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My compliments for your meticulous and flawless coordination of panelists—truly, on all fronts, I hope you all are celebrating wins big and small as the first Technology for Change Week Asia concludes. Here’s to many more!” 14 m social impression at the 2021 event “I’ve gotten the newest information and ideas which will give me new aspect of my business” 1800 + delegates at the 2021 event “Unique content, top-notch speakers, and production values” 1400 + organisations represented at the 2021 event “It was a pleasure to take part, [and] I would be delighted to do something again next year” 3000 + session views at the 2021 event “It was a tremendous event and we’re grateful for your invitation to join. You’re a model to all trying to bring people and ideas together in a digital world. My compliments for your meticulous and flawless coordination of panelists—truly, on all fronts, I hope you all are celebrating wins big and small as the first Technology for Change Week Asia concludes. Here’s to many more!” 14 m social impression at the 2021 event “I’ve gotten the newest information and ideas which will give me new aspect of my business” * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 FEATURED SPEAKERS Previous View Profile PREETI SINHA Executive secretary, UNCDF X PREETI SINHA Executive secretary, UNCDF March 9th 2022 * 11:10 am -11:50 Panel discussion: digitising mom ’n' pops—Banking the unbanked to drive inclusion View Profile ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Director, Education and Skills, OECD X ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Director, Education and Skills, OECD March 10th 2022 * 04:30 pm -5:10 Panel discussion: Formal invitation—Elevating workers from the informal economy through basic digital literacy and upskilling Andreas Schleicher is director for education and skills at the OECD. He initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments that have created a global platform for policymakers, researchers and educators across nations and cultures to innovate and transform educational policies and practices. Mr Schleicher has worked for over 20 years with ministers and education leaders to improve education. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Theodor Heuss Prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for exemplary democratic engagement. Mr Schleicher holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg. View Profile SHEILA WARREN Deputy global head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, World Economic Forum X SHEILA WARREN Deputy global head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, World Economic Forum March 9th 2022 * 03:40 pm -4:30 Panel discussion: what’s next? the rise of DeFi—How blockchain disrupted the financial services industry Sheila Warren is Deputy Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. Her pioneering policy work is helping shape the data and technology spaces to be more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable. Ms. Warren began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore before turning to philanthropy and civic technology. She was a senior executive and General Counsel at TechSoup, and she also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on international grantmaking. Ms. Warren currently serves on the boards of the ACLU of Northern California, the Equal Justice Society, and TechSoup, and on advisory boards for the World Bank, the OECD, and others. She is also co-host of the popular show Money Reimagined on the CoinDesk network. She is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. View Profile MATTHEW BALL Chief executive, Epyllion X MATTHEW BALL Chief executive, Epyllion March 8th 2022 * 03:05 pm -3:45 In conversation… What’s next? Gaming for good Matthew Ball is the managing partner of Epyllion, which operates an early stage venture fund, as well as a corporate and venture advisory arm. In addition, Mr Ball is a venture partner at Makers Fund, an industry adviser at KKR and a co-founder of the index behind the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF, which can be found on the New York Stock Exchange. He is also an occasional contributor to The Economist. From 2016 to 2018, Mr Ball served as the global head of strategy for Amazon Studios. Prior to that he was a director at Chernin Group’s Otter Media, a digital media investment company, and an executive at Accenture Strategy. He holds bylines at the New York Times, Bloomberg and more. View Profile JORDAN SUN Former chief innovation officer, City of San Jose and Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI); Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics X JORDAN SUN Former chief innovation officer, City of San Jose and Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI); Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics March 8th 2022 * 11:25 am -12:10 In conversation… Cloud source: Becoming the next smart nation Jordan Sun is currently the Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics. He was the former chief innovation officer for the city of San Jose and lead the Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI). Mr Sun has deep, cross-sector global experience in technology, government, health care and venture capital. His prior roles included chief executive of a digital health venture at Siemens, a US diplomat focused on China and national security, and a two-time volunteer to Afghanistan as an Army officer in infantry and special operations units. Mr Sun started his career at a Japanese investment bank in New York. He is an alumnus of New York University and Yale University School of Management and serves as an active mentor in the startup ecosystem, including with First Round Capital, Berkeley Skydeck Fund, 500 Startups, UCSF Innovation Ventures and Scrum Ventures SmartCityX. View Profile RIDWAN KAMIL West Java Governor, Government of The Republic of Indonesia X RIDWAN KAMIL West Java Governor, Government of The Republic of Indonesia March 11th 2022 * 10:15 am -10:45 In conversation: driving market access and food security via innovation—Spotlight on Indonesia Ridwan Kamil is the 15th Governor of West Java. Before becoming the Governor of West Java he was the Mayor of Bandung during the 2013-2018 period, and had many dimensions in his life and career. He was a