Singapore TNBT Tech Conference: Expert Insights & Trends

Customer Success Leader
Udemy Business

Sophie Bailey leads the Commercial Customer Success team at Udemy Business and partners with organisations to help shape learning initiatives that impact strategic outcomes. Sophie has worked at Udemy for four years and is passionate about being a ‘lifelong learner’ and helping organisations build the skills and expertise they need across their workforce to move successfully into the future. She has spent most of her life and career in Asia, with her formative years in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. She now calls Singapore home and can be found on the weekend with her family, exploring a corner of the island.

Cyrus Daruwala

Managing Director, IDC Financial Insights
IDC Asia/Pacific

Cyrus Daruwala is the Managing Director for IDC Financial Insights. Mr. Daruwala and his teams focus on all aspects of "run the firm" or "change the firm." His research and advisory practices cover banking, insurance, and capital markets and topics such as legacy modernization and transformation, hybrid cloud, Big Data and analytics, customer life-cycle management, digital experience, ecommerce ecosystems, Internet of Things, cognitive, blockchain, and fintech.

For the past 20 years, Mr. Daruwala has been working with financial institutions to help them assess their business and operational and technical challenges, select the right vendors/partners, better understand their IT TCO, and grow their customer base. Before joining IDC Financial Insights, Mr. Daruwala was a managing partner with a regional research and publication firm. He was instrumental in growing the firm's proprietary as well as subscription-based research business along with the publishing businesses. His understanding of a range of business, market, regulatory, and investment-related issues enable him to work closely with financial institutions, consultants, vendors, and government agencies on various multidisciplinary initiatives.

- A master's degree in Business Finance, Economics, and Business Law from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics

- A commerce graduate with Accounts, Political Sciences, and Business Planning as specialist subjects

- A two-year on-the-job training program in leveraged foreign exchange and bullion trading with further coursework at the International Monetary Market on fund displacement, investment strategies, and trust planning

Christian Fam

Research Manager
IDC Asia/Pacific

Christian is a research manager for the IDC Asia/Pacific Cybersecurity Services portfolio supporting its research and client engagement activities. He is responsible for developing and socializing IDC’s point of view within security services surrounding legacy and modern cybersecurity technologies. Christian’s primary role will be conducting primary research with vendors, buyers, and industry experts to develop market insights in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ), including partnering research efforts with relevant country analysts in the local IDC offices.

Christian previously worked with top consulting firms such as EY, Deloitte, and Accenture in delivering cybersecurity strategies to senior executives to innovate and use emerging technologies to proactively defend themselves against cyberthreats.

Christian graduated with a Bachelor of Accounting degree (with Honors) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He has been accredited with CISSP, CISM, CISA and fulfilled the requirements for CA (Singapore). He also has over five years of experience in IT risk and controls assurance, IT advisory project management, and technology risk management.

Vishal Ghariwala

Senior Director & CTO, Asia Pacific
SUSE

Vishal Ghariwala is the Senior Director and Chief Technology Officer for SUSE in Asia Pacific. In this capacity, he engages with customer and partner executives across the region. In addition, he is responsible for growing SUSE’s mindshare by being the executive technical voice to the market, press, and analysts. Vishal also has a global charter with the Office of the CTO to assess relevant industry, market and technology trends to identify growth, partnering and M&A opportunities.

Prior to joining SUSE, Vishal was the Director for Cloud Native Applications at Red Hat where he led a team of senior technologists to drive the growth and adoption of the Red Hat OpenShift, API Management, Integration and Business Automation portfolios in Asia Pacific. Before that, he spent a significant amount of time with leading middleware vendors such as IBM, ILOG and Intalio, as well as the public sector.

Vishal has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Vishal is here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalghariwala/

Glenn Gore

CEO
Affinidi

Glenn Gore serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Affinidi, a pioneering technology enterprise committed to revolutionising data ownership, and LemmaTree, an investment firm fostering the growth of ventures such as Affinidi and Trustana. With a strategic vision and a hands-on leadership approach, Glenn has propelled these companies to the forefront of innovation. With an illustrious career spanning over 25 years in the internet and technology sectors, Glenn has consistently been at the vanguard of driving disruptive innovation on a global scale. His tenure as the Chief Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) underscored his ability to manage significant programmes to instil architectural excellence and establish technological thought leadership. Before his work at AWS, Glenn held prominent leadership roles across a spectrum of reputable internet and ICT solution providers, including OzEmail, UUNet, MCI/Worldcom, and WebCentral. This rich tapestry of experiences has endowed him with a deep understanding of the technology landscape and a relentless drive to challenge the status quo.

