Jackson Ng is the chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Azimut Investment Management. He is also an award-winning C-suite executive recognized by IDG’s 2024 CIO100 and CSO30 Awards. As chief operating officer, he leads strategic business initiatives, drives digital innovation, enhances Azimut’s brand value, and oversees all aspects of business operations. Concurrently, as chief technology officer, he leads the company’s fintech, AI, digital transformation, and cybersecurity strategies. He also steers global and regional technology projects and initiatives.

CTO leader in engineering the Next-Gen Digital, Tech & Data AI strategy in Financial Services. Gen AI builder as the Managing Director in OCBC and the Head of Bank of Singapore Architecture. Experienced Chief Data Officer of AXA, who led the data transformation and governance. Serves as a Singapore FinTech Mentor and is part of the MAS & Global FinTech Hackcelerator judging panel.
Led the successful launch of OCBC GPT (Generative Al) from ideation to bank-wide rollout to 30,000 employees through the joint-collaboration of teams. Having reviewed over 200+ projects in the Group Wealth platforms as part of Technology Governance, and runs Monthly Architecture Forums and Tech Talks.

Chen Hong is the CIO of Singtel Singapore, where she is accountable for all aspects of IT. As CIO, she provides strategic guidance on Singtel Singapore’s IT infrastructure, systems, and digital initiatives. With over three decades of experience in the telecommunications and technology industry, she has been at the forefront of spearheading transformative initiatives and fostering a culture of innovation across geographical regions. Known for her passion for collaborating with teams to solve complex problems and pushing the boundaries in IT, she also actively mentors aspiring technologists and shares her insights at industry conferences as an ardent advocate for diversity and inclusion. She is a proud recipient of the CIO100 ASEAN Awards 2024.

Chris has been serving in the Public Service for about 30 years. He currently serves as CIO of A*STAR and is responsible for IT, digitalisation and cybersecurity in the organisation that is home to some 30 research institutes and national platforms performing research and technology translation, in disciplines ranging from genomics, cellular biology and drug discovery at one end of the spectrum, to high performance computing, robotics and advanced manufacturing to the other. Earlier in his career Chris had served as the Assistant CIO of MINDEF, CIO of DSTA, CIO of the Ministry of Communications & Information (MCI) and CIO of IDA.

Tam Trinh serves as chief data and analytics officer at Nikel, a financial technology firm specializing in risk management solutions for banks and fintechs in emerging markets. With nearly 20 years of experience in financial services, she has deep expertise in risk modeling, data analytics, and digital transformation. She is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Department of Analytics and Operations at the NUS Business School. Throughout her career, Tam has held key leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank, DBS, Moody’s Analytics, and Oliver Wyman, where she spearheaded initiatives in risk product development, risk modeling, and financial technology innovation. Her work focuses on leveraging AI/ML-driven analytics to enhance credit risk assessment, fraud detection, and financial inclusion, particularly in markets with evolving digital infrastructure. In recognition of her contributions to data and analytics, Tam was awarded the CIO100 ASEAN Award in 2024.

Tan Shui-Min has held the position of CITO at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2020. She first joined NUS in 2016 as director of applications, overseeing the creation, delivery, and support of applications from all business domains, including education, research, and administration. As CITO, she plays a vital role in strategic planning, guiding daily operations and implementing campus-wide IT policies. Tan has transformed the IT team to adopt Agile methodology, strengthened the enterprise architecture, and developed a next-gen infrastructure to achieve evolutionary development and dexterity. She believes in and has been instrumental in the innovative deployment of cutting-edge technology to enable the business and advance the university’s foray into the digital future!

Tomasz Kurczyk is the Chief Information Technology Officer at Prudential Singapore and the Head of the Prudential Group AI Lab. In this role, Tomasz oversees the company’s technology, data, and AI functions, driving digital and AI capabilities to accelerate business growth and transformation. Tomasz began his career as a serial entrepreneur, followed by professional and leadership experience across multiple industries and over 20 countries. He has built and grown large-scale businesses, products, teams, and digital platforms, including over a decade in the insurance industry.
Before joining Prudential, Tomasz served as the Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at AXA in Singapore.
In addition to his corporate roles, Tomasz is an active advisor to startups and an angel investor, contributing significantly to the development of the Singapore FinTech ecosystem.
A Polish national, Tomasz holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and an MSc in Computer Systems from Politecnico di Milano.

Frankie is an award-winning Technology Executive & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with over two decades leadership experience in the financial & IT Industry. He is heading APAC regional information security in one of global largest asset managers in the financial industry. Prior to this, he headed cyber & technology risk at UBS (world largest private bank) covering Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked in Citibank, Microsoft and HP before. He has been featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as 2024 “Global CISO 100” award winner and featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition).

