In November 2019, Dr Peter Nagler was appointed as Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) of A*STAR. Concurrently, since January 2018, Dr Peter Nagler has served as the Executive Director of the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES). Before he gained more than 30 years of leadership experience in the chemical industry, comprising global operational (P+L) responsibilities as well as worldwide innovation management functions, he served as Head of International Innovation (2015-2016). He has also held the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) position at Evonik Industries AG (2011-2015). Since 2009, he has been responsible for Corporate Innovation. He has held several positions, such as Regional President South America in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Head of the Fine Chemicals and Exclusive Synthesis & Catalysts Business Units. From 1993 to 1997, he worked in Paris at Evonik´s subsidiary Rexim - first as Marketing Director and later as Managing Director. He had joined Degussa AG in 1986 as a research chemist after studying chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt and Biochemistry at the University of Nice. He received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Goethe-University, in 1985. He serves on the Advisory Board of Fraunhofer ISC (Würzburg) and the Advisory Board of C&EN. He has furthermore been appointed Adjunct Professor to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the National University of Singapore.

Hiroaki Kitano is a President & CEO at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, a Corporate Executive at Sony Corporation, Tokyo, a President at The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, and a Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa. He received a B.A. in physics from the International Christian University, Tokyo, and a PhD in computer science from Kyoto University. Since 1988, he has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University. His research career includes a Project Director at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, followed by a Project Director at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO-SORST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, a Group Director of Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, and so on. He is also an Editor-in-Chief of NPJ Systems Biology and Applications and a Founding President of The RoboCup Federation. Kitano received The Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence in 1993, Prix Ars Electronica 2000, Japan Design Culture Award 2001, Good Design Award 2001, and Nature’s 2009 Japan Mid-career Award for Creative Mentoring in Science, as well as being an invited artist for Biennale di Venezia 2000 and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York in 2001.

Yoke Sin was the founding CEO of Integrated Health Information Systems which delivers highly integrated and automated systems for the clinical and patient-administration systems for the entire public healthcare system in Singapore. She oversaw the attainment of the HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 and 7 levels of IT adoption for the healthcare systems. She was admitted to the Hall of Fame by HIMSS in 2016 for her achievements in raising the level of technology in healthcare. As the past president of HIMSS Asia Governing council and board member of the US HIMSS organisation, she contributed to the IT standards for primary care, analytics and decision support for HIMSS. Yoke Sin was the CEO of NCS, a Singapore Systems integrator spun off from the Singapore Government, that specialised in applications and infrastructural solutions for the government, healthcare and finance industries. She expanded NCS to the Middle East, Hong Kong, China, Australia and Korea. NCS grew its footprint to become the largest systems integrator in Singapore. She was involved with the development of the national e-government Masterplan and spearheaded SME technology adoption at the national level. Prior to joining iGlobe, Yoke Sin was the Chief of Enterprise Business at StarHub and grew its AI, Cybersecurity, IOT and digital platform business. She oversaw the formation of Ensign, a cybersecurity company, specialised in cybersecurity forensics, advisory, systems integration and monitoring. She serves as an advisory member of the KLAS board, the independent benchmarking service for software in the healthcare industry globally. Yoke Sin is a Board Member of the Singapore Land Authority and is Chairman of the IT Board. She also sits on the Board of Governors of the Republic Polytechnic, SG Enable and the National Kidney Foundation. Yoke Sin is the President of the Singapore Computer Society which has 35,000 members. She is a certified Healthcare Professional (CPHIMS), certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) and a certified Project Manager (Senior). She holds a PhD in Chemistry and attended the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.

Pratima Singh is a Senior Manager with Economist Impact’s Policy & Insights team. She leads the Global Food Security Index, an annual study measuring the state of food security in 100+ countries worldwide. At Economist Impact, Pratima leads several of the sustainability-themed research programs for foundations, governments and non-profits seeking evidence-based analysis and policy recommendations. Pratima has worked with a number of organisations across the public and private sector including the National University of Singapore—where her research focused on economic and social policy issues such as the critical drivers of food prices in India—the Centre for Civil Society, the Asian Development Bank, and DuckerFrontier, where she supported senior executives at several large agrochemical companies build their Asia Pacific business strategies. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from University College London (UCL) and a BSc Economics degree from the Singapore Management University.

Dr Danil Mikhailov is the Executive Director of data.org. He has over 20 years of experience setting up multiple startups and leading work across diverse sectors, constantly investigating and innovating in the space where technology, culture, and society converge. Prior to data.org, Danil was at The Wellcome Trust, where he founded and directed the Wellcome Data Labs, an interdisciplinary team of data scientists, software developers, and social scientists, creating open-source data tools supporting Wellcome’s mission. While at Wellcome, Danil coordinated the data and data science aspects of the Trust’s Covid-19 pandemic response. Before joining The Wellcome Trust, Danil founded and chaired the Digital Strategy Forum for Science, Art, and Culture, in the United Kingdom. Danil strongly believes in the power of interdisciplinarity and, he brings a social sciences and humanities perspective to his work. Danil holds a PhD in Sociology and Communications from the University of Brunel, an MA in Philosophy, from Birkbeck, University of London, an MA in Chinese Studies, from SOAS, University of London, and a BSc in IT & Business Management, University of York.

Dr Eric Wong is currently the Group Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for National Healthcare Group and the Chief Medical Information Officer of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He is responsible for the overall vision, planning and implementation of its healthcare IT capabilities.

Dr. Juergen Stuhler is Vice President and Head of the Business Unit Quantum Technologies at TOPTICA Photonics AG. In addition, he is currently involved in the European quantum flagship projects “AQTION”, “iqClock”, “PASQuanS” as well as “QIA” and in several German quantum computing projects. He was coordinator of the German quantum technology pilot project “opticlock” and contributed to many other quantum technology related projects or training networks. Dr. Juergen Stuhler is also Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Manager of TOPTICA Photonics (China) Co. Ltd.. Before joining TOPTICA in 2006, he was atom optics group leader and lecturer at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) with experiments on chromium Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), Rubidium BEC, Rydberg excitation and electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) in magnetically and optically trapped rubidium atoms. From 2001 to 2003, as postdoctoral researcher, he designed and set up the rubidium atom interferometer “MAGIA” to measure the Newtonian gravitational constant G at the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) and the Dipartimento di Fisica in Florence (Germany). He studied physics at the University of Constance (Germany) and obtained his PhD in 2001 in the group of J. Mlynek and T. Pfau. Dr. Juergen Stuhler has more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications and more than 30 articles or book contributions.

Dr Justine Lacey leads the Responsible Innovation Future Science Platform in Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). This research programme aims to assess the risks, benefits and uncertainties of a broad range of future science and technology development with the goal of ensuring that we design and deliver responsible science and technology for the benefit of all. The programme largely focuses on emergent and potentially disruptive portfolios of science and technology development to identify and be responsive to critical societal and ethical considerations. The research also supports a range of stakeholders and end users to identify and adopt responsible technologies in various contexts and works with communities to equip them to assess how new technologies may change their lives. Prior to taking up this role, Justine led a research group of social and economic scientists developing and supporting adaptive solutions for Australian communities and industries. She is trained as a philosopher and her own research has focused on examining the aspects underpinning the minerals industry’s social licence to operate, and how this concept is used in other contexts, such as forestry, agriculture, conservation management, and technology development.

