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  Michael Brenzel

  Chief evangelist, Google Workspace

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  Michael Brenzel

  Chief evangelist, Google Workspace

  October 13th 2022

  • 09:50 am -10:05 am
    In conversation. Navigating priorities in the emerging future workplace

  Michael Brenzel is Google’s chief evangelist for Workspace. At Google, he focuses on thought leadership for the future of work and driving awareness of Google Workspace. Before joining Google, Mr Brenzel held several leadership positions at the research company Gartner and worked in the telco and IT industry for many years. His experience with Google Workspace goes back to the beginning in 2006, when he was one of the first beta testers.

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  Julian Clarke

  Executive director of HR and group owner, restructuring and M&A—people and change, Telstra

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  Julian Clarke

  Executive director of HR and group owner, restructuring and M&A—people and change, Telstra

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work

  Julian Clarke is currently group owner  of restructuring for people and change and future workplace experience at Telstra. He is passionate about enabling people and organisations to be their best and believes that creating great employee experiences in the workplace leads to great customer experience. Using human-centred design, his group designs, builds and manages HR products across the employee life-cycle with the aim of enhancing employees’ experience. Mr Clarke is the executive lead at Telstra for leadership, employee experience, talent management, performance, and diversity and inclusion. He has worked in HR since 2010. Prior to that he was a lawyer, both in-house at Telstra, and at Freehills, where he worked in the employee relations practice for eight years.

  Mr Clarke has an undergraduate law degree from Oxford University, a graduate diploma in legal practice from the College of Law, London, a graduate diploma in labour relations law from the University of Melbourne and is studying for a graduate diploma in psychology at Monash University.

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  Yukari Altman Yamahiro

  Associate strategy director and organizational design lead, frog

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  Yukari Altman Yamahiro

  Associate strategy director and organizational design lead, frog

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work

  Yukari Altman Yamahiro is an associate strategy director and organisational design lead at frog New York. Trained as an architect, she works with teams and organisations to adopt human-centred design-thinking.  Her professional experience in design encompasses architectural and interior design, organisational design, product design, team effectiveness, and culture change both internally and externally for organisations, from startups to large enterprises.  With her understanding of design’s implications on people, she engages with organisations throughout their transformation processes.

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  Reen Salleh

  Head of workplace strategy, planning and experience APJ, Transformation Office, HP Inc.

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  Reen Salleh

  Head of workplace strategy, planning and experience APJ, Transformation Office, HP Inc.

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work

  Reen Salleh heads the APAC workplace strategy, planning and experience team at HP Inc.  With more than 20 years of experience in the corporate real estate industry, she brings diverse and international working experience, specialising in workplace/portfolio transformation, workplace design and strategy, workplace experience and change management. 

  Ms Salleh has delivered numerous complex offices, research and development facilities, manufacturing and campus projects for HP Inc. in Asia Pacific, India, Japan and Korea, and previously for major MNCs in Asia.  On the future of workplaces, she is always on the lookout for new themes to add to her growing framework of research as both an academic and a professional. 

   

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 12th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:55 am
    Panel discussion. Work in a shifting economic climate: responses in context
  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Panel discussion. From resignation to realignment
  • 02:10 pm -2:30 pm
    In conversation. 20-20 hindsight: innovating under pressure
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace
  • 05:00 pm -5:40 pm
    Panel discussion. Strategic innovations at work: the paths ahead

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work
  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future
  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces
  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Charles Ross is Principal of Policy and Insights in Asia-Pacific and leads the region’s technology and society practice. Prior to this role he was editorial director for The Economist Intelligence Unit overseeing all thought leadership research in Asia. Charles combines a deep understanding of how technology trends are reshaping business and society with excellent research and editorial skills, to create impactful and award-winning research programmes for clients.

  Charles is currently based in Australia and has led many projects analysing the implications for governments, business and society of new technology and sustainability trends covering healthtech, decentralised finance, smart cities, longevity, digitisation, future of work and automation, for Medtronic, Google, Stripe, SAP, Telstra, Microsoft, Prudential, Westpac and the Singapore government, amongst others. He is a contributing industry expert to the UN Science Policy and Business Forum on the Environment and a frequent speaker at finance and technology events across the region. Charles holds a master of business administration, focusing on strategy and organisational change, from the University of Oxford and a certificate in public policy analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Melissa Ng

  Chief executive officer and co-founder, Bravely

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  Melissa Ng

  Chief executive officer and co-founder, Bravely

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:35 am
    Panel discussion. Working smart for better employee welfare

  Melissa Ng is a serial entrepreneur and the chief executive officer and co-founder of Bravely, an app used by both therapists and individuals to achieve happier and healthier mental health. She has worked with businesses like McDonalds, Visa and Samsung, and has been featured on Forbes, The Straits Times and The Robb Report.

   

  As someone who has struggled with mental health for most of her life (most recently while battling leukaemia), Bravely was born out of Ms Ng’s determination to create something that will truly make a difference for people going through the same pains and challenges.

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  Rashmi Sharma

  Learning and leadership director, Bottling Investments Group, The Coca Cola Company

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  Rashmi Sharma

  Learning and leadership director, Bottling Investments Group, The Coca Cola Company

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:35 am
    Panel discussion. Working smart for better employee welfare

  Rashmi Sharma is a catalyst for inspiring professionals to thrive in a post-pandemic world. In her current role, she helps leaders at the Coca-Cola Group by unlocking the powers of leadership and learning. She earned an engineering and a business management degree from top universities in India, and over the last 16 years has worked globally with IBM, Aon and Aditya Birla Group, where she consulted on people practices. She has spent the last six years in South-east Asia and is currently based in Bangkok.

   

  Ms Sharma derives her lessons from diverse sources—corporate hierarchies, startup ecosystems and creative art forms. She has been a startup founder, a national beauty pageant finalist and a jazz dancer. She channels her insights to run a community called Leaders Who Thrive, a group of professionals who believe in work–life harmony and leading a more purposeful and fulfilled life.

   

  Ms Sharma has spoken on leadership at TEDx Stage and has been invited to share her experience at the RISE Corporate Innovation Summit, HR Festival Asia and UN Youth Speak.

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  Faustino John Lim

  Co-founder and vice-president, Center for Asia Leadership

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  Faustino John Lim

  Co-founder and vice-president, Center for Asia Leadership

  October 12th 2022

  • 11:45 am -12:30 pm
    Panel discussion. Responses to new baselines, expectations and priorities in the workplace
  • 02:35 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Has the “most valuable asset” been the weakest link?
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:35 am
    Panel discussion. Working smart for better employee welfare
  • 11:50 am -12:15 pm
    In conversation. Leadership under fire: how crises redefine roles and decision-making

  Faustino John Lim is the co-founder and vice-president at the Center for Asia Leadership. A former fellow of the Harvard University Asia Center, he has worked in diverse organisations, including the embassy of Canada in Korea and the International Crisis Group, and in sectors such as English education and social entrepreneurship. At the Center for Asia Leadership, his team developed a Harvard student project into a full-fledged leadership training, coaching and research organisation that has benefited more than 32,000 individuals in 22 countries through over 90 conferences and leadership programmes.

  Mr Lim also pioneered the centre’s research and publication arm, advising the interviewing agenda of over 100 minister- or director-level individuals from the public and private sectors, resulting in five published books. He also established the Asia Leadership Institute, mentoring and coaching over 35 teaching fellows from Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, while developing a network of value-driven companies and non-profit organisations, resulting in annual programmes in six countries. His current work engages him in researching and applying diverse leadership, education and entrepreneurial models and frameworks within Asian contexts.

