marketing & Communications Group, and Managing Director – Asia Pacific & Japan for Intel Corporation. He is responsible for Intel's sales, marketing and communications presence across Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and regional functions across the Asia Pacific and Japan.

Santhosh is a proven global leader who has lived and worked across five countries and several Intel locations since joining Intel in 2003. His prior role was as Global Director of Operations for the Regional Sales Group, managing sales operations, strategy & planning for the global sales force. He was a key member of Intel's transformation effort in planning and executing their most significant sales and marketing transformation in Intel's history. He was also the Chief of Staff & Technical Assistant for the General Manager - Asia Pacific & Japan, managing Asia's strategy and execution from 2015 to 2016. From 2010 to early 2014, Santhosh led Intel Indonesia as the Country Manager. His previous roles include leading distribution sales for India and South Asia and sales roles across the region with customer exposure across Asia. Prior to Intel, he has worked in sales and business development roles with Wipro in India. Santhosh has an Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and a Master's degree in Business Administration.

Dr C Mohan

Shaw Visiting Professor National University of Singapore (NUS)

Mohan is currently the Shaw Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China, a Consultant to Microsoft's Data Team, and an Advisor of the Kerala Blockchain Academy (KBA) and the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) in India.

Mohan retired in June 2020 from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Centre in Silicon Valley. He was an IBM researcher for more than 38 years in the database, Blockchain and related areas, and has impacted numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and academic communities, and standards, especially with his invention of the well-known ARIES family of database locking and recovery algorithms, and the Presumed Abort distributed commit protocol.

This IBM (1997), Association for Computing Machinery (2002) and IEEE (2002) Fellow has also served as IBM India's Chief Scientist (2006 to 2009). Mohan was also elected to the US and Indian National Academies of Engineering in 2009 and named an IBM Master Inventor in 1997.

Dione Song

Chief Operating Officer Love, Bonito

Dione Song is a thought leader in the Direct-to-Consumer and e-commerce space. Alongside a passionate team of 250 across the region, she spearheads the strategy and innovation of Love, Bonito, and oversees all teams from people & culture, brand to technology. Prior to this, Dione was at Sephora Digital, heading e-commerce for Australia and New Zealand, and digital marketing for Southeast Asia, and was the Managing Director at Zalora Singapore. Dione is passionate about the startup ecosystem, female empowerment, workplace diversity and youth development. She is a mentor with 500 Startups, a contributor at the National Youth Council, an active contributor and mentor to the general startup and tech community in Southeast Asia.

Andrew Vranjes

Head of Startup Ecosystem (Southeast Asia) AWS

Andrew Vranjes is Head of Startup Ecosystem, ASEAN at Amazon Web Services. Based in Singapore, Andrew leads a team who support startups, venture capital and accelerators across Southeast Asia. Andrew helps startups grow, scale and acquire customers. Prior to AWS, Andrew held multiple leadership roles with Cisco and SingTel/Optus in Australia.

King Wang Poon

Director – Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

King Wang Poon is the Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where he also heads the Smart Cities Lab and the Future Digital Economies and Digital Societies initiative. He is concurrently the Senior Director of Strategic Planning at SUTD.

Jessica Dourcy

Chief Happiness Officer / Global Head of HR PALO IT

A former solicitor who specialised in employment law, Jessica Dourcy is now a Strategic Global Human Resource (HR) advocate and part of PALO IT’s Executive Team responsible for strategic HR planning globally across nine offices. With a Bachelor’s Degree in International Law, a Master’s Degree in International and Development Studies, and an Executive MBA, Jessica is well-versed in a wide range of topics covering HR innovation and People & Business Strategy. They include organisational effectiveness, employee engagement, talent management, bespoke learning and development, future of work, personal growth, and leadership development, to name a few.

She is passionate about Human-Machine work interaction topics and what it really entails in the future of work.

Amrish Nair

CEO Biorithm

Born and raised in Singapore, Amrish Nair received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His graduate studies research led him to numerous international publications and a US Patent on ECG signal analysis and monitoring.

His research collaboration with TTSH cardiologist, Dr David and NTU supervisor Assoc Prof Pina Marziliano led him to create the spin-off Biorithm, a MedTech startup, where he has been CEO since 2015. Having successfully received research grants and participated in international accelerators, Biorithm is also gaining traction in the area of remote monitoring.

Avni Agrawal

CTO & Co-founder SixSense

Avni is the CTO & Co-founder of SixSense, a Singapore-based deep technology company funded by Entrepreneur First, SGInnovate, and leading VC firms in Asia. At SixSense, Avni oversees the AI platform that is enabling smart manufacturing at multi-billion dollar manufacturing companies. She has majored in Computer Science Engineering and has previously worked at multinational firms such as D. E. Shaw and Visa. She was also recently recognised in the inaugural Singapore 100 Women In Tech, 2020 alongside many amazing role models in technology.

Bridget Shao

Head of Talent, SEA ThoughtWorks

During her 10+ years Talent Acquisition journey, Bridget has worked in 4 countries across 3 continents, with multinational-cultural teams. An active speaker / volunteer in local NGO organisations to provide professional advice to external audiences on career development, enterprise business setup, people structure design, competency model design, etc. Her specialties are Change Management, Leadership Development, Lean Operation, Organisational Development.