As CEO of SGInnovate, Dr Lim Jui has overall leadership of the organisation that is committed to helping entrepreneurial scientists build and scale Deep Tech startups. At SGInnovate, Jui and his team work closely with a wide range of partners and co-investors to back this unique group of founders, who are looking to solve global challenges with their research-based solutions. This is done through equity-based investments, access to the Deep Tech ecosystem and talent network, as well as by providing business-building support. While he trained in medicine, Jui had spent most of his professional life in the business of science and innovation. He was Director of Investments, Bio*One Capital; CEO of Merlin MD, a medical device company; Executive Director of the Medical Engineering Research and Commercialisation Initiative (MERCI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS); and Programme Director of the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Programme (SSB), a joint venture between the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and Stanford University. Before joining SGInnovate, Jui was CEO of NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He currently serves on the advisory boards of IPOS International, the business arm of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), and several startup companies. He was previously a board member of the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) in Singapore. Jui received his Bachelor of Arts (BA, Biological Sciences and East Asian Studies) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Columbia University. He then obtained his Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care) from NUS. He remains a registered medical practitioner today.

Dr Mary Kan is the Programme Director of Singapore Biodesign and the Director of the MedTech/Dx/Digital Health Industry Cluster at Enterprise, A*STAR. Mary read Biochemistry at Imperial College London and Pharmacology at King's College London. After returning to Singapore, she worked at DSO National Laboratories, focused on preclinical and clinical research into battlefield injuries. She subsequently completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the National University of Singapore. Mary was a Singapore-Stanford Biodesign fellow in 2015. Through this programme, and with her teammates, she developed a medical device for endoscopic biopsy and a wearable neurostimulation device for chronic venous insufficiency. Since the fellowship, Mary has continued to apply Biodesign tenets to her work. She has been immersed in clinical environments in developed and developing countries and now uses a systematic approach to assess unmet clinical needs. Mary was also involved in product design and development consultancy work for a NASDAQ-listed medical device MNC to launch their product in China. She was part of a new business initiative at ST Engineering, where she was involved in formulating a new business entry strategy and facilitating cross-institutional partnerships with local agencies, health services and industry. Mary returned to A*STAR in 2018 and led the transition of the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign to Singapore Biodesign and its recognition as the first Asian Stanford global affiliate. In Singapore, she has also led the identification of key competency frameworks in the health technology area and is actively increasing the democratisation of Biodesign into universities and workplaces. At Enterprise A*STAR, Mary also brings the Biodesign methodology into her work at the Enterprise division, assisting to improve the value proposition of A*STAR projects in their translational journey and engaging with external industry partners to facilitate their commercialisation.

Dr Ong Mei Horng helps food and beverage companies to innovate and transform their business via the development of new products and services, and the adoption of digital and automation technology. Dr Ong currently serves as an Adjunct Professor, part-time lecturer for the Food Science and Technology Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She was appointed as Food Specialist for ESG-SMF EIR Programme to support the Industry 4.0 digital and automation transformation for the food industry. As an active member of the IPI Innovation Advisory Programme supporting SME food companies. Dr Ong is also part of the Asia Soy Technical Advisory Group for USA Soy Export Council USSEC in setting up the world first Asia Soy Excellent Centre to support the growth of AgriFood Tech in Asia. Being a Council Member for the Institute of Food Science & Technology and Co-chair for the Food Science and Technology World Congress in Singapore in 2022. Dr Ong is also a qualified assessor for the WEF/EDB Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) Industry 4.0 Assessment. She has the extensive industry experience and deep expertise gained from over 25 years working in R&D, Innovation and Manufacturing functions for food and beverage companies such as Nestlé, Mars and Cadbury, F&N and Vitasoy in Europe, Oceania and Asia. Dr Ong was the Director of the FMCG Cluster at A*STAR- ARTC where she developed the I4.0 technology for F&B and FMCG applications. Dr Ong graduated from King’s College, University of London and obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in England. Dr Ong strongly believes in lifelong learning and giving back to society.

Dr Pun-Arj Chairatana (PAC) – the Executive Director of National Innovation Agency (NIA), Thailand – has been recognised as the country’s pioneer in the fields of foresight and innovation management. With a comprehensive educational background in Physics, Economics, Innovation Management and Technology Foresight, PAC engaged with various strategic projects in multiple areas, ranging from academia to national policy development. With decades of experience, he was involved in several international and national research projects from both private and public sectors, for example managing “Trendnovation Southeast”, the horizon scanning project under the Searchlight Network of the Rockefeller Foundation, and designing “social innovation system” and policy for the Thai social economy. He was also the Founder and managing director of NOVISCAPE Consulting Group (NCG), the foresight and innovation-specialised company based in Bangkok, and involved with various regional scenario buildings and future exercises since the late 1990s. Recently, as the programme leader of STARTUP THAILAND – a national startup promotion platform by the Ministry of Higher Education Science Research and Innovation (MHESI) – he has brought national awareness of startups to the public and established a national level policy to make Thailand an open area for startups not only in Asia region but worldwide.

Dr Sandhya Sriram is the Group CEO and Co-founder of Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd., Singapore, the first cell-based seafood & meat company in Southeast Asia and the first cell-based Crustacean company globally. Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd. also owns SEA’s first cell-based red meat company, Gaia Foods. A stem cell biologist and scientist by training and education, a former business development professional, a serial entrepreneur, and a thought leader – all in one – Sandhya is a Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and was featured as one of Forbes Women in Tech for building ventures rooted in purpose, impact and innovation. Prior to Shiok Meats, Sandhya co-founded two ventures – Biotech in Asia, a Singapore-based Biotech and Healthcare Information Hub in 2014, and SciGlo, an EdTech event management company in 2016. She is also an advisor and investor to trailblazing Food Tech start-ups and has spoken at leading industry conferences worldwide. A proud mother to an 8-year-old, a ‘conscious lifestyle’ blogger, and an avid traveller, Sandhya likes to call herself a ‘productive juggler’. Sandhya has over ten years of experience working with muscle, adipose, cells and stem cells. After graduating with a PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Sandhya pursued her postdoctoral work at A*STAR in Singapore. Following four years of postdoctoral work, she took up business development at a research institute.

