Darian is the CEO and Founder of Outsourced Chief Sustainability Officer Asia (OCSO Asia). She was the inaugural Chief Sustainability Officer for the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the first CSO for a central bank globally. Darian McBain is a globally experienced Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), advisor and board member. Prior to this, she was Global Director of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Thai Union Group, a multi-billion dollar listed FMCG company operating globally and headquartered in Asia.

Technology Leader with 16+ years in delivering bespoke technology solutions by engaging agile and waterfall methodologies. Seasoned in Program and Project management in Banking and Consulting Industry. Diverse professional exposure in international settings across India, Singapore, United Kingdom and the Middle East (Riyadh/Dubai).

Benedict Tan is the Group Chief Digital Strategy Officer (GCDSO) and Chief Data Officer (CDO) for Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) cluster. Benedict has more than 30 years’ experience in the specialized healthcare-IT industry spanning both private and public institutions including Ministry of Health, National Computer Board, SAP and SingHealth, and many different roles and responsibilities such as project manager, business development, product manager and implementation consultant.

He is the Chief Scientist at Carro, a leading used car marketplace in Asia, where he leads technological innovations and the deployment of data analytics, machine learning, and statistics to drive business objectives. He holds a PhD in Earth Science from the University of Cambridge .Bryan is also an associate or fellow of several professional organizations, including The Geological Society, London and The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Singapore.

Ram Kumar is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer of Cigna’s International Markets where he is responsible for driving data and analytics strategy and its execution for 30+ countries covering The Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. He also the Head of Cigna Health Solutions India, COE for Cigna. Ram has over 33 years’ experience in industry and has held many executive roles namely, as CEO, CTO, CIO, Senior Consultant and as Chief Architect for global organizations and has managed teams in over 40 countries.

Chun Li is a seasoned technologist and business executive with a proven track record of leveraging data and technology to drive business transformation. He has held leadership positions at renowned digital platform companies such as Alibaba, eBay, and PayPal.

Lee is a Regional Chief Analytics Officer at Munich Re with over 17 years of experience in actuarial, AI and data analytics, research, and consulting roles. Lee's team combines cutting-edge AI and ML modelling with Munich Re's deep domain knowledge and technology to develop AI-driven digital solutions.

Hemanth Prabakaran is currently Head of Data Analytics & Insights, at Standard Chartered bank and is based in Singapore. He is spearheading some of the disruptive data innovations like COOL – ‘Digital & Data platform’ within bank , Conversational AI , Enterprise Knowledge Graph and Analytics workbench. He leads and transforms data monetization strategy through a modern data driven culture across the bank.

With more than 15 years’ experience in data and analytics, Judy has led data and analytics practices in a variety of organisations. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the table as a subject matter expert in many fields. In Dataiku, Judy is known for identifying customers’ problems and difficulties throughout the analytics lifecycle.

Kirill Petropavlov, currently SVP - Digital Assets, Crypto and Equities in DBS, is an experienced innovator at the cross section of Financial Services and advanced technologies in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. He has led and delivered key innovation projects in Open Banking, Blockchain for payments, Machine Learning powered digital automation and AI Driven data analytics for financial institutions and technology companies.

Shanmuga Sunthar (Shan) is the APAC Director of Data Architecture at Denodo. A Technologist with a career spanning over 20 years, mostly in Data Management and Analytics, Shan has garnered extensive experience in the areas of Digital Transformation, Enterprise Data Management and Enterprise Architecture.

Ram Thilak (Ram) is driving data science and analytics adoption across Inchcape Plc. As a Chief Data Scientist, he is leading a global team of data scientists, data analysts and MLOps Engineers spread across Philippines, Columbia and India to develop data science use-cases for the business while also overseeing other pillars such as Data Governance and Data Platform. Before joining Inchcape, Ram held senior data science roles in Mercedes-Benz (Region Overseas) and HP Inc.

As Vice President of Technology Services Asia Pacific, Vicky is responsible for leading the Asia Pacific Technology Services organization, delivering infrastructure, application support, application development, and technology services to Consumer Health, Pharmaceuticals, and MedTech business units covering over 25K employees in 400+ locations, enabling $15+ BN growth region.

Han leads the data science team developing AI & Analytics solutions to improve healthcare services. Concurrently, He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

As Head of Data Strategy Group, Taran brings with him over 15 years of experience in Data and Financial Services across APAC, Middle East and Europe from Bloomberg LP. He joins GIC in 2021 and drives GIC enterprise data management to develop a more robust way of governing and leveraging data for business needs. Prior to joining GIC, Taran was Head of Asia Pacific Sales & Business for Bloomberg LP in Hong Kong, where he owned the strategy for all of Bloomberg's Enterprise Technologies under the Financial Products umbrella.

