Tan Sri Tony Fernandes

Chief Executive Officer

AirAsia Group

One of Asia’s most recognisable entrepreneurs, Tony Fernandes is best known for co-founding low-cost carrier AirAsia with Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and democratising air travel in the region.

Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin famously bought the ailing airline for a token MYR1 (approximately USD0.25) and MYR40 million in debt, turning it around within two years and growing it from a Malaysian domestic carrier into Asia’s largest low-cost carrier by passengers carried.

Fernandes studied in the UK, and qualified as an Associate Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1991 and Fellow Member in 1996. An accountant by training, Fernandes began his career in Richard Branson’s Virgin Group before returning to Malaysia as Warner Music Group’s Vice President for Southeast Asia before venturing into the airline business.

Fernandes has received numerous honours and awards over the course of his career. These include the Honour of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, conferred by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2011, and the Commander of the Legion d’Honneur, awarded by the French government for his outstanding contributions towards the economy of France through the aviation industry.

Dr. Lau Cher Han

Founder of CoronaTracker & Chief Data Scientist, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of LEAD

Dr. Lau is the Founder of CoronaTracker in Malaysia. He is also a Chief Data Scientist, Keynote Speaker and Consultant in Data Science, Machine Learning and Big Data. His work involves major companies, organizations, and government agencies across Australia, Malaysia, Taiwan and other ASEAN countries. As a member of the expert panelist in Malaysia Qualifications Agency (MQA), Dr. Lau provides accreditation to ensure the curriculum of universities meets the requirements and modern trends. He is also appointed by universities and government agencies including MDEC and state governments as Industrial Advisory Panel to develop the blueprints and strategies on a national level. Dr. Lau currently focuses on helping clients to build their in-house analytics platform, grow their data science teams, gain insights by combining structured and unstructured data, and data analytics and big data strategies, that prepare clients for the future big data economy.

Henrick Choo

Chief Executive Officer

NTT Malaysia Solutions Sdn Bhd

Henrick is the Chief Executive Officer of NTT Ltd. in Malaysia and has held this position since 2019. Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Dimension Data Malaysia, a role he held for over four years since 2015. Back in October 2019, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT Corporation), brought together the capabilities of 31 companies, including NTT Communications, Dimension Data and NTT Security into one US $11 billion business. where Henrick was instrumental in ensuring the smooth transition and integration of the local Malaysian operating companies. Currently, NTT Malaysia owns the largest data centre in Malaysia with plans for further expansion. A result-driven and highly successful executive, Henrick’s thorough knowledge of the ICT industry as well as his savvy business knowledge and close relationship with clients and partners has helped steer NTT Malaysia’s business growth, market leadership and growing foothold in key business verticals.

Oka Hiroshi

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Malaysia

Embassy of Japan in Malaysia

H.E. OKA Hiroshi is the Ambassador of Japan to Malaysia since November 2019. He has nearly 40 years of experience in diplomatic activities having joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1982. Prior to Malaysia, Ambassador OKA also served as Ambassador of Japan to Turkey, Minister of the Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabic. He has served in a range of bureaus and departments at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan. He was the Director General of Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau in 2017 as well as Director General of Intelligence Analysis Service in 2014. Ambassador OKA graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo in 1982. He speaks Japanese, English and Arabic.

Bruce Liang

Chief Executive Officer

Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) Pte Ltd

Bruce Liang is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) Pte Ltd since Nov 2016. Mr Liang also held concurrent appointments as the Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Health Singapore (MOH) and the Chief Information Officer of MOH Holdings. Mr. Liang plays a key role in the advancement of Health Technology in Singapore. Mr Liang is overall responsible for the management of more than 700 technology products that benefit users including MOH, all public healthcare institutions and more than 1,000 private institutions comprising GP Clinics, Community Hospitals, Nursing Homes and more. Prior to joining MOH and IHiS, Mr. Liang held various leadership roles in Accenture over his 19-year career with the multinational corporation, including Managing Director for Growth and Operations of ASEAN Products Practice as well as the Health and Public Sector Practice in Asia Emerging Markets.

