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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Get ready to Navigate the Data Economy” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”cg19_overview”][vc_column][vc_column_text]CIO Academy Asia’s flagship ConnectGov Leaders Summit is where discerning Asian thought-leaders, public and private sector CIOs, CISOs, business and tech leaders meet to establish new relationships, exchange ideas and share actionable insights.
Bearing CIOAA’s hallmark strong learning agenda including local visits and engagements, the Summit paves way for new connections, collaborations and opportunities among our community members and business and government counterparts from around the world.
ConnectGov 2019 will take us to Edinburgh, Scotland where participants may expect to energise their thinking and engage on transformational themes in the UK’s Fastest Growing Tech Hub and most entrepreneurial city*.
Navigating the Data Economy
Digitisation in all its dimensions and complexity has captured the attention and imagination of governments, businesses and technology leaders in recent years. But even as the waves of disruption continue to sweep through organisations, the tide of interest is turning to the footprints of digitalisation i.e. the data trails of interactions and transactions that provide precious clues to human behaviours, organisational needs and new opportunities. The proposition is simple – deciphering the data will reveal valuable insights that can drive decisions and even determine organisations’ relevance.
But as with most things, reality is more complicated, thanks to an evolving data regime and regulatory environment, ongoing cybersecurity concerns and issues with data practices, technology design and associated infrastructures. All these unfold against the larger backdrop of organisations navigating transformations that may challenge not only their priorities but also the very nature of their businesses.
Leaders can expect complex choices ahead as data assumes primacy as a driver of far-reaching considerations for governments and organisations. ConnectGov 2019 will be the platform for on point discussions with thought-leaders as we navigate these emerging issues of the Data Economy along with the tremendous prospects for those ready to grasp the opportunities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
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Edinburgh, Scotland
UK’s Fastest Growing Tech Hub
♦ Edinburgh was recently named the UK’s top city for start-ups and attracts more foreign investment than any other tech cluster in the UK, outside of London.
♦ A network of 8 Innovation Centres across Scotland is designed by industry for industry-led collaborations.
♦ Data is key to one of the biggest recent public investments, namely the £1.3 billion Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal which aims to establish Scotland as the data capital of Europe.
♦ The Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiatives as part of the Region City Deal include the creation of 5 new Data Hubs, housing expertise and facilities to help 10 industrial sectors become more innovative through data.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”10″ accent_color=”#00aae2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” bg_override=”full” bg_color_value=”#045894″ el_id=”cg19_highlights”][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”10″ accent_color=”#045894″][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”10″ accent_color=”#045894″][vc_custom_heading text=”2019 Highlights” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”10″ accent_color=”#045894″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” bg_type=”bg_color” bg_override=”full” bg_color_value=”#045894″][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”21004″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”Insightful Perspectives on Navigating the Data Economy” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]• Priorities for Data-Driven Organisations – The Pivot to Value
• Implications for the Leadership Bench When Data is King
• Government Priorities in a Data Economy
• The Race for Data Competence & Capabilities – How Can Organisations Level Up?
• Data Management & the Drive Towards Business Impact – Case studies
• Implications of Data as a Critical Asset + Cyber-resilience
• Data-Led versus Data-Informed: Perspectives on “Fit-ness for the Future”
• Imperatives for the Real-Time Enterprise[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”10″ accent_color=”#045894″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” bg_override=”full” bg_color_value=”#045894″][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20617″ alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Executive Workshop:
Data Leadership” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]A facilitated learning by The Data Lab, Scotland on how to make an immediate business impact with data.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20616″ alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Experiential
Learning Visits” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Experiential learning visits to key innovation centres and leading companies in Edinburgh.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”10″ accent_color=”#045894″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”20615″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_custom_heading text=”Digital Leadership
Breakout Discussions” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]Group discussions on CIOAA’s key tenets of Digital Leadership: Agility, Cyber-resilience, Innovation & Design and Data Analytics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”cg19_speakers”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Featured Distinguished Speakers” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21681″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Colin Cook
Director of Digital for the Scottish Government[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Colin Cook
Director of Digital for the Scottish Government
Colin has held Head of Division roles in Public Health, Healthcare strategy, Cabinet Secretariat and Digital. A former marketing director of Army Recruiting and Royal Mail’s letters business, Colin is also a trustee of The Poppy Factory, a charity that helps disabled, sick and injured ex-service people back into work.
[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21529″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Sethu Vijayakumar
Director, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics & Programme Co-Director, The Alan Turing Institute UK[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Sethu Vijayakumar
Director, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics & Programme Co-Director, The Alan Turing Institute UK
Sethu Vijayakumar is the Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh, UK and the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. He has pioneered the use of large-scale machine learning techniques in the real-time control of several iconic robotic platforms such as the SARCOS and the HONDA ASIMO humanoids, KUKA-LWR robot arm and iLIMB prosthetic hand. His latest project (2016) involves a collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Centre on the Valkyrie humanoid robot being prepared for unmanned robotic pre-deployment missions to Mars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a judge on BBC Robot Wars and winner of the 2015 Tam Dalyell Prize for excellence in engaging the public with science. Professor Vijayakumar helps shape and drive the national Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) agenda in his recent role as the Programme Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21125″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Sigrid Rouam
VP, Head of Data Science and Visualization
Singapore Exchange[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Sigrid Rouam
VP, Head of Data Science and Visualization
Singapore Exchange
Sigrid is currently leading the data science and visualization team at SGX.
She moved to Singapore 10 years ago to finish her PhD in Statistics, jointly conducted at A*STAR (GIS) and Université Paris Sud. After her post doc, she decided to move to the private sector gaining experience in several industries, namely FMCG, Telco and Finance. Her current role is to establish and grow the data science capability and team at SGX.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21280″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Kwok Quek Sin
Senior Director, National Digital Identity Programme (NDI)
Government Technology Agency (GovTech)[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Mr. Kwok Quek Sin
Senior Director, National Digital Identity Programme (NDI)
Government Technology Agency (GovTech)
Quek Sin oversees the National Digital Identity Programme, one of Singapore’s five Strategic National Projects announced in 2017. The National Digital Identity will be a nationally-available means for an individual to prove his legal identity in the online realm. It also serves as a digital infrastructure for public and private sector use so as to build upon more digital services on a common and universal trust framework for identity, authentication, consent, authorisation, digital signatures, eKYC and data platforms.