Dr Si-Hui Tan heads the research development for Horizon’s software that will compile classical code to be run on a quantum computer. She is an active researcher in the field of quantum information science for over 15 years, and has published extensively in top journals and conference proceedings. Si-Hui received a BSc in Physics from the California Institute of Technology and a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was the recipient of the prestigious MIT Presidential Fellowship. Prior to joining Horizon, Si-Hui was a research scientist at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the Centre for Quantum Technologies, and the A*STAR Data Storage Institute. Si-Hui is an active member of Zonta International, and a board member and treasurer of the Zonta Copenhagen Multicultural Club. Si-Hui was honoured as the silver winner for CTO of the Year at the WomenTech Global Awards 2020: a prize to recognize innovative and impactful technological leadership as head of global IT, while fostering diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Xie Guotong, PhD, Chief Healthcare Scientist of PingAn Group, Deputy General Manager of PingAn Technology, Director of PingAn Healthcare Technology Research Institute. Dr Xie is leading the R&D of Healthcare Artificial Intelligence(Al) technologies in PingAn Group. Using the Group's three core technologies of Al, Blockchain and cloud computing, PingAn Smart Health provides End to End disease management solutions, including smart triage and guidance, smart disease prediction, smart medical imaging screening/diagnosis, smart clinical decision support, smart patient follow-up and education and Al assisted drug discovery. PingAn Smart Healthcare solutions have been deployed in more than 20,000 healthcare institutions, providing 100,000+ diagnosis and treatment recommendations to 600,000 physicians every day. 270 million medical images have been analyzed to help radiologists to read X-rays and CT. Before joining PingAn, Dr Xie is the director of IBM Research China cognitive healthcare department and co-leading the IBM global healthcare strategy. Dr Xie has more than 20 years in Artificial Intelligence and applying the technologies in healthcare areas. He has published more than 150 papers in top international conferences and obtained more than 80 patents. He has obtained IBM outstanding awards three times and was granted the “Best of IBM" in 2016.

Elizabeth Hernandez leads Corteva Agriscience’s external engagement strategy in Asia Pacific. She advances the company’s brand and reputation, develops strategic relationships with governments and other stakeholders across the food and agriculture ecosystem, and manages Corteva’s sustainability initiatives in Asia Pacific. Elizabeth has over 25 years of experience in Asia, mostly with multinationals, including GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, Facebook and DuPont (now Corteva Agriscience). She is also an accomplished tech entrepreneur, who helped pioneer broadband connectivity for travelers in Asia. A recognized thought leader, Elizabeth speaks frequently on sustainability, women empowerment and creating shared value. Elizabeth served two terms on the Board of Governors for the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. She currently serves on the boards of WOMAG (Women in Agribusiness) and Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), a global partnership for digital inclusion funded by the UN Foundation and the Gates Foundation, among others. She is also a founding member of KeyNote Women Speakers, a global platform that advocates for gender diversity on the world’s stages. Elizabeth received a B.A. in History from the University of the Philippines, and studied at the American University School of International Service in Washington, D.C. She lives in Singapore with her husband and three children.

Guglielmo Bonora holds a MSc in Law and Business Administration from Bocconi University (Milan). He started his career with Nestlé in 2004 in the International Audit Team, one of the most important talent pools within Nestlé for future business leaders of the Group. In 2010, he moved to Nestlé Middle East where he performed various positions in Marketing & Sales before taking on the function of Group Product Manager for NIDO Growing-up Milks. In 2015 he moved back to Nestlé HQ as Global Category Leader for Children Ambient Dairy, responsible for setting the global strategy of iconic brands like NIDO and BEAR BRAND. As of December 2020 he was appointed R&D Singapore Centre Head, a multicategory ASEAN R&D Centre focused on delivering locally relevant and agile innovation for the region.

Hsien-Hui Tong brings with him, in-depth knowledge and experience in the Business Development and Venture Capital spaces in Australia, Europe, Singapore, and the US. As the Executive Director - Investments, Hsien-Hui oversees SGInnovate's investments efforts, which target high-potential, deep technology startups working on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, MedTech, and Blockchain. Prior to joining SGInnovate, he was the Managing Partner, Asia Pacific for Wassax Ventures. He has also served as the CEO of the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) and Vice President at Staples. In the early 2000s, he co-founded a data mining company, which was sold to a global bank two years later. Hsien-Hui graduated in 1998 from NUS with a Bachelor of Engineering.

Jackie holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK. He joins the World Economic Forum as a Project Fellow, “Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains” Platform to support the deployment of Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) as the internationally recognized standard for Industry 4.0 globally. The goal is to catalyze the adoption of Industry 4.0 methodologies and technologies across the global manufacturing community, and provide quantitative indicators for international benchmarking. Prior to that, Jackie worked with Rolls-Royce in the UK and headed the field of Manufacturing Systems overseeing the cross-functional digitalization framework for new factory deployment, where he shaped the Digital Operations, Manufacturing Data Management and Capability Acquisition Roadmap. He furthermore led business lean initiatives and transformed production operations to cut down costs, shorten delivery time and accommodate customer requirements.

Jean Cox-Kearns is the Chief Sustainability Officer for TES with responsibility for TES's Sustainability Programme - Sustaining Tomorrow, and for the group's compliance activities. Her role includes championing Sustainability Strategy across all TES sites and supply chain and maintenance of all operational certifications. She has over 20-years of experience in sustainability and regulatory compliance in the Electronics Industry. She is a board member of the Global Electronic Council, and she also serves on the board of a mental health organisation.  Jean comes to TES with a Post Grad in Design Thinking for Sustainability and a Masters in Executive Leadership.

Jessica is the Founder and Managing Director of Eco-Business, Asia Pacific's leading independent media and business intelligence organisation dedicated to sustainable development. She has more than 15 years of experience in media, sustainable development and ESG issues globally. She is a regular columnist for national newspapers and is on the Board of Directors for Singapore-listed ComfortDelGro, one of the world's largest land transport companies, as an independent director on the Nominating, Investment and Digitalisation committees. She serves as ESG Venture Partner to Asian private equity firm Tembusu Partners; Strategic Advisor to Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, a member of the International Women’s Forum Singapore, and is founding Director of EB Impact, a non-profit dedicated to positive sustainable development impact in Asia. She is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), and a member of its ESG and Communications committees. Jessica specialises in advising the Boards of a wide range of government and multi-national organisations on ESG strategy, and has a particular interest in issues at the intersection of sustainability, technology, diversity and equality. She was previously a political correspondent at The Straits Times and a Singapore Press Holdings scholar. She has been recognised in many regional and international journalism and media awards, including Women of the Future Southeast Asia Awards and LinkedIn’s Power Profiles, and is frequently invited to speak at and host discussions across the globe on her areas of expertise.