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  Kris Giswold

  Senior vice-president, finance, APAC, Middle East and Africa, Mondelēz International

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  Kris Giswold

  Senior vice-president, finance, APAC, Middle East and Africa, Mondelēz International

  October 13th 2022

  • 11:50 am -12:15 pm
    In conversation. Leadership under fire: how crises redefine roles and decision-making

  Kris Giswold is the senior vice-president of finance in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) for Mondelēz International. She is responsible for all aspects of the finance function in AMEA and is a member of the AMEA leadership team. Ms Giswold is a globally experienced finance professional with a broad understanding of consumer product organisations. She joined Mondelēz International in 1995 as a senior financial analyst for Kraft Foods in the United States and has held various roles leading the finance function for categories and regions in North America, Europe and Asia. More recently, she was the chief audit and control officer based in Zurich. Prior to that, she was senior director for chocolate in Europe, and finance director for the biscuits category in AMEA, responsible for driving business results and growth in the category across 27 markets. Ms Giswold is a strategic business leader with extensive experience across developed and emerging markets. She has expertise driving results across many facets of the business and extensive experience partnering with marketing, sales, supply chain, tax, treasury and legal functions. She holds an MBA from the Wisconsin School of Business and a bachelor of economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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  Faustino John Lim

  Co-founder and vice-president, Center for Asia Leadership

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  Faustino John Lim

  Co-founder and vice-president, Center for Asia Leadership

  October 12th 2022

  • 11:45 am -12:30 pm
    Panel discussion. Responses to new baselines, expectations and priorities in the workplace
  • 02:35 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Has the “most valuable asset” been the weakest link?
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:35 am
    Panel discussion. Working smart for better employee welfare
  • 11:50 am -12:15 pm
    In conversation. Leadership under fire: how crises redefine roles and decision-making

  Faustino John Lim is the co-founder and vice-president at the Center for Asia Leadership. A former fellow of the Harvard University Asia Center, he has worked in diverse organisations, including the embassy of Canada in Korea and the International Crisis Group, and in sectors such as English education and social entrepreneurship. At the Center for Asia Leadership, his team developed a Harvard student project into a full-fledged leadership training, coaching and research organisation that has benefited more than 32,000 individuals in 22 countries through over 90 conferences and leadership programmes.

  Mr Lim also pioneered the centre’s research and publication arm, advising the interviewing agenda of over 100 minister- or director-level individuals from the public and private sectors, resulting in five published books. He also established the Asia Leadership Institute, mentoring and coaching over 35 teaching fellows from Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, while developing a network of value-driven companies and non-profit organisations, resulting in annual programmes in six countries. His current work engages him in researching and applying diverse leadership, education and entrepreneurial models and frameworks within Asian contexts.

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  Fong Tuan Chen

  Senior executive vice-president, group human capital, Maybank

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  Fong Tuan Chen

  Senior executive vice-president, group human capital, Maybank

  October 13th 2022

  • 12:20 pm -1:00 pm
    Panel discussion. From crisis to “stability”: harder than it looks?

  Fong Tuan Chen started his career with Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia’s power utility company, where he was a scholar. Discovering his passion to bridge the gap between data, influence and people, he moved into the human resources space, holding senior HR leadership roles with Coca Cola, OCBC, Watson Wyatt, British American Tobacco, Maybank Group, B. Braun Asia-Pacific and most recently Samsung. He then joined diverse consumer Group Berjaya Corporation as head of HR. He is currently back at Maybank, leading the people strategy and execution, driving change and human capital transformation. He has been recognised with multiple accolades including the South-east Asia HRM Watchlist, HR Excellence Awards Grand Winner and Asia Recruitment Award. He is a qualified professional engineer with a degree in electrical and electronic engineering. He also has an MBA in organisational behaviour and holds a chartered financial analyst designation.

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  Alfan Hendro

  Chief operating officer, Traveloka

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  Alfan Hendro

  Chief operating officer, Traveloka

  October 13th 2022

  • 12:20 pm -1:00 pm
    Panel discussion. From crisis to “stability”: harder than it looks?

  Alfan Hendro is part of the executive leadership team at Traveloka, serving as its chief operating officer. He oversees the business functions in the company, including technology, marketing, design, data, people operations and customer care, and leads all of the business units within the organisation. He was appointed to this position in 2020.

  Mr Hendro joined Traveloka in 2014. He started his career building the Traveloka accommodation business.  He started his professional career as a risk analyst at Standard Chartered Bank, before becoming a serial entrepreneur in the technology domain. He founded SG-House.com (2006–10), which was acquired by IPGA, the largest network of property portals in APAC, and VoucherHotel (2012–14), a local online travel agent for hotel booking in Indonesia.

  Mr Hendro holds an eMBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor of computer science degree from the University of Wollongong.

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  Melisa Teoh

  Chief operating officer, MyDoc

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  Melisa Teoh

  Chief operating officer, MyDoc

  October 13th 2022

  • 12:20 pm -1:00 pm
    Panel discussion. From crisis to “stability”: harder than it looks?

  Melisa Teoh is the chief operating officer of MyDoc, Asia’s award-winning and multilingual B2B telehealth platform enabling value-based care in the region. Prior to MyDoc, Ms Teoh was marketing director for Singapore Life, where her work helped to secure $50m in Series A financing, and chief marketing officer at CXA Group, where her work helped secure $25m in Series B funding at a valuation of $100m.

  Ms Teoh serves on the advisory board of healthtech accelerator BlueChilli and the jury of APAC Effies. As an industry spokesperson in insurtech, digital health care, healthtech, women in leadership, and customer and patient engagement, she has spoken at key fintech and healthtech conferences including Singapore Fintech Festival, Google for Startup Accelerators, Galen Growth, APACMed, Access Health International, Asia Insurance Review, Human Resources, CIO Academy and Centre for Innovation in Healthcare. She has also been featured on Money FM 89.3.

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  Andrew Staples

  Regional head (APAC), policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Andrew Staples

  Regional head (APAC), policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 13th 2022

  • 12:20 pm -1:00 pm
    Panel discussion. From crisis to “stability”: harder than it looks?
  • 01:30 pm -2:00 pm
    Fireside chat. When the gig goes mainstream

  Based in Singapore, Andrew Staples is the Asia Pacific head of research and policy for The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). He leads a team of editors and analysts who deploy best-in-class research and analytical methodologies to meet client needs.

  Andrew was previously global editorial director of The Economist Corporate Network (ECN). In this role he led a team of editorial directors across Asia, the Middle East and Africa who help senior business leaders understand and navigate the local and regional business environment. He regularly chairs and moderates major Economist events, delivers custom briefings to senior executives (including Fortune 500 C-suite) and public figures (including heads of state) in his areas of expertise that include international political economy, foreign direct investment, international trade, corporate strategy and comparative management, and regularly appears in the international media (BBC, CNN, CNBC, Channel News Asia). Andrew was previously director, ECN, North Asia covering South Korea and Japan, where he was a long-term resident.

  Andrew has a PhD in International Political Economy and an MSc in East Asian Business, both from the University of Sheffield, UK. He was a Ministry of Education research scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo (2001-2003) and before joining The Economist Group, Andrew pursued an academic career holding both tenured and adjunct posts at leading universities and business schools in Japan and the UK. He has published widely in his areas of expertise and major publications include Responses to Regionalism in East Asia: Japanese Production Networks in the Automotive Sector published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series and chapters in edited volumes including Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy and popular textbooks including Asian Business and Management. Andrew was also previously a Senior Editor for the internationally peer reviewed journal Asian Business and Management.

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  Valerie Logan

  Chief executive and founder, The Data Lodge

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  Valerie Logan

  Chief executive and founder, The Data Lodge

  October 13th 2022

  • 01:00 pm -1:30 pm
    Fireside chat. Raising data literacy: can Asia's workforces make the leap?

  Valerie Logan is committed to data literacy and founded The Data Lodge in 2019. With advisory services, bootcamps, a resource library and community services at The Data

  Lodge, she is certifying the world’s first data literacy programme across commercial, non-profit and public sectors and pioneering the path forward in cracking the data culture code.