Carlos Alimurung

Chief Executive Officer

One Esports

Carlos is the Chief Executive Officer of ONE Esports – the esports joint venture between ONE Championship and Dentsu – one of the largest advertising and marketing agencies in the world. He is responsible for the overall vision and execution of ONE Esports’ strategy and owns the P&L. Carlos joined ONE Esports as the former Chief Business Officer of Battlefy, the world’s largest open esports competition platform managing the revenue generation, partnerships, marketing, and social media. Prior to Battlefy, Carlos worked at Univision as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development, he was responsible for corporate venture investments and new business development.

Dr. Dinesh Jain

Vice President – Clinical Data & Analytics

Max Healthcare

Dr Dinesh Jain is Vice President of Clinical Data Analytics at Max Healthcare – a leading healthcare provider in India. His deep healthcare expertise covers clinical, information technology & executive management with experience in Clinical Information Systems, Healthcare IT and Data analytics. For more than a decade, he has been working at the interface of clinical domain with Information Systems design and increasingly machine learning techniques. Prior to his Master in Business Administration and PG Program in Bioinformatics and Predictive Business Analytics, he completed his residency in General Surgery and a Bachelor’s in Medicine. His work experience includes Data and Business Analytics, Bioscience & Health Informatics, Enterprise IT Management, Project Management and Surgical Practice.

Dr Amy Hochadel

Director of Global Business Growth

Connected Places Catapult

Dr Hochadel is an expert in global cities and is currently the Director of Global Business at Connected Places Catapult in London, England. She works with local leaders, entrepreneurs, city and national governments around the world. She is the author of Local Leadership in a Global Era: Policy and Behaviour Change in Cities (2017, Palgrave Macmillan). Dr Hochadel has over two decades of experience in politics & public policy and community, government and international relations. She has served as special adviser to Congressional and Presidential candidates across the United States, as well as for British Members of Parliament and proudly serves as a member of the United Nations Global Happiness policy sub-committee.

Dr. Luc Julia

Co-Creator of Siri & Chief Scientific Officer of Renault Group

Dr. Luc Julia is the Chief Scientific Officer for Renault, was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Innovation for Samsung Electronics, Co-Creator of Siri at Apple. Being the Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, he co-founded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. While conducting research at SRI International, he was involved in the creation of Nuance Communications, now the world leader in speech recognition. He is also the bestselling author of the book “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.

Eric Cheng

Co-founder & Group Chief Executive Officer

Carsome

Eric Cheng co-founded Carsome, Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform, in 2015. With his combined knowledge in accountancy, business development, digital marketing and strategy, he leads the overall strategic direction of the business across multiple verticals and expansion strategies. Carsome has since expanded from Malaysia into Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore and currently transacting an annualised 100,000 cars with more than 1,700 people employed across all its offices.

Grace Park

Co-founder & President

DocDoc

Grace Park is the Co-founder & President of DocDoc, the world’s first patient intelligence company. She started her career as a US Military Intelligence Officer. Grace was the Managing Director at Medtronic, expanding the access of life-saving and enhancing medical devices to developing markets in Southeast Asia. For nearly a decade, Grace has held various leadership roles in Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the US, Africa and Asia.

Hazwan Najib

Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder

DoctorOnCall

Hazwan Najib is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of DoctorOnCall. After spending years working and understanding how the digital revolution disrupted various industries, he decided to solve some of the biggest challenges in the healthcare space through digital innovation. He got first-hand experience in creating a digital proposition and innovation in an industry that will continue to evolve and improve the quality of our lives with the birth of DoctorOnCall. Since then, the platform has grown from strength to strength and now provides health information to more than two million users on a monthly basis and thousands of individuals who are looking for personalised medical advice from qualified doctors.