social activist in the community by establishing Indonesian Gardening or Indonesian Farming Movement. He then founded the Bandung creative city forum which eventually became the beginning of the formation of the Indonesia Creative City Network. Also Ridwan Kamil is a lecturer in ITB in the field of architectural and urban design. He graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology higher education in architecture and went to the University of California Berkeley where he graduated in 2001. With his educational background Ridwan Kamil is a professional architect and with his partners founded the firm Urbane stands for Urban Revolution, which on its professional journey has received more than 50 awards for his works. His mindset focused in the professional world aims for every problem to be solved in the quickest and most innovative way. It is no secret that Ridwan Kamil really likes innovations and puts technological advances as breakthroughs into solving development problems. Ridwan Kamil has received more than 400 awards since he became an architect, a social activist, the mayor of Bandung and the Governor of West Java. View Profile TAN KIAT HOW Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore X TAN KIAT HOW Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore March 10th 2022 * 10:30 am -10:50 Ministerial Keynote Interview : upskilling SMEs and workforces for the digital economy Tan Kiat How was elected a member of parliament in Singapore for the East Coast group representation constituency (GRC) during the general elections held in July 2020. Mr Tan is the minister of state for national development and for communications and information. He is also chairman of REACH, the lead agency in facilitating whole-of-government efforts to engage and connect with Singaporeans on national and social issues close to their hearts. Mr Tan had also previously served in the Prime Minister’s Office as minister of state. Prior to entering politics, Mr Tan spent nearly 20 years in public service. He began his career in public service as an IT consultant in the Ministry of Education, under a National Computer Board scholarship. He held several appointments in the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore, before moving to the Ministry of Finance to head its economic programmes department. Mr Tan subsequently took on leadership roles as deputy secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Information, and later chief executive of the Infocomm Media Development Authority. Mr Tan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with bachelor’s degrees in economics and computer engineering in 2001. He also holds a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University. View Profile HOWARD LEE Deputy chief executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority X HOWARD LEE Deputy chief executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority March 9th 2022 * 10:20 am -11:00 In conversation with… The financial regulators—Separating the fintech from the froth Howard Lee is responsible for reserves management, financial infrastructure and fintech at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He is also an executive director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation. He joined the HKMA in 2009 as a division head and has worked in various areas including monetary management, financial stability surveillance, corporate services and banking policy. He was appointed to be deputy chief executive in 2018. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Lee worked in the Hong Kong SAR government in areas relating to economic development, financial services and other public policies. View Profile KATHLEEN REEN Senior director, Public Policy and Philanthropy APAC, Twitter X KATHLEEN REEN Senior director, Public Policy and Philanthropy APAC, Twitter March 8th 2022 * 02:00 pm -3:00 Panel discussion: automating trust—Do we need to disrupt disruption? Based at Twitter’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, Kathleen Reen works with a regional and global team of public policy leads. She was previously a vice-president at Internews, managing global technology and policy programmes, and was based in Washington, DC. Ms Reen has experience in internet policy, philanthropy, developing markets, media and tech, and launched international development media and IT projects across the Asian region from 1999 to 2011 with a focus on South-east and South Asia. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a member of the Company of Good Fellowship with Singapore’s National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre. View Profile LESLY GOH Senior technology advisor, World Bank Group X LESLY GOH Senior technology advisor, World Bank Group March 11th 2022 * 10:15 am -10:45 In conversation: driving market access and food security via innovation—Spotlight on Indonesia Lesly Goh is the senior technology adviser and former chief technology officer at the World Bank Group. She is a fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and a senior fellow at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Ms Goh is also a board member of Singapore GovTech and an adviser for the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations. At the nexus of technology and policy, Ms Goh has extensive international experience advising policymakers on the regulatory impact of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things and 5G, and cloud and edge computing. From her experience in the public and private sectors, she develops strategic partnerships to support Sustainable Development Goals, leveraging data and digital technology innovations in emerging markets. View Profile PREETI SINHA Executive secretary, UNCDF X PREETI SINHA Executive secretary, UNCDF March 9th 2022 * 11:10 am -11:50 Panel discussion: digitising mom ’n' pops—Banking the unbanked to drive inclusion View Profile ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Director, Education and Skills, OECD X ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Director, Education and Skills, OECD March 10th 2022 * 04:30 pm -5:10 Panel discussion: Formal invitation—Elevating workers from the informal economy through basic digital literacy and upskilling Andreas Schleicher is director for education and skills at the OECD. He initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments that have created a global platform for policymakers, researchers and educators across nations and cultures to innovate and transform educational policies and practices. Mr Schleicher has worked for over 20 years with ministers and education leaders to improve education. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Theodor Heuss Prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for exemplary democratic engagement. Mr Schleicher holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg. View Profile SHEILA WARREN Deputy global head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, World Economic Forum X SHEILA WARREN Deputy global head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, World Economic Forum March 9th 2022 * 03:40 pm -4:30 Panel discussion: what’s next? the rise of DeFi—How blockchain disrupted the financial services industry Sheila Warren is Deputy Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. Her pioneering policy work is helping shape the data and technology spaces to be more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable. Ms. Warren began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore before turning to philanthropy and civic technology. She was a senior executive and General Counsel at TechSoup, and she also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on international grantmaking. Ms. Warren currently serves on the boards of the ACLU of Northern California, the Equal Justice Society, and TechSoup, and on advisory boards for the World Bank, the OECD, and others. She is also co-host of the popular show Money Reimagined on the CoinDesk network. She is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. View Profile MATTHEW BALL Chief executive, Epyllion X MATTHEW BALL Chief executive, Epyllion March 8th 2022 * 03:05 pm -3:45 In conversation… What’s next? Gaming for good Matthew Ball is the managing partner of Epyllion, which operates an early stage venture fund, as well as a corporate and venture advisory arm. In addition, Mr Ball is a venture partner at Makers Fund, an industry adviser at KKR and a co-founder of the index behind the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF, which can be found on the New York Stock Exchange. He is also an occasional contributor to The Economist. From 2016 to 2018, Mr Ball served as the global head of strategy for Amazon Studios. Prior to that he was a director at Chernin Group’s Otter Media, a digital media investment company, and an executive at Accenture Strategy. He holds bylines at the New York Times, Bloomberg and more. View Profile JORDAN SUN Former chief innovation officer, City of San Jose and Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI); Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics X JORDAN SUN Former chief innovation officer, City of San Jose and Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI); Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics March 8th 2022 * 11:25 am -12:10 In conversation… Cloud source: Becoming the next smart nation Jordan Sun is currently the Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics. He was the former chief innovation officer for the city of San Jose and lead the Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI). Mr Sun has deep, cross-sector global experience in technology, government, health care and venture capital. His prior roles included chief executive of a digital health venture at Siemens, a US diplomat focused on China and national security, and a two-time volunteer to Afghanistan as an Army officer in infantry and special operations units. Mr Sun started his career at a Japanese investment bank in New York. He is an alumnus of New York University and Yale University School of Management and serves as an active mentor in the startup ecosystem, including with First Round Capital, Berkeley Skydeck Fund, 500 Startups, UCSF Innovation Ventures and Scrum Ventures SmartCityX. View Profile RIDWAN KAMIL West Java Governor, Government of The Republic of Indonesia X RIDWAN KAMIL West Java Governor, Government of The Republic of Indonesia March 11th 2022 * 10:15 am -10:45 In conversation: driving market access and food security via innovation—Spotlight on Indonesia Ridwan Kamil is the 15th Governor of West Java. Before becoming the Governor of West Java he was the Mayor of Bandung during the 2013-2018 period, and had many dimensions in his life and career. He was a social activist in the community by establishing Indonesian Gardening or Indonesian Farming Movement. He then founded the Bandung creative city forum which eventually became the beginning of the formation of the Indonesia Creative City Network. Also Ridwan Kamil is a lecturer in ITB in the field of architectural and urban design. He graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology higher education in architecture and went to the University of California Berkeley where he graduated in 2001. With his educational background Ridwan Kamil is a professional architect and with his partners founded the firm Urbane stands for Urban Revolution, which on its professional journey has received more than 50 awards for his works. His mindset focused in the professional world aims for every problem to be solved in the quickest and most innovative way. It is no secret that Ridwan Kamil really likes innovations and puts technological advances as breakthroughs into solving development problems. Ridwan Kamil has received more than 400 awards since he became an architect, a social activist, the mayor of Bandung and the Governor of West Java. View Profile TAN KIAT HOW Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore X TAN KIAT HOW Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore March 10th 2022 * 10:30 am -10:50 Ministerial Keynote Interview : upskilling SMEs and workforces for the digital economy Tan Kiat How was elected a member of parliament in Singapore for the East Coast group representation constituency (GRC) during the general elections held in July 2020. Mr Tan is the minister of state for national development and for communications and information. He is also chairman of REACH, the lead agency in facilitating whole-of-government efforts to engage and connect with Singaporeans on national and social issues close to their hearts. Mr Tan had also previously served in the Prime Minister’s Office as minister of state. Prior to entering