Agenda

Dr. Vivian BalakrishnanMinister for Foreign Affairs and Minister-in-Charge of the Smart Nation Initiative, Republic of Singapore

Dr. Balakrishnan has been a Member of Parliament since 2001 and previously held appointments as the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Minister responsible for Entrepreneurship, Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, and Minister of State for National Development.

Mr. Yeming WangBusiness President of Alibaba Cloud International

Since joining Alibaba Cloud in 2016, Yeming oversees the global business of the company in Europe and the Middle East. Wang has nearly two decades of experience in the tech industry. Before joining Alibaba, he served in various senior management roles at Huawei.

Dr. Wanli MinChief Machine Intelligence Scientist, Alibaba Cloud

Dr. Wanli Min has been leading Alibaba Cloud’s efforts on Big data and AI for Industry and developed ET Brain series in City and Industries. He is appointed by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology to the National Strategic Advisory Committee on next generation of AI. He is also recognised by Forbes among leading figures of AI in China. Prior to Alibaba, he had worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Singapore and Google as researcher and business innovation leader. Dr. Wanli Min received Ph.D in Statistics from The University of Chicago.

Mr. Alex TanGroup Chief Information Officer & Group Chief Digital Officer, Singapore Post

Mr. Tan is responsible for SingPost’s technology and digitalization strategy, implementing all technology-related transformation programs, driving new digital-enabled business models and it's implementation across the Group. Mr. Tan has over 20 years of experience in leading IT transformation and innovation in the logistics, financial and telecoms industries across Asia Pacific.

Dane AndersonVice President, Research Director, Forrester

Dane leads Forrester’s Asia Pacific team that helps business and technology leaders develop customer-obsessed strategies that drive growth. He provides strategic guidance and advice to Forrester’s clients in the areas of digital business transformation, customer experience, and Forrester’s customer-obsessed operating model.

Dr. Denis BauerLead Researcher, Cloud Computing in Bioinformatics, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Dr. Bauer has a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the University of Queensland and held post-doctoral appointments in biological machine learning at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences. Her machine learning solutions for processing genomic and genome engineering big data efficiently have been featured in numerous publications worldwide.

Farisul Faris Ahmad ZahariHead of e-Channel & Digital, Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd

Farisul Faris is the Head of e-Channel & Digital IT in Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad, a full fledge Islamic Bank in Malaysia. Faris has been in the financial industry for more than 10 years and well-versed in both top-down strategic approaches and in the innovation needed to compete in a global change of financial technology.

David TandianusMarketing Director, PT. IndoInternet (Indonet)

David Tandianus is currently the marketing director of PT. IndoInternet (Indonet), a leading IT services provider company in Indonesia, and the main distributor of Alibaba Cloud.

David has been in the IT industry for 22 years and held various C-level positions including director at PT. TelkomSigma [Telkom Indonesia subsidiary for IT related services]. As a product development manager, he was involved in providing application solutions for the financial industry, data center and outsourcing modeling and orchestrating the launch of the first SaaS Core Banking solution for Rural Bank in Indonesia. In Indonet, he initiated cloud services and started cooperation with Alibaba Cloud in early 2018.

Dr. Alex LiGeneral Manager of Asia Pacific, Alibaba Cloud International

Before joining Alibaba Cloud, Alex had 19 years of experience working in the IT and Internet industries, including 14 years in Lenovo Group and 2 years in a smart device startup business. Li holds a Ph.D in management from Harbin Institute of Technology.

Terence LeeManaging Editor, TechinAsia

Terence is the chief editor of Tech in Asia, a media, events, and jobs platform on a mission to build and serve Asia’s tech and startup community. He oversees editorial strategy, growth, and user-generated content.

Chun LiGroup President, Lazada

Chun Li is a veteran internet executive with over 20 years of experience working for leading global tech giants. Currently, as Co-President of Lazada Group, Li Chun oversees consumer business, product strategy, and technology platform.

Hang JiaCEO, International E-Commerce Payment, Ant Financial

Jia leads a team that serves Alibaba’s cross-border and overseas e-commerce platforms, such as AliExpress, Tmall, Lazada, and Daraz, in the payment-related fields. He previously led the overseas strategic partnership team at Ant Financial, where he empowered those important partners, like Paytm, with Ant’s vision, experiences, know-how, products and technologies.

Sayed PeerzadeGroup CIO, Reliance Entertainment

Sayed is one of the top CIO of the country and very well known as innovative CIO is ICT Industry, a passion for developing path breaking architecture to his business. He contributed immensely to his business and ICT industry by bringing in new technologies which are getting widely used across now. He is pioneer of cloud technology deals in India and known as cloud expert across domains in CIO circles.

Raymond MaGeneral Manager, ASEAN, ANZ, Alibaba Cloud International

Raymond Ma leads Alibaba Cloud business in ANEAN and ANZ, providing cloud and big data services to startups, SME, corporation and government. Before that, he led Alibaba Cloud business in China public sector.