  In 2015 Ms Logan joined Gartner’s data and analytics group, where she covered information management strategies, advanced analytics and related change management topics. She was a member of the office of the chief data officer (CDO) research team, where she led Gartner’s annual CDO survey as well as the CDO Circle executive training and networking event, which she designed from scratch.

   

  Ms Logan has more than 28 years of experience, including two decades of global consulting practice management in the information and intelligence domains across industries, and five years of applied experience in the telecommunications industry at both field and enterprise levels. In 2021, she was named one of CDO Magazine’s Global Data Power Women, and in 2018, was named as a finalist for Data Leader of the Year within the Information Age Women in IT Awards. 

   

  Ms Logan holds a BS in mathematics from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and an MS in applied mathematics with a concentration in operations research from New Mexico State University.

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  Pedro H. Tavares

  ICT and e-governance adviser, DFAT Partnership for Inclusive Prosperity, DT Global

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  Pedro H. Tavares

  ICT and e-governance adviser, DFAT Partnership for Inclusive Prosperity, DT Global

  October 13th 2022

  • 01:00 pm -1:30 pm
    Fireside chat. Raising data literacy: can Asia's workforces make the leap?

  Pedro H Tavares has been leading the design and implementation of digital development strategies for governments in the Pacific and South-east Asia. His work is focused on developing digital economies in low-income and low-resource countries, where he has been leading multi-million-dollar programmes funded by international and bilateral organisations in a wide range of digital development areas such as digital government, digital economy, digital health, ICT in education, digital agriculture, cybersecurity, ID4D, broadband access, ICT infrastructure, gender and social inclusion, public policy, and digital skills and literacy.

   

  Currently consulting for DT Global under an Australian government programme and for the International Telecommunication Union, Mr Tavares is developing whole-of-society digital development strategic plans for the governments of Timor-Leste and Samoa.

   

  He is also an experienced lecturer, training facilitator, coach and public speaker. As a strong believer in lifelong learning and that skills greatly influence success, Mr Tavares has management and leadership education from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, London School of Economics and National University of Singapore. He holds an executive MBA, an MSc in information systems and a PG in project management, along with executive education in digital transformation in the government, strategic management, cybersecurity, coaching, public finances and data law.

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  Pooja Chaudhary

  Senior manager, policy and insights, Economist Insights

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  Pooja Chaudhary

  Senior manager, policy and insights, Economist Insights

  October 13th 2022

  • 01:00 pm -1:30 pm
    Fireside chat. Raising data literacy: can Asia's workforces make the leap?

  October 14th 2022

  • 11:30 am -12:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Upskilling for the future

  Pooja Chaudhary is a senior manager with the policy and insights team at Economist Impact. As the international development lead for the APAC region, Ms Chaudhary leads both internal and public research programmes for foundations and bi/multilateral organisations in need of policy advocacy, strategy and analysis in the domain of social and international development. She has led programmes funded by multilaterals such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UK Department for International Development and International Organisation for Migration, as well as by the ministries and state departments in India and South Asia. Her recent research has focused on social investment, labour migration trends, the intersection of technology and education, and exploring the role of sustainable agriculture in economic development in South Asia.

   

  Previously, Ms Chaudhary worked with the Bharti Group, leading the strategy for their education and skills vertical. She was also a senior consultant with the social-sector advisory practice at PwC, leading initiatives to support multilateral organisations and governments in designing, implementing and evaluating international development programmes. She holds a master’s degree in business management from Xavier Institute of Management and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Delhi University.

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  Vinnie Lauria

  Managing partner, Golden Gate Ventures

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  Vinnie Lauria

  Managing partner, Golden Gate Ventures

  October 13th 2022

  • 01:30 pm -2:00 pm
    Fireside chat. When the gig goes mainstream

  Vinnie Lauria is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in South-east Asia. He is a Kauffman Fellow and a guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore. He was rated by the Founder Institute as the highest startup mentor in Asia from a pool of 2,500 mentors.

   

  Prior to setting up Golden Gate Ventures, Mr Lauria built two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro, a location-based chat service thatwas dissolved with many lessons learned in 2007; and Lefora, a forum hosting platform that grew to over 100,000 communities and was acquired by CrowdGather in 2010. He founded the Silicon Valley NewTech meetup, featuring hundreds of startups to a monthly audience with more than 10,000 members.

   

  Earlier in his career, Mr Lauria spent four years at IBM, helping to shape how the company was approaching social software for the enterprise. He is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Engineering. He is passionate about building startup ecosystems and joined his first startup while still in high school.

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  Urvashi Aneja

  Director, Digital Futures Lab

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  Urvashi Aneja

  Director, Digital Futures Lab

  October 13th 2022

  • 01:30 pm -2:00 pm
    Fireside chat. When the gig goes mainstream

  Urvashi Aneja is the founding director of Digital Futures Lab, a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south. Her work examines the ethics and governance of AI in the global south; digital public infrastructure and platforms for public service delivery; and labour rights and wellbeing.

   

  Ms Aneja’s research has been cited in leading national and global media publications and she has served on expert committees constituted by the Indian government on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies. She is also a fellow at Chatham House and a non-resident fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

   

  From 2017 to 2021, Ms Aneja was the founder and director of Tandem Research, an interdisciplinary research collective working at the interface of technology, society and sustainability. She has eight years of teaching experience, as a lecturer at St. Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford and as an associate professor of international relations at the OP Jindal Global University. She holds a PhD from the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Oxford, UK, and a BA in philosophy and literature from Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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  Andrew Staples

  Regional head (APAC), policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Andrew Staples

  Regional head (APAC), policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 13th 2022

  • 12:20 pm -1:00 pm
    Panel discussion. From crisis to “stability”: harder than it looks?
  • 01:30 pm -2:00 pm
    Fireside chat. When the gig goes mainstream

  Based in Singapore, Andrew Staples is the Asia Pacific head of research and policy for The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). He leads a team of editors and analysts who deploy best-in-class research and analytical methodologies to meet client needs.

  Andrew was previously global editorial director of The Economist Corporate Network (ECN). In this role he led a team of editorial directors across Asia, the Middle East and Africa who help senior business leaders understand and navigate the local and regional business environment. He regularly chairs and moderates major Economist events, delivers custom briefings to senior executives (including Fortune 500 C-suite) and public figures (including heads of state) in his areas of expertise that include international political economy, foreign direct investment, international trade, corporate strategy and comparative management, and regularly appears in the international media (BBC, CNN, CNBC, Channel News Asia). Andrew was previously director, ECN, North Asia covering South Korea and Japan, where he was a long-term resident.

  Andrew has a PhD in International Political Economy and an MSc in East Asian Business, both from the University of Sheffield, UK. He was a Ministry of Education research scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo (2001-2003) and before joining The Economist Group, Andrew pursued an academic career holding both tenured and adjunct posts at leading universities and business schools in Japan and the UK. He has published widely in his areas of expertise and major publications include Responses to Regionalism in East Asia: Japanese Production Networks in the Automotive Sector published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series and chapters in edited volumes including Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy and popular textbooks including Asian Business and Management. Andrew was also previously a Senior Editor for the internationally peer reviewed journal Asian Business and Management.

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  Firdosh Sheikh

  Chief executive, DRIFE

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  Firdosh Sheikh

  Chief executive, DRIFE

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?

  Firdosh Sheikh is the founder and chief executive of DRIFE, a decentralised ride-hailing platform based in Bengaluru, India. Ms Sheikh is an entrepreneur by heart. Before giving herself to her dream project DRIFE, she worked for Microsoft and was engaged in the financial sector.

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  Dan Gamota

  Vice-president, manufacturing technology and innovation, Jabil

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  Dan Gamota

  Vice-president, manufacturing technology and innovation, Jabil

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?

  Dan Gamota is the vice-president of manufacturing technology and innovation at Jabil. He has over 20 years of industry experience leading internationally placed teams developing and deploying novel materials and manufacturing processes for the assembly of medical, industrial, energy, consumer, aerospace, automotive and defence products.