Christel Quek

CTO & Co-founder BOLT Global

Christel is a technology executive who has held senior strategy roles with Fortune 500 companies in the last 10 years. Currently, Christel is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at BOLT Global, an interactive multi-platform media ecosystem that comprises BOLT+, a live streaming platform, and BOLT X, a multi-blockchain wallet.

In 2017, prior to starting BOLT, Christel was one of the first members and the Chief Marketing Officer of Zilliqa, the smart-contract processing Blockchain platform. Christel is still a present advisor to Zilliqa and also to promising Blockchain ecosystem projects such as Switcheo, the first multi-Blockchain decentralised exchange, and Ankr, a pioneering Blockchain cloud infrastructure for web 3.0. Previously, Christel was the Head of Content at Twitter (International Markets), Social Business Lead for Samsung in Asia, and VP of Asia Pacific at Brandwatch. Christel was selected by Forbes as "Forbes 30 Under 30", The Guardian as one of the top 10 global digital strategists, Campaign Asia-Pacific as a Woman to Watch, and Business Insider as one of the 30 best executives to follow on Twitter.

Daryl Lim

Co-founder Augmentus

Daryl Lim is the Co-founder of Augmentus. Prior to his work at Augmentus, Daryl served as the Head of Product & Operations at Edge Neo, a computing distribution company that was the largest technology provider for Blockchain encryption solutions in Southeast Asia. He has experience in finance, growth and digital marketing from Citibank and Seagate Technology, where he was recognised as a top growth executive. Through his entrepreneurial excellence, Daryl has been featured on CNA, The Straits Times, and is often invited to speak and mentor at entrepreneurship conferences.

Dr Geok Leng Tan

CEO AIDA Technologies

Dr Geok Leng Tan is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience working in Malaysia, the United Kingdom (UK), Hong Kong and Singapore. He held a wide variety of roles, including hands-on product development for a Multi-national Company, techno-business consulting in Cambridge, running a Research Institute in Singapore, and creating a world-class FinTech startup.

Dr Martin Andrews

Co-founder Red Dragon AI

Martin has over 20 years of experience in Machine Learning and has used it to solve problems in financial modelling and the creation of Artificial intelligence (AI) automation for companies. His current area of focus and specialisation is in Natural Language Processing and understanding. In 2017, Google appointed Martin as one of the first 12 Google Developer Experts for Machine Learning. Martin is also one of the Co-founders of Red Dragon AI.

Gary Loh

CEO & Founder DiMuto

Gary Loh is the CEO and Founder of DiMuto, a global Agri-FinTech solution digitalising food supply chains for data visibility and trade financing. To date, DiMuto has successfully tracked and traced over millions of pieces in produce and millions in dollars of trade value on their platform. Gary is also the Vice Chairman of SunMoon Food Company Limited, a global Agrifood marketer and distributor.

Gaurav Keerthi

Deputy Chief Executive Cyber Security Agency Singapore (CSA)

Gaurav Keerthi is a senior military officer and former air force pilot. He also spearheaded digital innovation in the RSAF as its first Chief Innovation Officer. He now leads the development of Cybersecurity capabilities to keep Singapore safe. He concurrently volunteers as the CEO and Co-founder of the national tech for good organisation, Better.sg.

Ian Fong

Director – Marketing & Partnerships Propine

Ian Fong brings a wealth of more than two decades of experience in both startups and enterprises, specialising in B2B and B2C marketing and communications in technology, MICE, leisure tourism and media industries. He led and managed the marketing outreach programme for the world’s largest FinTech festival, the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF). Ian significantly increased the number of participants year on year from 14,000 in 2016 to over 60,000 from 127 countries in 2019.

Kester Poh

CEO & Co-founder AiChat

Kester Poh is the CEO and Co-founder of AiChat, a leading AI-powered Conversational Customer Experience platform designed to help brands automate business processes in customer service, marketing and commerce via social messaging apps. Prior to founding AiChat, Kester has worked with one of the world’s largest advertising network, the WPP Group, where he led multiple award-winning digital campaigns for the Fortune 500 clients. Kester is passionate about emerging technology, AI and entrepreneurship. He believes that AI will make people’s lives easier and ultimately contribute to the success of businesses.

Liang Zan Wong

CTO & Co-founder Propine

Armed with an Electrical Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Liang Zan Wong has over 13 years of experience building scalable enterprise software solutions with high performing teams. Zan is well-versed in scaling teams from startups to enterprises where the previous two startups had extremely successful exits – Keppel T&T acquired Urban Fox, and Dropsuite was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Lucas Ngoo

Co-Founder Carousell

Lucas is a Co-founder of Carousell and oversees Data science and AI efforts. Since the launch of Carousell in August 2012, together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Quek Siu Rui, Lucas has been working closely with the Data and Machine Learning team on technical, architecture and data direction and strategies. He is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers and data scientists to keep Carousell at the forefront of the industry. He is also passionate about product development and applying AI to solve problems on a large scale.

