Heng Swee Keat co-chaired the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE), which charted the strategies for Singapore's next phase of growth. He chairs the tripartite Future Economy Council, which oversees the implementation of national strategies in areas such as skills and capabilities development, innovation and productivity, and industry transformation. He is also the Chairman of the National Research Foundation, which sets the direction for Singapore's research, innovation and enterprise strategies. Before this, Mr. Heng served as Minister for Education from 2011 to 2015. He drove programs for a student-centric, values-driven education system, emphasizing the holistic development of students and multiple educational pathways. While at MOE, Mr. Heng also led Our Singapore Conversation, a national consultation exercise that reached out to close to 50,000 Singaporeans on their aspirations for Singapore's future. Prior to entering politics in May 2011, Mr. Heng was the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), where he received the "Central Bank Governor of the Year in Asia-Pacific" Award by the British magazine The Banker. Mr. Heng has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University. He also holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Princess Sylvia Sisowath is a leading Cambodian humanitarian figure and member of the royal family, known for her work in education, social development, and community welfare. With international experience, particularly in France, she has dedicated her efforts to supporting vulnerable populations in Cambodia through hands-on engagement and institution-building. As President of the ESK Association and founder of the Kep Educational Center, she has created safe spaces for children to learn, explore the arts, and grow, while also advocating for dignified working conditions for educators and staff. Her commitment extends to supporting victims of landmines and promoting their protection and reintegration. Guided by a humanist vision that unites education, culture, and humanitarian action, she works closely with public and private partners to advance high-impact philanthropic initiatives. Her renewed presence in Cambodia since 2024 reflects her continued dedication to fostering sustainable development and empowering future generations.

Bruno Lopez is President and Group Chief Executive Officer of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC). He has been responsible for the overall leadership, direction, growth, and development of the STT GDC group since its inception in 2014. He is also concurrently Deputy Chief Executive Officer at ST Telemedia (STT). Under his leadership, STT GDC has become one of the fastest-growing data centre providers in Asia and Europe. The company has built a substantial portfolio of integrated data centres across a global platform serving all the major cloud service providers and enterprises in Singapore, India, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines; through VIRTUS Data Centres in the UK and Germany, and GDS in China. In addition to his role as President and Group CEO, Bruno also sits on the Board and chairs the Executive Committees in all these companies. Mr. Lopez has been instrumental in steering the company to achieve market leadership in significant economies, solidifying the STT GDC group’s reputation as a prominent player in the global data centre industry. An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications and data centres industry, Bruno was most recently named to Capacity Media’s 2023 Power 100 list, recognising his contributions to the wholesale carrier and ICT industry. Mr. Lopez’s track record includes founding roles as the CEO and Executive Director of Keppel Data Centres where he played a key role in building up the company’s growth and expansion in Asia and Europe. He also established the Securus Data Property Fund, an investment fund focused on data centre assets in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the Middle East, which later merged with Keppel Data Centres’ assets during the company’s SGX REIT listing. Mr. Lopez holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s from Rutgers University, USA.

Ng Tian Chong, is the CEO of Singtel Singapore, since June 2023, leading the integration of its consumer and enterprise businesses to drive national-level growth, synergies, and productivity across mobile, broadband, TV, and network solutions. With over 30 years at HP—culminating as Senior VP and Managing Director of Greater Asia—he held leadership roles in sales, finance, marketing, and product management, helping establish HP as a regional leader. A Colonel in the Singapore Army after 32 years of National Service, he also serves as a non-executive director at Dyson. He holds a BSc in International Business from Menlo College and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Mati is the co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, an AI audio startup redefining speech and voice technology. He founded the company in 2022, inspired by the poor quality of movie voiceovers in Poland, and has since led its rapid global growth. Prior to ElevenLabs, Mati worked at Palantir, BlackRock, and Opera Software, and studied mathematics at Imperial College London.

Tim Shi is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Cresta. He started his PhD at Stanford AI Lab researching natural language processing and reinforcement learning. He was an early member of the OpenAI team in 2016 and made contribution to building safe AGI in digital environments. His work on "world of bits" laid foundation for web-based reinforcement learning agents. He co-founded Cresta in 2017 and Cresta was one of first companies to deploy generative AI in enterprise, including GPT based suggestions product in 2019. Cresta is backed by top investors including Sequoia, a16z, Greylock and helps drive hundreds of millions in ROI across Fortune 500 customers like United Airlines, US Bank and Verizon. He and his team hold multiple patents in AI for contact center conversations.

