Mr Ong Ye Kung

Minister for Health and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies

Sam Liew

Chief Executive Officer

NCS

Edward Chen

Chief AI Officer

NCS

Kwok Quek Sin

Group Chief Business Technology Officer

IHH Healthcare

Lynn Fong

Senior Director & Registrar

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

James Kwok

Director, Transport Technology

Land Transport Authority

Ang Chee Wee

Assistant Chief Executive (Digital & Enterprise) & Chief AI Officer

Home Team Science & Technology Agency

Dr. Giuseppe Manai

Partner, Open Innovation, AI Central

NCS

Dr. Sunil Sivadas

Principal AI Architect, AI Safety, AI Factory

NCS

Ivan Tung

Pragnition Labs

NCS

Joey Tang

Pragnition Labs

NCS

Lim Swee Say

Chairman

NCS Board

Dr. Hong Tang

Vice President, Director of CTO Office

Alibaba Cloud

Abel Deng

President, Middle East & Asia-Pacific Region

AGIBOT

Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

Director/Technologist, Solution Architecture and Engineering, APAC

NVIDIA

Shun Utsui

Partner AI Deployment Strategist

Mistral AI

JJ Geewax

Director, Applied AI

Google DeepMind

Corvin Deboeser

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, APAC

OpenAI

Ethan Wei

Global Business Lead Solution Architect

MiniMax

John Mao

Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Global Business Development

VAST Data

Gabriel Lok

Practice Lead, AI Engineering & AgentOps

NCS

Mr Ong Ye Kung

Minister for Health and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies

Ong Ye Kung is the Minister for Health and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies. He was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in September 2015 and was re-elected in July 2020 and May 2025.

He had held the positions of Minister for Transport, Minister for Education, Second Minister for Defence and board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is also the Chairman of the Chinese Development Assistance Council.

Prior to joining politics, he held various positions in Government, including Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency, and Deputy Chief Negotiator for the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. He served several years in the Labour Movement, as the Deputy Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress, and spent some time in the private sector, as the Director of Group Strategy at Keppel Corporation.

Mr Ong graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and the Institute of Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland. He is married with two children.

Sam Liew

Chief Executive Officer, NCS

As CEO, Sam leads NCS as an AI-led Technology Services company focused on AI platforms and products, embedding AI into how the organisation designs, builds, and operates systems.

Under his leadership, NCS is scaling enterprise-grade AI capabilities across industries while maintaining reliability and governance for mission-critical systems.

Sam previously served as Chief Executive, Government Strategic Business Group (Gov+), leading NCS’ digital government portfolio across Asia Pacific.

Before joining NCS, Sam was Managing Director at GIC Technology Group and earlier held senior leadership roles at Accenture ASEAN Technology.

Edward Chen

Chief AI Officer, NCS

As NCS' first Chief AI Officer, Edward leads the organisation’s AI transformation, building AI platforms and products and ensuring their safe, secure, and responsible deployment at scale.

Edward brings over 26 years of public sector experience across cyber operations, digital transformation, and national security. Prior to NCS, he served as Deputy Chief Executive (National Cyber Resilience) at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), where he led national cyber defence operations and oversaw the cybersecurity of Singapore’s Critical Information Infrastructure.

Edward holds engineering and management degrees from Cornell University, Stanford University, and the Australian National University. He is GIAC-certified in malware reverse engineering, cloud security, and incident handling.

Kwok Quek Sin

Group Chief Business Technology Officer, IHH Healthcare

Kwok Quek Sin (QS) is the Group Chief Business Technology Officer at IHH Healthcare, a leading multinational healthcare provider.

He leads the organisation’s enterprise-wide AI and data strategy, driving the adoption of intelligent technologies and digital capabilities across IHH’s hospitals and markets worldwide. His work focuses on building scalable platforms, strengthening data foundations, and enabling clinicians and operators to deliver better care through actionable insights and AI-powered solutions.

Before joining IHH, QS held senior leadership roles across the public sector, healthcare, and global consulting companies. At GovTech Singapore, he led Singapore's National Digital Identity programme including Singpass, MyInfo, CorpPass and SGFinDex, serving millions of users. At the Monetary Authority of Singapore, he led innovation efforts to advance the use of digital and sustainability technologies in financial services. He also served as Chief Digital Officer at Raffles Medical Group and as Managing Director at Accenture, shaping digital transformation programmes across industries.