Dr Christopher Holmes

Editorial Director, Asia
Foundry

Dr Chris Holmes is Editor at Large for Foundry across the Asia Pacific region. Chris is tasked with keeping track of the latest happenings in the IT industry, directing editorial coverage across the region, and serving the communities of IT leaders and professionals our flagship brands serve. He will be working to support Foundry's CIO, CSO, Computerworld, Network World Asia, and Channel brands.

Based in Singapore, Chris draws on years of experience both in industry and as an analyst specializing in industry transformation. He has worked with many organizations in creating and aligning technology roadmaps and developing thought leadership to understand the pace of industry change. A frequent keynote speaker, Chris brings his expertise in both theory and practice to deliver insight and guidance.

Prior to Foundry, Chris was Managing Director for a Global Analyst Organization running the Asia Pacific region's industry research. Chris holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from Warwick University, UK.

Daniel-Zoe Jimenez

Vice President, Digital Innovation, CX & Software, DNB/Start-ups, SMBs, Consumer and Channels Research
IDC Asia/Pacific

aniel-Zoe Jimenez is Vice President for IDC's Asia/Pacific region, based in Singapore. He leads the regional research practices of Digital Innovation, Customer Experience (CX) & Software Applications, Digital Native Businesses (DNB) & Start-ups, SMBs, Consumer and Channels Research.

Daniel provides strategic advisory services to the C-Suite (CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, CDOs, CMOs, and CHROs) on how to develop and leverage technologies (e.g., AI/Analytics, Cloud, RPA, AR/VR, ERP, CRM) and new business operating models to become more agile, resilient, and competitive. He delivers workshops and strategic engagements for customers across Asia/Pacific such as assessing maturity, identifying gaps, crafting strategies and technology roadmaps, determining ecosystem readiness, business value metrics (KPIs), and skills required to drive future growth and profitability. Also, he provides research and strategic advisory to tech buyers and suppliers into the most emerging technologies and market developments like the Metaverse.

Daniel leads a team of analysts across Asia/Pacific who provide thought leadership research and insights to technology buyers, suppliers, and government institutions on the impact that the evolving market changes, and the new and established technologies have on their businesses.

Earlier in IDC, Daniel was the founder of the Asia/Pacific Digital Transformation (DX) Research Practice, whom he successfully led from October 2015 to January 2022. Prior to that, he was the co-lead for Big Data/Analytics research. Today he also leads the CX/Customer Success, Marketing, Digital Commerce and the broader Enterprise Applications (e.g., ERP, HCM, and CRM) research in Asia/Pacific.

Daniel is a frequent speaker at IDC and client events, as well as in seminars across the region; and is often quoted in business and IT publications.

Daniel has more than 25 years of international experience with large organizations worldwide, from consulting to ICT and market research. Prior to joining IDC, Daniel worked for four years with Fujitsu Services handling presales and marketing roles. He also held a global role with Accenture for four years in the marketing and presales groups within the Financial Services Group. At Datamonitor’s London office, Daniel held the position of research manager, covering the internet, telco, and mobility markets.

Daniel holds a Bachelor in Philosophy degree with focus on Science, Mind, and Language — courses in Psychology and Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Kailashyar K

Strategic Account Director
Ping Identity

Kailashyar is currently Strategic Account Director at Ping Identity. As a seasoned Strategic Account Director with over a decade of experience in the Asian technology sector, Kailashyar brings extensive expertise in Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Identity.

With a focus on the banking and technology industries, he leverages his profound understanding of the region and technology landscape to cultivate strategic partnerships with enterprise accounts. Kailashyar is committed to applying advanced solutions to address the distinctive requirements of Asian businesses, ensuring secure and efficient management of digital identities, enhancing customer experience, and ultimately driving revenue growth.

Kailashyar’s academic credentials include a MBA and an Engineering degree. He embarked on his career as a technology consultant within the Core Banking System and has gained diverse experience working across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia within the financial landscape.

Dr Ashish Kakar

Research Director
IDC Asia Pacific

Ashish is responsible for managing and developing IDC’s Financial Insights programs in the Asia/Pacific region.

Ashish has over 20 years of experience in banking, insurance, and investments. His last experience was starting and scaling his own award-winning, algorithmic investments venture. Previously, he had managed large enterprise-wide transformation and growth programs.

Academically, he is obtaining his Doctorate in Business Administration from Durham University, UK, and Emlyon Business School, France. He attained an MBA from IIM Bangalore.

His research interests include private assets, financial services, ESG, financial inclusion, and data-driven transformation. He also teaches data-driven innovation to the Durham University MBA and EMBA cohorts as a guest lecturer.

Ashish also has two publications. He presented a co-authored policy document on smart cities in the House of Lords, UK. He has also published a paper on private assets valuation at the 4th Sophia AI summit in Sophia Antipolis, France. A European platform featured his interview on importance of AI.