Quek Sin and his team look forward to collaborating closely with government agencies, industry partners and the international community, to develop the necessary ecosystems which can enable online trust, transform user journeys and streamline operations.
Prior to joining the Public Service in 2009, Quek Sin served in multiple consulting and management roles across various MNCs, including Accenture, Deloitte Consulting and HP.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21495″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Martyn Wallace
Chief Digital Officer, Digital Office for Scottish Local Government[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Martyn Wallace
Chief Digital Officer
Digital Office for Scottish Local Government
Martyn leads the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government which was set up in October 2016 to look at creating, delivering and accelerating innovative digital solutions to help Scottish Councils with the challenge of balancing their budgets whilst still delivering critical front-line services.
Before joining the Digital Office and indeed Public Sector, Martyn’s career has been in the tech sector working with Private & Public Sector clients to understand and innovate with new Digital technology. He has worked for companies including Capita Secure Digital Solutions, Telefonica O2UK, BlackBerry, Computacenter and Compaq plus been a board advisor to some startups.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21282″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Jarmo Eskelinen
Executive Director, Data Driven Innovation Programme
The University of Edinburgh[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Jarmo Eskelinen
Executive Director, Data Driven Innovation Programme
The University of Edinburgh
Jarmo Eskelinen is an expert in smart cities, open data and open innovation, with background in architecture, digital media and urban events. He is the Executive Director of Data Driven Innovation at the University of Edinburgh, leading the £660m programme which spans across ten industry domains from the creative industries to fintech and robotics, located five new innovation hubs connected by world class data infrastructure. The programme is part of the ambitious Edinburgh City Region Deal.
Previously Jarmo was the Chief Innovation and Technology Officer of the Future Cities Catapult in London. Before joining the Catapult in 2016, Jarmo was the founder and the CEO of Forum Virium Helsinki, the urban innovation lab of the City of Helsinki, since 2006. He led the Media Centre Lume of the Aalto University 2001 – 2006, and was the Head of Programme of the Helsinki 2000 European City of Culture 1997-2001.
Jarmo is a member of the Smart London Board, board member of the Open Knowledge International, and previously the founder and vice chair of the Open & Agile Smart Cities network OASC and the President of the European Network of Living Labs ENoLL.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21581″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ott Velsberg
Government Chief Data Officer of Estonia[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Ott Velsberg
Government Chief Data Officer of Estonia
Ott Velsberg is the Chief Data Officer for the Estonian government, overseeing data governance and data science in Estonian government. Among other things, his mission is to lead the development of government services using artificial intelligence. He is also a Ph.D. researcher in the department of Informatics at Umeå University and Uppsala University. His research concentrates on the use of information systems in the public sector, with a special focus on the use of the Internet of Things (IoT).[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21606″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ravinder Singh
Chief Information and Innovation Officer Tata Singapore Airlines
(Air Vistara)[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Ravinder Singh
Chief Information and Innovation Officer Tata Singapore Airlines
(Air Vistara)
Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is an Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot and Investor with over 50+ global recognition and 17 Patents. His body of work, mostly 1st in the world are making a difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology. He has been acknowledged as world’s top 25 CIO and top 10 Robotics Designer in 2018.
Ravi is a global speaker and has delivered over 100+ lectures and papers in Asia, Europe, USA and Africa in 2018-19. Ravi is advisor to board of 9 enterprises where incubation and differentiation is a core necessity and challenge. He sits on the advisory council of 3 global research firms where he contributes in predicting practical future automation use cases and respective technologies.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19164″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Shirin Hamid
Principal Director, CIO, Asian Development Bank (ADB)[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Shirin Hamid
Principal Director (CIO)
Office of Information Systems and Technology
Asian Development Bank
Shirin Hamid is the Principal Director (Chief Information Officer) of the Office of Information Systems and Technology of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) since 2016. Ms. Hamid is responsible for the organization’s IT digital transformation, operations and resources.
Ms. Hamid, a Singapore national, has more than 20 years of working experience in the IT industry. She was most recently the Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Office of Information Systems and Technology in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a post she assumed in 2005, providing strategic direction and innovative stewardship in the use of information management and technology, and served as a principal advisor to senior management in areas of ICT strategies, governance, and global operations.
Prior to that she was General Manager of IS/IT in Singapore-based Keppel Offshore and Marine and concurrently of its parent company, Keppel Corporation. She also served as the Chief Technology Officer of TradeoneAsia where she formulated the company’s IT strategy, built its technology team and IT services including its core procurement and reverse auction strategic platform. She provided her expertise at Deloitte Consulting in Boston and Singapore and at Andersen Consulting/Accenture.
Ms. Hamid has a Master’s degree in Business Systems Analysis and Design from City University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Coventry University both based in the United Kingdom.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19245″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Soh Siew Choo
Managing Director, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology, DBS Bank[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Soh Siew Choo
Managing Director, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology, DBS Bank
In her current role, Siew Choo drives the DBS BANK’s transformation leveraging Agile, Cloud Computing, Big Data, AI and Machine Learning. Prior to that, she was Managing Director, Head of Core Systems Technology, responsible for driving the strategy for the enterprise-wide technology solutions for Core Banking, Finance, Risk, Compliance and Audit. She has also been responsible for driving the multi-year technology roadmap, ensuring high quality deliveries and taking innovation and agility to the next level.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21744″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Chang Sau Sheong
CEO, SP Digital
SP Group[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Chang Sau Sheong
Chief Executive Officer, SP Digital
SP Group
Sau Sheong runs SP Digital, the digital business subsidiary of SP Group. In his 24 years of industry experience, he has lead engineering teams at PayPal, Yahoo and HP to build software products.