Michael Andrew is the Head of Data Analytics at Zuellig Pharma, leading the regional Data Analytics team and supporting product analytics across Zuellig Pharma’s other digital solutions. With more than 10 years of experience with data management, statistical modelling, and marketing effectiveness he has helped establish, grow, and continuously innovate the Data Analytics team.

Gavin leads a team of Salesforce engineers and architects across ASEAN. With a solid technology background from his previous roles as Group CIO of Ayala Corporation and Chief Information and Technology Advisor for Meralco, he continues to help some of the largest organizations in this region strategize their business approaches and transform through the innovative use of data and technology.

Dietmar joined Tyme 7 years ago, a multi-country digital banking group for emerging markets, where he leads the data and analytics function for the group, currently consisting of TymeBank in South Africa and GoTyme in the Philippines. He has led lending, data science, machine learning and big data teams for close to 20 years in banking, and lectured in the Actuarial field.

Shobhit Choubey is Head of Investor Client Solutions & Experience Consulting. Shobhit drives the design and provision of integrated real estate solutions, investor leasing products and advisory services for CBRE across the Asia Pacific.

Simon is Head of Data Management in DBS and responsible for the development and implementation of the Bank’s Data Management framework to drive a data-driven culture that manages data as a strategic asset. He has over 25 years’ hands on experience in Data and Analytics working across multiple sectors and geographies. Most recently, Simon has been focusing on tackling the emerging themes of data ethics, AI governance, external data sharing and involvement in other Regulatory initiatives.

Associate Professor Carol Hargreaves is Director of the Data Analytics Consulting Centre at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and holds a joint position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Department of Mathematics. Her research area includes Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Applications in the Maritime, Healthcare, and the Financial Industry.

Andrea has been with OCBC for 5 years and currently acts as Head of Data for the bank Group Data Office, OCBC Center of Excellence for Data and Machine Learning, where he leads the Data Science and Data Engineering teams.

Philip oversees the data insights function at bolttech. Over his career, Philip has used his passion and creativity to put customers’ needs first and create new and unique data-driven solutions. Prior to joining us, Philip worked in insurance and consulting across various functions including product, finance, and risk management.

Tat has held senior position in IT management, Master Data Management, Data governance, Data Quality in Product and Party data and large scale project management. Having placed in charged of multi million dollar project deployments and budget, complemented by wide ranging experience with global banks, telcos and manufacturing companies in Asia, Middle East, Europe and America, Tat is ready to leverage these experiences to take on Financial Crime, Data Governance and Data Management.

Head Group Cybersecurity (CISO) | OT-ISAC EC Chair | ISACASG IPP | #1 CSO30 ASEAN-IDG, #7 Global Influencer-IFSEC, CSO50 Prog-IDG, Top100 Global CISOs-CyberDefense, Top29 Influencers-Peerlyst, SkillsFuture fellow

Proven expertise leading diverse teams in AI / ML, analytics, strategy, automation operations and digital transformation of global businesses to deliver exceptional customer value (B2B & B2C) in a talent hungry, innovation centric world. Sets the Vision and Strategy to unleash the potential across functional silos in order to deliver strong margin expansion and revenue growth.

Juliana Chua is Sr. Director for Global Digital Acceleration and Head of APAC Digital Transformation at EssilorLuxottica. She has 20 years of experience in IP Law, Innovation and Digital Transformation space across 4 MNCs, 3 government bodies, and 2 start-ups. Her recent accolades in 2022 include World CIO200, APAC CIO100, and Women Technology Leader of the Year.

Starting his career as an actuary in Australia, Samuel Chu has sought to improve and challenge existing process through technology and data analytics. After spending 8 years in Australia, Samuel has moved to Singapore to head up various data & analytics roles and is currently Head of Data Science and Analytics at Singlife.

Nandakumar has more than a two-decade long experience in the IT sector with a professional background in Application & Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, and Business Consultancy in the Financial Management sector. His current focus in his role as Head of Technology, Asia, Westpac Institutional Banking, Singapore is around driving a Customer- Centric technology program for transforming Institutional and Retail Banking experience.

Sujatha is Head of Data Quality Management in Standard Chartered, operationalizing data governance to support data-driven decision making, compliance to data management standards, enabling data quality framework to implement end-end data quality with innovative and sustainable processes and solutions.

