The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the far-reaching impact of the BioMed industry - startups and companies have developed rapid testing kits and repurposed drugs and vaccines, and produced precision medicine, cancer therapy, and other consumer solutions to improve patient outcomes. Beyond the continued investment in BioMedical science and innovation, growing a solid pool of talented individuals will enable the next stage of growth for the industry.

In this session, join our panel of BioMed innovation leaders as they discuss the importance of nurturing BioMed talent, the need to develop technical and business skills necessary for tomorrow's leaders in Biomedical Science, and the strategies and cooperative ways to facilitate a network of BioMed talent.

Speakers:

• Dr Mary Kan, Programme Director – Singapore Biodesign, A*STAR
• Donna See, CEO, Xora Innovation
• Christian Teo, Head of Biome Digital Lab Singapore, Novartis
• Moderator: Juliana Lim, Executive Director – Talent Networking, SGInnovate

Jointly hosted with SingHealth

While the COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented demands on modern healthcare systems, the industry’s response has vividly demonstrated its resilience and ability to bring innovations to market quickly. Since the pandemic, the healthcare industry has produced inspiring examples of innovation in products, services, processes, and business and delivery models, often in partnership with other sectors. 

In this fireside chat, join our expert leaders as they discuss the need and ways to create the right environment for health science innovations, how a strong culture of innovation and a reservoir of human talent could help accelerate health science innovations, and how such a culture has enabled Singapore to innovate fast in response to COVID-19.

Speakers:

• Prof Thomas Coffman, Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Prof Jackie Ying, Director, NanoBio Lab and Senior Fellow, A*STAR
• Moderator: Claudia Chong, Journalist, The Business Times

Jointly hosted with SingHealth

Telemedicine, AI-enabled medical devices, and blockchain electronic health records are just a few concrete examples of technology innovations in healthcare. While the COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented demands on modern healthcare systems, the industry’s response has vividly demonstrated its resilience and ability to bring innovations to market quickly. 

Given the speed of recent changes, it is likely that parts of the healthcare ecosystem will operate in different ways in the coming years. To keep pace with this evolution and deliver better patient outcomes, how should Singapore’s healthcare leaders enable their organisations to be ready to innovate at scale – in digital health, diagnostics, smart devices, and drug development?

Speakers:

• Prof Kenneth Kwek, Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (Innovation & Informatics), SingHealth
• A/Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan, Group Chief Technology Officer, National University Healthcare Systems
• A/Prof Eric Wong, Group Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, National Healthcare Group
• Moderator: Dr Lim Jui, CEO, SGInnovate

Jointly hosted with SingHealth

The science of deep learning is evolving very quickly to power some of the most advanced computing capabilities globally, spanning every industry and adding significant value to user experiences and competitive decision-making.

Specifically, deep learning has the added benefit of making decisions with significantly less involvement from human intervention. It can gauge the accuracy of its answers on its own due to the nature of its multi-layered structure. Deep learning also requires less preprocessing of data as the network itself takes care of many of the filtering and normalisation tasks that must be completed by human programmers when using other machine learning techniques.

Deep learning is steadily finding its way into innovative tools with high-value applications in the real-world clinical environment. In this session, find out what are some of the other current and future applications of Deep Learning that are important in providing better outcomes in healthcare?

Speakers:

• Prof Dean Ho, Provost's Chair Professor, Director of WisDM and N.1, Head of BME, National University of Singapore
• A/Prof Daniel Ting, Director, AI Programme, SingHealth
• Dr Xie Guotong, Chief Healthcare Scientist, Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.
• Moderator: Chong Seow Wei, Editor - Southeast Asia, Generation T Asia

In the core of today’s food and agricultural problems such as maintaining sustainable supply chains and producing healthier food and inputs, food science can help to alleviate such challenges through R&D and innovation. Corporates play a critical role in the promise of AgriFood Science, with their commitments to innovation through R&D in-house and/or through engaging with startups and other external organisations. Join us in this panel discussion with our esteemed AgriFood corporate leaders, as we discuss emerging innovations in AgriFood, the need to boost AgriFood R&D and open innovation activities, and what lies ahead for the industry in the next decade.

Speakers:

• Guglielmo Bonora, Managing Director - Nestle R&D Centre Singapore, Nestle
• Elizabeth Hernandez, Head of Government Affairs and Sustainability, Asia Pacific, Corteva Agriscience
• Ratchanee Teepprasan, Research & Innovation Ecosystem Partner, Charoen Pokphand Group
• Moderator: Dr Ong Mei Horng, Adjunct Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, National University of Singapore

With global AgriFood investment in 2021 expected to surpass the $22.3 billion set in 2020, the appetite for AgriFood tech innovations shows no signs of slowing.

Who are these global AgriFood epicentres that are leading and applying innovations? Fuelled by a mix of world-class research institutes, research universities and public-private partnerships between science, industry and government, AgriFood hubs create the ideal environment to support and commercialise innovations.

At this session, we bring together experts from key global epicentre markets to talk about the growing global appetite for AgriFood innovation and how their organisations support AgriFood innovation locally and globally.

Speakers:

• Dr Pun-Arj Chairatana, Executive Director, National Innovation Agency
• Dr Sandhya Sriram, Group CEO & Co-founder, Shiok Meats
• Serpil Tascioglu, Director, Foods Innovation, Strategy & Transformation, Unilever
• Moderator: Pratima Singh, Senior Manager, Policy and Insights, Economic Impact