Ashish enjoys spending time with friends and family. He reads, can spend hours watching current events, visits historical monuments, and plays golf for leisure.

Prof. Lam Kwok Yan

Associate Vice President (Strategy & Partnerships), Nanyang Technological University | Executive Director, Digital Trust Centre Singapore

Professor Lam is the Associate Vice President (Strategy and Partnerships) and Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently also the Executive Director of the National Centre for Research in Digital Trust (DTC), Director of the Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Systems (SCRiPTS), and Director of NTU’s SPIRIT Smart Nation Research Centre.

From August 2020 to August 2023, Professor Lam was also on part-time secondment to the INTERPOL as a Consultant at Cyber and New Technology Innovation. In 2018, Professor Lam founded TAU Express Pte Ltd as an NTU start-up upon successful completion of the Intelligent Case Retrieval System (ICRS) project, performed in collaboration with the Singapore Judiciary under the SPIRIT Smart Nation Research Centre. In 2012, he co-founded Soda Pte Ltd which won the Most Innovative Start Up Award at the RSA 2015 Conference.

Prof Lam received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) from the University of London in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1990. Professor Lam has been an active Cybersecurity researcher since 1980s. His research interests include Distributed and Intelligent Systems, Multivariate Analysis for Behavior Analytics, Cyber-Physical System Security, Distributed Protocols for Blockchain, Biometric Cryptography, Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy-Preserving Techniques. In 2020, he authored a Technical Report on the “Application of Quantum Computers for Law Enforcement and Security Communications” for a Singapore Government ministry. Professor Lam is the recipient of the 2022 Singapore Cybersecurity Hall of Fame Award.

Laura Beth Magill

SVP Sustainability
Bata Group

Laura Beth Magill serves as the Global Head of Sustainability at Bata, a renowned global footwear brand. In this pioneering role, she spearheads the company's sustainability initiatives, playing a pivotal role in the execution of the overall strategy and the seamless integration of positive social and environmental impacts throughout Bata's extensive value chain.

Laura's extensive experience spans global supply chains and diverse industries, where she has consistently championed sustainability. Her unwavering commitment to driving innovation while effectively mitigating risks has translated into tangible, positive bottom-line results. Laura places a strong emphasis on implementing practical strategies and practices to align business objectives with sustainable principles.

As the inaugural Global Head of Sustainability at Bata, Laura Beth Magill serves as a beacon of the brand's dedication to responsible business practices. Her impactful leadership is instrumental in shaping a more sustainable future for both the company and the industries it influences.

Laura holds a Master of Arts in Sustainable Development with a specialization in Community Development & Social Action from SIT Graduate Institute and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Arizona State University.

Contact Information: linkedin.com/in/laurabethmagill

Dr. Chris Marshall

Vice President, Data, Analytics, AI, Sustainability, and Industry Research
IDC Asia/Pacific

Chris Marshall is a Vice President responsible for several areas of research at IDC. Chris leads the Asia/Pacific regional industry research teams, which includes coverage of healthcare, government, retail, energy, manufacturing, and financial services. Additionally, Chris leads our regional teams in data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), future of work, and sustainability.

BACKGROUND

Previously, Chris was a senior executive in IBM Watson Financial Services where he led their AI-enabled risk and analytics practice in Asia. Before joining IBM, he held partner and executive roles in big data and analytics at KPMG, Oracle, and UBS. He is also a former Professor of Computer Science at National University of Singapore where he was co-founder and director of their programs in Intelligent Systems, and Financial Engineering.

EDUCATION/INDUSTRY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MA in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University
MBA from University of Chicago
Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School
MA in Analytic Philosophy from Edinburgh University (in progress)
Frequent speaker, presenter, and moderator at industry conferences

Sandra Ng

Group Vice President and General Manager
IDC Asia/Pacific

Sandra Ng is Group Vice President and General Manager for IDC Asia/Pacific including Japan (APJ) research. Based in Singapore, she is responsible for thought leadership and deep-dive insights and advisory content on IDC's 3rd Platform disruptive pillars of Cloud, Mobility, Big Data Analytics, and Social along with C-suite (CIO, CMO, CEO, COO, CFO and CxO) research and tech buyer engagements as well as the Service Provider industry. In her role, she advises both tech buyers (CIO and LoB) and IT suppliers/enablers across the ICT marketplace.

As IT becomes the epicenter of our economy, IDC sees the intersection of Digital Transformation (DX) and the 3rd Platform’s Innovation Stage. Here is where we see governments, industries and consumers consuming the four technology pillars as well as increasingly the six innovation accelerators (Internet of Things or IoT, cognitive computing, 3D printing, robotics, next-gen security, and augmented/virtual reality [AR/VR]). To this end, IDC created a portfolio of tech buyer/end-user research and methodology frameworks, the IDC DecisionScapes, to provide targeted advice in an increasingly complex and fast-paced marketplace.