Dr. Derek WangChief Cloud Architect of Alibaba Cloud International

Derek Wang is the chief cloud architect of Alibaba Cloud International, a role where he oversees the development of enterprise solutions that cater to each customer's needs.

Alex HuangFinance Solution Architect, Alibaba Cloud International

As a staff solution architect of Financial Services at Alibaba Cloud, Alex Huang is responsible for leading the financial solution team and execution of Alibaba Cloud's global financial services strategy. His responsibilities include the prioritization of industry solutions and their alignment with Alibaba Cloud's partners’ ecosystems and digital platforms.

Philip LawDirector, Financial Services Advisory, KPMG

Philip is a consultant with enterprise architecture and IT transformation experience migrating banks from legacy platforms to the latest technologies. He has delivered projects globally for corporate, wealth management, prime brokerage, credit risk, asset management and equities for over 20 years. Philip identifies the underlying problem before innovating the best solution to fit the strategy.

Hang JiaCEO, International E-Commerce Payment, Ant Financial

Jia leads a team that serves Alibaba’s cross-border and overseas e-commerce platforms, such as AliExpress, Tmall, Lazada, and Daraz, in the payment-related fields. He previously led the overseas strategic partnership team at Ant Financial, where he empowered those important partners, like Paytm, with Ant’s vision, experiences, know-how, products and technologies.

Wayne XuCOO, ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance

Wayne is responsible for overseeing products and international business at the ZhongAn Technologies International Group. Wayne brings in-depth expertise in strategy and operations and strives to implement a culture of innovation to bring forth ideas of internet product development and to develop international business for ZhongAn. Prior to joining ZhongAn, Wayne worked as founding member of Google China product management team.

Leon ChenGeneral Manager, Singapore and Indonesia, Alibaba Cloud International

Leon is the Country Manager of Singapore and Indonesia to lead the local team to build the region business. Prior to joining Alibaba Cloud, Leon was responsible for the commerce business at IBM Singapore and IBM Taiwan. In this role, Leon spent considerable amount of time to develop business and the channels ecosystems, including sales initiative and go-to-market strategies.

Kan YangSolution Architect, Alibaba Cloud International

Kan Yang is a data intelligence professional with 10 years of experience in driving value of data in businesses. He is currently a solution architect at Alibaba Cloud, helping clients identify data intelligence opportunities, providing data intelligence consulting services and managing projects.

Hai XiePresident of Jwell, PanKong Group

Dr. Xie is professional at introducing internet thinking and new technology into traditional enterprise with a innovative business model. He is also an industry expert practitioner in emerging industries such as e-commerce, logistics, and Industrial Internet. He has built a leading commodity chain service platform and industrial internet platform in China.

Raju ChellamFusionex

Raju Chellam is Vice President of New Technologies for Fusionex International, an established, multi-award winning IT software group that specializes in Analytics & Big Data. Raju has been in the ICT industry for the last 37 years. He joined Fusionex in May 2017. He was previously Head of Big Data & Cloud Practice – as well as Healthcare & Government segments – for Dell South Asia region (includes Asean, Indo-China & South Asian countries except India).

Peter PetrovskiProduct Manager, The Iconic

Peter Petrovski is a product manager and an entrepreneur. At The Iconic, he collaborates and leads the product strategy and creates new retail experiences using machine learning. Petrovski works towards removing barriers to online shopping, helping customers easily find products that match their style and budget.

Manson MaData Scientist, Openrice.com

Ma works at Openrice Limited as data scientist and business development team lead. He has developed various products from recommender and boosting system to mobile merchant platforms. Ma has over 10 years of experience in IT and data analysis in the finance and new media industries and his research interests are statistical learning and data mining.

Adam LiuDirector of International Markets, Alibaba Cloud IoT

Adam is responsible for Alibaba Cloud’s IoT overseas expansion and ecosystem building. Adam spent his career between Canada and China, serving in various roles in marketing, sales as well as ecosystem building in the IoT industry. Prior to joining Alibaba Cloud, Adam worked at Thingworx and Blackberry.

Lijun ZhuSenior Algorithm Expert, Cainiao

Dr. Lijun Zhu is a senior expert and director in the artificial intelligence department at Cainiao. Since joining Alibaba Group in 2014, he focuses on utilizing optimization and machine learning techniques to build a smart logistics network at Cainiao.

Eric KongVice President, Vodafone Global Enterprise

Eric is responsible for strategic alliance and digital inside sales in Asia Pacific. He defines the strategy and operational execution for Vodafone Global Enterprise relationships with key ecosystem partners across consulting firms, system integrators and technology providers. Part of his portfolio includes leading a digital inside sales transformation initiative to enhance sales effectiveness and coverage in Asia Pacific.

Derek WangChief Cloud Architect, Alibaba Cloud International

Derek Wang is the chief cloud architect of Alibaba Cloud International, a role where he oversees the development of enterprise solutions that cater to each customer's needs. Before joining Alibaba Cloud, Derek worked at Oracle as the enterprise architect of cloud computing and big data solution. Derek holds his Ph.D. in computer science.