  Prior to joining Jabil, Mr Gamota was director and fellow of the technical staff at Motorola. He has been granted 52 patents and is the author of more than 100 publications. He was elevated to IEEE fellow and was named a Dan Noble Fellow at Motorola (top 0.1% of engineers) for his contributions to the fields of microelectronics, nanotechnologies, and printed and flexible electronics. He earned a PhD in engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

  October 12th 2022

  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?
  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work
  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce
  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in 2018”. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.

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  Gagan Bhargava

  Vice-president, people strategy and analytics, Schneider Electric

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  Gagan Bhargava

  Vice-president, people strategy and analytics, Schneider Electric

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  Gagan Bhargava is a career human resources professional. He joined Schneider Electric in Hong Kong as the chief of staff to the chief HR officer (CHRO). Since 2021, he has had a multifaceted role in leading global people strategy, workforce planning and analytics. He has recently moved base to Singapore. Mr Bhargava began his career in 1999 with Infosys Technologies, where he was the HR business partner for the EMEA region, based in London. In 2007, he switched to New Delhi Television, one of India’s most prominent TV news and entertainment networks, and was the CHRO between 2010 and 2015.He holds degrees in English literature and business management.

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  Chloe Zhou

  Head of talent acquisition, APAC, CEER and META, Philips Domestic Appliances

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  Chloe Zhou

  Head of talent acquisition, APAC, CEER and META, Philips Domestic Appliances

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  Chloe Zhou leads the talent acquisition function in APAC, CEER and META for Philips Domestic Appliances. As a talent acquisition thought leader with more than 12 years of experience, she works collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure that organisational structure and processes drive innovation in talent acquisition. Currently, Ms Zhou is responsible for designing and developing cross-sector and regional recruiting strategies, which positions Philips Domestic Appliances to attract the best available human capital in support of its business objectives. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Manchester.

   

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

  October 12th 2022

  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?
  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work
  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce
  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in 2018”. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.

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  Robin Butler

  Partner and head of impact, Sturgeon Capital

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  Robin Butler

  Partner and head of impact, Sturgeon Capital

  October 13th 2022

  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future

  Robin Butler is a Partner and Head of Impact at Sturgeon Capital, a London-based VC investing in emerging market start-ups solving the key problems affecting the day to day lives of businesses and consumers.  Sturgeon Capital is a for profit and for impact VC delivering financial returns for investors while creating employment opportunities and supporting financial inclusion through technology and technological innovation.

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  Sara Elder

  Senior economist, International Labour Organisation regional office for Asia and the Pacific

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  Sara Elder

  Senior economist, International Labour Organisation regional office for Asia and the Pacific

  October 13th 2022

  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future

  Sara Elder is the senior economist and head of the Regional Economic and Social Analysis (RESA) Unit in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. Her areas of expertise include labour market analysis, employment policy development, skills and employability promotion and youth employment. She has led a global programme on the transition from school to work, assisted ILO member states on evidence-based policy-making in the Asia-Pacific region, and written extensively on issues relating to the world of work.  Ms Elder holds a Masters of Science degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics

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  Elaine Sim

  Co-founder, MigrateSafe

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  Elaine Sim

  Co-founder, MigrateSafe

  October 13th 2022

  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future

  Elaine Sim is the co-founder of MigrateSafe, a professional blue-collar recruitment agency dedicated to reliable recruitment for businesses and safer migration for migrant workers. MigrateSafe currently serves the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry in Malaysia. Before founding MigrateSafe, Ms Sim co-founded Pinkcollar Employment Agency (Forbes 30 Under 30) in Kuala Lumpur for the safe migration of Filipino domestic workers. In 2020–21, she sat on the committee of the Private Employment Agencies Association of Malaysia. In addition to being an advocate for ethical recruitment, Ms Sim is also a qualified Malaysian lawyer. She holds an LLM from William & Mary Law School, where she attended as a Drapers’ Scholar, and an LLB from Queen Mary University of London.

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  Smit Gade

  Associate director - research and data, Good Business Lab

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  Smit Gade

  Associate director - research and data, Good Business Lab

  October 13th 2022

  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future

  Smit Gade currently serves as the Associate Director (Data and Research) at Good Business Lab (GBL) where he oversees the field-based and data-based research projects at GBL. He holds an M.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford with a focus on applied econometrics and development economics.

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 12th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:55 am
    Panel discussion. Work in a shifting economic climate: responses in context
  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Panel discussion. From resignation to realignment
  • 02:10 pm -2:30 pm
    In conversation. 20-20 hindsight: innovating under pressure
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace
  • 05:00 pm -5:40 pm
    Panel discussion. Strategic innovations at work: the paths ahead

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work
  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future
  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces
  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Charles Ross is Principal of Policy and Insights in Asia-Pacific and leads the region’s technology and society practice. Prior to this role he was editorial director for The Economist Intelligence Unit overseeing all thought leadership research in Asia. Charles combines a deep understanding of how technology trends are reshaping business and society with excellent research and editorial skills, to create impactful and award-winning research programmes for clients.

  Charles is currently based in Australia and has led many projects analysing the implications for governments, business and society of new technology and sustainability trends covering healthtech, decentralised finance, smart cities, longevity, digitisation, future of work and automation, for Medtronic, Google, Stripe, SAP, Telstra, Microsoft, Prudential, Westpac and the Singapore government, amongst others. He is a contributing industry expert to the UN Science Policy and Business Forum on the Environment and a frequent speaker at finance and technology events across the region. Charles holds a master of business administration, focusing on strategy and organisational change, from the University of Oxford and a certificate in public policy analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Richard Jones

  Co-founder and chief executive officer, PrimeL Technologies

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  Richard Jones

  Co-founder and chief executive officer, PrimeL Technologies

  October 13th 2022

  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  Richard Jones is an entrepreneur with a social conscience. He is a proven and transformative chief information officer and chief technology officer, business leader, strategist, published author and keynote speaker. Mr Jones is a seasoned industry veteran with over 30 years of IT industry experience and 25 years working with global multinational corporations across the Asia-Pacific region. Having successfully held senior technical, business and sales leadership positions in both the IT vendor and the client space, he brings a pragmatic and balanced understanding of IT to business. Most recently as an entrepreneur, technology influencer and industry mentor, Mr Jones co-founded PrimeL Technologies, a social enterprise that is transforming the way we will work by building an integrated employer/employee community and an ecosystem that supports the development and integration of an engaged and diverse workforce.

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  Sabine Henning

  Chief, Sustainable demographic transition section, social development division, UN economic and social commission for Asia and the Pacific

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  Sabine Henning

  Chief, Sustainable demographic transition section, social development division, UN economic and social commission for Asia and the Pacific

  October 13th 2022

  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  Sabine Henning is chief of the sustainable demographic transition section in the social development division at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok. She currently leads work on population and development, focusing on research, capacity building and intergovernmental support on population dynamics, ageing, migration and youth.

   

  From 2015 to 2018, Ms Henning was senior population affairs officer, heading the office of the director, population division, at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. In this position she oversaw personnel and programme management and served as a focal point for annual sessions of the Commission on Population and Development. From 2000 to 2015, she served successively in five other sections of the population division.

   

  Ms Henning has been involved in UN interagency work and co-ordination for more than 15 years and has supported capacity building of member states. She has co-authored UN reports, such as the Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2020, has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and has serviced numerous intergovernmental meetings and high-level events at UN headquarters and ESCAP.

   

  Ms Henning has a PhD in geography with a doctoral-level certificate in demography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a graduate-level certificate in strategic management from Harvard University.