Sandra leads a team of IDC's senior analysts with collective expertise across the ICT industry. This team leverages the core research created by IDC's Asia/Pacific Domain Research Group, through contextualizing the content and increasing its relevance for clients and their businesses. This value creation process enhances the proposition IDC brings to strategy, planning and market intelligence stakeholders. This unique delivery of research content also brings with it IDC's thought leadership analysis and business executive insights for marketing, product management, sales and strategic leadership teams within the client's organization.

Along with the Domain Research team, the Practice Group extensively collaborates with IDC’s Integrated Marketing Programs (IMP), IDC’s Industry Insights, and IDC’s Consulting organizations to provide a comprehensive scope of intelligence services to meet the diverse needs of today’s dynamic and complex technology marketplace.

From research to IDC's customized go-to-market services (GMS) to executive roundtables and end-user events, Sandra and her team provide independent and insightful perspectives of market conditions, assisting clients in making informed business decisions and achieving business goals.

Sandra’s role also extends beyond quality research content delivery. She plays a key role in driving forward-looking assessment and analysis, often sharing her market insights and predictions to Asia Pacific management teams and heads of strategy within her customer base. She moderates and engages extensively with the client communities, including both traditional technology buyers and increasingly influential line of business heads often leveraging the IDC DecisionScape methodologies and deep-dive research.

Sandra has been in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advisory and consulting industry for 20 years. While her technology research expertise is vast and diverse, she is best known in the industry for her Telecommunications knowledge and opinions within the Asia Pacific region. Her ability to discuss broad, strategic and converged issues across the ICT industry enables her to engage with many C-level management teams and technology executives in Asia.

Prior to joining IDC, Sandra was with Gartner/Dataquest for more than four years, where she was managing a variety of IT research projects ranging from midrange systems to peripherals. In addition to base unit research, she was actively leading in channel and consulting work.

Sandra has established a keen following within the Asia Pacific media fraternity and is frequently quoted in leading regional business and trade publications such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, Computer World, Telecom Asia, tele.com and Wireless World, and also in locally-based media such as Singapore's Business Times and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. She is often invited to present IDC's opinions on CNBC Asia, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. Sandra is also a regular keynote speaker at global and regional ICT conferences.

Jackson Ng

Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Azimut Investment Management Singapore

Jackson is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Azimut Investment Management Singapore (Azimut). In his capacity as COO, Jackson formulates impactful business strategies, drives digital initiatives, enhances Azimut's brand value, and oversees all facets of business operations. Having pioneered the establishment of the marketing function and guided the firm to triumph in numerous award campaigns, he accomplished a remarkable increase of more than 300% in digital presence and engagement rate. Simultaneously, as CTO, Jackson leads the charge in FinTech, digital transformation, and cybersecurity initiatives and strategies. His visionary approach led to the creation of our technology function, fundamentally reshaping our approach to work and digitalizing conventional finance, marketing, and HR operations. Throughout this transformative journey, he fortified cybersecurity measures to ensure a robust defense against potential threats.

Ng Yee Pern

Chief Technology Officer
Far East Organisation

Yee Pern is the Chief Technology Officer of Far East Organization, the largest private property developer in Singapore with a diverse portfolio of real estate products across the residential, hospitality, retail, commercial, healthcare and industrial space segments. He has overall responsibility of the Group IT function, where he partners closely with the business stakeholders to inspire better lives for the customers and colleagues through the thoughtful design, deployment and support of innovative, practical, cost-effective, sustainable and secure technology solutions.

Yee Pern has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with a track record in technology consulting and IT management. Prior to joining Far East Organization, he has held senior IT leadership roles in multi-national companies and played key roles in the successful delivery of several large scale, complex transformation programmes for both the public and private sectors in the region.

Yee Pern graduated from the National University of Singapore, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree, majoring in Computer Engineering.

Dr. Ralph Ostertag

Head of Digital & Technology, APAC
HEINEKEN

As passionate Digital & Technology Leader for the APAC region at HEINEKEN with a customer-centric and data-driven mindset, Dr Ralph Ostertag creates business value by focusing on innovation and growth additional to efficiency and effectiveness.

Coming with nearly 25 years experience in Europe, Africa Asia Pacific and Americas, Ralph drives digital transformation with the business inclusive the definition and implementation of digital strategies and roadmaps, the development and rollout of digital platforms and the cultural change to a digital mindset.

Ralph comes with experience in the automotive, financial services and FMCG industries and has a strong passion for agility, speed and disruptive innovation. Known as outstanding innovator and networker, Ralph collaborates globally to bring the smartest people together to work with him on game-changing ideas and initiatives leveraging exponential technologies like IoT, Metaverse and (Generative) AI.

His achievements in the context of digital transformation have been acknowledged by numerous CIO Awards in the APAC region.

Simon Piff

Research Vice President
IDC Asia/Pacific

Simon Piff is research vice president for IDC's Asia/Pacific (AP) region based in Singapore. After almost 30 years in the AP IT scene, there are very few areas Simon has not spent time working within — be it cloud computing, business intelligence, datacenter management, security, and automation. From building ISPs in the 90s to explaining distributed ledger technologies in the 2019, he has always been across the leading-edge technology innovation and implementation across the AP region.

Always with a keen eye on how IT brings value to business leaders, Simon is able to articulate the key messages around these technological areas that need to be modernized for the Future Enterprise, the value they bring, and some sound advice on the next steps for technology practitioners and the C-suite alike.

Currently running the Future of Digital Infrastructure research program for IDC Asia/Pacific, the topics of data management, security, cloud architectures, as well as the more physical storage, compute, and network layers all fall under his remit.

Rahul Savdekar

Global Business Development Leader APJ, Microsoft Partnership
IBM

In his worldwide role of the Asia Pacific & Japan(APJ) Leader for IBM - Microsoft Strategic partnership, Rahul Savdekar oversees a vibrant and diverse APJ region including 22 countries to accelerate IBM’s Technology collaboration with Microsoft.

With over 24+ years of deep experience in business across Technology Adoption, Advisory, Systems Integration and Market Making, Rahul focuses on accelerating the collaborative business transformation enabled by IBM as the leading technology provider. He also continues to build and reinforce IBM’s brand as a trusted partner for individuals, organizations and governments.

Rahul joined IBM in May 2023, following 14 successful years at Microsoft where he last served as the APJ Regional Business Leader for Public Sector closely working with customers and partners in the region.

Rahul believes in #powerofpartnerships via deepening collaborations with Customers, GSI’s, Advisory and ISV partners in APJ to accelerate digital adoption and empower innovative advancements in the region.

He is an Industry Subject Matter Expert on Technology for enterprises across Governments, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Public finance & Tax-Revenue, Public Safety & National Security, Utilities & Critical Infrastructure etc to name a few, and is also an established frequent speaker at eminent International Industry Forums as a thought leader.

Rahul is passionate about Technology Innovations to solve organisational challenges & deliver societal impact with his intricate understanding of business and technology transformation. Rahul simplifies Digital Transformation for customers, balancing technology solutions around Cloud, AI, Big Data, IoT & Analytics with business priorities, expected outcomes and People centric approach.

Rahul holds an MBA in Marketing and has Certifications from Wharton, INSEAD, Kellogg's & London Business School.

In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, is passionate about classical music, is an avid reader and loves watching movies.

Purushothama Shenoy (Puru)

CTO, IBM Ecosystem, APAC
IBM

Puru is the APAC Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of IBM Ecosystem based out of Singapore and leads IBM Ecosystem Technical sales team in IBM APAC He is highly regarded as an experienced technical leader especially in the strategic areas of Digital Transformation, Hybrid cloud, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hyperautomation and security solutions, with over 20+ years of IT experience and having held various leadership roles across India and ASEAN markets. He is an IBM Certified Senior Architect and Open Group Master Certified IT Architect.

In his current role, Puru employs his industry skills across Banking & Financial Services, Public sector, telecommunication, and healthcare industry domains to lead cross business unit technical sales teams to provide end to end solutions to address client’s complex business challenges using IBM’s industry solutions, frameworks, software, and services.

As a Field CTO, Puru influences the client’s innovation agenda, bringing an outside-in perspective and recommending disruptive technologies and approaches to scale new value capture.

Puru has been recognized by Former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, for his technical contribution for an open-source architecture for disaster management system. Puru has also received numerous awards and recognitions including “Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Delivering Client Value”.

Puru holds a patent and is a published author of IBM Red Paper on “Building Telecom Web Services: Back-end Implementations for Network Integration”.

Frankie Shuai

APAC CISO
DWS Group

As the seasoned award-winning Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the region been featured on Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition) and been listed in global Top 100 Leaders in Information Security (2022) by Corinium global intelligence, Frankie brings two decades experience in the financial and IT industries. He is heading the regional information security in one of global largest Asset Managers in the financial industry now and was former head of cyber & technology risk in UBS covering Singapore and ANZ markets. He has also worked in Citibank, Microsoft and HP.

He regularly speaks at the academic & industry flagship forums including Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), International Data Corporation (IDC), The Asian Banker (TAB), Asia Risk, etc., as the practical advocate for bridging the gap between cyber security and business agenda. He is also a digital transformation and innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed as USA patent office as sole inventor.