He was previously a co-founder in a software company and was involved in startups for more than 10 years. He is active and contributes to many technology communities in Singapore and Southeast Asia (especially Go and Ruby) and has written 4 programming books.
Sau Sheong has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters in
Commercial Law.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21580″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Farouk Abdullah
Chief Data Scientist / Country Head
Natural Intelligence Solutions – Berjaya Grou[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Farouk Abdullah
Chief Data Scientist / Country Head
Natural Intelligence Solutions – Berjaya Group
Farouk Abdullah is an analytics thought leader with over 15 years of first-hand experience of establishing analytics teams and delivering organisational transformation in large companies in the UK and South East Asia.
Farouk has spent most of his working life in the UK where he led data and analytics teams in corporate banking, the energy sector, large media organisations and in a top 4 consulting firm .
Known as an industry thought leader and advisor to CEOs, he brings wide industry knowledge of analytics and data science coupled with commercial nous and senior management experience.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21273″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Voranuch Dejakaisaya
Chief Information and Operations Officer (CIOO)
Bank of Ayudhya (Krungsri)[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Voranuch Dejakaisaya
Chief Information and Operations Officer (or CIOO)
Bank of Ayudhya (Krungsri)
After 10 years of service in the Krungsri bank as CIO leading the Information Technology Group, Voranuch was appointed to be CIOO since January 2017; which extended her responsibility to also look after the Operations Group.
With strategic shareholders from MUFG, Japan’s largest bank and one of world’s largest financial institution, Krungsri is currently the 5th largest bank in Thailand and has been very successful in acquiring other finance and banking business. Hence, the IT landscape is very complicated due to the many acquisitions along the Bank’s journey. So, there are big challenges for her to break the brick and mortar in order to deal with digital disruption with speed.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19262″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ramesh Munamarty
Senior Executive VP, Technology and Innovation
International SOS[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Ramesh Munamarty
Senior Executive VP, Technology and Innovation, International SOS
Ramesh is a senior executive that led enterprise transformations and managed IT and Engineering teams across diverse industries over the last 20+ years. Currently he is a Sr. Executive VP, Technology and Innovation for International SOS.
Prior to joining International SOS, Ramesh served in various CIO and Technology leadership roles in companies such as Verint Systems, Capgemini and Oracle. The breadth and depth of experience he has gained across a dozen industries and working in multiple countries allows him to be more business agile in solving challenges through cross-industry & cross-market solutions.
Working in diverse cultures has honed his collaborative leadership style which enables him to further empower teams and spur their success. A constructive disruptor in the Tech and Digital transformation space, he also proactively contributes to and participated in boards of several non-profits and has non-executive appointments of enterprise company boards. He has received several industry recognitions and was a finalist for both the Georgia CIO of the Year 2015 and the ATP CIO of the Year 2015.
A firm believer in leveraging technology as an enabler, he embraces the same in driving innovation and implementation of new business models. He is passionate about helping organizations maximizing value by while optimizing internal processes and creating shared services to drive synergies. He has led Agile and DevOps led transformation of Engineering divisions and developed leading products enjoying double-digit growth.
Ramesh is a thought leader and actively contributes to the Technology and Security community by providing Keynote addresses, being a panel speaker, publishing articles and white papers in leading magazines. He has judged several events such as Hackathons, Technology Fairs and Innovation Challenges. He is a sought-after speaker and has been invited to several conferences across the world.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21285″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Jude McCorry
Head of Business Development
The Data Lab[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21286″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Michael Rovatsos
Director, The Bayes Centre
The University of Edinburgh[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21284″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Jasmina Lazić
Chief Data Technologist, The Bayes Centre
The University of Edinburgh[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Jasmina Lazić
Chief Data Technologist, The Bayes Centre
The University of Edinburgh
Dr Jasmina Lazić leads, facilitates and enables the commercial adoption of state-of-the-art data science and technology developed at the University of Edinburgh, fostering new collaborative partnerships and technical engagements between the University and industry. As a Chief Data Technologist at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh innovation hub in data science and artificial intelligence,
Jasmina works with academic and commercial partners to grow and deliver data science and technology expertise across a wide range of industries, from space and satellites, to energy, fintech and healthcare.
Jasmina holds a PhD in Mathematics from Brunel University, UK, and BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Belgrade in Serbia. She is also an advocate for high-quality STEM education and women in technology.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”18732″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Surachai Chatchalermpun
Chief Information Security Officer
Krung Thai Bank[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Surachai Chatchalermpun
Chief Information Security Officer
Krung Thai Bank (KTB)
K. Surachai holds a First class honors in Bachelor’s degree of Computer Engineering from King Mongkut University Technology of Thonburi in 2007. He got “Team work Excellence Award” of PTT ICT Solutions: Best Employee of 2009 and got award from (ISC)2Asia-Pacific ISLA (Information Security Leadership Award) in 2011.
Currently, Surachai is the Chief Information Security Officer of Krung Thai Bank (KTB), leading an IT security team responsible for App penetration testing, IT security compliance, security solution architect, security awareness and UAM. Prior to joining KTB, Surachai was the Regional IT Security Manager and Head of IT Security at Maybank Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) responsible for all spectrum of the company’s IT Security.
Surachai is a member of TISA, Thailand Information Security Association, and leads TISA Volunteers to collaborate setting up “TISA-Pro Talk” seminar for security professional to share their experiences and social networking across industries such as Telecommunication, Bank, Hospital, University and etc.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21382″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Jennifer Henderson
Keeper and Chief Executive, Registers of Scotland[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Jennifer Henderson
Keeper and Chief Executive, Registers of Scotland
Jennifer is the Chief Executive and Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, which is the non-ministerial government department responsible for compiling and maintaining 20 public registers in Scotland. These relate to land, property, and other legal documents.