As Executive Director, Talent Networking, Juliana tackles the same challenges surrounding tech talent that many companies and industries face but approaches them differently. She leads SGInnovate’s work in strengthening individuals’ capabilities in the Deep Tech space, building a strong mentors & multipliers network, as well as in expanding the talent marketplace, where ambitious and capable people and high-potential startups can seek each other out. Working with like-minded partners such as large corporates and institutes of higher learning, Juliana and her team have executed various learning and development programmes that have benefitted more than 400 Deep Tech talent in AI and Blockchain. In building the Deep Tech talent network, she is focused on three main areas – targetting new pipelines, increasing touchpoints and attracting talent to startups. Under her leadership, the team has also put together the first-ever Deep Tech focused apprenticeship initiative – the Summation Programme. A curated pool of students will partner experienced software and engineering professionals to embark on innovative projects focusing on areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and blockchain. She has also successfully launched the by-invite-only Sundown Drinks series, where industry experts, entrepreneurs and technical practitioners gather to discuss and debate on important and trending topics such as “Looking Beyond ICOs”; “Future of Automation”; and “Pushing the Boundaries of Biomedical Tech”. Prior to joining SGInnovate, Juliana had been in various roles across the Human Resource function in organisations such as SP Group, NTUC First Campus (NFC), the National Heritage Board, Central Provident Fund Board and the Ministry of Education. She has led teams in talent attraction, benefits and rewards, learning and development and business partnering. Juliana has a Bachelor of Economics (1st Class Hons) from Murdoch University and a Master in Strategic Human Resource Management from the University of New South Wales. 

Justin Wood is Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. He joined the Alliance in April 2020 and is responsible for relationships with external stakeholders, including businesses across the plastic value chain, governments, NGOs, civil society, inter-governmental organisations and development banks, and academia. Justin also oversees the regional strategies of the Alliance, ensuring that the work of the Alliance is tightly linked to the local priorities of different geographies. Before joining the Alliance, Justin was Head of Asia Pacific and Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum from 2015 to 2020, where he managed the Forum’s portfolio of activities and relationships in Asia, working on trade and economic integration, human capital development, environmental sustainability and infrastructure financing. Before 2015, he worked for The Economist Group for 18 years, the last 14 of them in Southeast Asia. For eight of those years, Justin ran an economic advisory and research service covering the Asia region, and before that, he worked as a journalist, covering economics and business across Asia.

Prof. Dr. Manas Mukherjee Principle Investigator and Research Associate Professor Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS, Singapore Coordinator for National Quantum Fabless Foundry, an initiative under the Quantum Engineering Program Singapore. My research and innovation interest lies in the implementation of quantum protocols for quantum computing and metrology. In particular, my team works on implementation of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms in an ion trap based quantum processors, which we develop at the CQT-NUS laboratories. We innovated a novel quantum protocol to perform electrical noise measurements beyond the quantum limit and showed for the first time how quantum effects can play a major role in heat engines that are microscopic in nature. The engine, which we implemented, had only one atom. I completed my undergraduate Physics studies at the Indian Institute of Technologies, Kharagpur, India and graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Germany with PhD in Natural Sciences (Physics) working on precision measurements using ion traps. Thereafter, I continued my quest to develop tools for quantum entanglement between atoms and photons as a Lise-Meitner Fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The outcome of that project within the group of Prof. Rainer Blatt holds some of the key elements currently used for distributed computing. Since 2012, I am heading a research group at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS focussing on practical implementation of quantum computers to real life problems. Since 2019, we are pursuing an island wide effort to consolidate quantum device fabrication and speeding up quantum system building in the form of a R&D foundry for quantum devices. I have keen interest in STEM education for kids apart from shuttles sports. It is often fun to show up on TV or at the science museum.

Mr Bausenwein is President of Ørsted Asia Pacific and has extensive experience in renewable energy and has worked in the Asia Pacific region for many years. As head of the region, he is responsible for the development, construction and operations of Ørsted projects in APAC. Before coming to Asia, he held different leadership positions in the offshore wind industry, among others he was head of project development in Germany and The Netherlands as well as global head of market development for Ørsted. Mr Bausenwein holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration, with a focus on international management.

Nirupa Chander is the Country Managing Director – Singapore and heads the Marketing & Sales Function in Singapore for Hitachi Energy (previously Hitachi ABB Power Grids) since 2019. In addition, she leads the Top Line Synergies initiative for South Asia as part of our activities with the broader Hitachi group. Nirupa joined ABB Power Grids in 2009 in Australia after 5 years in BHEL, India. She held operation and sales leadership roles in ABB Power Grids in Power Generation, Renewables Integration and Microgrids. She moved to Singapore in 2017 to lead Service and Digital in South East Asia. Nirupa has a degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the LD College of Engineering (Gujarat, India) and she has also completed the Emerging Leadership Program at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.

Dianah is the section editor for DigitalEdge at The Edge Singapore. She interviews various industry leaders and subject matter experts to write extensively on how technology can revolutionise industries to improve our quality of life and help boost Asia’s growth. Fascinated by the transformative power of technology, Dianah has been covering the enterprise/B2B tech space for nearly a decade. Before joining The Edge Singapore, Dianah was a content strategist at Archetype. She worked closely with clients — including Cloudera, Red Hat, and Vodafone Business — to craft compelling narratives and engaging stories across digital marketing channels to position those brands as thought leaders in their respective fields. She previously wrote for CIO Asia and Bank IT Asia too, covering topics such as digital transformation, business strategy, innovation, leadership and skills development.

Director of the Office of Digital Innovation and Architecture Division within Asian Development Bank. He is currently also heading the ADB Digital Innovation Sandbox Program. He has worked for United Nations and global financial banking services sector in Asia, Europe, and the USA. Prior to joining the ADB, he was Chief of Innovation and Business Relationships at United Nations HQ in New York, where he was responsible for developing relationships with departments, member countries, facilitating public-private sector partnerships and leading innovation labs’ development globally. His broad areas of expertise include Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Emerging Technologies adoption by Public Sector and International Agencies.

Dr Amit Ben-Kish has been a Division CTO at Rafael for the last 5 years, currently leading Rafael's quantum technology effort. Dr Ben-Kish received his PhD degree in physics from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2000, followed by a postdoc position at NIST Boulder, working on Quantum Computation at D. Wineland's Ion Storage group. In 2007 Dr Ben-Kish joined W. Happer and M. Romalis' Quantum Sensing groups as a visiting scientist at Princeton. At Rafael, Dr Ben-Kish founded a unique quantum technology centre. This Quantum centre was recognised as a National Center of Excellence in 2012. Among other things, the Quantum Technology Center develops, designs, and fabricates accurate small scale atomic clocks and high-end navigation sensors. Currently, Dr Ben-Kish is leading a joint academic and industrial effort toward building an applied quantum computation centre in Israel, in response to a program announced by Israel's National Quantum Initiative (INQI) committee.

Ravi Bains is CEO and Founder of Advanced Research Systems, Inc (ARS). Ravi started ARS in 1986 as a supplier of cryogenic laboratory systems for materials research. The company develops and manufactures cryocoolers and markets them to over 50 countries. ARS customers typically include National Laboratories and University Research Centers researching cryogenic temperature. Ravi has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University and an MBA from Lehigh University. Prior to starting ARS, he was employed by Air Products Inc., where he held engineering, manufacturing, and international sales positions.