He is a frequent speaker about cybersecurity & emerging technology in the industry leading forums organized by IDC/IDG, Reuters, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Asia Risk, Economic Times (ET), etc. In 2024, he has also been invited by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to deliver speech in their 25th annual tech festival in Chennai India and also been invited by Central Bank of Indonesia to deliver the speech in their summit in Jakarta Indonesia.

He is also a digital transformation and innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as the sole inventor and his patent has been cited by other tech companies including Intel and Ericsson.

Except above awards, he also received other leadership awards including Global Top 100 leaders in Information Security, Top Global CISOs, World CIO 200, IDG’s CSO30 & CIO 100 ASEAN, Asia 200 Digital Leaders, Economic Times CIO SEA’s Transformative CIOs, etc.

Karen is the current Chief Information Officer (CIO) for DHL Express Singapore with over 20 years of experience at DHL across various functions. Prior to taking up this role in May 2021, Karen was the VP for Operations Programs at DHL Express APeC Regional Business IT team, responsible for managing systems beta and pilot projects for the Operations team across the region and deployment of DHL global applications to various countries in Asia Pacific (excluding China) .

In the past 4 years as CIO, Karen had vastly improved the cross-functional collaboration and communication of the entire Singapore IT team, raising the awareness on data protection and information security throughout the organization and establishing a Digitalisation framework for the country. The improved employee engagement & leadership scores within her team is a testament to her commitment in keeping the team engaged and motivated while focusing on individual development through upskilling, network assignment and stretch assignments within the DHL network.

Also taking on the role of DHL Express Singapore’s Data Protection Officer (DPO), Karen helms the data protection efforts in Singapore, ensuring compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), working together with global DPO and Legal teams to review and implement policies and processes for handling personal data.

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

Bala is an experienced technology executive with a strategic mindset and strong business acumen. With over 24 years in IT, he has held key roles such as Head Architect, Chief Architect, and CTO across industries including financial services, telecommunications, airlines, consulting, and product development.

Currently serving as Chief Architect at FPT, he drives digital transformation, digital channels, and data analytics initiatives, leading innovation and business growth. He has a deep understanding of emerging technologies and excels in engaging with stakeholders, including C-level executives, to align technology with business goals.

Beyond his professional role, Bala shares his expertise through technology blogs and speaks at industry forums. He is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges and shape the future of digital innovation.

Ben Young serves as field chief technology officer for the APJ region at Veeam. He has over a decade of experience in the computing industry and is recognized internationally for his expertise. Ben specializes in leveraging application programming interfaces and AI to automate complex processes and seamlessly integrate diverse technologies. A passionate advocate for innovation, he shares his insights through writing and speaking, always focused on pushing the boundaries of what is possible and championing impactful solutions.

Hlaing Than is the Head of Visier AI Labs in Singapore. He is passionate about solving the problem of how companies leverage AI to predict server loads but miss team meltdowns. Hlaing is dedicated to helping companies understand and optimize the human dynamics that underpin their technology, with a particular focus on creating resilient, productive, and innovative tech teams.

Will Hiebert serves as a regional vice president at Glean. He is a seasoned leader with 15+ years of experience in driving growth across the APAC region and around the world. In his current role at Glean, he leads the expansion of the company’s AI-powered work assistant across ANZ, SEA, and Japan, contributing to significant business growth. He previously held senior roles at Zscaler, UKG, Confirmit (now Forsta), and Vision Critical, consistently exceeding sales goals and excelling at building high-performing teams.

Sameer Shakur Mulani serves as Omnissa’s director of solution engineering for Southeast Asia and Korea. He has more than 23 years of experience in the IT industry, with a particular focus on the end-user computing and datacenter space. He is proficient in roles like presales, solution architecture, and program management, and has a complete end-to-end view of the IT solution space having worked with an end customer organization, an IT service provider, and a technology/product company. His expertise lies in using emerging technologies to help customers drive business transformation.

Daniel-Zoe Jimenez is Associate Vice President for IDC’s Asia/Pacific region, based in Singapore. He leads the regional Digital Transformation (DX), Future Enterprise and SMB research practices.

Daniel provides strategic advisory services to the C-Suite (CIOs, CDOs, CMOs, CHROs and CFOs) on how to develop and leverage new business, technology (e.g. AI and Analytics, Cloud, Mobility, IoT) and operating models to become more competitive. He delivers workshops and strategic engagements for customers across Asia/Pacific such as assessing maturity, identifying gaps, crafting strategies and technology roadmaps, determining ecosystem readiness, metrics (KPIs), and skills required to drive growth and profitability.

