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THE CONFERENCE ON THE EMERGINGTECHNOLOGIES THAT MATTER

30 - 31 January 2018, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Where Technology, Business and Innovation Collide

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Featuring: INNOVATORSUNDER 35ASIA PACIFIC

At EmTech Asia, you meet them. The dreamers, the forward-thinkers, the doers. Hear from 50 tech leaders, scientists and innovators, including:

Shana Diez Director of Build ReliabilitySpaceX

Shana leads SpaceX’s quality engineering, process development, and nondestructive evaluation teams. She has been at SpaceX for 9 years holding a variety of roles including project manager and lead engineer for the Grasshopper and F9-R development vehicles. She was a key team member for development of SpaceX’s reusable rocket technology, the first Dragon capsules to fly, and the development of the Merlin 1D engine.

Bill DallyChief ScientistNVIDIA

Bill joined NVIDIA in January 2009 as chief scientist, after spending 12 years at Stanford University, where he was chairman of the computer science department. Bill and his Stanford team developed the system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing and synchronisation technology that is found in most large parallel computers today.

Hans TungManaging Partner, Silicon ValleyGGV Capital

Hans is one of the top investors to cross over between Silicon Valley and China, with a portfolio that includes shopping startup Wish, valued at more than $3 billion. Across a career that spans several VC firms, Hans invested in big hits such as Xiaomi, eHi Car Rental, Forgame and Vancl.com, as well as wearable maker Misfit.

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Olivier de Weck Senior VP for Technology Planning and Roadmapping, Airbus Group

Olivier is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT. He is currently on a professional leave of absence from MIT as Senior Vice President for Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus. In this role he and his team are establishing a systematic way to plan research and technology (R&T) projects across 120 technology roadmaps with a time horizon of 2035 and beyond.

Jun RekimotoDeputy DirectorSony Computer Science Laboratories

Jun is a professor in the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at The University of Tokyo. His research interests include human-computer interaction, computer augmented environments and computer augmented human (human-computer integration). He invented various innovative interactive systems and sensing technologies.

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Serguei BeloussovChairman and CEOAcronis

Serguei Beloussov is the co-founder of Acronis, its Chairman of the Board since 2003, and its CEO since 2013. He is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Acumatica and a Senior Partner at Runa Capital. Serguei sits on the Board of Directors of the Russian Quantum Center and the Governing Board of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore.

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Gerald Wong President and CEOCambridge Industries Group

CIG is a significant player in the telecom optical and wireless broadband customer-premises equipment industry with facilities in China and USA. At their Shanghai factory, robots currently handle two thirds of the labour and the plant is on track to become 90% automated in coming years. An MIT graduate in EE and CS, Gerald is a visionary of the dark factory of the future.

Pierre BrunswickCEONeuroMem® Technologies Pte Ltd

NeuroMem develops neuromorphic chips inspired by the human brain, capable of learning and recognising patterns at high speed and low-power, and opening new frontiers for smart sensors and cognitive computing applications. Pierre has over 40 years of international experience in tech, sales, marketing and business development in 94 countries.

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Vivienne MingCofounder and Managing PartnerSocos

Named one of Inc. Magazine’s “Top 10 Women to Watch in Tech,” Vivienne is a theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, and entrepreneur whose guiding mission is to maximise human potential, from neurons to toddlers to whole economies. Vivienne has co-founded several companies. The most recent, Socos, combines machine learning and cognitive neuroscience to improve children’s life outcomes.

Oriol Vinyals Research ScientistGoogle DeepMind

At Google DeepMind, Oriol works on artificial intelligence with particular emphasis on machine learning, language, and vision. Before joining DeepMind, Oriol was part of the Google Brain team. He is a recipient of the 2011 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship and the 2016 MIT TR35 innovator award.

Donald Sadoway John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry MIT

Donald’s research is directed towards rechargeable batteries and environmentally sound metals extraction. He is the founder of Ambri, developing grid-scale batteries based on all-liquid active components. Viewed 1,750,000 times, his TED talk is about inventing technology and inventing inventors. In 2012 he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Tomaso PoggioEugene McDermott Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

Tomaso develops computational models of brain function in order to understand human intelligence and to build intelligent machines that can mimic human performance. He is a founding member of the McGovern Institute, and is also the director of the Centre for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multi-institutional collaboration headquartered at the McGovern Institute.