Ratchanee is the Director at CP Group's CTO office, and is responsible for ecosystem partnership, strategic plan for group R&D and innovation, and Digital Transformation program. She helps business units find the right startups and facilitates crucial stages of collaboration. She also works alongside CVC team in evaluating investment opportunities, especially in the health and life sciences domain. Ratchanee was head of the Corporate segment at True, taking care of solution partnerships, development, sales, marketing and operation for B2B. Prior to CP and True, she was with BCG and IBM, working in various projects across ASEAN, China and Australia, with collaboration with colleagues and partners around the world. Ratchanee holds a B.Eng degree from Chulalongkorn University and an M.Eng from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.

Raju Chellam is the Chief Editor of the AI E&G BoK (AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge), an initiative by the SCS (Singapore Computer Society) & IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority). Raju is a Fellow of ACE (Advanced Computing for Executives) at NUS (National University of Singapore) School of Computing. He was conferred as an SCS Fellow in March 2018. He is also on the APEC DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment) International Advisory Panel, and on the Credence DTRS (Data Trust Rating System) Expert Panel. He is the Hon Chair of Cloud & Data Standards at ITSC (IT Standards Committee), Hon Vice President of SCS Cloud Chapter, and on the Exco of SGTech’s Cloud & Data Chapter. Raju is currently Vice President (New Technologies) at Fusionex International, a leading software company that specializes in ABC (AI, Big Data Analytics, & Cloud Computing). Raju has been in the IT industry for the last 38 years.

Professor Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Senior Director and Chief Solution Architect & Global Head for Nvidia AI Technology Center. He is also a Professor and Chief Scientific Computing Officer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), and Professor in Universitas Indonesia (UI). He is being conferred as a Distinguished Fudan Scholar in September 2018 by Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Previously Professor See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand). Professor See is currently involved in a number of smart city projects, especially in Singapore and China. His research interests are in the area of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Science, Applied Mathematics and Simulation Methodology. Professor See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in the Asia Pacific. He is a Steering Committee member of NSCC’s flagship High Performance Computing Conference Supercomputing Asia (SCA) since March 2018. He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards. Professor See is a Fellow member of IEEE, a member of SIAM, IET, AAAI, and also on the Advisory Team of AIP (AI Professional Association) and the committee member of more than 50 conferences. Professor See graduated from the University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Dr. See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems and Oracle. He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers.

Prof José Ignacio Latorre is Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) and Professor in the Department of Physics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). A leading figure in particle physics and quantum information, José Ignacio joined CQT, NUS in July 2020 from the University of Barcelona, where he had been heading a research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to build the first quantum processor in Spain. José Ignacio is also Chief Researcher at the Quantum Research Centre in the Technology Innovation Institute in the United Arab Emirates and founder of Qilimanjaro, a startup in quantum computing.

Prof Dean Ho is currently Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), Director of The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the National University of Singapore. Dean and collaborators successfully developed and validated CURATE.AI, a robust digital medicine platform that has optimised human treatment for broad indications ranging from oncology to infectious diseases. He co-led the first inhuman clinical trials that have resulted in completely halted disease progression and durable patient responses that substantially outperformed standard of care approaches. Dean is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also recently named to the HIMSS Future50 Class of 2021 for his internationally recognised leadership in digital health. His discoveries have been featured on CNN, The Economist, National Geographic, Forbes, Washington Post, NPR and other international news outlets. Dean is also a Subgroup Lead in the World Health Organization (WHO)-ITU AI for Health Working Group for Regulatory Considerations. Dean is a recipient of the Tech Heroes from Crisis Pathfinder Award from the Singapore Computer Society, NSF CAREER Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, and V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award. He has also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), a 26,000+ member global drug development organisation.

Alexander Ling is a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies and also Director of Singapore's Quantum Engineering Programme. He performs research on quantum communications over fiber and with satellites. He is co-founder of two quantum technology companies.

Associate Professor Daniel Ting is the Director of SingHealth AI Program, Head of AI and Digital Innovation in Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), Associate Professor in Ophthalmology with Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, and Consultant Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon in Singapore National Eye Center. The SingHealth Cluster AI Program was established in April 2021 with the vision to harness the power of AI for Academic Medicine of Tomorrow. The key focus areas for this program are to develop more AI-powered clinical solutions using different cutting edge technologies, and also rapidly bring these technologies to the bedside for clinical implementation and scale them at the global setting. Furthermore, this program hopes to build critical mass of the current and next generation of AI literate practitioners within the healthcare space. At the global setting, Dr Ting serves in several AI executive committee (STARD-AI, DECIDE-AI, American Academy of Ophthalmology) and AI editorial boards (NPJ Digital Medicine, Frontiers in Medicine and Digital Health). To date, he has published >200 peer-reviewed papers in highly prestigious journals such as JAMA, NEJM, Lancet, Nature Medicine and etc, and recently been ranked the world’s most influential deep learning researcher across clinical and technical domains in healthcare for the past 10 years (2010-2021) by the ExpertScape. He was also the visiting Fulbright Scholar to Johns Hopkins University in 2017.

As Group Chief Technology Officer of the National University Health System (NUHS), Dr. Kee Yuan Ngiam oversees technology deployment in Singapore’s western healthcare cluster. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University and Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer at National University Hospital where he promotes interdisciplinary collaboration on various healthcare applications. His focus is on artificial intelligence research and implementation in healthcare, as well as endocrine and metabolic surgery. He has certification training from the American Medical Informatics Association and has published in computing and medical journals on topics related to healthcare AI applications and technology.

Alvin Foo is currently the Head of New Technologies & Sustainability. He began his career with PSA as a mechanical engineer in 1998 and has held several key managerial positions. As Head of New Technologies & Sustainability, Alvin drives the strategising, formulating and implementing future ready technology capabilities for key verticals in automated & autonomous equipment, smart infrastructure, smart engineering and integrated platforms, and green and sustainable logistics solutions for PSA Singapore. He is responsible for delivering key sustainability thrusts such as low carbon emission strategies, carbon credits framework & exchange for maritime industry, and catalyse, test-bed, and implement solutions leveraging low carbon technology, energy optimisation, and digitalisation capabilities. Sustainable business practices, sustainable procurement as well as circular economy are amongst his key focus areas. He also works with shipping and cargo solution providers to optimise processes and decarbonise the value chain, build domain expertise in key industry verticals as well as derive strategic sustainability collaborations to extract commercial value. Alvin is also a key member of a cross-functional team within PSA that is designing a strategic roadmap to ensure its staff is future-ready to handle the increasing complexity in developing and managing a fully automated terminal. Alvin holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering respectively from The National University of Singapore and The University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also a certified productivity & innovation manager and an IES Chartered Engineer in Port Engineering.

Carl is an experienced technology leader for Health and Public Sector with over 35 years of experience in architecture and business transformation. Carl has developed business cases and led architectures for large scale digital transformation programs, including work in Tax, Welfare, Pensions, Defence, Immigration, Customs, Police, Health, Cities and Education. He has worked in APJ for over 20 years and at a global level for 3 years. Carl has a 1st class degree in theoretical physics from Cambridge University.