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

Earlier in IDC, Daniel was the co-lead for the Big Data/Analytics research practice. Today, he also has a leading role in the Asia/Pacific customer experience (CX), marketing, commerce and broader enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, HCM and CRM) research.

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

Daniel has more than 20 years of international experience with large organizations worldwide, from consulting to ICT and market research. Prior to joining IDC, Daniel worked for four years with Fujitsu Services handling presales and marketing roles. He also held a global role with Accenture for almost four years in the marketing and presales groups within the Financial Services Group. At Datamonitor’s London office, Daniel held the positions of research manager and business analyst, covering the internet, telco and mobility markets.

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

An Ping is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with nearly two decades of experience helping organizations strengthen their security posture. As Fortinet’s Solution Lead for Security Operations in Singapore, he works closely with customers to implement solutions tailored to their needs. He has led blue team deployments across government, large enterprises, and financial institutions, providing strategic guidance to safeguard critical assets and focusing on building resilient, effective cybersecurity strategies. Beyond technical implementation, An Ping has taken on leadership and coaching roles, helping teams enhance their cyber resilience. His deep industry knowledge makes him a trusted partner in cybersecurity.

Shan Moorthy, Workday’s APAC Chief Technology Offier, spearheads digital transformation. He’s a proven IT leader, having served as CTO and CDO, successfully replacing legacy systems with cloud platforms across ANZ and APAC’s media, retail, banking, and telecommunications sectors. Based in Melbourne, he blends deep technical knowledge in software, data, and AI with strong business strategy and commercial insight.

Based in Singapore, Mohan Veloo is the Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Asia-Pacific, China, and Japan (APCJ). He is tasked with setting F5’s technology vision for the region as the company continues to revolutionize application security within modern infrastructure landscapes. With over two decades of experience in the information technology scene, Mohan is a seasoned senior executive with a strong passion for applications and what it takes to connect, secure, and run them.

Mohan has held senior leadership roles in solutions engineering across several leading technology providers. He brings deep experience in application, networking and security technologies and architectures. Prior to his current role, he was the Vice President of Solutions Consulting at cloud security provider Zscaler. He also previously had more than a decade-long tenure at F5, first as Vice President of Solutions Engineering for APCJ, then as Vice President of Global Solutions Engineering. Mohan also spent over a decade at Oracle, most recently as Head of Sales Consulting for Asia Pacific and Japan.

Mohan holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Business from Indiana University Bloomington in the United States.

In his free time, Mohan volunteers often and has been a member of Sree Narayana Mission’s Digital Transformation Sub-Committee since 2020.

Himanshu Kathpal is the VP of Product Management, Platform and Technologies at Qualys. With over 14 years of experience in cybersecurity and product management, he specializes in vulnerability management, remediation, and next-generation endpoint security. Himanshu is passionate about developing security solutions that align with Qualys’ cybersecurity product strategy to enhance customer security, reduce attack surfaces, and strengthen organizational security posture. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from D.Y. Patil University, Pune, and an MBA in International Business Management from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Gibu Mathew is vice president and GM, Asia Pacific, for Zoho Corp. He has been working with Zoho for over 20 years, leading product management, marketing and architecting software products for many of the company’s cloud and on-premise solutions. By overseeing to a go-to-market strategy that prioritizes product localization, Mathew currently focuses on ensuring product success across the APAC market, with a special focus on non-English markets.

Gadi Sinai is Checkmarx’s regional director for Asia/Pacific and Japan. He brings a wealth of leadership experience from the fintech, cybersecurity, and telecommunications sectors. With two decades of expertise in software companies, Gadi has a strong track record of delivering results.

Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised, British-born contemporary artist and cyborg activist best known for having an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as a cyborg by a government. The antenna allows him to perceive visible and invisible colors via audible vibrations in his skull, including infrareds and ultraviolets, as well as receive colors from space, images, videos, music, or phone calls directly into his head via an internet connection. Harbisson identifies as a cyborg and feels that he is technology. His artwork explores identity, human perception, the connection between sight and sound, and the use of artistic expression via new sensory inputs. In 2010, he co¬-founded the Cyborg Foundation with Moon Ribas, an international organization that helps humans become cyborgs and promotes cyborg art.

