Antony Ruddenklau has led or advised on over 200 growth projects across Corporates and Financial Institutions and he has extensive experience of assessment and strategy design for emerging business models including embedded finance, marketplace models, ecommerce platforms, market utilities and joint ventures. He co-leads the Global Fintech practice and advise financial institutions, fintech, hyperscales and investors on strategy, growth and client development. He advise clients globally as diverse as Tencent and HSBC, through to Google, Insight Venture Partners and LSE.

Lim Yau Boon has 30 years experience in strategy, planning, marketing, operation and business management, across multiple industries in the Asia Pacific. He led marketing and strategy in IBM, SAP and Motorola from 2000-2015. He also co-founded several start-ups from 1993-2018, and serves as an adjunct lecturer in Singapore Institute of Management. He speaks and consults on leadership, marketing, business strategy and transformation, innovation and disruption management. Prior to his recent socio-entrepreneural ventures, he was the Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, for SAP Asia Pacific. Currently, Yau Boon is President and Managing Director, Asia Pacific Japan, Nextech AR Solutions and serves as Co-Chair on American Chamber of Commerce Singapore’s Marketing and Communication Committee. He holds an MBA for International Business from Nanyang Technological University. He is an IBM Certified Professional in Marketing from the University of Melbourne and was trained in Design Thinking at Hassa Plattner Institute School of Design Thinking in Germany. Yau Boon’s understanding of business technology, along with his vast experience in business strategy and expertise in driving transformation and innovation, senior management background and entrepreneurial spirit, have placed him in a unique position to help enterprises rethink, reinvent and reposition to be future ready.

Ng Siew Quan leads the Entrepreneurial and Private Business practice in Singapore and Asia Pacific. Working closely with family owners and key management to professionalise both business and family with a focus on managing business ownership complexities through proper governance. He is also the Corporate Governance Leader. Through collaborations with the Singapore Institute of Directors and SGX, he contributes regularly as a speaker and authors thought leadership pieces around governance, risks and controls.

Paul Duffy’s lifelong mission is to create humanising technology. As an award-winning serial entrepreneur and innovator with 27 years of experience successfully starting, expanding, and diversifying technology companies, Paul is a recognised leader in the domains of Mixed Reality technologies, Holographic technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Paul holds multiple patents for Augmented Reality and Holographic Telepresence. In 1992 Paul co-founded Corporate Communications Interactive (CCI) in Canada that grew to one of the largest online learning and interactive communication companies in North America. CCI pioneered and sold several technology ‘firsts’ in digital media to many of the world’s largest organizations including AT&T, FedEx, GE, IBM and Microsoft. In 2012, Paul began developing a scalable, repeatable and transportable holographic display technology for live, multi-point interactive communications. Through Duffy’s patented Holographic Telepresence, such luminaries as Professor Stephen Hawking, Gary Vaynerchuk, Larry King and many notable personalities have disrupted time and geography to appear as live holograms around the world to thousands of people. In 2018, Paul joined NexTech AR Solutions Corp. as President & Chairman of the Board leading the team on an ambitious journey to play a significant role in global adoption of Augmented Reality – which Paul believes will become the next new mass medium.

Kishore Mahbubani has dedicated five decades of his life to public service. In his 33 years as a Singapore diplomat, Kishore took on many challenging assignments, serving for example in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 1973/74 during the war. He also served two stints as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN (1984-1989 and 1998-2004). He also held the position of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1998. He was also conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singaporean Government in 1998. Kishore had an equally illustrious career in academia. He was appointed the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in August 2004. Despite his heavy administrative duties, Kishore proved to be a prolific author. He has published eight books, including Can Asians Think? and Has China Won?. Kishore has received global recognition for his intellectual contributions, having been listed several times in the list of top global thinkers by Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazines. The citation for the US Foreign Policy Association Medal he received in June 2004 said: “a gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker.” Kishore has held positions in several globally significant committees. He was the founding chairman of the nominating committee of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize (2009 to 2019). He has participated in the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos twenty times, serving also in several WEF committees. In April 2019, he was the second Singaporean to be elected as an honorary international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has honoured distinguished thinkers, including several of America’s Founding Fathers, since 1780.