Caroline Gorski is a technology leader of more than 25 years experience, with a background in strategy consulting, market development and commercial decision-making at FTSE 100 board-level. She is the Co-Founder of the Emergent Alliance, a not-for-profit Global Data Collaboration initiative focussing on Economic Recovery analytics in response to COVID-19. She is also the Group Director of R² Data Labs, the data innovation and artificial intelligence catalyst inside Rolls-Royce: "We create data and AI-based innovations, apps and services that improve the way Rolls-Royce and our customers operate. We harness industry knowledge and engineering expertise to unlock new value from data that others can't. We believe that only collaborative innovation will find the most undiscovered value from data." Previously, Caroline was Head of IoT and Digital Manufacturing at the Digital Catapult. The Digital Catapult works to accelerate UK competitiveness in the digital economy. As Head of Internet of Things (IoT) Caroline and her team developed and drove innovation in the IoT and sought to advance the UK’s global leadership in IoT and increase the adoption of high quality IoT technologies. Caroline was also Head of Business Development - Internet of Things for Telefonica UK and Managing Partner for Telefonica UK’s Retail and Leisure practice, following her career as a Strategy Consultant with clients in the Leisure, Financial Services, Media and FMCG sectors, helping them to develop products and strategies that embrace digital possibilities in new and existing markets. Caroline has an MA from Oxford University, and lives in rural Yorkshire with her two children and two very noisy small dogs. She loves live music, heated debate, real ale and long walks, and is happiest sitting in the pub indulging in at least two of them.

Chew Men Leong is President, Urban Solutions of ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group with a diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. He leads the Group’s global smart city business in the areas of mobility, utilities, infrastructure, connectivity, autonomous and sustainable solutions. Men Leong previously served as the Group’s Chief Marketing Officer and Deputy President/President (Defence Business), Marine. Outside of ST Engineering, Men Leong has held various leadership roles including Chief Executive of the Land Transport Authority, Chief Executive of the Public Utilities Board, and Chief of the Republic of Singapore Navy.

Chong Seow Wei is Generation T's Southeast Asia editor, overseeing the brand's content and events in four markets, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. She's most inspired by ambitious individuals who are positively impacting the world with their innovative ideas. She has a soft spot for cars and diving, and can't live without music. 

As Head of Novartis' Biome Digital Innovation Lab, Christian Teo focuses on ensuring the success of Novartis' digital health partnerships and activities across the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa region, supporting innovation teams in delivering improved patient outcomes at scale. Christian has advised business leaders in open innovation strategy, design thinking implementation, and new product development as a corporate innovation professional. Before joining Novartis, Christian was part of the Business Model Factory for Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support in Japan, providing open innovation consulting for large corporations and government agencies. He was also an innovation lead for Deloitte SEA and OCBC Bank's Fintech & Innovation Group. 

Claudia is a journalist at The Business Times. She is part of the team that launched the award-winning Garage, BT’s portal dedicated to coverage of startups and venture capital in Southeast Asia.

Dale Hardcastle is a partner in Bain’s Singapore office, where he leads the Southeast Asia Energy and Natural Resources team. He is Co-director of the Global Sustainability Innovation Center (GSIC) in Singapore, an ESG-focused center established to help companies accelerate the time to impact in their sustainability strategies and path to a low-carbon economy. Since joining Bain, Dale has worked across multiple industries, including energy and natural resources, renewable power, food systems, mobility, private equity and technology. He has worked alongside clients on large transformation efforts – including those to address the energy transition, corporate venturing, decarbonisation, sustainability, operational improvement and the innovation agenda. Dale has also worked with multiple strategic associations in ASEAN, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development on sustainability efforts. Dale’s more than 20 years of experience in the energy and resources sector offers a practical foundation to help companies in building competitive advantage and purpose through their sustainability strategies while meeting the rising expectations of both investors and society at large. Prior to joining Bain, Dale spent nearly a decade helping found and build Schlumberger's management consulting business across Asia.

Having joined the business in 1989, Dave has worked in the UK, Mexico, Shanghai, Singapore and The Netherlands during his 30-year career with Unilever. His extensive experience spans supply chain operations, including procurement, manufacturing, logistics and planning. Dave was appointed Chief Procurement Officer in April 2019, based in Singapore, and also assumed the role as Head of Unilever Asia (UAPL). He is responsible for the procurement of all goods and services globally, supporting the creation of over 400 brands sold in over 190 countries. Dave is also tasked with delivering ambitious sustainable sourcing strategies as part of Unilever’s Compass strategy and Climate & Nature commitments. Prior to these appointments, Dave was a member of the Unilever European Executive and the Global Supply Chain leadership teams, responsible for the European Supply Chain. Additionally, Dave was responsible for the Global Planning organisation and developing the strategy for the Digital Re-Wire of the Supply Chain function.

Charting Singtel Group Enterprise’s new growth engines, Mr Dennis Wong is the VP for Enterprise 5G & Cloud product. Reporting to the CEO, he leads the strategy, development and the management of product and platform for 5G and Cloud. His responsibility includes platform and business development, product innovation, enterprise solutions and end to end delivery. Prior to this role, Dennis was the Managing Director of Networks and CTO for Singtel Optus – a fully owned subsidiary of Singtel in Australia. In this role, he managed the mobile, fixed and satellite networks of Optus across the country. During that time, Dennis led numerous pivotal projects for Optus, including major networks expansions and transformations. He launched several world first initiatives in 4G and 5G technology and lifted Optus to become one of the top quartile performers in the industry under his leadership. In his 27 years of experience in the telecom industry, Dennis had also taken on multi-functional roles under different companies, notably being the General Manager of Strategic Planning for Mitsubishi Electric Asia; Managing Director of ST Teleport, VP of Regional Technology, Strategic Planning & Architecture with Singtel. Dennis holds a double MBA – Management of Technology from Waseda University(Japan)and Nanyang Business School (NBS-NTU). He also holds a B. Eng (EEE) from Nanyang Technological university (NTU). Dennis has, during his course of work, received scholarship from Motorola and Mitsubishi Electric Asia. He has also received the NTU prestigious Outstanding Award for his role as the President of the Nanyang Business School MBA Alumni. Being passionate with technology, Dennis likes to read to keep himself updated. In his free time, he enjoys keeping himself fit with golf, running and hiking.