Franco Chiam has more than 20 years extensive experience leading complex, large-scale digital transformation (DX) ventures and other IT projects in a multidisciplinary multinational corporation (MNC) environment, with virtual teams across the globe. With a strong technical and engineering expertise, he prides himself as a technology leader interfacing with stakeholders across all levels of an organization, leveraging agile practices and advanced technologies including DevOps, cloud, opensource, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) in various key projects.

Specializing in DX involving workspace and infrastructure with a strong focus on strategic planning, he has proven capabilities in analyzing inefficiency and implementing profitability solutions. He has helped to steer and support company strategic direction in achieving a consolidation of IT services across Asia/Pacific in 2006 to establish a foundation infrastructure setup of “shared services center.”

Over the years, he has gained expertise in business and technology strategy, project and program management, IT service and operations, outsourcing and vendor management, stakeholder management, and talent acquisition and development. He believes a technology leader is not just about pushing technology to the fore, but also appreciating the science of 1’s and 0’s of technology and the art of leadership to combine them with the business acumen to lead changes within the organization.

Harminder Singh is a technology strategist specializing in IT cost optimization, compliance, risk management, and governance. As Regional Team Lead at Crayon, he drives multi-million-dollar cloud and software cost strategies, ensuring financial efficiency and resilience for enterprises across APAC.
With leadership experience at EY and Deloitte, he has led high-impact advisory engagements, helping organizations enhance IT governance, mitigate risks, and adopt sustainable tech investments. An IAITAM and FinOps Certified Practitioner, he supports clients in negotiating enterprise agreements, optimizing software licensing, and reducing IT spend through strategic vendor engagements.
Harminder collaborates with CXOs and industry leaders to align technology strategy with financial accountability and long-term value creation.

Giorgio Scappaticcio is the Regional Director for Asia at Flexera, a leading provider of ITAM and FinOps technology. He has 10+ years of experience in the IT industry, having worked in various leadership roles across the Asia Pacific region. Giorgio specializes in building and managing high- performance sales teams and driving revenue growth for software and technology companies. Giorgio holds a degree in Marketing and Communications Science from the LUMSA University, Italy.

Nuno Pereira embarked on a career journey that spans both technology and business. With a Computer Science degree and an EMBA under his belt, he has dedicated his career to embracing cutting-edge solutions for enterprise businesses. Passionate about innovative products, from low-code development to sales gamification, he’s had the privilege of working with industry giants like Salesforce and Zendesk. At LogicMonitor, he is committed to delivering the best experience to customers who require an innovative and robust platform for monitoring Hybrid IT infrastructure within their organisations.

Tony Kang has over 20 years of experience in the business industry and possesses very strong and effective leadership skills, which led him to become the Business Vice President for the Singapore & Brunei cluster in the Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric. In this role, he is responsible for the P&L of Singapore & Brunei in the Secure Power Division covering Data Center and IT business.

His broad expertise in business development has significantly contributed to East Asia’s double-digit sales growth in commercial and industrial segments over the last two years, achieved through pursuing DC and IT infrastructure sales opportunities via Electrical channels to increase market share.

Prior to joining Schneider Electric, he gained experience at Hewlett-Packard as the APAC Regional Enterprise Sales Leader and at LG Electronics Inc. as the Europe Business Development Manager, focusing on marketing/sales programs, strategic planning, market analysis, and business development.

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.

Frankie is an award-winning Technology Executive & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with over two decades leadership experience in the financial & IT Industry. He is heading APAC regional information security in one of global largest asset managers in the financial industry. Prior to this, he headed cyber & technology risk at UBS (world largest private bank) covering Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked in Citibank, Microsoft and HP before. He has been featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as 2024 “Global CISO 100” award winner and featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition).

He is a frequent speaker about cybersecurity & emerging technology in the industry leading forums organized by IDC/IDG, Reuters, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Asia Risk, Economic Times (ET), etc. In 2024, he has also been invited by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to deliver speech in their 25th annual tech festival in Chennai India and also been invited by Central Bank of Indonesia to deliver the speech in their summit in Jakarta Indonesia.

He is also a digital transformation and innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as the sole inventor and his patent has been cited by other tech companies including Intel and Ericsson.

Except above awards, he also received other leadership awards including Global Top 100 leaders in Information Security, Top Global CISOs, World CIO 200, IDG’s CSO30 & CIO 100 ASEAN, Asia 200 Digital Leaders, Economic Times CIO SEA’s Transformative CIOs, etc.