Gang Wang Chief ScientistAlibaba AI Labs

Wang is at the forefront of turning AI into consumer-ready products. He was one of the scientists behind the Tmall Genie, Alibaba’s first AI-based product, released in July 2017. Prior to Alibaba, Wang was Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University. In 2017, he has been recognised by MIT Technology Review as an Innovator Under 35 (Asia and Global).

Tong Zhang Executive DirectorTencent, AI Lab

Tong is a machine learning researcher. His research interests include machine learning algorithms and theory, statistical methods for big data and their applications. Previously, he was a professor at Rutgers university, and worked at IBM, Yahoo, and Baidu.

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Grégoire RibordyCEO and Vice Chairman of BoardID Quantique

Quantum computing could render today’s encryption obsolete. For the past 15 years, Grégoire has been developing something called quantum key distribution - a system that encrypts data so securely that cannot be deciphered even by an advanced quantum computer. Grégoire, a former University of Geneva physics professor is the recipient of several awards for his work.

Adam GilmourCEOGilmour Space Technologies

Adam is leading a team of talented engineers pioneering low-cost rocket development and launch in Australia and Singapore. His Queensland-based company began its rocket program in 2015 with a team of just three engineers, and within 18 months successfully test launched the countries’ first privately developed hybrid rocket using proprietary 3D printed fuel (a world first).

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Mark ShmulevichChief Strategy and Operations OfficerAcronis

Acronis is an IT company developing next generation data storage and protection solutions. From 2012 to 2014, Mark served as Deputy Minister of ICT of Russia, overseeing the country’s innovation industry support, policymaking in IT and technology park development. Before that, he was Head of Business Development at Russian Space Systems Corporation and was instrumental in establishing the first USA-Russia joint venture in satellite navigation and also the Russian Quantum Centre.

Mike NorthHostDiscovery Channel

Mike, host of Discovery Channel shows “Prototype This!,” “In The Making,” and “The Potentialists,” and Science Show “Outrageous Acts of Science,” is an undaunted, anything-but-mild engineer. Fusing science with media he opens doors to awe-inspiring experiences and radical paradigm shifts, whether teaching innovation at UC Berkeley, creating a more equitable planet as founder of ReAllocate, or making the impossible at North Design Labs.

Jonathan Hung President, Singapore Space and Technology Association

SSTA is Singapore’s industry association focused on developing the space technology industry. Earlier in his career, Jonathan was the Centre Director for Middle East & North Africa Operations at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). There, he led the development of the space incubator unit that is presently EDB’s Space office.

Gerhard SchmittProfessor of Information Architecture, ETH Zürich & Director, Singapore-ETH Centre

Gerhard’s research focuses on responsive, smart and liveable future cities, specifically in rapidly-urbanising regions worldwide. With his team in Zürich and Singapore, he put together the first Future Cities MOOC series, subscribed by more than 110,000 participants in 170 countries. He initiated the virtual ETH World Campus and the ETH Science City Campus, for which he received the European Culture of Science Award.

Diane Wu CofounderTrace Genomics

Trace Genomics conducts rapid “microbiome” testing and data analysis in farms to help growers of high-value crops know whether or not their soil has harmful bacteria or fungi in it. Diane cofounded Trace Genomics with the vision of connecting great science to the hardworking taxpayers who fund it, and making genomic testing accessible.

Yuval OfekCofounder and ChairmanDayTwo

DayTwo leverages genetics and machine learning to provide personalised nutrition solutions based on gut microbiome. Prior to DayTwo, Yuval founded dbMotion, a leading healthcare technology company that provides a broad set of solutions for population health and analytics. dbMotion was sold to Allscripts in 2013 for $235 Million.