He received industry awards including Global Top 100 leaders in Information Security, CSO 30 ASEAN, CIO 100 ASEAN, Asia 200 Digital Leaders and Economic Times (ET) CIO Southeast Asia’s Transformative CIO.

Steven Sim

Chair, Executive Committee
OT-ISAC

Steven Sim worked for >25 years in cybersecurity with large end-user enterprises and critical infrastructures, undertaken global CISO role, driven award-winning CSO50 security governance and management initiatives and headed incident response, architecture, operations and awareness training at local, regional and global levels.

Always keen to give back to community, he volunteers at OT-ISAC (second key thrust of SG's OT Cybersecurity Masterplan 2019) as Chair Executive Committee, at ISACA Singapore Chapter (which won 2022 ISACA Global Outstanding Chapter Achievement) as President from 2021-2022 and is member of Geneva Dialogue Technical Community, among numerous appointments.

He has a Masters of Computing and is an APMG-accredited trainer for ISACA's core certifications CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT. He is a member of both ISACA’s Information Security Advisory Group and Emerging Trends Working Group, adjunct lectures at IHLs, speaks and panels at both international and local conferences and published several articles on cyber security and risk.

Ekta Singh

Head of Financial Crime Compliance, APAC
Raypd

Passionate about compliance & financial crime, that's what Ekta is all about. She brings a wealth of knowledge and awareness of ethics, compliance, business management, current industry trends, and technological advancement in the Fintech, regulatory compliance, and RegTech areas. Ekta has forward forward-looking approach to managing compliance and operational challenges. Ekta has been in the Financial Industry for more than a decade and in her professional career she adored the role of Financial advisor, supervisor, Sales management, business head, and Risk & Compliance head. Her positive can-do attitude and problem-solving nature bring more to the table and she advocates that there is a thin line between business and good business.

She is a Subcommittee member of Regtech at the Singapore Fintech Association, an Active working group member of ACCESS, an AML working group member at Global Digital Finance (GDF), Trainer at RHT academy and Fintelekt focussing compliance, fraud management, risk assessment, and AML/CFT. Apart from being an ambassador for cybercrime at the Global Blockchain Business Council & SFF ambassador, she also volunteers as a mentor at the iLead program and Stories of Asia (SOA).

Ekta currently serves as the Head of Financial Crime Compliance, APAC for Raypd.

Dr Leslie Teo

Smart Nation Fellow
GovTech

Leslie is a Smart Nation Fellow who helps lead the AI Tech Practice at GovTech. He is also the Senior Director of AI Products at AI Singapore and part of the team that built SEA-LION, a family of open-sourced LLMs focused on Southeast Asia.

Leslie is passionate about data, data science, machine learning, and AI. He pivoted from a career in economics, finance, and investing in 2019. That year, Leslie joined Grab as Head of Data Science, Policy, and Data Initiatives and Advisor to the CEO. In this role, he sought to answer critical business and social questions using data and build products that provided relevant insights.

After Grab, Leslie was Managing Director at Great Eastern Life Insurance for Data and Strategic Transformation. He and his team enabled data analytics and data science across the organisation and fostered business transformation capabilities to deliver data-driven business value.

Before Grab, Leslie was the Director of the Economics and Investment Strategy Department and Chief Economist at GIC Private Limited, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. He oversaw the team responsible for asset allocation, total portfolio construction, systematic investing, and identifying critical long-term trends that would impact GIC's portfolio. He remains an advisor to the government on reserve management.

He is an independent board member of Coinbase Singapore and Sofina AG, a global investor listed in Belgium.

Leslie also worked at the International Monetary Fund. During his career, he worked in the Asia Pacific, Monetary and Financial Systems, Policy Development and Review, and European II Departments. He was also Head of the Financial Surveillance Division at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Leslie has a Liberal Arts and Sciences degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the University of Rochester. He also has a Master's in Information and Data Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a certified Financial Risk Manager and a CFA charter holder.

Affinidi

Affinidi is a technology company on a mission to change data ownership for good, with a vision of a world where every individual can securely control, manage and unlock value from their data through “holistic identity”. Affinidi’s holistic identity concept encompasses discovering, collecting, sharing, storing, and even monetising one’s data in the digital world. Solutions designed with an emphasis on user-centricity, Affinidi provides innovative solutions that prioritise privacy and interoperability in a decentralised infrastructure. Founded in 2020, Affinidi is a global company headquartered in Singapore with team members across the globe, including Bangalore, Berlin, and Ukraine.

For more information about Affinidi and its technology, please visit www.affinidi.com.