politics, Mr Tan spent nearly 20 years in public service. He began his career in public service as an IT consultant in the Ministry of Education, under a National Computer Board scholarship. He held several appointments in the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore, before moving to the Ministry of Finance to head its economic programmes department. Mr Tan subsequently took on leadership roles as deputy secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Information, and later chief executive of the Infocomm Media Development Authority. Mr Tan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with bachelor’s degrees in economics and computer engineering in 2001. He also holds a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University. View Profile HOWARD LEE Deputy chief executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority X HOWARD LEE Deputy chief executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority March 9th 2022 * 10:20 am -11:00 In conversation with… The financial regulators—Separating the fintech from the froth Howard Lee is responsible for reserves management, financial infrastructure and fintech at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He is also an executive director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation. He joined the HKMA in 2009 as a division head and has worked in various areas including monetary management, financial stability surveillance, corporate services and banking policy. He was appointed to be deputy chief executive in 2018. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Lee worked in the Hong Kong SAR government in areas relating to economic development, financial services and other public policies. View Profile KATHLEEN REEN Senior director, Public Policy and Philanthropy APAC, Twitter X KATHLEEN REEN Senior director, Public Policy and Philanthropy APAC, Twitter March 8th 2022 * 02:00 pm -3:00 Panel discussion: automating trust—Do we need to disrupt disruption? Based at Twitter’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, Kathleen Reen works with a regional and global team of public policy leads. She was previously a vice-president at Internews, managing global technology and policy programmes, and was based in Washington, DC. Ms Reen has experience in internet policy, philanthropy, developing markets, media and tech, and launched international development media and IT projects across the Asian region from 1999 to 2011 with a focus on South-east and South Asia. She is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a member of the Company of Good Fellowship with Singapore’s National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre. View Profile LESLY GOH Senior technology advisor, World Bank Group X LESLY GOH Senior technology advisor, World Bank Group March 11th 2022 * 10:15 am -10:45 In conversation: driving market access and food security via innovation—Spotlight on Indonesia Lesly Goh is the senior technology adviser and former chief technology officer at the World Bank Group. She is a fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and a senior fellow at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Ms Goh is also a board member of Singapore GovTech and an adviser for the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations. At the nexus of technology and policy, Ms Goh has extensive international experience advising policymakers on the regulatory impact of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things and 5G, and cloud and edge computing. From her experience in the public and private sectors, she develops strategic partnerships to support Sustainable Development Goals, leveraging data and digital technology innovations in emerging markets. View Profile PREETI SINHA Executive secretary, UNCDF X PREETI SINHA Executive secretary, UNCDF March 9th 2022 * 11:10 am -11:50 Panel discussion: digitising mom ’n' pops—Banking the unbanked to drive inclusion View Profile ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Director, Education and Skills, OECD X ANDREAS SCHLEICHER Director, Education and Skills, OECD March 10th 2022 * 04:30 pm -5:10 Panel discussion: Formal invitation—Elevating workers from the informal economy through basic digital literacy and upskilling Andreas Schleicher is director for education and skills at the OECD. He initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments that have created a global platform for policymakers, researchers and educators across nations and cultures to innovate and transform educational policies and practices. Mr Schleicher has worked for over 20 years with ministers and education leaders to improve education. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Theodor Heuss Prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for exemplary democratic engagement. Mr Schleicher holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg. View Profile SHEILA WARREN Deputy global head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, World Economic Forum X SHEILA WARREN Deputy global head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, World Economic Forum March 9th 2022 * 03:40 pm -4:30 Panel discussion: what’s next? the rise of DeFi—How blockchain disrupted the financial services industry Sheila Warren is Deputy Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. Her pioneering policy work is helping shape the data and technology spaces to be more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable. Ms. Warren began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore before turning to philanthropy and civic technology. She was a senior executive and General Counsel at TechSoup, and she also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on international grantmaking. Ms. Warren currently serves on the boards of the ACLU of Northern California, the Equal Justice Society, and TechSoup, and on advisory boards for the World Bank, the OECD, and others. She is also co-host of the popular show Money Reimagined on the CoinDesk network. She is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. View Profile MATTHEW BALL Chief executive, Epyllion X MATTHEW BALL Chief executive, Epyllion March 8th 2022 * 03:05 pm -3:45 In conversation… What’s next? Gaming for good Matthew Ball is the managing partner of Epyllion, which operates an early stage venture fund, as well as a corporate