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.

Fluent in English and Mandarin, Sandra graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Dr. Chris Marshall is Associate Vice President for IDC Asia Pacific, responsible for the Analytics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence practice. Dr. Marshall’s core research coverage includes the development of Data Analytics and Machine Learning competencies and their implications – the threats and opportunities facing organizations as they seek to augment and automate their knowledge-based work.

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 senior business development and management roles in big data and analytics at KPMG, Oracle and UBS.

• MA in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
• MBA from University of Chicago
• Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School
• Professor of Computer Science at National University of Singapore.
• Co-Founder and Director of NUS Program for Research in Intelligent Systems
• Co-Founder and Director of NUS Risk Management Institute
• Author of widely used textbook on Operational Analytics
• Frequent speaker, presenter and moderator at industry conferences

Stephanie Krishnan is Research Director for IDC Manufacturing Insights, responsible for Industry 4.0 research. In this role, she responsible for the production, development and growth of the IDC Manufacturing Insights program in the Asia Pacific region. In this role, Stephanie will be delivering a research agenda that will appeal to technology buyers and vendors both in terms of subscription products and custom research in Industry 4-0 looking across ecosystems, value chains and supply chains of industrial industries.

Stephanie has more than 20 years’ experience in manufacturing and supply chain, with a diverse background that complements her years in academia and professional development consulting in multiple countries such as Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE and Hong Kong among others. in addition to this, she advises startups in the areas of process automation and technology adoption, particularly in supply chain management. Stephanie has been most recently been conducting economic and supply chain market research as part of consulting in the Middle East.

Eric Wong leads Expereo’s Asia-Pacific region as President and Managing Director, APAC. With over 20 years of industry experience, he has held senior leadership roles at Vodafone, building a strong track record of driving business growth, expanding market presence, and leading high-performing teams across the region.
Eric is dedicated to accelerating business growth in APAC, strengthening customer relationships, and enhancing Expereo’s capabilities to support multinational corporations with agile, high-performance networking solutions. Passionate about innovation and customer-centric strategies, he plays a key role in Expereo’s global expansion. Under his leadership, the company continues to broaden its footprint, delivering world-class connectivity solutions and reinforcing its position as a leader in the APAC region.

Dean Vaughan is responsible for accelerating Azul’s market expansion and channel growth across Asia Pacific. Dean and his team help enterprises realize the full potential of the cloud by dramatically lowering infrastructure costs, as well as reducing Oracle Java licensing fees, with the Azul Java platform.

Prior to joining the largest independent Java vendor, Azul, Dean led Aruba Networks’ global service provider business across Asia Pacific and Japan. An accomplished sales leader with a proven track record in scaling high-performing teams while capturing market share, Dean was vice president of sales, Asia Pacific and Japan at Silver Peak, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2020.

Previously, Dean served in various enterprise technology sales leadership positions at Oracle Cloud Platform Solutions (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Oracle Virtualization and Linux business unit (Australia New Zealand), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business unit (Asia Pacific Japan) and NCR Corporation’s Cisco Systems Network Integration business (Asia Pacific).

Grégoire Laurent is the IT Director APAC for Socomec Group, based in Singapore. He leads transformative technology initiatives across diverse markets, with a strategic focus on digital innovation, cybersecurity, and operational excellence. With over a decade of enterprise IT leadership, Grégoire bridges technical depth with strategic execution while driving scalable solutions, fostering agile teams, and aligning IT with business growth. Known for his pragmatic approach and passion for emerging technologies, he empowers cross-functional teams to navigate complex digital landscapes and deliver impactful outcomes.

Dr William Lee is Senior Research Director for IDC’s Asia Pacific (exclude Japan) Cloud Services group. As a domain leader for the Cloud Services Research program, he defines and manages the research agenda offerings to IDC Asia Pacific clients covering Private, Public, Hybrid and Industry Cloud adoption and deployment. The research offers an overview of the market opportunity for Cloud Services market in Asia Pacific (exclude Japan), which includes vendor profiles, end-user surveys, executive briefs to bring out the changes taking place in the market.

Dr Lee represents IDC externally via media channels and internally as a domain lead to support bespoke consulting and integrated marketing program engagement. He engages with and advises clients at all levels, from C-level management teams to technology and operations executives.

With over 15 years of experience in the field of Industrial Infocommunications Technologies, Dr Lee is an accomplished speaker and practitioner in ICT, market research, innovation, and process excellence. Between 2011 and 2014, William was involved with IDC’s Manufacturing Insights Research for Asia/Pacific in Manufacturing best practices and its enabling ICT. Following this, Dr Lee started his own company to provide consulting and advisory services for IT-led Service Innovation and Digital Transformation.

Dr Lee graduated from Cranfield University, United Kingdom, with an engineering doctorate in industrial and systems engineering.

Bryan Ma is Vice President of Client Devices research, covering mobile phones, tablets, PCs, AR/VR headsets, wearables, thin clients, and monitors across Asia as well as worldwide. Based in Singapore, Bryan provides insights and advisory services for both vendors and users, and coordinates his team of analysts in building IDC’s core market data, analysis, and forecasts in these sectors.

Bryan has been quoted in a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, BusinessWeek, The South China Morning Post, and The New York Times. He has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and appears frequently as a guest commentator on television networks such as CNBC, Bloomberg, and the BBC.

Bryan has been with IDC since 1999, when he joined IDC’s Consumer Devices team in California.  He has been the recipient of several recognitions at IDC, including multiple Research Quality awards as well as IDC’s Global Fellowship. Prior to joining IDC, Bryan was a Business Analyst at Arthur Andersen in Los Angeles, where he was part of the firm’s Business Consulting practice specializing in the financial services industry.

Bryan holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. His university internships included experiences at IBM, Rockwell Semiconductor (now Conexant), Acuson (now part of Siemens), and PaineWebber (now part of UBS). Bryan is fluent in English and conversant in Mandarin Chinese.

David Tay is responsible for Business-Technology partnership to enable digitization and transformation for Lendlease integrated “Investment, Development and Construction” business model.

He leads teams across Singapore, Malaysia, China and Japan as Innovation and Technology-enabler.

Prior to this, David was CIO for Beyonics, responsible for the consolidation of 4 production facilities into a single 203,000 sq.ft. mega-campus. He completed the migration of the on-prem 7-modules ERP to a 22-modules cloud ERP, and establish a data platform for Industry 4.0 adoption.

David worked as Vice President for Software BU, and Regional Director for Managed Services/CIO in Wincor/Diebold Nixdorf across 11 countries.

David was VP – Infrastructure in setting up a Data Centre that provided Hosting, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services, and worked at IBM Singapore in various technology services groups.

David holds a B.Sc. (Hons) from the University of Bradford and is a Disaster Recovery Certified Expert.