Matthias Chin

CEO & Founder Cloudsine

Matthias Chin is a tech entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a cloud, security and internet expert with a strong track record of architecting and building large internet and security systems for government, healthcare and fintech customers while working for Cisco Systems, ST Electronics, Pacific Internet and SCS. He is a Certified Internet Expert (CCIE), Security (CISSP, GCIH, GWAPT, GCFA) and Blockchain Professional (Oxford Blockchain, Consensys Developer). He also holds two patents for the WebOrion Security Platform to monitor and restore modern websites.

Matthias has started various IT business units and grew them to more than 40 people with over $10 million in revenue within 3 – 5 years. He currently holds Board of Director roles in 1x.Exchange (private exchange using cloud and blockchain) and Blockcyber Pte Ltd (tech academy).

Ping Shung Koo

President & Co-founder AI Professionals Association

Ping Shung Koo is the President & Co-founder of the AI Professionals Association (AIP). This first grassroots-driven association helps organisations build their AI capabilities, to use AI ethically and effectively. In this role, he builds up talent through training, mentoring, consulting and sharing with participants his many years of working experience.

Quinn Pham

Director of Client Services MEIRO

As a MEIRO management team member, Quinn Pham leads data integration and Customer Data Platform (CDP) implementation projects for its largest clients in the Asia Pacific by serving as the bridge between the business decision-makers and technical experts. In her role, she advises her clients in activating data for personalising customer engagement, optimising business processes and operationalising digital transformation initiatives.

Quinn also volunteers as an Instructor on data analytics for She Loves Data, a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to nurture the Data Science, Business Intelligence & Analytics community and inspire more women in pursuing careers in these fields. Her engaging and accessible sessions are popular among ladies who were initially intimidated by data.

Prior to MEIRO and She Loves Data, Quinn worked as a Project Manager in a professional services firm, enabling business process optimisation, ERP implementation, and championing data-driven decision making within the organisation.

Rajesh Mohan

Assistant Professor Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Dr Mohan is an Assistant Professor with the Engineering Product Development Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is also the Co-founder of Lionsbot International, a Singapore-based Robotics startup that manufactures and globally deploys a wide range of autonomous professional cleaning robots.

Ravi Nippani

Associate Partner, Human Capital Solutions, APAC & MEA AON

A senior member of the advisory team with more than 16 years of experience in Hi-Tech, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Chemical and Financial Services sectors, Ravi Nippani leads the Private market practice (startups) in Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (AMEA) and the Technology and Lifesciences industries in South East Asia. Ravi holds a Master of Business Administration in Human Resources along with a Masters in Labor Law.

Roger Olofsson

CEO Olofsson & Company

Roger Olofsson is the CEO of Olofsson & Company, the leading executive search firm dedicated to Tech and startups. Roger is one of the leading authorities in talent capital with a career spanning over 25 years in Singapore. He is a renowned speaker on the importance of talent to leverage startup growth.

Sam Witteveen

Co-founder Red Dragon AI

Sam has used Machine Learning and Deep Learning in building multiple tech startups, including a children’s educational app provider which has over 4 million users worldwide. His current focus is AI for conversational agents to allow humans to interact easier and faster with computers. In 2017, Google appointed Sam as one of the first 12 Google Developer Experts for Machine Learning in the world. Sam is also one of the Co-founders of Red Dragon AI.

Selina Sia

Manager, Advanced Manufacturing EDB

Ms Selina Sia is part of EDB’s Advanced ManufacturingDivision, which designs and executes national manufacturing strategies to drive the transformation and growth of Singapore’s manufacturing ecosystem. Before her current role, Selina was an Account Manager at Digital Industry Singapore (DISG). Her responsibilities included developing and executing strategies to attract foreign direct investments from MNCs to Singapore, focusing on enterprise software companies in the US. Before joining EDB, Selina worked as a part-time consultant at FreshDirect. As part of FreshDirect’s customer engagement strategy, she and her team developed a predictive customer lifetime value model, enabling the company to target and identify high-value customers. Selina has a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Management Science and Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Munich.

Wei Ching Ong

Data Science Intern Holmusk

Wei Ching Ong graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Politics, Law and Economics) from the Singapore Management University. A self-taught data scientist, she aspires to build impactful and scalable solutions for global problems. She is passionate about economic and women empowerment and creating more opportunities for marginalised communities.

Sumukh Avadhani

CTO & Co-founder Pencil

Sumukh has vast industry experience as a Machine Learning specialist with Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Image Processing expertise. He has most recently worked at Google in the anti-abuse Engineering team, fighting spam and fraud across multiple Google products. Past stints include roles such as Manager of Infrastructure and Analytics at Kaybus (now Prysm). He was also involved in large-scale stream data processing, infrastructure deployment, and security. At Toshiba, he worked in a team focused on pedestrian detection for autonomous car platform OEMs. Before that, at Samsung, he was part of the Advanced Multimedia Team, where Machine Learning and image processing algorithms were used to transform images into videos mimicking human-style paint rendering. Sumukh graduated from King's College London with a Masters in Signal Processing.