Gwenda Fong is the Assistant Chief Executive at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). She is responsible for guiding and coordinating Singapore’s cybersecurity developments, which includes domestic and international strategies and policies. Since joining CSA in 2017, Gwenda has been involved in the drafting and implementation of the Cybersecurity Act that was passed in Parliament in 2018, as well as in the development of Singapore’s Safer Cyberspace Masterplan that was launched in Oct 2020. Gwenda also holds a concurrent appointment as Senior Director (Futures) at the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), where she leads research on long-term challenges and disruptions in the areas of communication, information, and digitalisation. Prior to CSA, Gwenda was Director in the Ageing Planning Office in the Ministry of Health. She has also held roles in the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Science & Technology Agency. Gwenda holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a MSc in International Planning from University College London.

Leong Der Yao is the Assistant Chief Executive of the Sectoral Transformation Group in the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore, where he leads the drive for digital transformation of industry sectors and enterprises to accelerate Singapore’s economic growth. Prior to this, Mr Leong was the Senior Director, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Division at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore, focusing on driving public sector digital transformation using data science and AI. Mr Leong has also previously held various public policy and administration roles in the Singapore Government, overseeing human capital development in education and healthcare, bilateral economic relations and internationalisation policies, as well as financial security policies.

Mr Leong has a Masters in Public Management from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He
also holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University and majored in both
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cornell University.

Alvin Goh is an accomplished international senior business manager with over 15 years of experience in the financial and consulting industry where he played key roles in various business and human capital transformation projects that has translated to net bottom line growth of USD100 million. He was part of a task force that had to implement a comprehensive BCP during the SARS pandemic when he was working in Shanghai, China. He saw first-hand how badly it affected the livelihood and mental state of his staff and students. Alvin firmly believes that a well thought out BCP should go beyond the protection of an organisation’s operations, systems, infrastructure, reputation and business assets and must include the well-being of its people.

Ang Wee Tiong is a Singaporean computer scientist and software entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of JobTech – the world’s leading artificial intelligence and big labour data analytics product company that empowers leaders to develop people for new work realities, driven by real labour market needs and individuals’ personal aspirations. Wee-Tiong is an avid hacker and one the scientists who developed advanced deep learning models to make computers understand human content, behaviours and automating “mundane” tasks, during his 10-year stint as a researcher at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research where he spearheaded artificial intelligence research development and translation. Today, he uses his inventions to understand labour market inefficiencies, correlate education and skills to employment outcomes and, to help people learn and future-proof themselves with the help of labour market and education data.

Peter Andrew has a personal ambition to transform work and workplace in Asia. To help create beautiful and functional buildings that attract talent, drive business performance, and enhance the experience of the everyday worker. Peter leads the CBRE Workplace Strategy Centre of Excellence function in APAC supporting a team of 120 workplace specialists in twelve countries. Peter is an expert in this field, with more than 25 years’ experience (15 years in Asia). Peter works at c-suite level with corporations to understand their businesses and develop and implement strategies that improve business performance. His passion and expertise lie with understanding the relationships between culture, behaviour, technology, organisational processes and the creation and use of physical environments – in particular places for work, innovation and learning.

Kenneth Siow is Regional Director for Southeast Asia and General Manager (Singapore) at Tencent Cloud International. Ken is currently the Regional Director for Tencent Cloud Southeast Asia & GM (Singapore). He is an IT Professional with 22 plus years of experience spanning Sales, Management , Partner Development and Professional Services. He spent the last 5.5 years in Google Cloud in various sales leadership roles and in the last role as SE Asia Head of Google Workspace Cloud Sales Team, where he led a cross functional team of Sales, Customer Engineers and Program managers, responsible for New Business Acquisition, Customer Retention, Renewals, and Customer Success. Prior to Google Ken held various leadership /roles in Cisco Systems, Intel Solution Services and Royal Dutch Shell IT, spanning roles in Sales, Pre-Sales and Post Sales Professional Services Consulting across Singapore, Beijing China and London, United Kingdom. Ken holds a MBA degree from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) , a MBA from National University of Singapore (NUS) , a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Telecommunications Management from Murdoch University at Western Australia, and a Executive Education Certificate in Digital Business Strategy from MIT.