ManageEngine

ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation that offers comprehensive on-premises and cloud-native IT and security operations management solutions for global organizations and managed service providers. Established and emerging enterprises, including nine of every 10 Fortune 100 organizations, rely on ManageEngine's real-time IT management tools to ensure the optimal performance of their IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, endpoints and more.

ManageEngine has 18 data centers, 20 offices and 200+ channel partners worldwide to help organizations tightly align their business to IT. For more information, please visit the company site, follow the company blog and get connected on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Silverlake

Silverlake Axis Ltd (SAL) has been a prominent provider of financial services technology to the Banking, Insurance, Payment, and Retail industries since its establishment in 1989, earning an impeccable reputation for successful core banking implementations. Originally listed on Singapore’s Stock Exchange SESDAQ in 2003 and later advancing to SGX Mainboard in 2011, SAL has become the core system platform partner for three of the five largest ASEAN super regional financial institutions. Venturing beyond core banking systems, SAL has strategically expanded through acquisitions and partnerships, positioning itself at the forefront of the digital ecosystem platform that integrates insurance and retail. With a geographical presence across Asia, Middle East, Africa, Central Europe, and Australia, SAL's solutions are characterized by avant-garde technology, continuous innovation, and proven reliability, offering compelling benefits and driving digital transformation for over 400 customers. The company's architecture serves as a foundation for computing boundaries determined by economic rationale, enabling transformation for both Silverlake Axis and its customers. As a Group, SAL remains committed to leveraging innovations and digital collaborations to address industry challenges with fresh and exciting business solutions.

For more information about SAL, please visit www.silverlakeaxis.com.

SUSE

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes Management, and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere – from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. The company employs nearly 2000 people globally and is listed in the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.suse.com

Udemy Business

Udemy Business transforms lives through learning by providing flexible and effective skills development and validation. Udemy Business empowers enterprises to offer on-demand learning for all employees, immersive learning for tech teams, and cohort learning for leaders. Through the Udemy Intelligent Skills Platform and its community of instructors, millions of learners gain expertise in a wide range of technical and professional skills – from generative AI to leadership. The Udemy marketplace provides learners with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, offering a variety of solutions to achieve their goals.

Udemy Business customers include FenderⓇ, Glassdoor, On24, The World Bank and Volkswagen. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Denver, USA; Ankara and Istanbul, Türkiye; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; and Gurugram, India.

Udemy by numbers:

69M learners
940M course enrollments
15.7K+ Udemy Business customers
75K instructors
210K+ courses
75 languages
More than half of the Fortune 100 are Udemy Business customers
25K Udemy Business courses (11K are in English and more than 14K are in 14 international languages)

Zoho

With 55+ apps in nearly every major business category, including sales, marketing, customer support, accounting and back office operations, and an array of productivity and collaboration tools, Zoho Corporation is one of the world's most prolific software companies.

Zoho is privately held and profitable with more than 15,000+ employees. Zoho is headquartered in Austin, Texas with international headquarters in Chennai, India. Additional offices are in Singapore, the United States, India, Japan, China, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates.`

Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. More than 100 million users around the world, across hundreds of thousands of companies, rely on Zoho everyday to run their businesses, including Zoho itself.

For more information, please visit www.zoho.com.

Checkmarx

Checkmarx is constantly pushing the boundaries of Application Security Testing to make security seamless and simple for the world’s developers while giving CISOs the confidence and control they need. As the AppSec testing leader, we provide the industry’s most comprehensive solutions, giving development and security teams unparalleled accuracy, coverage, visibility, and guidance to reduce risk across all components of modern software – including proprietary code, open source, APIs, and infrastructure as code. Over 1,600 customers, including half of the Fortune 50, trust our security technology, expert research, and global services to securely optimize development at speed and scale. For more information, visit our website, check out our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn.

Affinidi

Affinidi is a technology company on a mission to change data ownership for good, with a vision of a world where every individual can securely control, manage and unlock value from their data through “holistic identity”. Affinidi’s holistic identity concept encompasses discovering, collecting, sharing, storing, and even monetising one’s data in the digital world. Solutions designed with an emphasis on user-centricity, Affinidi provides innovative solutions that prioritise privacy and interoperability in a decentralised infrastructure. Founded in 2020, Affinidi is a global company headquartered in Singapore with team members across the globe, including Bangalore, Berlin, and Ukraine.

For more information about Affinidi and its technology, please visit www.affinidi.com.

Blazeclan

Blazeclan is a leading, global cloud consulting and digital transformation partner for organizations. Our workforce of technology enthusiasts bring creative problem-solving ideas to the table for the digital transformation needs of businesses. Success for us is when our customers maximize our expertise for buoyant growth and endless opportunities
to stay ahead of the pack.