QS holds a Bachelor of Science in Information System and Computer Science from the National University Singapore and has completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Lynn Fong

Senior Director & Registrar, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Lynn Fong is Senior Director and Registrar at Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP). She is, concurrently, the Director of the Centre for Learning & Teaching Excellence (CLTE), giving her strategic oversight across academic policy, planning, and the evolution of teaching and learning at the polytechnic.

An educator for over 20 years, Lynn has made the responsible integration of artificial intelligence into teaching and learning a central focus of her work. Through CLTE, she spearheads NP's education technology agenda and drives institution-wide initiatives to evolve pedagogy, build faculty capability, and reimagine the student learning experience in an AI-enabled era.

Lynn previously served as Director of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, providing strategic leadership across six full-time and three part-time diplomas serving over 2,000 students. A long-time advocate of experiential and collaborative learning, she also championed the early adoption of technology in teaching, including online learning.

She holds a Master of Arts in Instructional Design & Technology from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, and a Master of Arts from the University of Reading.

James Kwok

Director, Transport Technology, Land Transport Authority

Ang Chee Wee

Assistant Chief Executive (Digital & Enterprise) & Chief AI Officer, Home Team Science & Technology Agency

Dr. Giuseppe Manai

Partner, Open Innovation, AI Central, NCS

Giuseppe is a Partner at NCS and he leads innovation strategy and delivery, helping clients harness AI, GenAI, Computer Vision, Robotics and IoT to build end-to-end AI-led digital solutions that translate advanced technology into measurable business value.

With more than 25 years of experience in Data Science across academia, government, and industry, Giuseppe brings deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence such as GenAI, machine learning, optimisation, network analytics, and big data technologies. He has driven large-scale data strategies across supply chain optimisation, mobility intelligence, telco analytics, and credit risk modelling – turning complex science into scalable business assets.

Before joining NCS, Giuseppe held senior leadership and consulting roles at Accenture and Singtel, where he built and scaled data and AI products, led multi-country teams, and delivered multimillion-dollar transformation initiatives across multiple sectors.

Giuseppe’s career has included co-founding a fintech startup and investing in early-stage technology ventures across Southeast Asia, blending hands-on product building with commercial judgement.

Giuseppe earned a PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin, with research in low-temperature phenomena and nanotechnology, and holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry.

Dr. Sunil Sivadas

Principal AI Architect, AI Safety, AI Factory, NCS

Dr. Sunil Sivadas is Principal AI Architect for AI Safety within NCS' AI Factory, where he focuses on building trustworthy, secure, and responsible AI systems for enterprise and public sector applications.

With deep expertise spanning artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI governance, he works closely with organisations to operationalise AI safely at scale while ensuring alignment with emerging standards and best practices.

Ivan Tung

Pragnition Labs, NCS

Joey Tang

Pragnition Labs, NCS

Joey Tang is Head of Agents at Pragnition Labs, where he works on building agentic AI systems that help organisations automate complex workflows and turn institutional knowledge into actionable systems.

His work spans AI agents, cybersecurity, software engineering, and applied machine learning, with a focus on making advanced technical capabilities practical for real-world use.

He previously led cybersecurity training and competition initiatives at Hwa Chong Institution, and will be studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this fall.

Lim Swee Say

Chairman, NCS Board

Mr Lim Swee Say is a Trustee and Adviser of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the Chairman of NTUC LearningHub Pte. Ltd., and a Director of Singtel and NTUC Enterprise Co-operative Limited. He is also a Director of Ho Bee Land Limited and Temasek Foundation Ltd.

Swee Say joined the public sector in 1976. He held leadership positions in Singapore’s National Computer Board and Economic Development Board.

He joined the Labour Movement in 1996 and entered politics in 1997. He served in various ministries between 1999 and 2018. He also served as the Secretary-General of NTUC from 2007 to 2015 and Minister for Manpower from 2015 to 2018.

He retired from politics as a Member of Parliament in 2020.