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  Kelvin Tan

  Head of programme, applied ageing studies and senior lecturer, gerontology programmes, NSHD, Singapore University of Social Sciences

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  Kelvin Tan

  Head of programme, applied ageing studies and senior lecturer, gerontology programmes, NSHD, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  October 13th 2022

  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  Kelvin Tan is head of programme, minor in applied ageing studies, a senior lecturer, and a mentor and domain expert in gerontology and innovation programmes at Singapore University of Social Sciences. His research areas include assistive technologies for older persons and their carers, and empowerment of older persons.

   

  He holds various advisory roles at One&Co (Japan East Rail), Ageing Asia, People’s Association and Yincubator. His key areas of interest are social community, health care, smart cities innovations, longevity economy and sustainability. He is an active volunteer in community projects in the East Coast and Queenstown health districts.

   

  Mr Tan was the director of the corporate partnerships, innovation and entrepreneur division at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where his team spearheaded open innovation initiatives with top-tier institutions overseas, corporate accelerators and co-creation partners. Concurrently, he was the business development director at the NUS Smart Systems Institute, which translates research in AI, cognitive technology, IoT, natural language translation and data analytics for commercialisation. 

   

  Mr Tan co-founded a startup in multimedia technologies for smart devices, and his experience spans diverse roles in policymaking, research and development, strategic alliances, and business and product development at HP, AT&T, KDDI and the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore.

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 12th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:55 am
    Panel discussion. Work in a shifting economic climate: responses in context
  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Panel discussion. From resignation to realignment
  • 02:10 pm -2:30 pm
    In conversation. 20-20 hindsight: innovating under pressure
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace
  • 05:00 pm -5:40 pm
    Panel discussion. Strategic innovations at work: the paths ahead

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work
  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future
  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces
  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Charles Ross is Principal of Policy and Insights in Asia-Pacific and leads the region’s technology and society practice. Prior to this role he was editorial director for The Economist Intelligence Unit overseeing all thought leadership research in Asia. Charles combines a deep understanding of how technology trends are reshaping business and society with excellent research and editorial skills, to create impactful and award-winning research programmes for clients.

  Charles is currently based in Australia and has led many projects analysing the implications for governments, business and society of new technology and sustainability trends covering healthtech, decentralised finance, smart cities, longevity, digitisation, future of work and automation, for Medtronic, Google, Stripe, SAP, Telstra, Microsoft, Prudential, Westpac and the Singapore government, amongst others. He is a contributing industry expert to the UN Science Policy and Business Forum on the Environment and a frequent speaker at finance and technology events across the region. Charles holds a master of business administration, focusing on strategy and organisational change, from the University of Oxford and a certificate in public policy analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Connor Hughes

  Chief Technology Officer and Chair – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, Artesian (Alternative Investments)

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  Connor Hughes

  Chief Technology Officer and Chair – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, Artesian (Alternative Investments)

  October 13th 2022

  • 05:10 pm -5:50 pm
    Panel discussion. Divided Asia? The state of workplace equity and diversity

  Connor Hughes is chief technology officer and chair of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Committee at VC firm Artesian.  He focuses on directing capital, innovation and human endeavour towards positive social and environmental outcomes through his DE&I work and technology leadership role at Artesian. His role is to enable innovation by rolling out cloud-based technologies needed for advanced data analytics, cybersecurity, and automation.  Mr Hughes also provides technology advisory to Artesian’s portfolio companies and is active in the non-profit space.

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  Farida Charania

  Chief executive officer, Empauwer

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  Farida Charania

  Chief executive officer, Empauwer

  October 13th 2022

  • 05:10 pm -5:50 pm
    Panel discussion. Divided Asia? The state of workplace equity and diversity

  A leader, business builder and entrepreneur with global experience, Farida Charania is the chief executive of Empauwer and has more than 20 years of experience across corporate and entrepreneurial roles. Empauwer is a movement that seeks to connect the untapped talents of neurodiverse professionals to the hiring needs of organisations. Its mission is to help companies embrace neurodiversity and create opportunities for neurodiverse professionals to thrive by using artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing.

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  Yuko Seki

  Chief diversity and inclusion officer and industry group principal, Ridgelinez

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  Yuko Seki

  Chief diversity and inclusion officer and industry group principal, Ridgelinez

  October 13th 2022

  • 05:10 pm -5:50 pm
    Panel discussion. Divided Asia? The state of workplace equity and diversity

  Yuko Seki is the chief diversity and inclusion officer and a consulting practice principal at Ridgelinez, a digital transformation consulting firm and a Fujitsu group company based in Tokyo, Japan. Reporting directly to the firm’s chief executive officer, she is responsible for leading the firm’s DEI strategy and brand communications as well as partnering with change leaders across industries as a consulting principal. 

   

  Ms Seki is a Japanese native, yet spent most of her professional career in Washington, DC, working at Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and management consulting firm, and served in key roles at Nissan Motor Corporation, Deloitte, and most recently at Amazon.

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  Gillian Parker

  Senior manager, Policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Gillian Parker

  Senior manager, Policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 12th 2022

  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 05:10 pm -5:50 pm
    Panel discussion. Divided Asia? The state of workplace equity and diversity

  Gillian Parker is a senior manager at Economist Impact, policy & insights and is currently based in Singapore. Previous to this role, she was deputy editor for Eco-Business, a news site and business intelligence firm specialising in sustainability issues across Asia. Before moving to Singapore in 2019, Gillian lived in sub-Saharan Africa for nearly a decade. Gillian worked in Johannesburg and Lagos as a risk analyst for Control Risks, helping firms operate in challenging environments in West and Central Africa.  Her other consulting work includes UKAID projects focussing on policies, laws and regulations affecting businesses in Nigeria and climate resilient infrastructure in southern Africa. Before that, she was reporting as a journalist across a dozen countries for The Economist, TIME and Voice of America among other international outlets. She was also a contributor to The Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on bespoke reports and indexes ranging from food security to SMEs in Nigeria to Islamic finance. Gillian has a MSc in African and Asian Politics from SOAS and hails originally from Northern Ireland.

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  Cher Whee Sim

  Vice-president, global talent acquisition, mobility and immigration, Micron

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  Cher Whee Sim

  Vice-president, global talent acquisition, mobility and immigration, Micron

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:45 am
    Panel discussion. Asia’s edge in the future of work

  Cher Whee Sim is Micron’s vice-president of global talent acquisition in talent mobility and immigration. She leads Micron’s global recruiting strategy and operations by employing innovative human resource solutions to attract, engage and retain top, diverse talent. Since joining Micron in 2010, Ms Sim has served in senior leadership positions of increasing responsibility. By balancing the human element and corporate objectives, she has empowered teams with a desire to pursue organisational excellence in the semiconductor industry. She also served in engineering, financial and management roles at TECH Semiconductor Singapore.

  Ms Sim now serves as chair and sponsor of the Asia chapter of the Micron Women’s Leadership Network. She is also a member of the industry advisory panel for Nanyang Technological University Career and Attachment Office. She was recognised as the DEI Champion awardee at the National Diversity and Leadership Conference 2021.

  Ms Sim earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the National University of Singapore and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business executive programme, the Singapore Management University executive development programme and the PwC Trust Leadership Institute executive leadership programme.

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  Karthik Anantharaman

  Vice president of international business unit, Apollo Hospitals

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  Karthik Anantharaman

  Vice president of international business unit, Apollo Hospitals

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:45 am
    Panel discussion. Asia’s edge in the future of work

  Karthik Anantharaman was the chief operating officer of Karnataka state cluster at Roche Pharma and formerly the director of e-pharmacy and private label business at Medlife, India’s largest e-health platform. 

   

  Earlier, Dr Anantharaman was head of the business unit for metabolics, branded formulations and biosimilars at Biocon, a global biotechnology company. He has also served as chief marketing officer of BPL Medical Technologies and Penlon, as head of marketing for GE Healthcare’s molecular imaging and computed tomography business, and in marketing and medical roles with AstraZeneca and MSD (Merck).

