Dr. Chris Marshall is Program 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

Nathan Goh serves as the Head of Google Workspace Customer Engineering for the Asia Pacific region, overseeing the technical engagements in Corporate and Enterprise segments . In this capacity, he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and engagements for Google Cloud AI SaaS  offerings. Nathan is currently leading his team of Customer Engineers across APAC to architect the Agentic Workplace for customers, ushering them into the AI Agentic Age. By leveraging Agentic Workspace Transformation—a platform with unified context that empowers teams to drive outcomes together across every workflow—he ensures Google Workspace elevates individual and team-level productivity with integrated AI.Deploying Gemini Enterprise to orchestrate enterprise widel context, acting as the central nervous system for organizations to drive impactful business outcomes and ensure a superior customer lifecycle experience.

With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Nathan has a proven track record of leading complex technical organizations across APAC. He began his career on the end-user side, managing pioneering projects such as VoIP at Andersen Worldwide. Nathan then spent a decade in Tokyo, honing his expertise in network and security management within the financial sector for prestigious institutions including Dresdner Bank and Merrill Lynch APAC. Upon returning to Singapore, he spent five years as a vendor consultant at Citrix, focusing on Digital Workspace and Application Delivery Controllers. Prior to joining Google, Nathan led the Partner Solution Architect organization at VMware, covering the entire Asia Pacific and Japan region. Nathan is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE).