Name: Dr Avishek Kumar
Position: CEO
Company: V-Flow Tech

Dr Avishek is co-founder and CEO of V-Flow Tech Pte Ltd. V-Flow Tech (VFT) is a spin-off from Nanyang Technology University in Singapore, capitalizing on 7 years of research to address key issues faced by flow batteries. VFT is reinventing vanadium redox flow technology, with a vision to develop the cheapest and most scalable vanadium redox flow batteries in the world.

Avishek holds MS degree in Microelectronics from Technical University of Munich, Germany and a Doctorate degree (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore. Avishek has deep background in manufacturing and detailed domain knowledge of renewable energy industry.  Dr Avishek was one of the chief architects for developing high efficiency PERC Mono modules and has played key role in the commercialization of Half cut PERC Mono module for REC solar. He is actively involved in consultation and development of solar plus energy storage projects across the region and has contributed to over 600 MW of renewable energy projects in the region.

Name: JogJaman Jap
Position: Founder & CEO
Company: Spectronik

Jogjaman Jap is the founder and CEO of Spectronik - a Singapore company that develops Hydrogen fuel cells for drones and Electric Vehicles. He has 14 years of experience in Hydrogen fuel cells and managed multi-million dollar R&D programs for key accounts such as Boeing, DARPA, General Atomics, SAIC Motor and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. His works include the award winning Phoenix Hydrogen fuel cell drone and world record holder in efficiency for Hydrogen fuel cell powered eco-car. Jogjaman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Name: Eric Seow
Position: Lead Principal System Architect, CSS
Company: Infineon Technologies

Eric Seow, Lead Principal System Architect, has more than 21 years of experience in the Embedded Security and Smart Card Industry. His area of expertise includes hardware security and certification, as well as, security for IoT and emerging applications in Asia Pacific ranging from Smart Homes, Automotive Security and Smart Cities. Eric has also engaged extensively with industry partners and agencies to design and integrate hardware based security into various applications.

Name: Zhou Ziling
Position: Co-Founder & CTO
Company: Ampotech

Ziling is the CTO and Co-Founder of Ampotech, a Singapore-based company applying internet of things and edge computing technology for building energy efficiency. An experienced system architect and engineer, Ziling holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and was formerly a PhD student in Computer Science. He has led research and development projects focused on sensor networks and smart buildings, and won the Best Paper Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2010

Name: Poi Toong Tang
Position: Vice President of Sales, APAC
Company: Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)

Poi Toong Tang is Vice President of Sales, APAC of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), a rapidly growing and leading manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots. He joined the company in June 2020 to manage MiR’s business across Asia Pacific region. Poi Toong is responsible to grow revenues through inspiring and developing high performance energetic sales leaders and teams. Together with our distribution and system integration partners, Poi Toong and his team bring the disruptive technology of autonomous mobile robot to our valued customers in solving their internal logistic and material handling challenges.

With close to 30 years of industrial automation and robotics experience, Poi Toong is a visionary, transformational and resilient executive leader where his strength is at business execution, putting strategy into action and leading change. Half of the period has been in sales leadership and the other half was in Marketing, with exceptions. Arm with a degree in electrical engineering, and a postgraduate degree in business administration, Poi Toong had ran his own automation company offering automation solutions and system integration services.

Outside of work, he values his family time, enjoys movies and exercises through running.

Name: James Chan
Position: Founder and CEO
Company: ION Mobility

James is founder and CEO of ION Mobility. He has been a tech entrepreneur, investor and public servant at organisations he formed or was a part of – across industries spanning fintech, internet, 3D printing, robotics and automation, venture capital and public policy and industry development – and in organisations such as Abakus Southeast Asia, Silicon Straits, GreyOrange, Neoteny Labs, Walden International, SG Innovate (f.k.a. Infocomm Investments) and IMDA (f.k.a. Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore).

A recipient of the EDB Singapore Inc. scholarship in 2002, James has had a broad range of experiences that cuts across economic and industry policy formulation and implementation, venture capital, product development and management, business strategy and development, finance and operations in the technology and startup ecosystem in Southeast and East Asia.
 
In his spare time, James spends time with his family, enjoys computer games, nature, photography and food, and volunteers at The Birthday Collective, a non-profit organisation he co-founded that strives to serve as Singapore's "Heart, Hand and Brain trust".
 

Name: Calvin Goh
Position: Vice President, Business Development
Company: Photizo Global

Calvin is a veteran in business and product development with a background in IT, Consumer Electronics, and Telecommunications. His experience allows him to bring the iCore solutions to market with a realistic and practical approach; resulting in a compelling solution which has eluded smart city implementations till now.

Name: Grace Chung
Company: Infineon Technologies

Grace is currently heading the Asia Pacific head for People & Organization Effectiveness (POE) as a Senior Director.  Her functional areas of responsibilities include People & Leadership Development, Organization Transformation, Talent Management, Diversity Inclusion & Health. She joined Siemens/Infineon in 1995 upon graduating from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) with a Bachelor in Engineering.  In her tenure, Grace also had other functional responsibilities such as Total Quality Management, Internal Communications as well as Future of Work.

Name: Michael Netzley, Ph.D.
Position: Founder and CEO
Company: Extend My Runway Pte. Ltd.

Michael is the Founder and CEO of Extend My Runway Pte. Ltd, an AI platform offering personalized, affordable, and neuroscience-based digital nudges that accelerate behavioral change and make your brain smarter. Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Michael worked with two global consultancies and also built an award-winning career in executive development and international education. Throughout this journey Michael has consistently focused on serving the community by volunteering as a court-appointed dispute mediator, community podcaster, and work as an executive coach. Today Michael lives in Singapore with his family and is pursuing a second master’s degree in Applied Neuroscience at King’s College London.

Name: Sudhendu J. Sinha
Position: Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity & Electric Mobility) at NITI Aayog, Govt of India

An alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi did his Major in History. He has experience of over 27 years in operations, infrastructure planning, coordination and management at field and policy making levels in Indian Railways with considerable success and appreciation. His performance has been recognised and awarded twice at the National level (National Award for e-Governance- 2019-20, for ‘Excellence in providing Citizen - Centric Delivery’ by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Govt. of India, ‘National Award for Outstanding Service’ Ministry of Railways Govt. of India -2006) and thrice at the Ministry (of Railways) level.

He also served as Dean of the Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management (IRITM), Lucknow, and General Manager Web Applications at the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). He has training and enrichment from Japan (Railway Management), Malaysia (ICLIF - Advance Management), Singapore (INSEAD - Advance Management), Germany (UIC) and the US (Oracle).

He is the Adviser at the NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transformation of India), the apex ‘Think Tank’ of the Govt. of India.

Name: Vijay Narayanan
Position: Head NFC product group, CSS
Company: Infineon Technologies

Vijay Narayanan heads the “NFC Product Group” within the ‘Connected Secure Systems’ division of Infineon.

He has 19 years of experience, mainly in the semiconductor sector, and has taken ideas to production and commercialization in both start-up and large corporates. In 2015, he built his own IoT product start-up on touch-free gesture recognition and the product won multiple awards including the ‘ CES Innovation Award 2017’.  

Vijay also holds multiple patents and publications. He is an avid photographer and has had his photos published by National Geographic and other publications.

Name: Myoungho Sunwoo
Position: Chair Professor
Company: Korea University

He is currently a chair professor at Korea University, in Seoul, Korea since 2021. Before joining Korea University, he was a distinguished professor at the Department of Automotive Engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea since 1993, and also he is the director of Research Institute of ACELAB (Automotive Control and Electronics Laboratory) in Hanyang University. Before coming to join Hanyang University, he’s been working as a Researcher at GM Research Laboratories in Warren, Michigan for around ten years. During his tenure at GMR, he has worked on design and development of various electronic control systems.

Name: Jeetendra Ashok
Position: Sr Product Manager
Company: Infineon Technologies India

As Sr Product Manager of NOR Memories at Infineon Technologies, Jeetendra Ashok is responsible to support and grow business for the NOR Flash product line in the Asia Pacific Region, located in Bangalore. Jeetendra Ashok has close to 15 years of experience doing multiple roles such as Program Management, Product Marketing and more recently running a technical support line. He has played key leadership roles in Research & Development with good exposure to complete product life cycle.

His expertise lies in embedded systems involving Memories, Clocks, Microcontrollers, Sensing and User Interfaces. He has also published many Application Notes and Technical Blogs.