and venture advisory arm. In addition, Mr Ball is a venture partner at Makers Fund, an industry adviser at KKR and a co-founder of the index behind the Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF, which can be found on the New York Stock Exchange. He is also an occasional contributor to The Economist. From 2016 to 2018, Mr Ball served as the global head of strategy for Amazon Studios. Prior to that he was a director at Chernin Group’s Otter Media, a digital media investment company, and an executive at Accenture Strategy. He holds bylines at the New York Times, Bloomberg and more. View Profile JORDAN SUN Former chief innovation officer, City of San Jose and Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI); Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics X JORDAN SUN Former chief innovation officer, City of San Jose and Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI); Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics March 8th 2022 * 11:25 am -12:10 In conversation… Cloud source: Becoming the next smart nation Jordan Sun is currently the Head of product, design, and engineering, SoftBank Robotics. He was the former chief innovation officer for the city of San Jose and lead the Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI). Mr Sun has deep, cross-sector global experience in technology, government, health care and venture capital. His prior roles included chief executive of a digital health venture at Siemens, a US diplomat focused on China and national security, and a two-time volunteer to Afghanistan as an Army officer in infantry and special operations units. Mr Sun started his career at a Japanese investment bank in New York. He is an alumnus of New York University and Yale University School of Management and serves as an active mentor in the startup ecosystem, including with First Round Capital, Berkeley Skydeck Fund, 500 Startups, UCSF Innovation Ventures and Scrum Ventures SmartCityX. Next WHO SHOULD ATTEND? * Business leaders and executives (managers, directors, c-suite) from all industries * High-level government representatives including ministers, policymakers, advisors, senior advisors, senior directors * Executives from manufacturers and transportation companies, logistics companies, financial services as well as tech and digital companies * Chief executives, chief administrative officers, chief marketing officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers * Government and local authorities and industry associations * Impact investors and responsible investors * Academia and think tanks Find out more about the 2021 event here. SPONSORS Previous SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR LAIYE Visit website Laiye was founded in 2015 by two Ph.D. Ivy League graduates from Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, and in 2021 announced its Series C+ funding round, with a $50M injection. Laiye operates via a global team across Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. It’s Intelligent Automation solutions are in use at enterprise customers in the insurance, communications, electric power, finance, retail, and healthcare industries to build end-to-end automation solutions. Laiye has rich experience in RPA and AI and helps businesses and people realize their full potential by optimizing the human-machine collaborative alliance with sophisticated, dynamic, productivityenhancing digital, low-code “workforce solutions.” Laiye delivers the deepest, most advanced AI/RPA/NLP solutions to help businesses become more efficient, effective, agile, and successful. And it frees people to focus on meaningful, innovative, mission-critical initiatives. Core technologies include robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, natural language processing (NLP), conversational intelligence, text recognition, and image recognition. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR PLURALSIGHT Visit website Pluralsight – The technology workforce development company At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology and develop the skills of tomorrow. With assessments, learning paths and courses authored by industry experts, our platform helps businesses and individuals benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR SEAGATE Visit website Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximise humanity’s potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion terabytes of data capacity. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR SYNGENTA Visit website Syngenta is one of the world leaders in agricultural innovation and has a legacy spanning more than 250 years globally, and more than 90 years in Asia. At Syngenta Asia Pacific, over 5000 people across 14 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet. We contribute to our global mission to feed the region safely, sustainably and with respect for the planet. We work with farmers across the region to improve their productivity through the use of our breakthrough products and technologies in Crop Protection and Seeds. DIAMOND SPONSOR View Profile X DIAMOND SPONSOR EAST VENTURES Visit website East Ventures is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore. Founded in 2009, East Ventures has transformed into a holistic platform that provides multi-stage investment, including Seed and Growth for over 200 companies in Southeast Asia. An early believer in the startup ecosystem in Indonesia, East Ventures is the first investor of Indonesia’s unicorn companies, namely Tokopedia and Traveloka. Other notable companies in the portfolio include Ruangguru, Warung Pintar, Kudo (acquired by Grab), Loket (acquired by Gojek), Tech in Asia, Xendit, IDN Media, MokaPOS (acquired by Gojek), ShopBack, KoinWorks, Waresix, and Sociolla. East Ventures was named the most consistent top performing VC fund globally by Preqin, and the most active investor in SEA and Indonesia by various media. PLATINUM SPONSOR View Profile X PLATINUM SPONSOR CATAPULT Visit website Catapult is the first leadership learning hub in Southeast Asia backed by leading real estate developer CapitaLand, designed to groom Asia’s next generation of leaders by curating learning experiences focused on Leadership, Innovation, and Energy for Peak Performance delivered through experiential, immersive and impactful learning journeys. PLATINUM SPONSOR View Profile X PLATINUM SPONSOR HCL TECHNOLOGIES Visit website HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. HCL also takes pride in its many diversity, social responsibility, sustainability, and education initiatives. Through its worldwide network of R&D facilities and co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities, and over 197,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ across 52 countries, HCL delivers holistic services across industry verticals to leading enterprises, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000. GOLD SPONSOR View Profile X GOLD SPONSOR TENCENT Visit website Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world. Founded in 1998 with our headquarters in Shenzhen, China, Tencent‘s guiding principle is to use technology for good. Our communication and social services connect more than one billion people globally, helping them to keep in touch with friends and family, access transportation and pay for daily necessities. Tencent publishes some of the world’s most popular video games and other high-quality digital content, and offers a range of enterprise services like cloud computing and fintech. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR LAIYE Visit website Laiye was founded in 2015 by two Ph.D. Ivy League graduates from Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, and in 2021 announced its Series C+ funding round, with a $50M injection. Laiye operates via a global team across Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. It’s Intelligent Automation solutions are in use at enterprise customers in the insurance, communications, electric power, finance, retail, and healthcare industries to build end-to-end automation solutions. Laiye has rich experience in RPA and AI and helps businesses and people realize their full potential by optimizing the human-machine collaborative alliance with sophisticated, dynamic, productivityenhancing digital, low-code “workforce solutions.” Laiye delivers the deepest, most advanced AI/RPA/NLP solutions to help businesses become more efficient, effective, agile, and successful. And it frees people to focus on meaningful, innovative, mission-critical initiatives. Core technologies include robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, natural language processing (NLP), conversational intelligence, text recognition, and image recognition. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR PLURALSIGHT Visit website Pluralsight – The technology workforce development company At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology and develop the skills of tomorrow. With assessments, learning paths and courses authored by industry experts, our platform helps businesses and individuals benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR SEAGATE Visit website Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximise humanity’s potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion terabytes of data capacity. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR SYNGENTA Visit website Syngenta is one of the world leaders in agricultural innovation and has a legacy spanning more than 250 years globally, and more than 90 years in Asia. At Syngenta Asia Pacific, over 5000 people across 14 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet. We contribute to our global mission to feed the region safely, sustainably and with respect for the planet. We work with farmers across the region to improve their productivity through the use of our breakthrough products and technologies in Crop Protection and Seeds. DIAMOND SPONSOR View Profile X DIAMOND SPONSOR EAST VENTURES Visit website East Ventures is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore. Founded in 2009, East Ventures has transformed into a holistic platform that provides multi-stage investment, including Seed and Growth for over 200 companies in Southeast Asia. An early believer in the startup ecosystem in Indonesia, East Ventures is the first investor of Indonesia’s unicorn companies, namely Tokopedia and Traveloka. Other notable companies in the portfolio include Ruangguru, Warung Pintar, Kudo (acquired by Grab), Loket (acquired by Gojek), Tech in Asia, Xendit, IDN Media, MokaPOS (acquired by Gojek), ShopBack, KoinWorks, Waresix, and Sociolla. East Ventures was named the most consistent top performing VC fund globally by Preqin, and the most active investor in SEA and Indonesia by various media. PLATINUM SPONSOR View Profile X PLATINUM SPONSOR CATAPULT Visit website Catapult is the first leadership learning hub in Southeast Asia backed by leading real estate developer CapitaLand, designed to groom Asia’s next generation of leaders by curating learning experiences focused on Leadership, Innovation, and Energy for Peak Performance delivered through experiential, immersive and impactful learning journeys. PLATINUM SPONSOR View Profile X PLATINUM SPONSOR HCL TECHNOLOGIES Visit website HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. HCL also takes pride in its many diversity, social responsibility, sustainability, and education initiatives. Through its worldwide network of R&D facilities and co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities, and over 197,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ across 52 countries, HCL delivers holistic services across industry verticals to leading enterprises, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000. GOLD SPONSOR View Profile X GOLD SPONSOR TENCENT Visit website Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world. Founded in 1998 with our headquarters in Shenzhen, China, Tencent‘s guiding principle is to use technology for good. Our communication and social services connect more than one billion people globally, helping them to keep in touch with friends and family, access transportation and pay for daily necessities. Tencent publishes some of the world’s most popular video games and other high-quality digital content, and offers a range of enterprise services like cloud computing and fintech. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR LAIYE Visit website Laiye was founded in 2015 by two Ph.D. Ivy League graduates from Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, and in 2021 announced its Series C+ funding round, with a $50M injection. Laiye operates via a global team across Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. It’s Intelligent Automation solutions are in use at enterprise customers in the insurance, communications, electric power, finance, retail, and healthcare industries to build end-to-end automation solutions. Laiye has rich experience in RPA and AI and helps businesses and people realize their full potential by optimizing the human-machine collaborative alliance with sophisticated, dynamic, productivityenhancing digital, low-code “workforce solutions.” Laiye delivers the deepest, most advanced AI/RPA/NLP solutions to help businesses become more efficient, effective, agile, and successful. And it frees people to focus on meaningful, innovative, mission-critical initiatives. Core technologies include robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, natural language processing (NLP), conversational intelligence, text recognition, and image recognition. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR PLURALSIGHT Visit website Pluralsight – The technology workforce development company At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology and develop the skills of tomorrow. With assessments, learning paths and courses authored by industry experts, our platform helps businesses and individuals benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR SEAGATE Visit website Seagate Technology crafts the datasphere, helping to maximise humanity’s potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered data storage and management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships. A global technology leader for more than 40 years, the company has shipped over three billion terabytes of data capacity. SILVER SPONSOR View Profile X SILVER SPONSOR SYNGENTA Visit website Syngenta is one of the world leaders in agricultural innovation and has a legacy spanning more than 250 years globally, and more than 90 years in Asia. At Syngenta Asia Pacific, over 5000 people across 14 countries strive every day to transform agriculture through tailor-made solutions for the benefit of farmers, society and our planet. We contribute to our global mission to feed the region safely, sustainably and with respect for the planet. We work with farmers across the region to improve their productivity through the use of our breakthrough products and technologies in Crop Protection and Seeds. Next SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS Previous SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION Visit website With the motto of ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower,’ Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a not-for-profit based out of New Delhi, whose effort has been to find sustainable Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions including digital and new media to address the digital divide in under-served and unreached regions and communities. MEDIA PARTNER View Profile X MEDIA PARTNER ECO-BUSINESS Visit website Eco-Business is the leading media organisation on sustainable development. Established in 2009, it has been reporting issues on sustainability for 10 years now. Its independent journalism unit publishes high-quality, trusted news and views that advance business and policy action, and enables measurable impact on a wide range of sustainable development and responsible business issues. It owns and operates the award-winning news platform, Eco-business.com, which attracts a few million unique senior-level visitors every year. Many business leaders and government officials are reading our news to keep themselves informed about sustainability issues. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION INTELLECAP Visit website Sankalp Forum was initiated in India in 2009 by Intellecap, part of the Aavishkaar Group, to create a thriving ecosystem for business-led inclusive development. Over the past 13 years, Sankalp has built one of the world’s largest impact enterprise focused platforms that has showcased and discovered 1800+ entrepreneurs, through 26 editions and has connected them to 600+ investors. Sankalp has enabled enterprises and entrepreneurs and has helped raise over USD 270 million in funding and disbursed over USD 870,000 in cash grants. Sankalp Forum engages with Governments, Corporations, influential platforms, media and civil society to drive a paradigm shift in inclusive development approaches. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION SINGAPORE EDUCATION NETWORK (SEN) Visit website The Singapore Education Network (SEN) is a network of Education professionals & organizations in Singapore and Asia. SEN is a Knowledge Hub, Education Community & Business Partner offering its members to share – learn – collaborate. The majority of the 1,200+ individual members representing various education segments are from Singapore, while about 30% come from Asia and beyond. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION ASIAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION Visit website The Asian Bankers Association (ABA) was organized on October 29, 1981, aiming to provide a forum for advancing the cause of the banking and finance industry in the region and promoting regional economic cooperation. ABA’s membership currently includes some 60 of the leading banks from 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CANADA-ASEAN BUSINESS COUNCIL Visit website Established in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the Canada-ASEAN Business Council (CABC) is the voice of the Canadian private sector in Southeast Asia. Our mission is to educate members toward concrete commercial opportunities and to facilitate the creation of a sustainable and prosperous Canada-ASEAN business corridor. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CENTER FOR ASIA LEADERSHIP Visit website Established in Cambridge, Massachusetts among scholars in the Harvard community, the Center for Asia Leadership is dedicated to helping leaders in Asia initiate change and manage progress in their organizations and communities through training, executive coaching, research, and publications, in the areas of adaptive leadership and strategic foresight. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CENTRE FOR ASIAN PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIETY Visit website The Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society identifies and disseminates best practices, models, policies, and strategies that can contribute to positive system change in the social investment sector across Asia. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CSRONE Visit website CSRone, founded by VEDA International in 2013, is Taiwan’s first interactive platform for sustainability knowledge and information. Sharing comprehensive global ESG insights, analyzing Taiwan’s overall disclosure information, comparing APAC’s Top 10 corporates’ sustainability performance and releasing the analysis results and global trends every March. CSRone is Asia-Pacific’s one of the most highly recognized sustainability intelligence. CSRone also strives to liaison resources, cultivate talents, engage partnerships as well as develop practice tools and conduct ESG training programs to help corporates and organizations accelerate their growth in ESG for the holistic goal of achieving balance among economic, environmental and social developments. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION Visit website With the motto of ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower,’ Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a not-for-profit based out of New Delhi, whose effort has been to find sustainable Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions including digital and new media to address the digital divide in under-served and unreached regions and communities. MEDIA PARTNER View Profile X MEDIA PARTNER ECO-BUSINESS Visit website Eco-Business is the leading media organisation on sustainable development. Established in 2009, it has been reporting issues on sustainability for 10 years now. Its independent journalism unit publishes high-quality, trusted news and views that advance business and policy action, and enables measurable impact on a wide range of sustainable development and responsible business issues. 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Sankalp Forum engages with Governments, Corporations, influential platforms, media and civil society to drive a paradigm shift in inclusive development approaches. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION SINGAPORE EDUCATION NETWORK (SEN) Visit website The Singapore Education Network (SEN) is a network of Education professionals & organizations in Singapore and Asia. SEN is a Knowledge Hub, Education Community & Business Partner offering its members to share – learn – collaborate. The majority of the 1,200+ individual members representing various education segments are from Singapore, while about 30% come from Asia and beyond. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION ASIAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION Visit website The Asian Bankers Association (ABA) was organized on October 29, 1981, aiming to provide a forum for advancing the cause of the banking and finance industry in the region and promoting regional economic cooperation. 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SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CENTER FOR ASIA LEADERSHIP Visit website Established in Cambridge, Massachusetts among scholars in the Harvard community, the Center for Asia Leadership is dedicated to helping leaders in Asia initiate change and manage progress in their organizations and communities through training, executive coaching, research, and publications, in the areas of adaptive leadership and strategic foresight. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CENTRE FOR ASIAN PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIETY Visit website The Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society identifies and disseminates best practices, models, policies, and strategies that can contribute to positive system change in the social investment sector across Asia. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION CSRONE Visit website CSRone, founded by VEDA International in 2013, is Taiwan’s first interactive platform for sustainability knowledge and information. Sharing comprehensive global ESG insights, analyzing Taiwan’s overall disclosure information, comparing APAC’s Top 10 corporates’ sustainability performance and releasing the analysis results and global trends every March. CSRone is Asia-Pacific’s one of the most highly recognized sustainability intelligence. CSRone also strives to liaison resources, cultivate talents, engage partnerships as well as develop practice tools and conduct ESG training programs to help corporates and organizations accelerate their growth in ESG for the holistic goal of achieving balance among economic, environmental and social developments. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION Visit website With the motto of ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower,’ Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a not-for-profit based out of New Delhi, whose effort has been to find sustainable Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions including digital and new media to address the digital divide in under-served and unreached regions and communities. MEDIA PARTNER View Profile X MEDIA PARTNER ECO-BUSINESS Visit website Eco-Business is the leading media organisation on sustainable development. Established in 2009, it has been reporting issues on sustainability for 10 years now. Its independent journalism unit publishes high-quality, trusted news and views that advance business and policy action, and enables measurable impact on a wide range of sustainable development and responsible business issues. It owns and operates the award-winning news platform, Eco-business.com, which attracts a few million unique senior-level visitors every year. Many business leaders and government officials are reading our news to keep themselves informed about sustainability issues. SUPPORTING ORGANISATION View Profile X SUPPORTING ORGANISATION INTELLECAP Visit website Sankalp Forum was initiated in India in 2009 by Intellecap, part of the Aavishkaar Group, to create a thriving ecosystem for business-led inclusive development. Over the past 13 years, Sankalp has built one of the world’s largest impact enterprise focused platforms that has showcased and discovered 1800+ entrepreneurs, through 26 editions and has connected them to 600+ investors. Sankalp has enabled enterprises and entrepreneurs and has helped raise over USD 270 million in funding and disbursed over USD 870,000 in cash grants. 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