Justin is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Genspark.ai, a Palo Alto–based tech company building AI Agents for knowledge workers. Within just 18 months of its founding in 2024, Genspark secured $160M in venture funding. Following the launch of its Super Agent suite in April 2025, the company attracted over 2 million global users and reached $36M in ARR within 45 days — driven entirely by organic, product-led growth. Fueling this explosive trajectory is Justin's visionary technical leadership and expertise, forged through a decade of hands-on experience scaling technology systems from scratch to billions of users for multiple times at both Facebook (Messenger, PyTorch) and Google, where he contributed during the early, transformative days of these now-iconic companies.

Jennifer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wiz.ai, an AI-powered voice automation company based in Singapore that specializes in conversational AI for enterprise customer engagement in Southeast Asia. Under her leadership, Wiz.ai has developed voice bots capable of understanding and speaking local languages and dialects—including English, Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia, and Malay—enabling businesses in banking, insurance, and e-commerce to automate customer calls at scale. Jennifer holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and has been recognized for her work in AI innovation and entrepreneurship in the region.

Rocky is the Founder and CEO of AGI House, a leading community for AI founders and researchers dedicated to advancing humanity’s transition to AGI. He is also the founding partner of AGI House Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused venture capital fund backed by industry luminaries such as Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen, Adam D’Angelo, and Rich Miner. Before this, for over a decade in Silicon Valley, Rocky was a serial entrepreneur working on AI and AR startups.

Kelvin works on multimodal generative models with a focus on image and video generation and editing. He is a core contributor to Imagen 3, Instruct-Imagen, and other foundational vision systems at Google. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from NTU under Prof. Chen Change Loy and received the Google PhD Fellowship in 2021.

Eugene co-founded Featherless to provide serverless inference infrastructure for large language models. His platform enables on-demand AI model execution without persistent GPU servers. He aims to reduce cost and complexity for developers deploying generative AI applications.

Professor Liu leads research in generative AI, computer vision, and multimodal systems at NTU. His work focuses on models that understand and generate images, video, and text. He regularly publishes at top AI conferences and has received multiple research awards.

Chester leads Google Cloud’s policy engagement on AI governance and cybersecurity across the Asia Pacific region. He previously served as Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy for Google Cloud APAC. His career includes roles at Temasek, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Singapore Tourism Board, and the World Bank Group. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MPA in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.

Marija Ralic is the head of Google.org APAC, the philanthropic arm of Google. Marija joined Google in 2019 where she manages Google’s philanthropic work across the Asia-Pacific region to support innovative social impact organizations using AI tech to tackle complex global challenges.

She works with teams across the regions to apply Google’s innovation, research, and resources to promote progress and expand opportunity for everyone.

She brings years of experience in driving regional planning and investments, AI for Applied Science and society (Health, Energy, Agriculture), AI in Education and Economic Growth (helping job seekers, SMEs, educators, youth, parents, etc.), AI for NGOs Capacity Building and digital transformation, etc

Before Google, Marija served as a Regional Program Manager overseeing the Philanthropic programs at Microsoft Philanthropies across 17 countries and 20 countries in the Asia Pacific and Central and Eastern Europe, respectively.

Before her corporate philanthropy journey, Marija spent five years in AIESEC Serbia, the world’s largest youth-run nonprofit, which focuses on developing the leadership potential of young people through experiential learning, volunteer experiences, and professional internships. She served AIESEC in various functions, including as president of the AIESEC chapter in Serbia and vice president of external relations.

Saurabh Gaidhani is the Deputy Executive Director of the No.17 Foundation and leads the Corporate Philanthropy initiative at TPC Group, bringing over 15 years of global experience across international development and strategic philanthropy. He has advised public, private, and nonprofit organisations on issues spanning climate change, circular economy, net-zero transitions, decarbonisation, nature-based solutions, urban development, inclusive growth, and ESG strategy. Saurabh holds an Executive MBA and a Master of Arts from the National University of Singapore, alongside executive education in public policy and sustainable finance from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining TPC, he served as Regional Head at the Resilient Cities Network and as Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he led strategic programmes, partnerships, and impact initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region.