Daniel HastingsCEO and Director, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

SMART is a research enterprise established by MIT and the National Research Foundation of Singapore. Before SMART, Daniel was MIT’s Dean of Undergraduate Education. From 1997 to 1999, he served as the U.S. Air Force’s Chief Scientist, leading influential studies of Air Force investments in space and of preparations for a 21st-century science and technology workforce.

Brett BibbyVP of EngineeringUnity Technologies

Brett is a strategic and creative thinker with more than 30 years of experience developing games and game engine technology, as well as founding and developing businesses. In his role at Unity, Brett is responsible for managing the global engineering team, helping to define, communicate and implement development and product strategy and practices across the organisation.

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Steven TuckerChief Medical Officer, CXA Group, Founder, Tucker Medical

Tucker Medical is a Singapore-based private medical practice focused on personalised medicine and prevention through integration of IT technology, genomics, and behavioral interventions. Steven is an alumnus of the Singularity University FutureMed program and the Global Health Advisor for the Singapore SU Chapter.

Peter DedonUnderwood-Prescott Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT

Peter’s group has developed bioanalytical and informatic platforms for discovery science in epigenetics and epitranscriptomics in infectious disease and human cancer biology. On top of his post at MIT, Peter is also Lead Principal Investigator in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Antimicrobial Drug Resistance Program, an instructor in the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, and a member of the MIT Center for Environmental Health Science.

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Michael CondryPresident, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS)

In 2015, Michael retired from Intel Global Ecosystem Development Division, where he worked as CTO for 15 years. He was the head of technology innovation with Ecosystem partners, lead for staff technical development and oversaw security programs and user experience technology evolution.

Steve LeonardFounding CEOSGInnovate

At SGInnovate, Steve has been chartered to help translate some of the ‘deep-tech’ R&D, for which Singapore has gained a global reputation, into commercial success by working with local and international partners.

Sebastien de HalleuxCOOSaildrone

In 2017, Saildrone was listed as a ‘Top 25 groundbreaking companies to watch’ by Inc Magazine. Sebastien is also a founding partner of Graph Ventures, an early stage angel fund with a portfolio of 100+ startups. Formerly, Sebastien was Co-Founder and COO of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social gaming companies, acquired by video game giant Electronic Arts (EA) in 2009.

Will Knight Senior Editor for AIMIT Technology Review

At MIT Technology Review, Will covers the latest advances in AI and related fields, including machine learning, automated driving, and robotics. Will’s most recent cover story, The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI, examined the opaque nature of today’s most cutting machine learning algorithms.

Tim Jones Programme DirectorFuture Agenda

Tim is a recognised expert in innovation, growth and futures. Future Agenda is the world’s largest open foresight programme where Tim leads the annual Innovation Leaders analysis that profiles the companies making the most of their innovation investments.

Alvin Wang GraylinChina President of ViveHTC

Alvin is the China Regional President of Vive at HTC leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the 300-member company Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance, President of the $17B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance and oversees the Vive X VR accelerator in Asia.

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Zainul CharbiwalaCofounder and CTOTricog Health

Zainul has been building embedded systems and developing software for over 15 years. He is interested in the overlap of connected devices and machine intelligence to revolutionise and reinvent healthcare. Before Tricog, Zainul was a Research Staff Member and Research Manager at IBM Research, India.

Zee Kin YeongAssistant Chief Executive IMDA

Zee Kin is a Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) lawyer. Prior to taking up his present appointment, he was Senior State Counsel and Director of Technology Law in the Civil Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers and held a concurrent appointment as Senior Director (Special Projects) in the Legal Services department of the Ministry of Communications and Information.

Shuang Wu ScientistYitu Tech

Shuang is a former senior researcher at Silicon Valley AI Lab of Baidu Research and senior architect of Baidu US development center. He specialises in machine learning, computer vision and other related topics in artificial intelligence.

Joseph FitzsimonsAssistant Professor SUTD

Joseph is a theoretical physicist working on the development of quantum computation. He is a National Research Foundation Fellow, and in 2016 was named an Innovator Under 35 Asia Pacific honouree.