Jennifer has been with the UK Civil Service since 1994. Prior to her current role she was a Deputy Director at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, developing the department’s business plan and previously supporting the initial phase of the Building Safety Programme established in response to the fire at Grenfell Tower.
Prior to that, she was a member of the executive team at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl – an Executive Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence), as Operations Director and then as Transformation Director, ensuring that innovative science and technology contributes to the defence and security of the UK.
In parallel with these roles she was also a Non-Executive director on the Board of Ploughshare Innovations Ltd. Jennifer is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and is a Chartered Physicist.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21579″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Craig Paterson
Executive Education Advisor
The Data Lab – Innovation Centre[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Craig Paterson
Executive Education Advisor
The Data Lab – Innovation Centre
Craig is a strategy advisor and coach with specialisms in Business, Data and Digital strategy development and execution.
Craig is Executive Education Advisor at The Data Lab, where he develops and delivers interactive sessions that allows attendees to improve their understanding of the business opportunity presented by the use of data and AI, arming them with actionable insights to apply when they return to work.
In the last 2-years Craig has worked with over 100 organisations to help them drive value from their investments in data and AI.
Craig also has over 20 plus years of experience in Financial Services and Utilities.
Craig is particularly interested in strategy, leadership and ethics and how these play a part in delivering benefits. When his daughter asks him what he does, he says, “I help make Scotland famous for data.”.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21422″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Bill Zhang
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
AIG General Insurance[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Bill Zhang
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
AIG General Insurance
Bill Zhang is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer of AIG General Insurance’s $5billion Japan business, based in Tokyo. He oversees data & analytics strategies, talents and investments including Pricing Actuarial, Business Analytics, Data Analytics & Innovation. He joined AIG in Singapore seven years ago before moving to Tokyo, and prior to that, spent time in Canada at Aviva and AON. Notably, he began his career as a consulting actuary.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21608″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Theo Veltman
Innovation Rainmaker (CTO020), City of Amsterdam[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Theo Veltman
Innovation Rainmaker (CTO020)
City of Amsterdam
Theo Veltman is Innovation Rainmaker in Amsterdam. In his work co-creation with civilians and entrepreneurs in the city are key as well as building from practice, starting from a common framework (direction). Some example pilots (1) co-create values for the digital city and implement those as ‘unwritten’ and ‘written’ rules; (2) co-create a safe, accessible digital city, starting at three places to see how it can be done as well as to develop (digital) safety measures based on day-to-day live; (3) stimulating a ‘quit city’ through use of sound sensors based on agreed sound limits with inhabitants and bars/restaurants around, with a dashboard and automated warnings and after X strikes: a considerable fine.
Theo has been CIO and CTO in various companies. His experience ranges from being responsible (CEO independent governmental body, CEO education) to executive responsibility (program manager merger six organisations, innovation of services) and consultancy (strategy, trouble shooting). He worked mainly in government, and about 7-10 years in a profit environment (insurance, bank, technology). Internationally he worked in short projects in i.e. Australia, New Zealand, Spain. His practical and creative approach is based on this experience and a knowledge base including technology (BSc), business administration (BBa), business management (MA).[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21423″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]James McVeigh
Head of Marketing and Innovation
Festivals Edinburgh[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]James McVeigh
Head of Marketing and Innovation
Festivals Edinburgh
Born and raised in Ireland, James travelled to his first festival at the age of four with his family of nine in an old Morris Minor, leaving him with a love of festivals and a dislike of car travel. He joined Festivals Edinburgh as their first Head of Innovation and Marketing following senior management roles with a number of organisations including Salisbury International Festival, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and Arts Council England where he had lead responsibility for regional funding programmes of £25m. His interest in festivals as a key element of the cultural infrastructure has led him to develop various festival policy contexts and international festival partnerships including the European Festival Research Programme. In his current role with Festivals Edinburgh, a uniquely collaborative organisation, he works to sustain and develop the position of Edinburgh as the world’s leading festival city—which now sees the Festivals host each year over 25,000 world class artists, more than 1000 accredited media and audiences of 4.5m while generating £313 million for the Scottish economy. James is also a Trustee of the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust and sits on the board of New Media Scotland.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21476″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]
Silvia Colombo
Lead UI Engineer, Spiritus
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Silvia Colombo
Lead UI Engineer
Spiritus
Silvia is Lead UI Engineer at Spiritus and an Edinburgh University graduate. In her free time, she volunteers as a Codebar coach, an organisation enabling individuals in underrepresented groups in tech learn how to code. Her previous experiences include working across the full stack with a vast number of technologies in industries including open data, natural language processing, and television.
Spiritus is a blockchain and analytics software firm with offices in Edinburgh, Scotland and Princeton, New Jersey. We work with health systems, medical device manufacturers, and 3rd party service providers to create a cross-enterprise ecosystem for selective data sharing – a private, permissioned “middle ground” throughout a device’s lifecycle, and actionable at the point of care.
[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21605″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ng Hock Keong
Chief Information Officer, Central Provident Fund Board[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Ng Hock Keong
Chief Information Officer
Central Provident Fund Board
Mr Ng Hock Keong is the Chief Information Officer of Central Provident Fund Board.
He spearheads the Board’s digitization transformation movement, and has implemented many new digital service initiatives, including the PayNow service for CPF members and employers, the new Mobile App for CPF, and the revamp of CPF website which is one of the most transacted e-gov websites in Singapore.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr Ng was the Board’s Quality Service Manager from 2003 to 2011, the Head of Enforcement Division from 2012 to 2013, the Group Director of Employer Collection & Enforcement Group from 2014 to 2016.
Mr Ng holds a MBA and BSc (IT). He joined the public service in 1989. For his contributions to the public service, he was conferred Public Service Administration (Bronze) and Public Service Administration (Silver) in 2005 and 2011 respectively.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19228″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]
Arvind Mathur
Chief Information & Digital Officer, Prudential Assurance Singapore
[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Arvind Mathur
Chief Information & Digital Officer
Prudential Assurance Singapore
Arvind is a business leader in the digital economy, on a mission to accelerate value. As the Chief Information Officer of Prudential Assurance Singapore, Arvind is building a digital powerhouse to help the life insurer create awesome experiences for its employees, customers, and distributors.