Nikolay Novozhilov is the Head of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Bank of Singapore, Asia Global Private Bank, a subsidiary of OCBC. His team is building Machine Learning models and analytics solutions to create business value from data. He was previously Head of Digital Products at NTUC Link and a Chief Data Scientist at Wego.

Vinita is a versatile and dynamic leader who has held leadership roles spanning strategic change and process improvement, risk and governance, learning and development, technology. Vinita has worked in four industries - hospitality, business process outsourcing, media and financial services, at locations including India, UK, Scotland and Singapore.

Jeffrey is a director at Joyce A. Tan & Partners LLC specializing in data protection, cybersecurity, data governance, and artificial intelligence. He was part of the team that developed an AI Ethics Body of Knowledge and the world’s first AI Ethics professional certification programme in collaboration with Singapore Computer Society and the Info Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore.

Soumyajit is Nomura’s product lead for data management and information insights at its Group Data Office in Asia ex-Japan. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for leading initiatives to simplify the firm’s data fabric, and generate value through data and analytics products and solutions. Soumyajit has over 18 years of experience in digital transformation, CRM strategy, enterprise data strategy, cloud deployments and product development and delivery across customer, market and portfolio intelligence.

Prerit is the Head of Applied Analytics at the DHL Innovation Center. He leads DHL Applied Analytics in the development of cutting-edge analytics solutions for DHL’s customers. He has successfully built and lead the development of data solutions for inventory and supply chain optimization, sales growth, strategic modeling, end-to-end traceability and sustainability. He is also the topic-Lead for Data Analytics across DHL Innovation Centers – responsible for Big Data/Analytics & AI related thought-leadership content and delivery.

Dylan has spent most of his career in IT delivering and consulting, focusing on data & analytics. Some of his areas of expertise are in information management, business intelligence, and data governance. He has over 20 data warehousing projects implementation experience across various domains including banks, gaming, transportation, retail, technology, education, real estates, the public sectors and pharmaceuticals.

Patricia serves as the Director and Global Head Partnerships for She Loves Data, a non-profit organisation that focuses on data literacy and enabling women for a data and AI-driven future. She also works as an independent consultant and entrepreneur, with expertise in data-driven marketing and digital transformation. She has over 20 years of international experience managing technology start-ups and marketing teams for global brands such as Samsung, CBS Interactive, IBM, and the Asian Development Bank, among others.

Bhagyesh is currently Head of Data Quality and Stewardship for Asia & EMEA at Citi’s Personal Banking and Wealth Management group. He is a senior transformation leader who is passionate about building enterprise-wide data and digital capabilities by bringing together his hands on expertise in Technology, Operations and Risk mgmt.

Sebastien is Head of Customer Engagement, Digital Marketing & Innovation at Menarini Asia-Pacific, a member of the Menarini Group, the world’s largest Italian biopharmaceutical company with a heritage of over 135 years and a direct presence in 13 major healthcare markets.

Dr. David Duan is Head of Data at GoTo Financial, looking after both Data Science (ML & AI) and Advanced Analytics. He is a strategic thinker and leader, with more than 15 years of experience helping organisations improve their Data Science capabilities, such as, building Data & Data Science functions from scratch, developing and driving Data & Data Science strategy, embedding Data Science into organisational processes, and leveraging Data Science, ML and AI for product innovation.

Anny is leading the digital growth function for Income Insurance; she is chartered to design the go-to-market strategy that will bring digital insurance sales to the next level.

Dr. Sean Lam is currently the Head of Data Science in the Health Services Research Centre, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, overseeing a team of data scientists for the enhancement of patient care and outcomes through health services research.

Anurag has over 16 years of data analytics experience and most of his career has been spent working in SEA region at startups. Anurag is currently Director of Data at Flash Coffee who leads data analytics, business intelligence and data engineering functions across all APAC regions of Flash Coffee.

Rajat is currently working as a principal data scientist at ST Engineering. As a data science leader with extensive leadership and hands-on experience, he enables the connection between business and the data world. He Led and managed multiple data science teams to solve complex machine learning and deep learning-based predictive maintenance and predictive quality problems, saving millions of dollars.

Natalie Rubnan Que is an outcome-oriented leader with extensive global track record across multiple disciplines of Information Systems, Technology, and Enterprise Shared Services. She partners with senior leaders to develop and deliver highly impactful strategies and transformative programs across large global organizations. She is a passionate advocate of digital and data, and specializes on creating data-driven cultures for large enteprises and creates endless possibilities.