Hisham MuhammadDirector for Global Solutions Enablement, Equinix

Muhammad leads a team of senior technology advisors that are responsible for driving strategic technology consulting engagements with global IT, technology and business portfolio leaders in government, multi-national corporations and service providers organizations. The primary objective is to enable platform-based capabilities and as-a-service technology portfolios to meet their broader digital transformation objectives.

Ivan HoDirector, KPMG Digital Consulting

Ivan Ho leads the practice for Digital Advisory, Digital Strategy and Operating Model, Enterprise Architecture as a Director in KPMG Digital Consulting. Ivan also advises Enterprise clients in their Cloud journey and assists in developing digital enablement capabilities for emerging technologies such as blockchain, augmented & virtual reality, IoT, robotics process automation, AI, and Machine Learning.

Eric KongVice President, Vodafone Global Enterprise

Eric is responsible for strategic alliance and digital inside sales in Asia Pacific. He defines the strategy and operational execution for Vodafone Global Enterprise relationships with key ecosystem partners across consulting firms, system integrators and technology providers. Part of his portfolio includes leading a digital inside sales transformation initiative to enhance sales effectiveness and coverage in Asia Pacific.

Rakshit DagaVP of Engineering, Big Basket

Rakshit heads engineering and technology for BigBasket. He has close to 20 years of experience leading teams as well as building and inventing technology for both consumer and enterprise software companies in Silicon Valley and India. Over the course of his career he has worked with large organizations such as SAP Labs as well as startups of various sizes.

Kingson Jebaraj Solutions Architect, YVOLV LLC

Kingson is an ACP certified professional and first one in UAE region to receive Alibaba Cloud Global MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for his exceptional community contributions and to support with Alibaba future roadmaps. He has a varied breadth and depth of experience across many industry verticals & technologies with various roles like engineer, lead, solutions architect.

Jason WuSenior Director of Storage Infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud

Jason Wu is a senior director at Alibaba Cloud leading the development of storage infrastructure, cloud storage services, and server-less computing services. He was a principal development manager at Azure storage from 2008 to 2014 and a senior development manager at Ask.com from 2004 to 2008.

Eu Min YewAssistant Vice President, PCCW Global

Eu Min holds more than 17 years of experience in international telecommunications. He leads a team that provides support for wholesale and enterprise data solutions that cover traditional WAN, public Internet, data centre, security, unified communications and cloud services. Eu Min’s responsibilities also include negotiating and procurement with partners.

Jin MaGeneral Manager, Dedicated Cloud & Enterprise Services, Alibaba Cloud

Jin Ma directs the Apsara Stack Team in product development and marketing, and leads the Business Services Team in building innovative solutions to provide enterprise customers with high-quality, reliable, and manageable cloud platforms and services. Ma has extensive experience in various fields, including software design, development, implementation, technical support, and product marketing.

Zhe ZhangSenior Manager, Phoenix TV

Zhang is responsible for the IT support of Phoenix’s Hong Kong Headquarters. He also provides support for the key aspects of the company’s core business – the design and management of the news system. Before joining Phoenix, Zhang served at Beijing Zhongke Dayang Development Co., Ltd., a leader in the broadcast television industry, where he oversaw the development of broadcast television system integration projects.

Andy NgStaff Technical Account Manager, Alibaba Cloud International

Ng is currently associated with Alibaba Cloud Malaysia as Technical Account Manager, where he is responsible for customers’ day-to-day IT operations and management of IT infrastructures.

Shi Yin LeeWeb Fraud Analyst, AirAsia

Responsible for AirAsia overall WAF security and compliance. Rich experience in anti-bots, big data, enterprise IT architecture design, vendor management, e-commerce business structure, project management and digital transformation.

Yang LiuHead of Security and Privacy Compliance, Alibaba Cloud International

Yang Liu is the head of security and privacy compliance of Alibaba Cloud. His team is responsible for overall security and privacy compliance, such as SoC 1/2/3, MTCS, German C5, UK G-Cloud, PCI-DSS, and ISOs. Yang has more than 15 years of experience in information security, risk management, business continuity management, and supply chain security.

Michael PetitCloudGuard, Head of Sales, Check Point

As the Head of Cloud Security Sales covering Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, Michael leads a multi-cultural team to help businesses transition to cloud environments securely. The majority of his time is spent in the field, developing relationships with stakeholders, so that they can enable growth without compromising on data security. Outside of work, Michael enjoys diving and photography.

Kwang Yong LeeHead of Domestic Services & Data Centres, Singtel

Lee Kwang Yong is Head of Domestic Services & Data Centres (Business Products) for Singtel. With 15 years of experience in the telecommunications sector, Kwang Yong is responsible for business connectivity services in Singapore, Hong Kong & Australia. He is accountable for product management and marketing of WAN, Internet and software-defined services such as SDN, NFV, and DCI to maintain Singtel market leadership. He also manages the overall product strategy of Data Centre businesses in Singapore and overseas markets, with a total of 12 data centers in the region and more than 20 alliance partners globally.