Arvind joined the insurance industry after nearly 20 years in the Consumer Goods industry, and brings with him a strong passion for customer centricity and experiences driving digital transformations across business and technology domains. He has lived in India, Philippines, USA and Singapore.
Arvind is a lean/ agile champion, enjoys leading cross-functional teams, and organization capability building. He believes that technology is driving more and more industries into exponential growth and disruption that will affect every facet of our lives and will surprise even the most visionary among us. He is excited to have a role in creating the future.
Arvind is an Industrial Engineer and an MBA in Finance. He loves learning and tinkering, and has a lab at home where he can often be caught playing with 3D Printers, Raspberry PIs, Micro:bits, Robots, Home Automation, Cloud Services, Audio/Video equipment, Cameras, Telescopes and various combinations of the above.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”18054″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Annie Koh
Vice President, Office of Business Development, Singapore Management University / Board Member, Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech)[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Annie Koh
Office of Business Devt, Singapore Management University / Board Member, Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech)
Annie Koh is Vice President for Office of Business Development, Singapore Management University (SMU). A Practice Professor of Finance, Annie also holds the position of Academic Director for two university level institutes – the Business Families Institute (BFI) and International Trading Institute (ITI). Her previous portfolio includes positions as Associate Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Dean, Office of Executive & Professional Education.
A notable conference speaker, panel moderator and commentator, Annie serves on a number of councils, advisory boards and steering committees of regional and local corporate, government and academic institutions. She is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on Regional Governance and is a board member of Family Firm Institute, Inc. Prof. Koh chairs the finance and investment committee on the board of GovTech Singapore, and serves on Singapore’s Central Provident Fund Board. She is also an independent director of k1 Ventures Ltd, and lead ID of Health Management International Ltd (HMI). Her appointment as a member of SkillsFuture HR Sectoral Tripartite Committee, HR Certification Taskforce, MOE-SSG Skills Development Council and Asian Bond Fund 2 Supervisory Committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, is testament to her strong linkages to businesses, governments and society.
A Fulbright scholar, Annie earned her PhD in International Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University in 1988. Her research interests are in Family Office and Family Business, Investor Behaviour, Alternate Investments and Enterprise Risk Management. She co-authored Financial Management: Theory and Practice, An Asia Edition (2014), and Financing Internationalisation – Growth Strategies for Successful Companies (2004). She is also author of a number of Asian family business cases and survey reports.
Annie is a recipient of the prestigious Singapore Public Administration Medal, Bronze and Silver in 2010 and 2016 respectively for her contribution to education and public sector.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21757″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Antonio Gulli
Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Google[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Antonio Gulli
Engineering Director, Office of the CTO
Google
Antonio has a passion for establishing and managing global technological talent, for innovation and execution. His core expertise is in cloud computing, deep learning, and search engines. Currently, Antonio is with the Cloud Office of CTO, London. Previously, he served as Google Warsaw Site Director Leader growing the site to 250+ engineers fully focused on Cloud managing teams in GCE, Kubernetes, Serverless, Borg, and Console. So far, Antonio has been lucky enough to gain professional experience in 4 countries in Europe and to manage teams in 6 countries in EMEA and U.S. In Amsterdam, as Vice President for Elsevier a leading scientific publisher. In London, as Principal Eng. for Bing Search, Microsoft. In Italy and U.K, as CTO, Europe and UK for Ask.com and in several co‑funded startups including one of the first Web search companies in Europe. Antonio has co‑invented a number of technologies for search, smart energy, and AI with 10 patents issued (21 applied), and published several books on coding and machine learning also translated in Japanese and Chinese. Antonio speaks Spanish, English, Italian, and he is currently learning Polish and French.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21629″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]John Peebles
Chief Executive Officer, Administrate[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]John Peebles
Chief Executive Officer
Administrate
John Peebles is the CEO of Administrate, a SaaS training management platform and one of Scotland’s fastest growing tech companies. Prior to Administrate, Mr Peebles helped found Fort Lauderdale based Sentry Data Systems where he served as Chief Information Officer and VP of Operations while it grew to more than $30 million in revenue within five years. He is passionate about education, great teamwork and technology and often speaks on these subjects around the world.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21630″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Julie Grieve
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Criton[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Julie Grieve
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Criton
Julie Grieve is the founder and CEO of Criton, a guest engagement platform for the hospitality sector. Criton allows independent hotels, serviced apartments and groups to create a digital guest portal, through which their guests can book, order and engage with their accommodation, including mobile check-in, mobile access and mobile ordering. Julie set up and was CEO of Lateral City, a luxury serviced apartment operator in Scotland when she had the idea for Criton, having been frustrated at how static her guest information had become and how disconnected she found the hospitality tech world. Julie’s vision for Criton is to give independent operators access to big chain technology.
Julie is also a Director of Women in Tourism, an Ambassador for Women’s Enterprise Scotland and she sits on the People and Culture Advisory Board for the HSMAI.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21732″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]
Ken Sutherland
President, Canon Medical Research Europe
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President, Canon Medical Research Europe
Ken Sutherland is a Director of the Board and responsible for all aspects of the strategic development and operational control within Canon Medical Research Europe Ltd and is also a key member of Canon Medical Systems Global R&D leadership team.