   

  He was named among the 30 top influencers in the Indian health-care industry in 2020 and was included in the Most Influential Marketing Leaders list by World Marketing Congress in 2015 and 2016.

   

  Dr Anantharaman is a trained medical doctor with a degree in internal medicine and surgery (MBBS) from Bangalore University. He also has a post-graduate MBA in marketing from Manipal University and a super specialisation MBA GELP (Global Executive Leadership Programme) from Yale School of Management, Yale University.

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  Eric Ng

  Executive director and general manager, South East Asia region, Hong Kong and India, Amgen

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  Eric Ng

  Executive director and general manager, South East Asia region, Hong Kong and India, Amgen

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:45 am
    Panel discussion. Asia’s edge in the future of work

  Mr Eric Ng is Executive Director & General Manager at Amgen, responsible for the company’s commercial operations in the South East Asia (SEA) Region, Hong Kong and India.

  Currently based in Singapore, he oversees Amgen’s affiliates in the region, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, as well as our partnerships in India, Indonesia and Vietnam.  Mr Ng is also a member of the executive leadership team for the Japan and Asia Pacific region (JAPAC).

  He joined Amgen in 2016, bringing with him more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry across broad geographies and business areas. Prior to Amgen, he was with Sanofi in roles covering multiple country general management, marketing and commercial strategy across Singapore, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam/Indochina.

  Mr Ng also held several sales and marketing roles of increasing responsibility in AstraZeneca, Merck and Glaxo previously, including a global commercial role based in Europe for a few years.

  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Science from the National University of Singapore.

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  Sumana Rajarethnam

  Director, South-East Asia, Economist Intelligence Corporate Network

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  Sumana Rajarethnam

  Director, South-East Asia, Economist Intelligence Corporate Network

  October 12th 2022

  • 12:30 pm -1:00 pm
    In conversation. Security for hybrid work
  • 01:05 pm -1:30 pm
    Panel discussion. Beyond panaceas: technology at work

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:45 am
    Panel discussion. Asia’s edge in the future of work

  Sumana Rajarethnam is the South-east Asia director of the Economist Corporate Network based in Singapore. Sumana works closely with network members to help inform their business strategies through political, economic and operational insight and to connect them with their senior leadership peers.

  Sumana is a senior policy professional with 17 years of business advisory experience, nine of those as an analyst, principal and director with the EIU from 2011-2020. He has most recently been working in the Chinese technology sector, including stints at Kuaishou Technology and ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok.

  Before joining The Economist Group, Sumana worked as a journalist and in public relations with a focus on government and institutional clients. He served as executive director of the Asian Dialogue Society, working to develop an alternative ASEAN Charter with leading policymakers, and organised the “Building a Better Asia” series, a programme for young leaders across Asia undertaken with Peking University and the Nippon Foundation.

  Sumana holds a BA in political science from UCLA and a Master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan.

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  Perrin Rowland

  General manager, customer experience and design, Westpac New Zealand

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  Perrin Rowland

  General manager, customer experience and design, Westpac New Zealand

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work

  Perrin Rowland’s purpose is to accelerate creativity so that we think smarter and behave better as humans. Most recently, Ms Rowland is shaping and growing design thinking to ensure that Westpac NZ keeps customers and their journeys front and centre in their agile development work. Steeped in the disciplines of design, learning and culture, she facilitates human-centred design workshops, coaches teams to design quality customer solutions at scale and is a change master for shifting the cultural maturity of organisations towards customer obsession and making systemic change. She has taught IA and user experience (UX) at New York University, done usability work with the Neilson Norman Group, and trained with Jeff Patton in design-led product delivery and with Keith McCandless on inclusive facilitation.

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  Narita Cheah

  Co-founder and director, Paperspace Asia

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  Narita Cheah

  Co-founder and director, Paperspace Asia

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work

  A designer, business ideator and change advocate, Narita Cheah has 25 years of experience in creating people-centric spaces and is a firm believer in collaborative partnerships. Ms Cheah heads Paperspace Asia, a regional, multidisciplinary design collective of strategists, designers and change practitioners who believe in harnessing distinctive strengths to elevate user experience through space. Their 140-member network illustrates her vision to push innovative boundaries by harnessing diverse talents and continuously evolving the workplace landscape by embracing a variety of perspectives.

   

  Ms Cheah’s experience over the years has focused on leadership and organisation engagement to align culture and behavioural changes to support business strategies. Her strength is in managing strategic dialogues to determine project goals at the start to drive outcomes. Her pragmatic ability to balance real-world challenges with strategic goals enables projects to progress from vision to reality.

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

  October 12th 2022

  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?
  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work
  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce
  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in 2018”. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.

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  Ilja Rijnen

  Senior director, global learning and change, Beam Suntory

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  Ilja Rijnen

  Senior director, global learning and change, Beam Suntory

  October 14th 2022

  • 11:30 am -12:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Upskilling for the future

  Ilja Rijnen is senior director of global learning and change at Beam Suntory, a world leader in premium spirits. In line with Beam Suntory’s strategic global talent and organisational development agenda, he is responsible for all of the company’s global learning and change initiatives. He is based in Asia.

  Mr Rijnen joined Beam Suntory in 2017 as regional HR director as part of the emerging Asia leadership team. He became the HR director for Asia-Pacific and global travel retail in April 2019, and HR international, EX, learning and change in January 2021.

  Mr Rijnen gained significant HR experience prior to joining Beam Suntory through Edrington Asia-Pacific and Diageo in South-east Asia as director and head of HR.  Prior to his roles in Asia, he was the HR BP for Diageo’s Red Stripe lager, Guinness and spirits business in Jamaica and Latin America. He started his career as learning and development manager for the IKEA Group in Benelux and Great Britain.

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  Michelle Rubio

  Chief human resources officer, UnionBank

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  Michelle Rubio

  Chief human resources officer, UnionBank

  October 14th 2022

  • 11:30 am -12:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Upskilling for the future

  Michelle Rubio is executive vice-president of human resources and corporate social responsibility–chief human resource officer at UnionBank of the Philippines. Prior to this, she was the vice-president and the Philippine country human resources, quality and corporate communications head of Asea Brown Boveri.

  Ms Rubio was a senior consultant at OTi Consulting Singapore, where she was involved with government and private organisations in establishing Singapore Quality Class, People Developer and Industry Capability Upgrading (ICAP) certifications, Work Life and Work Redesign. For these capabilities she was certified by SPRING Singapore (the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board).

  Before a career in human resources and management consulting, she worked as an engineer in the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industry in the areas of statistical process control and Quality assurance. Ms Rubio graduated in 1985 from De La Salle University, where she obtained a degree in industrial management engineering, with a minor in chemical engineering. In 2018, she received the Silver CHRO of the Year from the Stevie Awards for Great Employers in New York, and just recently she received her second Stevie—Bronze CHRO of the Year for 2021.

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  Peter Attfield

  Chief talent and learning officer, Group human resources, Jardine Matheson

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  Peter Attfield

  Chief talent and learning officer, Group human resources, Jardine Matheson

  October 14th 2022

  • 11:30 am -12:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Upskilling for the future

  Peter Attfield is the chief talent and learning officer of Jardine Matheson, responsible for group-wide talent management, learning and development, organisation development and internal communication. Jardine operates in over 50 countries, spanning Asia, Europe and the US. Industries in the group’s portfolio include engineering and construction, aviation and shipping, motor vehicle manufacturing and trading, property, hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, e-solutions and financial services. 

  Prior to joining Jardine, Mr Attfield worked in the Middle East for six years in senior human resources business partnering roles for a number of large family conglomerate businesses. Prior to this, he held several senior regional and global HR roles for more than 12 years at Unilever. This included periods heading global HR expertise teams in performance management, talent and organisation development.

  Before becoming an HR professional some 20 years ago, Mr Attfield spent 12 years in management consulting and ten years in finance. He holds a bachelor of business degree in economics, accounting and statistics from the University of Technology, Sydney.