Ivana Bartoletti

Technical Director – Privacy, Deloitte and Co-Founder, Women Leading in AI Network

Ivana Bartoletti is the Technical Director – Privacy at Deloitte and an internationally recognised thought leader in the field of responsible technology. Author of “An Artificial Revolution, on Power, Politics and AI”, she is a Visiting Policy Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is also the founder of the influential Women Leading in AI network and was named ‘Woman of the Year’ (2019) in the Cyber Security Awards in recognition of her growing reputation as an advocate for equality, privacy and ethics at the heart of tech and AI.

Jeffrey Paine

Founding Partner

Golden Gate Ventures

Jeffrey Paine is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Golden Gate Ventures investing in Southeast Asia with over US$175 million under management investing in over 45 companies since 2012. He started and manages the Founder Institute in Singapore overseeing its expansion in Southeast Asia, and Japan. He is a recipient of the Founder Institute Director Award 2012 for “Greatest Ecosystem Impact” Worldwide (Singapore).

Kamarul A Muhamed

Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer

Aerodyne Group

Kamarul is the Founder and CEO of Aerodyne Group, a Malaysian-based drone solutions provider that is ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights of Germany. He was recently named ‘EY Entrepreneur of The Year 2020’, ‘EY Technology Entrepreneur of The Year 2020 Malaysia’ as well as ‘SEBA Entrepreneur of The Year 2020’. Kamarul led Aerodyne from a 3-person start-up in 2014 to a global company with presence in 35 countries in just 6 years. He is a TEDx speaker and a drone industry thought leader, who has presented his ideas and innovation on AI, Drones and Industry 4.0 around the world. An auditor by training, Kamarul spent his formative years in the city of London before switching his career to the tech industry upon returning to Malaysia after a 10-year stint in the UK.

Kautilya Katariya

Algorithm Lover, Problem Solver & Guinness World Record Title Holder for the Youngest Computer Programmer

Kautilya is 7-year-old computing explorer and problem solver. He holds the Guinness world record title for ‘Youngest computer Programmer’ at the age of 6. A certified Microsoft Technology Associate, IBM AI professional.

Michael Tchong

Futurist & Author of Ubertrends

Michael Tchong is an accomplished author, entrepreneur, futurist and adjunct professor of innovation at the University of San Francisco. After founding four companies that rode powerful new waves including desktop publishing, CRM and digital marketing, Michael is now a prolific content creator. His latest book, ‘Ubertrends’ was published in 2019 and his people-watching skills earned recognition from the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, which labelled him America’s most influential trend-spotter’.

Dr. Nikolai Dobberstein

Partner

Kearney Inc.

Nikolai Dobberstein is the Head of Kearney’s Communications, Media & Technology Practice in Asia Pacific and the Managing Partner of the Malaysian Practice. He has been involved in multiple business and digital transformation programmes of technology companies and telecom operators in Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and Africa. Nikolai is also the lead partner for Kearney’s collaboration with the WEF on the Future of Production in ASEAN.

Rahul Raina

Co-contributor

CovidResourceIndia

Rahul Raina is the Co-contributor for CovidResourceIndia – helped citizens find hospital beds, ambulances, oxygen suppliers and medicines, and responses are in real time in India. Also, he has also integrated his projects with NGINX to create webservers and DOCKER to share container images.

Roberto Benetello

Executive Director

Business Council for Sustainable Development Malaysia Berhad

Roberto’s genuine passion and commitment to sustainability and his eagerness to act as catalyst in helping business in the transition to a sustainable world, have led him to take the role of Executive Director of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Malaysia, a Global Network Partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

Roberto led the EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) for almost four years and during his tenure the Chamber became one of the most influential organisations and advocacy platforms in Malaysia. Roberto held several senior general management positions in the private sector, working for fortune-500 companies and start-ups in countries such as Italy, UK, Spain.