He serves as a member of the Scottish Government Inward Investment Forum, a lay member of the Court of Glasgow University and as an advisory board member of the Scottish Lifesciences Association. He was recently admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Ken studied Electronics and Computer Science at Edinburgh University and gained a PhD in image analysis and four years postdoctoral research experience in medical image analysis. He returned to Edinburgh in August 2007 to join Canon Medical as R&D General Manager following his previous post of Operations Director for a European multinational where he was responsible for their imaging R&D facility in Cambridge, England.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21730″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Ratikant Sahu
Executive Director, Group Technology and Operation, United Overseas Bank Limited[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21741″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Andrew Chang
Technology Consultant Lead, South East Asia and Greater China Region
RSA[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Andrew Chang
Technology Consultant Lead, South East Asia and Greater China Region
RSA
Andrew Chang is a Senior Technology Consultant at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Andrew has about 20+ years of professional experience in the IT industry, with the last 19 years focused primarily as a security solution architect and technology consultant. At RSA, Andrew provides technology expertise to customers across South East Asia and Greater China Region, with majority of his clientele from the financial services industry. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), RSA Certified Systems Engineer and Certified Risk Analyst (CRA).[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21628″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]
Andrew Parfery
Co-Founder & CEO, Care Sourcer
[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Andrew Parfery
Co-Founder & CEO
Care Sourcer
In 2016 Andrew Parfery co-founded Care Sourcer, one of Scotland’s fastest-growing tech businesses. Care Sourcer (www.caresourcer.com) is an online comparison and matching site that directly connects people who need care with businesses who can help.
Andrew’s inspiration came from running a successful care company, but he was frustrated that so many people had to wait months in hospital to find care, while care businesses around him went bankrupt.
Care Sourcer has already seen great success, reducing discharge delays in pilot NHS hospitals by a huge 40%, and helping thousands of people find the care they need within days, not weeks or months.
Andrew’s mission is to tackle one of the UK’s biggest societal issues by growing Care Sourcer to be the trusted brand for finding care. Thanks to a record-breaking Series A investment of £8.5m from Legal & General and ADV, Andrew and the growing team at Care Sourcer are rapidly expanding this groundbreaking technology UK-wide.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21742″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Jack Wang
Regional Director, APJ
RSA[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Jack Wang
Regional Director, APJ
RSA
Jack Wang serves as the APJ Regional Director for the RSA MSSP (Managed Security Services Partner) Program. He works with various partners and service providers in the region, to build and design security services offerings to provide incremental revenue for partners. Some of the key partners under his portfolio includes HCL, Infosys and Verizon Wireless.
Jack has 18 years of experience in the IT industry, spanning across ERP, Document Management systems, and with the last 10 years focusing on security solutions. Prior to RSA, Jack was also responsible for the SIEM business for McAfee in North and South Asia.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21899″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]
PK Lim
Managing Director – ASEAN, Nutanix
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PK Lim
Managing Director – ASEAN
Nutanix
PK, Lim is Managing Director for Nutanix Asean, where he is responsible for leading all aspects of Nutanix’s operations within the region, including leading sales and support, business planning and strategy development, customer care, and Nutanix’s alliances and channel strategy across the region while ensuring a superior customer experience.
PK brings over 30+ years of sales and management experience to Nutanix, growing and scaling emerging technology companies. Prior to joining Nutanix, he served as regional sales director of Asia Pacific for Nicira Networks which was acquired by VMware in 2012 for $1.2B. During his more than 20+ years in the technology industry, PK has served on the management teams of Palo Alto Network, Blue Coat Systems, Fortinet and RSA Security.
PK received his Bachelor of Science for IT Management from National University of Ireland.
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Director, ASEAN, Citrix[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Christopher Erikson
Director, ASEAN
Citrix
Chris Erikson has served in many executive positions in his 25-year career in, digital information technology and telecommunications industries. Chris is currently accountable for Citrix SMB and Midmarket business within Asia.
Before joining Citrix, Chris has worked across numerous global markets primarily focusing on business improvement and digital transformation. Most recently, Chris owned the Natural Resources Industry Segment for the Ariba Line of Business at SAP, he established a Digital practice at Dimension Data; an NTT Company, he lead commercial, and market development throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand with Google Enterprise, he also led The Modica Group, a digital media agency based in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, and served as Vice President of International Operations for New York based Diligent Partners.
Chris has also served in senior management roles both client and partner facing for Hutchison Telecom, Vodafone Plc, Bell Atlanta, and Bell South.
Chris currently resides in Mindarie, Perth Western Australia with his wife Tania and five children.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21812″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Colin Low
Chief Information Security Officer, SPH[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21631″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Nick Cole
Chief Marketing Officer, Float[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Nick Cole
Chief Marketing Officer
Float
Nick has more than 24 years’ experience of creating, managing and growing successful global brands and teams. After spending most of his career agency-side planning and leading high-profile marketing campaigns with brands such as Mazars, Allianz, Royal Mail, Nando’s, Irn-Bru, RBS, AXA, Coors, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government, Nick made the move to Float in late 2018. Nick is excited about the positive disruption Cloud accounting is creating within the Accounting industry and is passionate about the opportunity Float has to put cash flow at the heart of every business and make a positive difference to business owners around the world.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21903″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]John Fordyce
Director and Co-founder, The Three Stills Company (the Borders distillery)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19258″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Eugene Yeo
Chief Operations Officer, MyRepublic[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21965″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Thomas Blyth
Business Development Manager, EPCC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21960″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Hugo D’Ulisse
Technical Director, Public Sector, SAS[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21964″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Steve Ewing
Director of Operations, Informatics Ventures[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21963″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Mauro Dragone
Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21959″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Greig Cowan
Head of Data Science for Data Innovation, RBS[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21961″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Karen Bird
Innovation Consultant, RBS[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21966″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Mickael Paris
Marketing Director, FinTech Scotland[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21962″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Martin Boyle
Director, Innovation & Business Transformation, CodeBase[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21902″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Harald Haas
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, pureLiFi[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21901″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Drew Lyall
General Manager, arc-net[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”18683″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Koh Kok Tian
Deputy CEO, CIO Academy Asia[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Koh Kok Tian
Deputy CEO, CIO Academy Asia
Koh Kok Tian brings more than 20 years of executive and leadership experience in the Tech industry, helming various leadership roles.
He was most recently in charge of business development and strategic projects at Inchcape Singapore – a leading automotive distributor and retailer, where he focused on MaaS, TaaS (Mobile and Transport-as-a-Service) to Autonomous Vehicles initiatives.