Paul SmithGlobal Field Operations ManagerHyperloop One

Hyperloop One is building the first new mode of transportation in 100 years. With ground speeds 2-3 times faster than high speed rail, it could connect Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in under 20 minutes. Before Hyperloop One, Paul was the Managing Director of the Dubai government’s innovation program.

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INNOVATORS UNDER 35 HONOUREES

Min Hao WongCandidate for PhD in Chemical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Min Hao is developing unique nanosensor constructs for smart agriculture applications. His work has been featured in global media outlets such as FOX, Forbes, TIME, BBC, and CBS. BostInno named his work as one of the top 7 inventions to come out of MIT in 2016. Min Hao is also currently actively running Plantea, a start-up company focused on agricultural nanosensors.

Qilin WangARC DECRA Fellow & LecturerGriffith University

Qilin’s research focuses on innovative biotechnologies for maximising energy recovery/production from wastewater. For his research, he has been awarded 7 competitive grants with a total research funding of ~$AUD 3.6 Million from Australian government, State government, industry and university. He has to date published ~ 80 fully refereed journal papers, most of which were published in Q1 Journals.

Chun-Hao HuangCofounder & CEOCLINICAI Inc

Chun-Hao pioneered the establishment of fast and flexible genetically engineered mouse models using gene silencing and editing technologies, and led the discovery of therapeutic strategies for treating liver cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. Merging functional genomics and artificial intelligence for disease detection and treatment, he cofounded CLINICAI to early detect cancer.

Wesley Zheng GuangyuanScientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR

Wesley’s research work focuses on developing high capacity electrodes for next-generation high energy density lithium batteries for automotive, aerial and renewable storage applications. He is a recipient of the Material Research Society Graduate Student Award, and the National Science Scholarship from A*STAR. He also cofounded a venture-backed startup (volans-i) to develop high-payload, long-range delivery drone.

Jiashi FengAssistant ProfessorNational University of Singapore

Jiashi’s research interest focuses on enabling computers to grow learning ability with dynamic neural networks. He has published over 100 research papers in machine learning, deep learning, object recognition and big data analysis. He received the winner prizes for ILSVRC2017 object localisation, MS-Celeb-1M face recognition, and best paper award from TASK-CV with ICCV 2015.

Bee Luan KhooSenior Post-Doctoral Research AssociateSingapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)

Bee Luan leads a research team under the Young Investigator grant award by NMRC to utilise a microfluidic device for cancer management and evaluation, the circulating tumour cell (CTC) Cluster Assay. The CTC Cluster Assay aims to mimic parts of the tumour microenvironment in vitro by integrating a confined fluidic niche using microwells with hypoxia and tumour-associated immune cells.

Anjali JaiprakashAdvance Queensland Research FellowQueensland University of Technology

Anjali works at the intersection of medicine, engineering and design, with a transdisciplinary approach to develop medical devices that translate robotic vision into affordable systems that can be used to improve healthcare outcomes. This includes a light field retinal diagnostic system to replace the expensive and complex cameras currently used to detect abnormalities such as glaucoma or macular degeneration and decrease preventable blindness.

Ajay Prakash KottapalliResearch Scientist, Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)

Ajay works on nanosensors inspired by marine animals that may create a new standard of care in biomedical flow sensing. A Project Investigator funded by the SMART Innovation Center and the CENSAM Research Initiative, Ajay’s research focuses on nature-inspired sensor technologies, biomimetic materials, MEMS/NEMS, nanotechnology, biomedical devices.

Yok Hian ChionhAssistant DirectorTychan Pte Ltd

Yok Hian believes that the war against infections can be won if we proactively create systems that rapidly design cures, respond to, and treat patients during outbreaks. As a scientist, he discovered fundamental properties of genetic coding that enabled pathogens to survive hostile environments. As a drug developer, he helped bring an anti-Zika therapeutic from bench-to-bedside.

Weibo GaoNanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical ScienceNanyang Technological University

Weibo’s research focuses on exploring the spin-photon interface towards building a quantum network, potentially providing a way towards quantum computer building and quantum information processing. His reserach in quantum information and quantum photonics is published in several world class journals such as Nature, Nature physics, Nature photonics and Nature communications.

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