Sharizal Shaarani

Co-founder & Director of Technology

Zer0hunger

Sharizal is a serial entrepreneur, an activist in several NGOs and a former corporate senior executive. His industry experience includes Telco & Digital Economy, PR and Media, sustainable agriculture & city living and policy advocacy. Some key past projects include a JV with a Fortune 500 company & starting up Australian IP company in Lobster Aquaculture with the University of Tasmania.

Sunita Kannan

Data & AI Solution Lead, Asia Pacific & Japan

Microsoft

Sunita is currently the Data & AI Solutions Lead in Asia/APJ at Microsoft. She has a wealth of experience in managing & delivering Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence work for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. Prior to Microsoft, Sunita was leading the space of Data, Analytics and AI across a number of leading consulting firms, with the most recent being Accenture in which she was the AI Advisory and Responsible AI Lead for APAC.

Thomas G. Tsao

Chairman and Founding Partner

Gobi Partners

Thomas G. Tsao co-founded Gobi Partners in 2002. He was named on the Forbes List of China’s Top VCs from 2013 – 2017. Tom leads the team that manages the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, which has invested in companies like AutoX, DayDayCook, GoGoX, Prenetics and WeLab. Relocating to Kuala Lumpur in 2015, he set up several funds with MAVCAP, Malaysia’s largest VC firm investing in over 60 companies in Southeast Asia, including Aerodyne, Carsome, EasyParcel, iStoreiSend and Kumu. Tom is now building Gobi’s TaqwaTech investment practice focused on innovative startups serving Muslim communities such as Airlift, Sastaticket, and UmrahMe.

Victor Chua

Founding & Managing Partner

Vynn Capital

Victor is the Founding & Managing Partner of Vynn Capital – a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage companies in Southeast Asia. Some of his notable investments include Carsome and Dropee from Malaysia as well as Travelio from Indonesia. He was the former Chairman of the Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (MVCA) and was the former Vice President of Gobi Partners. He is currently a council member of the Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Development Council (MVCDC) under the Securities Commission Malaysia. He was also an honouree of the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 in 2017.

Smita Kuriakose

Senior Economist & Acting Country Manager

World Bank Group

Smita Kuriakose is a Senior Economist in the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice in the World Bank. She is currently based in the Malaysia Knowledge and Research Hub where she leads the work program on private sector development, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her expertise is in science, technology & innovation policy, skills development, business environment and competitiveness.

Her work has covered over 20 countries. She has led regional flagships publications in the Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and Pacific and Africa regions on innovation and entrepreneurship issues and multi-sectoral operations of both Development Policy and Investment Policy Instruments. In East Asia and Pacific region, she has led policy dialogues on innovation and entrepreneurship in China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

Prior to joining the Bank in Washington DC, she worked on a United Nations Project and the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World Bank at New Delhi, India where she focused on fiscal and macro policies. Smita holds graduate degrees in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in the US and the Delhi School of Economics in India.

YB Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah

Minister

Ministry of Communications and Multimedia

Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah is the current Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia and member of Parliament for Indera Mahkota constituency. Previously, he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Minister of Higher Education. Saifuddin is a progressive politician who advocates New Politics, youth empowerment and social entrepreneurship, also actively promoting debate and basketball. He is also the founder of the Women National Basketball League and Co-Founder of the Malaysian Universities’ Royal Debate.

Saifuddin has also served as the President of the Malaysian Youth Council, a Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Youth Employment, a Consultant of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and Joint-Secretary of Bosnia Action Front. He was also a passionate student activist. During his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he authored the Foreign Policy Framework of the New Malaysia in 2018, which served as Malaysia’s key foreign policy priorities. He has published eight books, the latest of which being New Politics 2.0: Multiracial and Moderate Malaysian Democracy (2017). He has also contributed as a columnist in various publications.

Born in 1961, Saifuddin studied at The Malay College Kuala Kangsar and received a BA (Hons) from Universiti Malaya. He is married to Norlin Shamsul Bahri and they have a daughter, Nur Madihah.