Kok Tian also headed the Supply Chain Operations where he oversaw all aspects of the company’s Vertically Integrated Retailing Distribution Model. Prior to that he was the IT Director and a member of the Inchcape global team with responsibilities in Asia.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”21371″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Low Aik Lim
Director of International Relations, CIO Academy Asia[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]Low Aik Lim
Director of International Relations
CIO Academy Asia
Aik Lim has over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, both in the public and private sectors. In IDA and then GovTech, he held leadership positions relating to e-commerce development, industry development, international relations and strategic planning. The exposure allowed him to interact and work closely with many tech industry players.
After leaving the public sector, Aik Lim led a 20-year old IT company which provided IT contract resources to both MNCs and GLCs as well as talent recruitment services. In recent years, he has focused his attention to the flourishing startup scene in Singapore. He was Managing Partner of an Israeli startup business consultancy which brought high growth deep technology startups from Israel to Singapore.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”18734″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]P. Ramakrishna
Chief Executive Officer, CIO Academy Asia[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ txt_color=”#222222″]P. Ramakrishna
Chief Executive Officer, CIO Academy Asia
P. Ramakrishna (Rama) has been involved with the tech domain for the last 35 years.
Rama was formerly with Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (now IMDA and GovTech), his last held position was Director of IDA’s Industry Development, responsible for national level initiatives to develop the tech industry ecosystem. He left in 2015 and became an advisor for several foreign countries to help develop their national tech masterplans.
In 2016 Rama joined CIO Academy Asia and is currently the CEO. CIO Academy builds CIO communities, sharing tech best practices and insights for C-level executives.
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PREMIER PARTNER
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Google is a multinational, publicly-traded organisation built around the company’s hugely popular search engine. Google’s other enterprises include Internet analytics, cloud computing, advertising technologies, and Web app, browser and operating system development. Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning. For more information, visit: Google Cloud[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/6″][vc_column_text]
DIAMOND PARTNER
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GOLD PARTNERS
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Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application owners a true cloud-like experience. For more information, visit: Nutanix[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][ultimate_modal modal_title=”INFO” modal_on=”image” btn_img=”id^21836|url^https://wahspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CONNECTGOV19_partnerlogos_veritashitachi.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^CONNECTGOV19_partnerlogos_veritashitachi|description^null” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ modal_border_style=”solid” modal_border_width=”2″ modal_border_radius=”1″]Veritas Technologies is a global leader in data protection and availability. Over fifty thousand enterprises—including 97% of the Fortune 100—rely on us to abstract IT complexity and simplify data management. Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform automates the protection and orchestrates the recovery of data everywhere it lives, ensures 24/7 availability of business-critical applications, and provides enterprises with the insights they need to comply with evolving data regulations. With a reputation for reliability at scale and a deployment model to fit any need, Veritas supports more than 500 data sources and over 150 storage targets, including 60 clouds.
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SILVER PARTNER
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][ultimate_modal modal_title=”INFO” modal_on=”image” btn_img=”id^21814|url^https://wahspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CONNECTGOV19_partnerlogos_menlo.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^CONNECTGOV19_partnerlogos_menlo|description^null” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ modal_border_style=”solid” modal_border_width=”2″ modal_border_radius=”1″]Menlo Security protects organizations from cyberattacks by seeking to eliminate the threat of malware from the web, documents and email. Menlo Security’s cloud-based Isolation platform scales to provide comprehensive protection across enterprises of any size without requiring endpoint software or impacting the end user experience. Menlo Security is trusted by major global businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and financial services institutions, and backed by General Catalyst, Sutter Hill Ventures, Engineering Capital, Osage University Partners, American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. Menlo Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit https://www.menlosecurity.com.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]
KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
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WORKSHOP PARTNER
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MEDIA PARTNERS
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We are proud to be part of the SG-UK Partnership for the Future
2019 is a significant year for both Singapore and the United Kingdom, marking the Bicentennial of the founding of modern Singapore and the beginning of a new era for the UK. The SG-UK Partnership for the Future builds on our historical links by celebrating all that our nations are already achieving together and looks to the future by launching new collaboration initiatives.
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Supported by the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal Data-Driven Innovation Programme, the Bayes Centre is the University of Edinburgh’s Data-Driven Innovation Hub. The Centre works to power the interaction of people, data and systems, harnessing world-leading data science and AI research for the benefits of the economy and society. The multi-disciplinary nature of the Bayes community and its innovative approach to delivering real-world impact will allow the University support Edinburgh and South East Scotland in becoming world-class Data Capital of Europe by mobilising academic excellence in education and research, leveraging funding opportunities for translational research and developing strategic relationships with commercial and public sector partners. Summit delegates will be taken on a learning journey to key innovation sites within the Centre, specifically in the areas of Data, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. More information at http://www.bayes.ed.ac.uk/the-community
Stay tuned for further updates on the experiential learning sites![/ultimate_modal][ultimate_modal modal_title=”INFO” modal_on=”image” btn_img=”id^21143|url^https://wahspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CG19_visits_epcc.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^CG19_visits_epcc|description^null” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ modal_border_style=”solid” modal_border_width=”2″ modal_border_radius=”1″]Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)
EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh, is an international centre of excellence in high-performance and data-intensive computing for industry and academia. Founded in 1990, our activities span service hosting and management, advanced expert-led teaching and training, HPC and data science research, and contract work for a wide range of organisations, from the public sector to multinationals and local SMEs.