Dr. Hong Tang

Vice President, Director of CTO Office, Alibaba Cloud

Dr. Hong Tang is Vice President and Director of the CTO Office at Alibaba Cloud. He first joined Alibaba Cloud in 2010, leading the core engineering team behind Apsara, the cloud operating system and software stack powering Alibaba Cloud. After returning in 2023 as International CTO and Chief Architect at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, he has driven cloud innovation for global markets. Previously, he held engineering leadership roles at Ask.com and Yahoo, where he led the development of search infrastructure and Hadoop R&D.

Abel Deng

President, Middle East & Asia-Pacific Region, AGIBOT

Abel Deng is President of the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region at AGIBOT, with decades of international management experience and a strong vision for digitalisation.

Before joining AGIBOT, he spent many years in Southeast Asia’s technology sector, supporting the region’s digital transformation. As former CEO of Huawei Thailand, he drove the adoption of cloud and 5G technologies across industries.

Abel is committed to advancing intelligent connectivity and shaping a smarter future for the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

Director/Technologist, Solution Architecture and Engineering, APAC, NVIDIA

Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah, Director at NVIDIA APAC Region, works with innovators, researchers and techno-entrepreneurs to accelerate AI and GPU adoption for their translational R&D and software solutioning needs.

He has direct experience and is passionate about accelerated computing, embedded software, autonomous systems, machine learning, deep learning, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solution design and development, covering end-to-end needs across various industry verticals.

Shun Utsui

Partner AI Deployment Strategist, Mistral AI

Shun is a Partner AI Deployment Strategist at Mistral AI, based in Singapore. In this role, he works with Mistral's partner ecosystem across Asia Pacific to bring frontier open-weight AI models into production for enterprise and sovereign customers.

Prior to Mistral, he was a Senior Industry Solutions Architect at AWS, where he advised customers across Asia Pacific & Japan on AI infrastructure, GPU clusters, distributed training, and sovereign AI.

JJ Geewax

Director, Applied AI, Google DeepMind

JJ Geewax is the Director, Applied AI at Google DeepMind, where he focuses on taking advanced language models out of the lab and building them into production-grade tools. Before DeepMind, he spent over 15 years architecting large-scale systems across Google and Meta, tackling everything from WhatsApp infrastructure, ads optimisation, payments infrastructure, and API design. He is also the author of API Design Patterns and Google Cloud Platform in Action.

Corvin Deboeser

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, APAC, OpenAI

Corvin Deboeser leads Forward Deployed Engineering for Asia-Pacific at OpenAI, working with organisations across the region to turn frontier AI capabilities into production systems that deliver real-world impact.

Previously, he led engineering teams at BCG X. His background spans data science, software engineering, and AI, with experience across industries including healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, logistics, and many others.

Ethan Wei

Global Business Lead Solution Architect, MiniMax

Ethan Wei is the Global Business Lead Solution Architect at MiniMax Open Platform, where he leads end-to-end technical architecture for large scale AI deployments and helps organisations translate frontier AI capabilities into real world applications.

Since joining MiniMax in 2024, he has successfully delivered multiple large model projects and enabled leading AI native applications across global markets. Prior to MiniMax, he led cloud and AI initiatives at Alibaba Cloud International and ByteDance, bringing extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and AI adoption across diverse business scenarios.

John Mao

Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Global Business Development, VAST Data

John Mao is a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience across early- and growth-stage companies.

He currently serves as Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Global Business Development at VAST Data, where he focuses on enabling AI, data analytics, and cloud use cases for large-scale data organisations.

Prior to VAST, John led product management and strategy across cloud infrastructure, analytics, networking, custom silicon, storage, and hyperconverged systems.

He began his career as a database engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas.

Gabriel Lok

Practice Lead, AI Engineering & AgentOps, NCS

Gabriel Lok is the Practice Lead for ACE – AI Engineering and AgentOps at NCS, leading over 1,000 software engineers and testers in driving AI-led delivery transformation.

He is also the Product Owner of Sunshine.Coder, NCS’s AI-powered coding tool widely adopted across delivery teams. In addition, he oversees delivery for more than 20 healthcare projects across implementation and application maintenance.

Gabriel believes true transformation comes not from tools, but from changing daily habits to make AI-driven delivery the new baseline.