Stefan is a Senior AI Engineer at Tomoro AI. He designs and deploys multi-agent systems for clients across industries, from financial services and construction to sport and leisure. With a background in data science, he builds maintainable products through grounded experimentation.

At Tomoro, his work centres on evaluating agentic workflows and strengthening safety guardrails, using clear metrics to carry prototypes reliably into production.

Sir Prof Robin William Grimes is a globally recognised materials physicist and nuclear scientist, currently holding the Steele Chair in Energy Materials at Imperial College London. He applies advanced computer simulation techniques to predict how materials behave in energy applications — from nuclear fission and fusion to batteries, fuel cells, and solar cells. He has served in high-level advisory roles in the UK government, including as Chief Scientific Adviser (Nuclear) to the Ministry of Defence and previously Chief Scientific Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where he pioneered the integration of science into diplomacy. A Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, he was knighted in 2022 for his contributions to UK resilience and international scientific cooperation.

At GFI, Artichoke, TIG, and APEX, Prof David Lee leverages over a decade of leadership in strategy and analytical innovation to advance financial technologies across the Asia-Pacific region. His work sits at the forefront of Web3 development and digital finance, promoting connectivity and greater financial inclusion. As a professor at SUSS and NUS, he specializes in fintech, shaping future leaders in a tech-driven economy while championing scalable digital solutions that empower individuals and communities through decentralized systems and transformative digital education.

Jeffrey Lonsdale is a Partner at Starstorm Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage investments across Southeast Asia. Before joining Starstorm, he led the Asia strategy team at Founders Fund, helping to steer the firm’s expansion in the region. Jeffrey has been active in Silicon Valley since 2006, investing in and advising foundational technology companies, including Palantir and Addepar. His long-term perspective on innovation, cross-border scaling, and founder-centric support enables him to identify and back early-stage ventures positioned for durable impact in both Asia and the global tech ecosystem.

With two decades at the intersection of AI, business strategy, and capability building, James Kok is actively advancing AI adoption in Singapore. As Head of AIAP-X at AI Singapore, he leads the international expansion of the organisation’s flagship AI talent development programme, while also directing the AI Engineering Hub (Defence) to apply AI to critical national security challenges. In his concurrent role as Assistant Head of Industry Development, he drives strategic partnerships that accelerate responsible and scalable AI implementation across industries. His leadership is shaped by entrepreneurial experience co-founding and scaling two technology ventures, further strengthened by his training under the CTO Programme at the National University of Singapore, enabling him to bridge technological innovation with strategic business impact.

As Head of TT Foundation Advisors at Temasek Trust, Dickson Lim leads a team providing strategic philanthropy advisory, professional foundation management, and impact-focused services to charitable foundations, family offices, philanthropists, and nonprofits across Asia. With more than 20 years in the for-impact sector, he has a strong record of shaping meaningful philanthropic strategies aligned with the values of donors and the needs of communities. Prior to joining Temasek Trust, Dickson served as Executive Director and Head of Philanthropy & Community Impact (Singapore) at UBS, where he led regional philanthropy efforts, built high-impact stakeholder partnerships, and helped establish philanthropic funds and foundations. He brings deep expertise in Asia’s giving landscape, with strengths spanning strategic communications, nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and sustainable impact design.

Adjunct Professor Ngiam Kee Yuan is Head and Senior Consultant of the Division of General Surgery (Endocrine & Thyroid Surgery) at National University Hospital (NUH) and Senior Consultant in Surgical Oncology at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore. He graduated with distinction from University College London in 2003 and is dually certified by the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in Glasgow and Edinburgh, becoming an MOH-accredited surgical specialist in 2012. A pioneer in surgical innovation, Prof Ngiam integrates artificial intelligence and digital health into surgical care—founding initiatives such as DISCOVERY AI, ENDEAVOUR AI, and the NUHS Holomedicine Programme—and holds multiple patents in AI-driven surgical technologies.

Aurora Duan (Xiaoyi Duan) is a Paris-based global leader in public service and social innovation, recognised with the Étoile Civique at the French Senate for her contributions to civic advancement. As President of Impactopia, she drives international initiatives across sustainability and philanthropy, empowering NGOs and cross-sector partners in areas such as blue-carbon development, digital transformation, accessible AI, women’s entrepreneurship, youth empowerment, and sustainable agriculture.