Blazeclan has been powering digital transformation for businesses across industry domains since 2010. We enable organizations to accelerate, innovate, and multiply (A.I.M) business growth and fast-track digital transformation journey on the cloud. We help organizations accelerate their transformation journey through cloud consulting strategy & migration, DevSecOps, cloud security engineering, application assessment, cloud-native application development & testing, SaaS product & platform development, data strategy, data governance & engineering, advanced analytics, cloud governance & reporting, and
cloud discovery & optimization. We help organizations drive innovation using our unique building blocks (frameworks), namely, DoT (DevOps transformation), cAssure (migration), cSecure (security), SaaS Factory Model, BlazePulse (CMP), and cSaver (cost optimization). Ultimately, we help organizations multiply their business growth through cloud & platform modernization, cloud security operations, conversational AI, application maintenance & enhancement, application modernization, managed analytics, BI modernization, and cloud managed services.

Headquartered in India, Blazeclan also has a strong presence across the globe. Key regions include North America, ASEAN, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We have a strong sales presence and a primary delivery center in India. With a workforce of over 800+ employees globally, Blazeclan got recognized as a Great Place to Work consistently by Great Place to Work India. The company has a broad customer base in varied industry sectors such as Financial Services, Banking & Insurance, Media & Entertainment, Telecom, Technology, and other verticals

Checkmarx

Checkmarx is constantly pushing the boundaries of Application Security Testing to make security seamless and simple for the world’s developers while giving CISOs the confidence and control they need. As the AppSec testing leader, we provide the industry’s most comprehensive solutions, giving development and security teams unparalleled accuracy, coverage, visibility, and guidance to reduce risk across all components of modern software – including proprietary code, open source, APIs, and infrastructure as code. Over 1,600 customers, including half of the Fortune 50, trust our security technology, expert research, and global services to securely optimize development at speed and scale. For more information, visit our website, check out our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn.

ManageEngine

ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation that offers comprehensive on-premises and cloud-native IT and security operations management solutions for global organizations and managed service providers. Established and emerging enterprises, including nine of every 10 Fortune 100 organizations, rely on ManageEngine's real-time IT management tools to ensure the optimal performance of their IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, endpoints and more.

ManageEngine has 18 data centers, 20 offices and 200+ channel partners worldwide to help organizations tightly align their business to IT. For more information, please visit the company site, follow the company blog and get connected on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Silverlake

Silverlake Axis Ltd (SAL) has been a prominent provider of financial services technology to the Banking, Insurance, Payment, and Retail industries since its establishment in 1989, earning an impeccable reputation for successful core banking implementations. Originally listed on Singapore’s Stock Exchange SESDAQ in 2003 and later advancing to SGX Mainboard in 2011, SAL has become the core system platform partner for three of the five largest ASEAN super regional financial institutions. Venturing beyond core banking systems, SAL has strategically expanded through acquisitions and partnerships, positioning itself at the forefront of the digital ecosystem platform that integrates insurance and retail. With a geographical presence across Asia, Middle East, Africa, Central Europe, and Australia, SAL's solutions are characterized by avant-garde technology, continuous innovation, and proven reliability, offering compelling benefits and driving digital transformation for over 400 customers. The company's architecture serves as a foundation for computing boundaries determined by economic rationale, enabling transformation for both Silverlake Axis and its customers. As a Group, SAL remains committed to leveraging innovations and digital collaborations to address industry challenges with fresh and exciting business solutions.

For more information about SAL, please visit www.silverlakeaxis.com.

Udemy Business

Udemy Business transforms lives through learning by providing flexible and effective skills development and validation. Udemy Business empowers enterprises to offer on-demand learning for all employees, immersive learning for tech teams, and cohort learning for leaders. Through the Udemy Intelligent Skills Platform and its community of instructors, millions of learners gain expertise in a wide range of technical and professional skills – from generative AI to leadership. The Udemy marketplace provides learners with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, offering a variety of solutions to achieve their goals.

Udemy Business customers include FenderⓇ, Glassdoor, On24, The World Bank and Volkswagen. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Denver, USA; Ankara and Istanbul, Türkiye; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; and Gurugram, India.

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25K Udemy Business courses (11K are in English and more than 14K are in 14 international languages)

Zoho

With 55+ apps in nearly every major business category, including sales, marketing, customer support, accounting and back office operations, and an array of productivity and collaboration tools, Zoho Corporation is one of the world's most prolific software companies.

Zoho is privately held and profitable with more than 15,000+ employees. Zoho is headquartered in Austin, Texas with international headquarters in Chennai, India. Additional offices are in Singapore, the United States, India, Japan, China, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates.`

Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. More than 100 million users around the world, across hundreds of thousands of companies, rely on Zoho everyday to run their businesses, including Zoho itself.

For more information, please visit www.zoho.com.

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