Datuk Wira Dr Hj. Rais Hussin Mohamed Ariff

Chairman

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Dr Rais Hussin is an avid strategist, perennial wordsmith, social engineer, serial entrepreneur and serious policy intellectual. He is also the President and CEO of EMIR Research that specialises in data driven research on any given national or international issues. He has more than 23 years corporate experience in leading and managing local and global telecommunications, technologies and IT companies. He has been actively promoting inbound investment, technology and execution for high-tech high value projects in Malaysia and the exciting growth markets of the ASEAN economic zone. Among the issues that fascinate him are those related to disruptive change, big data, the wide use of apps driven economy, algorithms and artificial intelligence. Straddling between science, strategy, communications, and policy advice, Dr Rais has sought to convince governments to adopt private public partnerships as advocated by the World Bank, to resolve any market break down or conundrums. Dr Rais Hussin received his Bachelors in Economics (Hons), Masters in Management and Doctorate in Business Administration from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

Surina Shukri

Chief Executive Officer

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Surina Shukri brings two decades of experience working across a diverse range of companies including global multinationals, middle market companies and early stage startups across the financial services, natural resources and technology sectors. She spent the bulk of her professional career in the United States, including 17 years of experience as an investment banker, strategist and leader at JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest bank in the United States. There she served as Head of Strategy, Innovation & Business Management for Middle Market Banking, Head of Strategy for Commercial Banking, Chief Staff to the CEO and Executive Director in Natural Resources Investment Banking. Surina left JPMorgan Chase in 2018 to start SheNovation Ventures, a transformation and growth venture studio where she advised fintech and blockchain startups on growth strategy and capital raising and consulted business leaders on culture change and transformation. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania’s Management & Technology dual degree program with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School and Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Systems Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prior to returning to Malaysia, Surina lived in Manhattan, New York City, with her Malaysian husband and three children.

Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku

World Renowned Futurist & Best-selling Author and Populariser of Science

Dr. Michio Kaku is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and futurist. He is also a bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker and populariser of science. He has appeared in many television programmes on BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the Science Channel and a number of the network news channel. The author of numerous international bestsellers, including “Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100”, Dr. Kaku presents revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of civilization itself. He writes regularly for major publications such as Time, Wall Street Journal, Discover Magazine, New Scientist Magazine, Astronomy and Wired. He has also hosted a CNBC series called The Edge: The Future of the Mind and had a cameo in the 2013 Brad Pitt blockbuster World Was Z.

Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali

Former Chairman

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Tan Sri Halim is a career diplomat by profession. He was the Chief Secretary to the Malaysian Government from 1996 -2001. Upon his retirement from the civil service, Tan Sri Halim served as the Chairman of various prestigious organisations, such as the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), University Technology Malaysia and various public listed companies.

Dato’ Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi

Former Board of Director, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Former Chairman, Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia

Sharil Tarmizi is presently a consultant focused on corporate and regulatory advisory work. He was a former regulator in the internet, telecoms, online media as well as the postal and express delivery industry. He had two tours of duty serving Malaysia’s telecoms, media and postal and digital signature regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) where he was in the pioneer team during the formative years of MCMC (2000-2006) after the cessation of Telekom Department of Malaysia (Jabatan Telekom Malaysia) and the Broadcast Licensing Division, Ministry of Information (Bahagian Perlesenan Penyiaran, Kementerian Penerangan Malaysia). He was also a member of the MSC Status Application Committee and subsequently joined the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) as a Board member in early 2009. He remained on the MDEC Board after he joined MCMC to become its Chief Operating Officer in mid-2009 before later being appointed as its Chairman and Chief Executive in late 2011. He ended his service with MCMC in December 2014 and the MDEC Board in April 2015.

Datuk Mohd Badlisham Ghazali

Former Chief Executive Officer

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Profile coming soon.