Devni is a member of Arup’s global leadership team, driving the circular economy in the built environment agenda internationally. Her work focuses on strategy development for clients including investors, cities and developers on how they can incorporate and benefit from the principles of the circular economy as they work towards their climate and commercial targets. She is also involved in capacity building projects both internally and externally to equip individuals and organisations with the skills and knowledge required to adopt circular business models successfully. With the circular economy still maturing as a concept, Devni is also actively involved with thought leadership and research on the topic. Past research collaborators include the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Climate-KIC, Global Infrastructure Hub, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Donna See is the CEO of Xora Innovation, an early-stage deep tech investing platform of Temasek. With over 20 years of experience in science commercialisation, venture creation, and venture capital investing, Donna brings to bear significant expertise in the nuanced process of transforming scientific innovation into commercially viable ventures. Previously, she served in founding executive roles, as Chief Business Officer of TARA Biosystems, enabling the development of precision cardio-medicines, and as a co-founder of Vixen Pharmaceuticals, a company dedicated to therapies for autoimmune dermatologic conditions, acquired by Aclaris Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ACRS), and as Chief Business Officer of Allied-Bristol Life Sciences, a joint venture between Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMS) and Allied Minds, pursuing the development of discovery stage assets for heart failure, oncology, immune disorders, and fibrosis. Donna was also Vice President, Investments at Allied Minds, a publicly-traded (LSE: ALM) venture creation platform for US university and federal lab innovations in the communications, semiconductor, and cybersecurity domains, and was Director at Columbia Technology Ventures, where she oversaw technology development and monetisation of IP arising from the engineering and basic science labs at Columbia University. Donna received her MBA and MPH from Columbia University and holds a BA in the Natural Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University.

Expert in quantum technologies with special focus on their energetic footprint. Director of QuantAlps, the Grenoble center for quantum science and technologies.

Andreas Hauser is the Managing Director of TÜV SÜD. He leads the Digital Service in Singapore, a critical unit in the company’s digitalisation strategy driving new businesses in Industry 4.0, Smart Inspection, Autonomous Vehicles and quality of Artificial Intelligence and cyber-physical systems.

Serpil has a passion to make a wide sustained positive difference to the planet & society. She has over 19 years of experience at Unilever across multiple disciplines and leading cross-functional teams delivering purpose-driven business impact. She has worked at World Economic Forum leading multi-stakeholder platforms on food innovation. She has been named in Top 50 Leadership Talent under 45 years of the Netherlands in 2021. She is a Board member of Foodvalley. Currently, she is responsible for Unilever's Global Foods Innovation & Strategy and leads the development of new growth platforms across multiple markets.

Antonia acts as Deputy Head of the Forum’s Centre for Global Public Goods and is also responsible for its Climate Action Platform and Innovation and Circular Economy programmes. In these capacities, she has been responsible for scaling major public private partnerships, including 2030Vision, which aims to fast-track progress on the global Goals through 4IR technology. Equally, she built the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy – drawing together over 80 Ministers, CEO and experts to fast-track circular economy implementation; the Global Plastics Action Partnership; and Scale360, focused on circular economy innovation. Prior to joining the Forum, Antonia worked in Bhutan as an advisor on environment and clean energy; the International Energy Agency (IEA) where she was responsible for IEA’s leading clean energy policy input to the Clean Energy Ministerial and G-20 processes. She was also formerly Deputy Director, Energy and Climate, at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development; In 2006, selected for the “Young Canadian Leaders for a Sustainable Future” programme of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. She holds a Master’s in Environmental Planning, Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and an Hon. BA in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Prof Jackie Ying received her PhD from Princeton University. She was Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992 - 2005) and Founding Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (2003 - 2018). She is currently an A*STAR Senior Fellow and Director of NanoBio Lab, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. For her research on nanostructured materials and bioengineering, Prof Ying has been recognised with the American Ceramic Society Ross C Purdy Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, Technology Review's Inaugural TR100 Young Innovator Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Allan P. Colburn Award, International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jubilee Medal, Academy of Sciences of Iran Medal of Honour, Islamic World Academy of Sciences-COMSTECH Ibrahim Memorial Award, Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Academy Prize in Science and Engineering Sciences, and Journal of Drug Targeting's Lifetime Achievement Award. Prof Ying is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina, TÜBA, and US National Academy of Engineering. She is a Fellow of Materials Research Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Singapore National Academy of Science, Islamic World Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Inventors. Prof Ying was elected a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. In its Centennial Celebration, AIChE named her one of the 'One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era'. She was an Inaugural Inductee for the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame and the inaugural winner of the Mustafa Prize 'Top Scientific Achievement Award' in 2015 for her research in bio-nanotechnology. She was also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Nano Today.

An active advocate for green building and sustainability for over two decades, Esther has been instrumental in establishing CDL’s leadership in sustainability. It is ranked top real estate company on the 2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World and is also the only CDP A-List company for both climate strategy and water security in SE Asia and Hong Kong. Key ESG initiatives she has spearheaded include publishing the first sustainability report in Singapore in 2008; issuing the first green bond by a Singaporean company in 2017 and pioneering an SDG Innovation Loan in Singapore in 2019. A forerunner in embracing the UN SDGs, Esther was conferred 2018 SDG Pioneer for Green Infrastructure and A Low Carbon Economy by the UN Global Compact, is a signatory for the UNGC Caring for Climate network and is also a corporate member to the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network. She sits on the boards or advisory platforms of several organisations, including the World Green Building Council, Global Reporting Initiative, GRESB Asian Real Estate Benchmark Committee and UNEP FI Real Estate Work Group. She Chairs the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association’s Sustainability and ESG Committee, Co-Chairs the Urban Land Institute Singapore’s Sustainability Product Council and Vice-Chairs the Singapore Institute of Directors’ ESG Committee.

Prof Thomas Coffman is Dean of Duke-NUS Medical School and Founding Professor in its Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Signature Research Programme (SRP). He is also the James R Clapp Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, where he spent almost 18 years as Chief of the Division of Nephrology and served as Senior Vice-Chair in the Department of Medicine. An international leader in Nephrology, Dr Coffman is a Past-President of the American Society of Nephrology. He is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians and served on the Nephrology Subspecialty Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has conferred the 2014 Excellence Award for Hypertension Research from the AHA Council on Hypertension, recognising researchers who have made a major impact in hypertension and whose research has contributed to the improved treatment and greater understanding of high blood pressure.

Jenny Lee is a Managing Partner with global venture capital firm GGV Capital and is best known for her focus on startup innovation in EduTech, FinTech, Robotics, and AI. Since 2005, she has been instrumental in helping 10 early stage companies go public on NYSE, Nasdaq, ChiNext, HKSE and SSE STAR exchanges, and numerous portfolio companies exit via M&A. Jenny has been a member of the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list since 2012 and was the first woman to break the top 10 in 2015. She has been recognized by The New York Times/CB Insights, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, Forbes Asia and Singapore’s Business Times - among the most successful and influential global investors throughout the decade. She started her career as a jet engineer at Singapore Aerospace and is a graduate of Cornell University and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Ng Tian-Chong (TC) is the Managing Director of Greater Asia. He is responsible for HP’s business in the region, including Go-To-Market strategy, sales and marketing across PCs, Printers, Digital Press, 3D Printing and Managed Services for commercial and consumer segments.