Benjamin Chua is the Founder & CEO of Speco (f.k.a Spic & Span), a commercial cleaning and cleaning technology social enterprise that has provided progressive jobs for more than 300 individuals to date. Under his leadership, the company developed Speco®, a special coating that sanitises and actively protects surfaces. Speco® has since become widely used in Singapore in the fight against COVID-19. The company has also clinched various accolades such as the Intellectual Property of Singapore Award 2020, the Asia-Pacific Social Innovation Award 2019 and Champions of Good awards in 2017, 2018 and 2020. In 2021, Speco Singapore completed its transition into a CleanTech company and consolidated its position with its cleaning arm, Spic & Span. Speco Singapore was also certified as a B-corporation in 2020. Prior to establishing the company, Benjamin had worked at a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development, where he oversaw estate agency policies and regulations. Separately as a Principal Assets Manager, he was responsible for managing key aspects such as finance and operations under his portfolio.

Goh Jia Yong provides a wide range of people consulting services that support digital and workforce transformation projects in multiple sectors — such as public services, manufacturing and telecommunications — by linking business strategies to people-organisation dynamics. These cover the design of organisation structures, job redesign, manpower planning, development of a high-performance culture, talent management, succession planning, as well as business process review and optimisation. Jia Yong is a Professional Singapore Certified Management Consultant with TUV SUD. He holds an MBA from Singapore Management University, as well as an MA in Applied Economics and a BA in Political Science and Economics from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US.

Lisa Askwith is a highly motivated and skilled senior business leader, whose passion is success through people. Possessing extensive experience in people management, strategic planning, restructures, reinvigorating companies, and establishing successful start-ups, she now regularly take the stage to help others achieve higher levels of success. She have a keen focus on Engaging your People for Success, and helping you apply the strategies to ensure this happens effectively in your business. As Lisa regularly work in the C-suite of local, and international business helping them achieve success, remove obstacles and solve problems, she can easily keep up to date, and often ahead of emerging trends and needs. This allows her to confidently provide key notes, moderation, and facilitation at Business events.

Frank Chen is a strategic, result-oriented and highly-driven business leader & Sustainability Evangelist possessing multifaceted experience and capability to develop and drive strategic initiatives, capture emerging business opportunities and forge lucrative relationships with key stakeholders, vendors and clients. He has a proven track record in creating remarkable business outcomes and delivering outstanding revenue by organising investments, operational structures and core executive teams.

Manik Bhandari is the CEO and Founder of Vulcan AI, an AI company that focuses on building safety and productivity solutions for Industry 4.0. He believes in the use of AI to not replace human work, but to enrich human jobs, and create a safer, working world. He is a proponent of ethical use of AI and is one of the contributing authors of Singapore’s first AI Ethics Body of Knowledge. Previously, Manik was a Senior Partner at EY where he set up and ran the Analytics business for ASEAN and delivered AI powered productivity projects across the Government, Agriculture and Transport and Logistics sectors. Prior to joining EY, he was a Managing Director with Accenture where he was one of the founding members of the Analytics Leadership team. He set up and ran the Accenture Analytics Innovation Center and the Data Science COE in Singapore. Manik is committed to the development of analytics capabilities in Singapore and is an active speaker and contributor to analytics events and communities. He is the President of the Business Analytics Chapter of the Singapore Computer Society.

With more than 20 years of experience in business intelligence and management consulting, Roger Loo has a proven track record in areas that include market intelligence and brand research, feasibility studies, strategy consulting, internationalisation, family businesses and performance management. His global expertise in management consulting includes countries such as Brazil, China, Taiwan, Myanmar, India, Australia, USA, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Middle East and North Africa region.

Travin Singh is the Founder & Group CEO of CRUST Group, a food-tech startup at the forefront of food loss management. Travin shares his journey as an entrepreneur in a nascent, emerging field. From his childhood to his first customers, interactions with various people have shaped his mindset towards the business – and it’s still changing. He stresses the importance of this constant adaptability in a startup environment; understanding, analysing and absorbing feedback is what transformed his vision for the company. Travin believes that the answer to the global issue of food wastage lies in collaboration with producers, consumers and everyone in between. He narrates the experiences that led him to this conclusion, the lessons learnt along the way and the ideas he has for the future to achieve his dream – reducing global food waste by 1% by 2030.