Inma Martinez

Digital Pioneer & AI Scientist

Inma Martinez is recognised worldwide as one of the leading entrepreneurs pioneering digital technologies in the mobile internet, music and video streaming, the connected car and smart living. Combining her previous careers in investment banking and telecommunications, she has become one of the most sought-after experts in forecasting digital disruptions and revealing the potentiality of AI. FORTUNE and TIME described her as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology and FastCompany labelled her a ‘firestarter’. She has combined her career in innovation with prestigious government appointments in the United Kingdom and Spain as well as she has advised Sarawak Centre of Performance Excellence on digital transformation strategies. Her book, ‘The Fifth Industrial Revolution: How Space Commercialisation will derive the Biggest Industrial Expansion of the 21st Century’ focuses on digital transformation and radical business models that are paving the way to a new concept of progress, competitive attributes and stakeholders’ values.

Dr. Avik Sarkar

Former Head of Data Analysis, Government of India & Faculty, Data Technology and Public Policy

Indian School of Business

Dr. Avik Sarkar heads the development of India Data Portal – one stop portal for analysis and visualization of government data and working on the societal aspects related to use of emerging technologies like trustworthiness, ethics and privacy at Indian School of Business. He was the Former Head of Data Analytics Cell and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India Aayog) – developing Indian’s first AI Strategy and roadmap for use of data, analytics and artificial intelligence for Governance & Policy. Dr. Sarkar is multiple TEDx speaker and has been nominated among the “Top 10 Data Scientists in India” in 2017 by the Analytics India Magazine and nominated as “LinkedIn Influencer” in the Technology space in 2015. Dr Sarkar actively participates in India’s policy making and regulations through various government committees. Dr Sarkar has over 20 years of experience across different aspects of artificial intelligence, data science, analytics, statistical modelling, text mining, network analysis across companies. Dr Sarkar has authored several technical publications and technology patents.

Dr Justin Lee

Ambassador of Australian High Commission to Malaysia

Dr Justin Lee is the Ambassador to the Australian High Commission to Malaysia. He is the senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was most recently First Assistant Secretary, Multilateral Policy Division. He has previously served overseas as Head of Mission in Bangladesh; Deputy Head of Mission in Jakarta; and in Port Moresby. Dr Lee holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Development Studies) and a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) (Honours) from Adelaide University; and a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University.

Dr. Chinawut Chinaprayoon

Executive Vice President

Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa)

Dr. Chinawut is currently the Executive Vice President and Acting Director of Digital Industry Promotion Department at Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa). He is also the Independent Director for InnoSpace (Thailand) Co. Ltd. Prior to joining depa, he was the Director of New Venture & Entrepreneurship and Chief Strategy Officer at National Science Technology and Innovation Policy Office. His previous roles include the setting up of Start-up Thailand platform as well as the launching of new laws and regulations to support new breed of innovative entrepreneurs. Dr. Chinawut holds a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, USA and also a MS in Public Policy (Science, Technology and Innovation Policy) from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Utkarsh Roy

Co-founder

Introbot

Utkarsh Roy is the Co-founder for Introbot. His experiences comprise of working with large technology companies. He has worked with the Cloud and Distributed Systems Group at Cisco building up the cloud offering ground up including Public Cloud, Enterprise, Web Infrastructure and Mobility Services. Major clients include: AT&T US, Deutsche Telekom, SFR France, NTT Japan etc.

Dr. Ts. Norsaidatul Akmar Mazelan

Group Chief Executive Officer

Think Plus Group of Companies

Dr. Ts. Norsaidatul Akmar Mazelan is the Chief Executive Officer of Think Plus Group of Companies focusing on human resource consultancy, talent management, manpower recruitment, skills and competency development, project implementation and international trade business. She was the Former Senior Manager (Strategy Development) at the Multimedia Development Corporation for 5 years between 1996 – 2001. Dr. Ts. Norsaidatul was part of the Pioneer Team of the Multimedia Super Corridor set up by the Prime Minister’s Department of Malaysia.