Tan Shui-Min has held the position of CITO at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2020. She first joined NUS in 2016 as director of applications, overseeing the creation, delivery, and support of applications from all business domains, including education, research, and administration. As CITO, she plays a vital role in strategic planning, guiding daily operations and implementing campus-wide IT policies. Tan has transformed the IT team to adopt Agile methodology, strengthened the enterprise architecture, and developed a next-gen infrastructure to achieve evolutionary development and dexterity. She believes in and has been instrumental in the innovative deployment of cutting-edge technology to enable the business and advance the university’s foray into the digital future!

Jackson Ng is the chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Azimut Investment Management. He is also an award-winning C-suite executive recognized by IDG’s 2024 CIO100 and CSO30 Awards. As chief operating officer, he leads strategic business initiatives, drives digital innovation, enhances Azimut’s brand value, and oversees all aspects of business operations. Concurrently, as chief technology officer, he leads the company’s fintech, AI, digital transformation, and cybersecurity strategies. He also steers global and regional technology projects and initiatives.

Tomasz Kurczyk is the Chief Information Technology Officer at Prudential Singapore and the Head of the Prudential Group AI Lab. In this role, Tomasz oversees the company’s technology, data, and AI functions, driving digital and AI capabilities to accelerate business growth and transformation. Tomasz began his career as a serial entrepreneur, followed by professional and leadership experience across multiple industries and over 20 countries. He has built and grown large-scale businesses, products, teams, and digital platforms, including over a decade in the insurance industry.
Before joining Prudential, Tomasz served as the Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at AXA in Singapore.
In addition to his corporate roles, Tomasz is an active advisor to startups and an angel investor, contributing significantly to the development of the Singapore FinTech ecosystem.
A Polish national, Tomasz holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and an MSc in Computer Systems from Politecnico di Milano.

Chris has been serving in the Public Service for about 30 years. He currently serves as CIO of A*STAR and is responsible for IT, digitalisation and cybersecurity in the organisation that is home to some 30 research institutes and national platforms performing research and technology translation, in disciplines ranging from genomics, cellular biology and drug discovery at one end of the spectrum, to high performance computing, robotics and advanced manufacturing to the other. Earlier in his career Chris had served as the Assistant CIO of MINDEF, CIO of DSTA, CIO of the Ministry of Communications & Information (MCI) and CIO of IDA.

Suhada is an IT strategist with more than 17 years of experience working in technology space while learning other things in life to the extent that he believes digital transformation is not just about technology, it is about people and culture.

He holds MBA in Strategic Management supported with various industry certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), Agile and Scrum, and several technical industry certifications.

He is currently engaged with Blue Bird, one of the largest land transportation companies in Indonesia – widely known with their taxi – helping them with their digital transformation as Vice President of Information Technology. Before joining Blue Bird, he spent 8 years working with one of the global leaders in ICT in their APAC hub in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

Tam Trinh serves as chief data and analytics officer at Nikel, a financial technology firm specializing in risk management solutions for banks and fintechs in emerging markets. With nearly 20 years of experience in financial services, she has deep expertise in risk modeling, data analytics, and digital transformation. She is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Department of Analytics and Operations at the NUS Business School. Throughout her career, Tam has held key leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank, DBS, Moody’s Analytics, and Oliver Wyman, where she spearheaded initiatives in risk product development, risk modeling, and financial technology innovation. Her work focuses on leveraging AI/ML-driven analytics to enhance credit risk assessment, fraud detection, and financial inclusion, particularly in markets with evolving digital infrastructure. In recognition of her contributions to data and analytics, Tam was awarded the CIO100 ASEAN Award in 2024.

Jawwad Zaki has worked with different service providers and suppliers across Asian telecom markets for over two decades. He has looked after roles involving planning, operations, optimization, project management, digital transformation and strategy execution. He is currently based in Singapore, working with Telenor as an IT Director in Group Technology. In his most recent roles Jawwad has led cross-business unit portfolio & performance management for IT and has participated in transformation & digitalization initiatives for Asian OpCos. He is currently also part of Telenor’s AI First programme.

Sonny is a seasoned professional and has led Pricing and Data Analytics projects/transformations in Asia, Europe and North America. Sonny returned to Indonesia in July 2019 after spending 20 years living and working in the UK. His current responsibility at Maybank Indonesia is to lead and manage a team of data scientists, market researchers, pricing specialists, and Data Governance, developing a relatively new Division to convert data into meaningful and actionable insights for the Bank to better serve its customers.

John Ang is the Chief Technology Officer and Data Protection Officer at EtonHouse International Education Group. Since July 2021, he has driven the adoption of innovative technologies, enhanced cybersecurity, and implemented digital transformation initiatives like Project Lumina AI. In addition to his role, John is invited to speak at various events and write columns in his free time, sharing insights on technology and education.

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