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  Soon Joo Gog

  Chief skills officer, SkillsFuture Singapore

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  Soon Joo Gog

  Chief skills officer, SkillsFuture Singapore

  October 14th 2022

  • 11:30 am -12:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Upskilling for the future

  Soon Joo Gog is the chief skills officer at SkillsFuture Singapore, a statutory board under the Ministry of Education. She oversees the skills development system in Singapore, through working with tripartite partners in the identification, dissemination and measurement of the skills needs of Singapore’s economy. She works with global researchers, ed tech, HR tech and career tech partners in shaping the skills ecosystem.

   

  Dr Gog serves as a council member at the World Economic Forum Global Future Council for Education and Skills; member of the advisory board at the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Research and Development in Learning; and member of the International Committee of Experts for the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. She is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, University College London and Oxford University in the UK, George Washington University and Singularity University in the US, and HEC Paris in France.

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  Pooja Chaudhary

  Senior manager, policy and insights, Economist Insights

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  Pooja Chaudhary

  Senior manager, policy and insights, Economist Insights

  October 13th 2022

  • 01:00 pm -1:30 pm
    Fireside chat. Raising data literacy: can Asia's workforces make the leap?

  October 14th 2022

  • 11:30 am -12:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Upskilling for the future

  Pooja Chaudhary is a senior manager with the policy and insights team at Economist Impact. As the international development lead for the APAC region, Ms Chaudhary leads both internal and public research programmes for foundations and bi/multilateral organisations in need of policy advocacy, strategy and analysis in the domain of social and international development. She has led programmes funded by multilaterals such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UK Department for International Development and International Organisation for Migration, as well as by the ministries and state departments in India and South Asia. Her recent research has focused on social investment, labour migration trends, the intersection of technology and education, and exploring the role of sustainable agriculture in economic development in South Asia.

   

  Previously, Ms Chaudhary worked with the Bharti Group, leading the strategy for their education and skills vertical. She was also a senior consultant with the social-sector advisory practice at PwC, leading initiatives to support multilateral organisations and governments in designing, implementing and evaluating international development programmes. She holds a master’s degree in business management from Xavier Institute of Management and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Delhi University.

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  Rachele Focardi

  Multigenerational workforce strategist, XYZ@Work

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  Rachele Focardi

  Multigenerational workforce strategist, XYZ@Work

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce

  Leading strategist on the future of work and best-selling author of Reframing Generational Stereotypes, Rachele Focardi is a global thought-leader and public speaker on generational diversity, multigenerational workforce effectiveness and employer branding. Over the past 20 years, Ms Focardi has advised hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, non-governmental organisations and government agencies across the US, Europe and Asia. She is passionate about helping organisations adapt to the needs of the new generations and make generational diversity a key item on their D&I agenda by developing initiatives, programmes and content that provide the opportunity for employees across all age groups to learn from each other, collaborate efficiently and together drive change. Ms Focardi is chair of the multigenerational workforce committee for the ASEAN Human Development Organisation, board member the Future Talent Council, mentor at Workplace Accelerator and founder of XYZ@Work. She is also a member of Mensa.

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  Moonmoon Varma

  Chief people officer, Yum! Brands

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  Moonmoon Varma

  Chief people officer, Yum! Brands

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce

  Moonmoon Varma is a seasoned human resources leader with hands-on build, scale and transformation experience across industries. Her abilities to create talent strategies, drive culture and change interventions, and be a trusted coach on human capital have been honed through 20 years of experience, practice, criticism, and a lot of trial and error. The variety of unanticipated events and the inevitable rollercoaster of business and corporate life have played a huge role in building her change and transformation muscle.

  Passionate about building high-performing, commercially savvy, diverse teams, Ms Varma has worked across sectors such as media, pharma, banking and financial services, and also lived in different cultures spanning East and West. She has worked with some of the brightest and best minds in the industry and built human resources functions from scratch as well as transformed established functions to deliver the workplace of the future.

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

  October 12th 2022

  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?
  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work
  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce
  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in 2018”. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.

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  Kelvin Kong

  Global chief people and culture officer, Homage Group

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  Kelvin Kong

  Global chief people and culture officer, Homage Group

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces

  Kelvin Kong is a visionary business and HR leader who takes organisation through digital transformation from 0 to 1, building transformation from inside out, through people, organisation, leaders and technology, centred around building customer value. Whether he is holding a management or change catalyst role, he strongly believes in creating safe and supportive environments by pushing the envelope for socially responsible technologies. Mr Kong has helped many organisations establish and drive business-led talent programmes. As an HR leader, he has been leading various strategic initiatives such as senior management hiring and development as well as different forms of organisational restructuring. 

  He has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience working at Apple, DHL Express, Unilever and Lazada/Alibaba. This wide span of exposure has enabled him to serve effectively from both the business and the talent side of the organisation, across different industries such as e-commerce, F&B, media, technology, FMCG and logistics.

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  Anita Lettink

  Partner, Strategic Management Centre and founder, HRtechradar.com

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  Anita Lettink

  Partner, Strategic Management Centre and founder, HRtechradar.com

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces

  Anita Lettink is an international speaker, author and advisor. After a global career in HR and payroll consulting and outsourcing, she started her own business to help people understand that work is changing and what they can do to prepare their employees and companies to thrive.

   

  Ms Lettink has been recognized as a Top 25 Global Thought Leader on the Future of Work and a Top 100 HR Tech Influencer. She is the author of “How to Select Your Next Payroll”. Anita is the founder of hrtechradar.com and a Partner at Strategic Management Centre.

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  Chun Wee Chiew

  Regional Head of Policy, Asia Pacific, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

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  Chun Wee Chiew

  Regional Head of Policy, Asia Pacific, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces

  Chun Wee Chiew is the policy and insights lead for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in Asia-Pacific. He works with ACCA members and key stakeholders to identify and drive research initiatives that provide evidence-based policy and thinking impacting the business community and profession, supporting ACCA’s delivery of public value. Mr Chiew is a board member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) and serves as a task-force member on a variety of key IAASB projects, including the quality management standard (firm level) and audits of less complex entities. Additionally, he is a regular speaker and panel chair on various topics including integrated reporting, the evolving role of finance leaders and talent issues.

   

  Prior to joining ACCA, Mr Chiew was a key member of the professional practice department of a Big Four accounting practice, where he focused on audit methodology and regularly delivered internal and external training programmes on auditing and quality assurance matters. He has more than a decade of experience in public accounting and has worked in audits of and special assignments for multinationals and local listed companies.

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 12th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:55 am
    Panel discussion. Work in a shifting economic climate: responses in context
  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Panel discussion. From resignation to realignment
  • 02:10 pm -2:30 pm
    In conversation. 20-20 hindsight: innovating under pressure
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace
  • 05:00 pm -5:40 pm
    Panel discussion. Strategic innovations at work: the paths ahead

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work
  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future
  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces
  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Charles Ross is Principal of Policy and Insights in Asia-Pacific and leads the region’s technology and society practice. Prior to this role he was editorial director for The Economist Intelligence Unit overseeing all thought leadership research in Asia. Charles combines a deep understanding of how technology trends are reshaping business and society with excellent research and editorial skills, to create impactful and award-winning research programmes for clients.

  Charles is currently based in Australia and has led many projects analysing the implications for governments, business and society of new technology and sustainability trends covering healthtech, decentralised finance, smart cities, longevity, digitisation, future of work and automation, for Medtronic, Google, Stripe, SAP, Telstra, Microsoft, Prudential, Westpac and the Singapore government, amongst others. He is a contributing industry expert to the UN Science Policy and Business Forum on the Environment and a frequent speaker at finance and technology events across the region. Charles holds a master of business administration, focusing on strategy and organisational change, from the University of Oxford and a certificate in public policy analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Sara Tiew

  Head of workforce transformation and analytics, UOB

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  Sara Tiew

  Head of workforce transformation and analytics, UOB

  October 14th 2022

  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Sara Tiew is the head of workforce transformation and analytics for UOB. She is responsible for leading future of work initiatives, strategic workforce plans and people analytics infrastructure for the bank.