Brenda Harvey is General Manager, IBM APAC, responsible for financial business results and client success in this highly dynamic economic region. She is based in Singapore. Prior to this role, Brenda led the US Public Market, a $5B unit supporting state and local government, education, healthcare and life sciences clients in areas across Strategy, Digital Transformation, Cloud, AI, Security, and Systems, leveraging IBM’s portfolio across products, software, and services. She was previously General Manager of Technology Services, Public Sector, leading Infrastructure, Security, and Application Management Services solutioning and delivery for government, education, and healthcare clients. Prior to this, Brenda led Technology Services for the IBM Growth Markets Unit based in Shanghai, Greater China, implementing transformation technology solutions across Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and APAC. Brenda has held a number of other business, technology, product offering and management roles throughout her career with focus on client success and innovation. Brenda graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr Suracha Udomsak is currently Vice President and CTO—Innovation and Technology of Chemical Business of SCG. His primary responsibility is to drive new businesses through internal and external collaborations and partnerships. He also leads the Innovation and Technology group and directs research and development for driving growth and innovation for Chemical Business of SCG. He was awarded a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He joined SCG Chemicals Co. Ltd. in 1989 and since then has extensive experience in polymer production ranging from polyethylene, polypropylene and polyolefin compound.

Professor Kenneth Kwek is the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore General Hospital (SGH). SGH was established in 1821, and celebrates her bicentennial in 2021. The committed team in SGH delivers advanced clinical care to over 1 million patients every year. The team also works with other institutions in the SingHealth cluster, and around the world to advance clinical excellence, research and education. Prof Kwek is passionate about improving the quality of patient care and harnessing process re-engineering, innovation and technology to enhance the safety and reliability of clinical care and patient outcomes. In July 2017, Prof Kwek was concurrently appointed Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (Organisational Transformation & Informatics), SingHealth; re-designated Deputy Group Executive Officer (Innovation & Informatics), SingHealth on 1 July 2021. Leveraging on his experience in hospital management, Prof Kwek attempts to advance value-based care incorporating research and innovation, process redesign and deep collaboration. Prior to his appointment as CEO, SGH, Prof Kwek was CEO of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He is an obstetrician specializing in Maternal Fetal Medicine, with a clinical interest centered around care for high risk pregnancies, particularly preterm labour, cervical incompetence, pre-eclampsia as well as post partum hemorrhage.

Satoshi Matsuoka had been a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2001, and the director of the joint AIST-Tokyo Tech. Real World Big Data Computing Open Innovation Laboratory (RWBC-OIL) since 2017, and will become a Specially Appointed Professor at Tokyo Tech starting 2018 along with his directorship at R-CCS. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He has been the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers that have won many accolades such as world #1 in power-efficient computing. He also leads various major supercomputing research projects in areas such as parallel algorithms and programming, resilience, green computing, and convergence of big data/AI with HPC. He has been a major driving force behind the development of the next-generation flagship supercomputer of Japan, the supercomputer Fugaku. In June 2020 Fugaku won the first place in four major rankings of supercomputer performance, Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, and Graph500. He has written over 500 articles according to Google Scholar, and chaired numerous ACM/IEEE conferences, including the Program Chair at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC13) in 2013. He is a Fellow of the ACM and European ISC, and has won many awards, including the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006, presented by his Highness Prince Akishino; the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011; the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012; the 2014 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, the highest prestige in the field of HPC; HPDC 2018 Achievement Award from ACM; and recently SC Asia 2019 HPC Leadership Award.

Setsuo Iuchi started his career with the Government of Japan in 1983 at the then Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, or METI) in various roles in planning and policymaking. He joined Chiyoda Corporation in January 2018, first as Senior Advisor, then Senior Vice President and Executive Assistant to President. In April 2020, Mr Iuchi was appointed Executive Director for Chiyoda Corporation's Hydrogen Business and successfully executed the world's first international hydrogen supply chain project, which commenced operation on 26 June 2020.

Steve Leonard is an international leader in the information technology industry with substantial and diverse private-sector experience creating and changing companies in both Asia and Europe.  Leonard also has broad public-sector experience gained through senior roles in Singapore Government through which he worked with Ministers, Ambassadors, and Civil Servants from various countries on their innovation-economy priorities. Leonard currently serves as CEO of Singularity University -- a Silicon Valley-based global organisation that help leaders better understand how future technologies will impact their companies and countries, and engages those leaders to help them shape that future. Singularity seeks to positively impact one billion people through the collective capabilities of the entrepreneurs, investors, corporations and governments with which it works. Before joining Singularity, Leonard created SGInnovate – a private company wholly-owned by the Singapore Government – to help entrepreneurial scientists create investable deep tech startups.  During Leonard’s tenure as its Founding CEO, SGInnovate built an engaged community of 35,000 people, held 600 discussion events focused on science and technology, and launched more than 90 deep tech startups into which the market invested $450M. Prior to founding SGInnovate, Leonard served as the Executive Deputy Chairman of the (then) Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), a Singapore Government statutory board overseen by the Ministry of Communications and Information. In that role, he held executive responsibility at the national level for various aspects of the information technology and telecommunications industries in Singapore. Prior to his Government roles, Leonard was for two decades the senior executive in either Europe or Asia for several global technology companies, delivering on quarterly performance commitments made publicly to employees, customers, and shareholders. Leonard currently serves as an independent non-executive director of NASDAQ-listed Maxeon Solar Technologies, SGX-listed Singapore Post, and privately-held Asia Satellite Telecommunications. Leonard also serves as a member of the Advisory Panel for Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), a deep tech-focused venture-investment firm in England, and SDG Impact Japan (SIJ) fund, a sustainability-focused venture-investment firm in Japan.  

A seasoned and passionate marketer, SzeKi joined SGInnovate as part of its pioneer team. She was entrusted with building the Community and Brand team from scratch, to achieve SGInnovate’s mission of enabling ambitious and talented men and women to build, commercialise and scale globally relevant Deep Tech innovations from Singapore. SzeKi also supports these entrepreneurial scientists in crafting, shaping and telling their stories – an important part of their go-to-market journey. To promote Singapore as a place of thriving innovation steeped in Deep Tech entrepreneurship, SzeKi leads the SGInnovate team in spearheading activities to create a holistic ecosystem, providing a platform where founders, researchers, academics, venture capitalists and corporations come together to share experiences in areas such as Advanced Manufacturing, AgriFoodTech, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, MedTech and Quantum Computing. Over the past five years, she had led the establishment of SGInnovate to become a leading force in driving Deep Tech innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore and internationally. Today, SGInnovate has successfully built the largest and fastest-growing Deep Tech community in Singapore, comprising over 68,000 people from across the ecosystem. SzeKi and her team had also launched integrated campaigns which clinched multiple awards including the Best B2B PR Campaign (Silver) at the Marketing PR Awards 2017, the Outstanding B2B Campaign – Singapore (Merit) and Outstanding Overall Corporate Reputation Programme (Merit) at the PRISM Awards 2019, as well as the Best PR Campaign – B2B (Silver) at the Marketing PR Awards 2019. Most recently, SGInnovate emerged as Winners of the Multi-Country category at the SABRE Awards Asia Pacific 2020 and Best in Digital Print/B2B Media at the IN2SABRE Awards Asia Pacific 2020.