https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][ultimate_modal modal_title=”INFO” modal_on=”image” btn_img=”id^21142|url^https://wahspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CG19_visits_datalab.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^CG19_visits_datalab|description^null” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ modal_border_style=”solid” modal_border_width=”2″ modal_border_radius=”1″]The Data Lab
The Data Lab facilitates and enables industry, public sector and academia to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. It provides resources and funding to kick-start projects, deliver skills through education programmes, and help to develop the local ecosystem by building a cohesive data science community. Its core mission is to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from data for Scotland. With a Scotland-wide presence and Hubs in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, it is in close proximity to leading industry and university institutions with world-class research in informatics and computer science. Hubs are focused on building relationships locally and delivering a range of activities that span across The Data Lab’s three key areas: Collaborative Innovation; Skills & Training; and Community Building. www.thedatalab.com[/ultimate_modal][ultimate_modal modal_title=”INFO” modal_on=”image” btn_img=”id^21141|url^https://wahspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CG19_visits_codebase.jpg|caption^null|alt^null|title^CG19_visits_codebase|description^null” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ modal_border_style=”solid” modal_border_width=”2″ modal_border_radius=”1″]CodeBase
CodeBase is the UK’s largest start-up incubator, home to more than 100 of the country’s best technology companies. The team champions businesses tackling big challenges with technology and works tirelessly to support the development of a more diverse and competitive European digital industry. CodeBase brings together ambitious entrepreneurs, world-class technological talent and top investors in a creative, collaborative environment designed for the new digital economy. With a focus on developing a vibrant, open community of experts in a diverse range of fields, CodeBase offers hands-on mentorship, networking and world-class business support.
Website: www.thisiscodebase.com
Featuring:
Barclays Eagle Labs
Connecting UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to drive digital skills development to help grow the economy through innovation and change.
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Administrate
Administrate is a well-rounded training management system that allows you to manage courses, leads, sales, online bookings, commercial finances and much more. That means no additional manual work is created for your team saving you a lot of time and reducing costs. Administrate also has a built-in award-winning LMS, used by more than 300 customers and three million students worldwide.
Find out more about Administrate.
Criton
On-Demand Guest Service
Criton helps hoteliers and serviced apartment operators to create the perfect guest app and enhances their guests’ experience by giving customers the information they need on their own device. Criton is a clever content management system which allows accommodation providers to publish their own fully customisable app.
“Using digital technologies to enhance the customer experience is vital for all hotel and holiday accommodation businesses,” commented Criton’s Founder and CEO, Julie Grieve.
“Today’s travellers and guests rely on their mobile phones or devices, carrying them everywhere; we simply provide operators of all sizes the ability to create an app for their hotel or apartments that not only acts as a digital concierge, but also allows them to answer guests’ questions, resolve any issues in real time, and increase revenue.”
With Criton, hotels can step into the digital world and connect with guests like never before! Criton allows to fully brand and customise the app, reinforcing the brand awareness and creating customer loyalty. Hotels and property owners can provide useful information, anticipate guests’ needs pre-arrival, send push notifications, upsell their services and receive guest feedback on valuable aspects of their experience. Guests can make requests, order room service, discover the best places to visit, make mobile bookings and much more. Guests can access the information and message the hotel at their convenience, whether they are in the room or are out and about.
Hotels owners and managers are in complete control of the content they give to guests, which will increase guest satisfaction and engagement. With Criton building an app is easy! Get your own app and signup for a free 30-day trial today.
Find out more about Criton.
Care Sourcer
Care Sourcer is unique – it’s the UK’s first comparison and matching site for care. Anyone can make a simple request via www.caresourcer.com and receive offers from care providers who have immediate availability. Care Sourcer can be used by private individuals, GPs, social workers, hospital discharge staff or anyone else who needs to find care for an older person.
They’ve already reduced delayed discharge rates in pilot NHS hospitals by a staggering 40%, and have helped thousands of people find the care they need within days, not weeks or months.
Care Sourcer’s growth as a startup has been unprecedented for a digital tech company in Scotland to date. In 2017, Care Sourcer completed its first external seed investment round, raising £500,000 from UK venture capital firms Accelerated Digital Ventures (ADV) and BGF Ventures. It was the first investment in a Scottish company by both investors.
Also in 2017, Care Sourcer won a nationwide Small Business Research Initiative contract worth £100,000 to tackle delayed discharge (also called “bed-blocking”) with NHS England.
After a successful trial, NHS England awarded a further £757,000 to Care Sourcer to expand their work with NHS bodies across the country. 2018 also saw Care Sourcer raise a historic £8.5m funding round from Legal & General and ADV. The investment — which is the largest ever Series A funding round to be received by a digital tech company in Scotland — is helping Care Sourcer expand the care matching technology UK-wide.
Find out more about Care Sourcer.
Float
Float is an award-winning cash flow forecasting tool that helps businesses to project how much cash they’ll have in the bank next week, next month or next year. Pulling in bills, invoices and actuals from Xero, QuickBooks Online, or FreeAgent, Float cuts down the need for manual data entry, saving its customers hours every month, and providing them with an always up-to-date forecast.
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ROBOTARIUM comprises four integrated and interconnected components. It is available to researchers inside and outside the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics as well as industry as a national UK facility.
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FinTech Scotland’s mission is to develop a vibrant fintech eco-system in Scotland through innovation, collaboration and inclusion. They aim to create an integrated fintech environment through provision of funding, support, infrastructure and talent that recognises and responds to the needs of all stakeholders. They exist to provide an opportunity for business creation and growth, as well as attract diverse entrepreneurs and talent, securing Scotland’s place as a significant player in the global FinTech movement and funding circles.
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19-21 George Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A modern classic, inspired by Scotland’s heritage The Principal Edinburgh on George Street has been welcoming hotel guests since 1881. At its heart are five listed Georgian townhouses, built in 1775 as homes for Edinburgh’s most prosperous citizens. Winner of Scottish Hotel of the Year at the 2017 Scottish Hotel Awards, The Principal is an ideal base from which to explore the city or conduct business.
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Tissie Adhistia, Director, Operations – E-mail: tissie@cioacademyasia.org
David Chin, Head of Relations – E-mail: david@cioacademyasia.org
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References:
*Stack Overflow Developer Ecosystem Report, 2017
• Data-driven Innovation, The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University 2018.
• The Tech Nation 2018 Report
• Scottish Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Guide, 2018
• www.scotlandisnow.com
• www.fintechscotland.com
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