   

  Ms Tiew joined the financial services industry in 2021 after a decade in consulting, having worked in Singapore, New York and Geneva. She returned to Singapore in December 2020 after completing her Future of Work fellowship at the World Economic Forum, where she led the development of re-skilling and re-deployment frameworks and co-authored the white paper entitled “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World”.

   

  As a known thought leader on the future of work, Ms Tiew speaks actively at public forums and has trained over a hundred employers on this topic. She is passionate about helping organisations cultivate an inclusive, engaging and productive workforce as part of its transformation journey.

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  Pooja Gianchandani

  Advisor on gig work for digital economy, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)

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  Pooja Gianchandani

  Advisor on gig work for digital economy, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)

  October 14th 2022

  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Pooja Gianchandani works for GIZ in Germany as an adviser on the digital labour economy. She leads the component on in-demand skills and rights of workers as part of the Gig Economy Initiative. She has nearly 20 years’ experience in co-creating digital learning solutions that enhance skills and employability of youth, adult learners, women, migrants and digital workers. 

   

  Previously in India, Ms Gianchandani served as the director for skills development at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (India’s apex industry body). In this role she worked closely with captains of industry to formulate policy positions of national significance, including creation of a unified national skills qualification framework, national skills policy and various public-private partnership initiatives. She has implemented international co-operation projects in South Asia, Europe, and West and East Africa.

   

  Ms Gianchandani has completed a dual master’s degree in social work from the University of Delhi. She is a German Chancellor Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt alumnus. 

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  Sue Coulter

  Head of group digital, AIA

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  Sue Coulter

  Head of group digital, AIA

  October 14th 2022

  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Sue Coulter is a professional executive with an extensive track record in leading both business and technology transformational change agendas across a range of financial service organisations in Europe and Asia. She is a proven leader with a strong background of delivery including core banking replacements, mobile banking solutions, health and wellness apps, and new digital apps, portals and tools.

   

  In her role at AIA as head of group digital, Ms Coulter is responsible for designing and delivering a range of market-leading digital experiences and solutions for customers, agents and distribution partners utilising best practice standards, techniques and experience from her centres of excellence.

   

  Ensuring that AIA’s digital solutions are built using the best practice standards across engineering, she has recently established a new digital engineering centre of excellence to provide guidance to AIA markets on how to build market-leading engineering capabilities as well as providing access to previously built assets to enable them to accelerate development.

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

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  Bill Ridgers

  Asia Digital editor, The Economist

  October 12th 2022

  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace

  October 13th 2022

  • 02:00 pm -2:40 pm
    Panel discussion. New models of work: fad or future?
  • 02:45 pm -3:15 pm
    Panel discussion. Playbooks for managing and optimising hybrid and remote workforces

  October 14th 2022

  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Fireside chat. Reimagining the place of work
  • 12:15 pm -12:50 pm
    Fireside chat: All together now? Managing a multi-cohort workforce
  • 01:35 pm -2:20 pm
    Panel discussion. Winning at work: how technology will shape competition

  Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in 2018”. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.

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  Daan van Rossum

  Chief executive officer, FlexOS

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  Daan van Rossum

  Chief executive officer, FlexOS

  October 14th 2022

  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Daan van Rossum is the chief executive officer of FlexOS, a platform that helps companies in South-East Asia get people together again in the world of hybrid work and to help them address key challenges in attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent in the market. 

   

  Prior to leading FlexOS and Dreamplex, Mr van Rossum ran his wellbeing startup Bright. This followed a 9-year engagement with Ogilvy, for which he worked as a Regional Strategy & Innovation Director across their Amsterdam, New York, Chicago, Singapore, and Ho Chi Minh City offices.

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  Fernn Lim

  Chief of staff, nexus, Standard Chartered Bank

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  Fernn Lim

  Chief of staff, nexus, Standard Chartered Bank

  October 14th 2022

  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Fernn Lim is the chief of staff for Standard Chartered nexus, a banking-as-a-service proposition by Standard Chartered. Based in Singapore, Ms Lim deputises the global lead’s strategic requirements and oversees marketing, HR/people and culture strategies for the white-label plug-and-play banking solution with a vision to redefine the banking experience for customers globally by digitally marrying ecosystems to banks. The first market is Indonesia, with further plans to expand in the region.

  Prior to Standard Chartered, Ms Lim was the head of culture and fintech acceleration of The Open Vault at OCBC. She was the founding member of the team, led OCBC’s corporate accelerator and was in charge of OCBC’s fintech ecosystem engagement plans. She also helped to expand the team to set up The Open Vault at OCBC in Malaysia. 

  In 2020, Ms Lim was selected for Money 20/20 RISE UP Academy, aimed to develop the next generation of women leaders in the financial services and fintech industry. She sits on Standard Chartered’s diversity and inclusion council and helps to drive the gender and equality mandate across the bank. 

  Ms Lim holds a BSc in mathematics and master’s degrees in mathematics and innovation management. She has worked in London and Singapore.

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  Robin Bush

  Country representative in Malaysia, The Asia Foundation

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  Robin Bush

  Country representative in Malaysia, The Asia Foundation

  October 14th 2022

  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Robin Bush is The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Malaysia, where she oversees programmes in support of Malaysia’s development as an advanced middle-income country. She has over 20 years of experience in governance and policy reform as well as academic expertise in South-east Asia. Her areas of programming expertise are political-economy analysis, international development, geopolitics, innovation ecosystems, religion and development, and knowledge-sector programming. She is also a political scientist with multiple publications on Indonesian and South-east Asian politics.

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

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  Charles Ross

  Principal, technology and society, policy and insights, Economist Impact

  October 12th 2022

  • 10:05 am -10:55 am
    Panel discussion. Work in a shifting economic climate: responses in context
  • 10:55 am -11:25 am
    Panel discussion. From resignation to realignment
  • 02:10 pm -2:30 pm
    In conversation. 20-20 hindsight: innovating under pressure
  • 04:20 pm -4:55 pm
    Panel discussion. Economist Impact reflects: Reimagining leadership, productivity and the workplace
  • 05:00 pm -5:40 pm
    Panel discussion. Strategic innovations at work: the paths ahead

  October 13th 2022

  • 10:10 am -10:50 am
    Panel discussion. Changing the experience of work
  • 03:20 pm -4:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Blue-collar Asia: working-class prospects in a high-tech future
  • 04:30 pm -5:10 pm
    Panel discussion. All skilled up with nowhere to go: ageing workers at an impasse

  October 14th 2022

  • 12:50 pm -1:35 pm
    Panel discussion. Tuning in to next gen workforces
  • 02:20 pm -3:00 pm
    Panel discussion. Facing the future: opportunities and approaches that inform strategic priorities

  Charles Ross is Principal of Policy and Insights in Asia-Pacific and leads the region’s technology and society practice. Prior to this role he was editorial director for The Economist Intelligence Unit overseeing all thought leadership research in Asia. Charles combines a deep understanding of how technology trends are reshaping business and society with excellent research and editorial skills, to create impactful and award-winning research programmes for clients.

  Charles is currently based in Australia and has led many projects analysing the implications for governments, business and society of new technology and sustainability trends covering healthtech, decentralised finance, smart cities, longevity, digitisation, future of work and automation, for Medtronic, Google, Stripe, SAP, Telstra, Microsoft, Prudential, Westpac and the Singapore government, amongst others. He is a contributing industry expert to the UN Science Policy and Business Forum on the Environment and a frequent speaker at finance and technology events across the region. Charles holds a master of business administration, focusing on strategy and organisational change, from the University of Oxford and a certificate in public policy analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science.