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SPEAKERS
Pierre Robinet
Senior Consultant, Ogilvy Consulting
Pierre Robinet is a senior consultant with extensive experience in the Health and Wellness space. From Insurance to Pharma through advanced nutrition and wellbeing hospitality business, he is passionate with the Health & Wellness continuum digital disruption and how deep technologies will benefit to our society. His mission is to tackle the thorniest business, marketing, and innovation challenges our clients face to drive growth and enable digital transformation, with a unique combination of rigor, agility and creativity, to help them lead the change and look forward the next 50 years.
To make this happen, he designs new organisations and business models alongside clients. Because he believes there is a common objective for fast company, start-ups and traditional giants to connect and grow, he looks at gathering the best from those two words to succeed in this digital always transformation journey.
Roy Tan
Politics & Government Outreach Manager for Asia-Pacific, Facebook
Roy is the Politics & Government Outreach Manager for Asia-Pacific. Where he is responsible for working with governments and politicians on how best to use Facebook to connect with their citizens. As the APAC lead for the Outreach team, Roy has worked with politicians, political campaigns, and government offices in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Taiwan, among others. Roy has a background in marketing and branding, having worked in companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and InterContinental Hotels Group. He has also worked in the Singapore government leading marketing and social media strategy for his ministry and political office holders.
Philip Chua
APAC Senior Public Policy Manager, Twitter
Philip Chua is Twitter's Senior Public Policy Manager for the Asia Pacific, working on policy advocacy and philanthropic partnerships across the region. He is also a global lead for Twitter on civic engagement and election projects, as well as #DataForGood where Twitter's data is used for social good.
Panelists
Rebecca Goolsby was trained as an anthropologist in the early 1990s and emerged as a computational social and cyber-anthropologist in the 2000s. Now she supervises a portfolio of research projects on the new information environment, social behaviour and the world of conflict. She is an innovation leader in research on the deep web, cyber-resilience and strategic communication in information conflicts. She is a published scholar on terrorist networks, crisis mapping, social media and social cyber-attack, including a well-known article on social cyber-attack through the Woodrow Wilson Commons Lab in 2012. She works closely with NATO Science and Technology Organization on the problems of cyber, international diplomacy and strategic communication. She currently conducts research on cyber-resilience for communities, government and non-government agencies as an aspect of community resilience, crisis response and disaster recovery.
Emma Baulch is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Monash University, Malaysia. She received her PhD from Monash University, Australia and has held academic positions at Leiden University, The Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology.
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Dr Baulch’s research examines Indonesian media and popular culture from the perspective of everyday life, with a specific focus on how media technologies shape social life. Her PhD was a study of the role electric guitars played in shaping communities of amateur musicians in Bali in the late-1990s, published by Duke University Press in 2007 as Making Scenes: Death metal, Punk and Reggae in 1990s’ Bali. Her postdoctoral work examined how television and digital technologies influence the formation of pop music genres, and is forthcoming as a book, titled Genre Publics: Pop, Technologies and Class in Indonesia with Wesleyan University Press. Dr Baulch’s current research examines digital infrastructures and everyday life in Southeast Asia. In 2017, with Jerry Watkins and Amina Tariq, she co-edited mHealth innovation in Asia: Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions (Springer). The collection, Digital Transactions in Asia (Routledge), co-edited with Adrian Athique,
is currently in press. She is a member of the editorial board for the Vernacular Indonesia series, Monash University Press.
Dr Baulch has worked with a range of external organisations over the course of her career, including the Australia-Indonesia Centre, the Indonesian National Planning Board, the National Film and Sound Archive, TRUE Relationships Queensland and the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.
Michel’s career spans operational, advisory and investments internationally. He has managed close to 30 IPOs, follow-on debt/equity financings as well as M&A and Private Placement transactions and has held Board positions with a number of Technology & Media co’s and served as C-level advisor to technology companies on strategy and corporate finance matters. He is currently EIR at NTUitive (NTU Singapore) working on technology commercialization & spinoffs. Prior to that he was Partner at iGlobe Partners in Singapore, Managing Director at Landsbanki Kepler (National Bank of Iceland). He was Senior Advisor of Investment Banking at Bryan Garnier (London / Paris), founder/managing partner of Dakota Partners, a VC/advisory firm focused on applications of next generation materials and an expert in the European Commissions’ Research Framework programs. Michel was Sr. Executive VP of European Capital Markets at Hambrecht & Quist from 1996-1997 and Managing Director of Technology Investment Banking and Exchange Relations – managing technology IPOs as Lead or Co-Manager on both European markets and NASDAQ. He began his career as a Project Engineer at GE Military Engine Group where he was responsible for the Apache/Blackhawk helicopters engine evaluation and qualification programs. Michel is active in the entrepreneurship and venture capital community in Singapore
and Indonesia. He has served as Vice Chairman of SVCA, Singapore Venture Capital Association. He was also a member of the NRF Tech Venture Working Committee and is a coach in the global student entrepreneur organization Enactus. Michel received SVCA’s 2013 Most Impactful PE/VC backed Board member award. Michel holds a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and is a graduate of General Electric’s Edison program. He earned his MBA from the London Business School.
Eley Querner
Vice President of Digital Service Centre of Excellence, Tüv Süd
Eley QUERNER is the Vice President of TÜV SÜD Digital Service in Singapore. She is responsible for leading the strategic partnerships, business development and management of lighthouse projects. Her focus areas are IoT centric segments such as robotics, smart sensor networks, blockchain, AI testing and holistic cyber security. Among other projects, she contributed to CETRAN Autonomous Vehicle Verification and Validation in Singapore with her team on site.
TÜV SÜD Digital Service develops and offers verification, validation and consultancy services for innovative technologies where the standards, hence certification is not available yet and regulation is limited. Combining the TIC DNA with the agility of an innovative startup, Digital Service enables the innovative solutions/products for commercialization and adoption by technically evaluating risks, delivering risk containment strategies and assuring their safety, security, reliability and scalability.
Strategic partnerships under Eley’s responsibility with industry, regulators, standardization bodies and R&D, aim to provide trust anchors for the new technologies for adoption and handle challenges during their lifetime. Eley is a firm believer that technological innovation leads to improvement in our lives.
Rebecca Goolsby
Program Officer, Office of Naval Research [ONR]
Assoc Professor, Emma Baulch
Monash University Malaysia
Michel Birnbaum
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, NTUitive
Jakab Pilaszanovich
Innovation Strategist, Telefonica Innovacion Alpha
Jakab is an innovation strategist at Telefonica Alpha in Spain, the firm's long term innovation facility. He interviews researchers and tech experts for opportunity area investigation, defines and builds prototypes for early idea validation and engages with internal and external stakeholders to maintain strong partnerships. Previously he served as a Frontend Developer and Interaction Designer in Telefonica, using his programming skills to develop user interfaces and data visualisations. He holds a First Class BSC in Physics with Music from Edinburgh Univeristy and a Master's degree in Sound and Music Computing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Ben Heap
Senior Expert, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
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Ben Heap is a Senior Expert at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. He joined the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Riga, in 2016. He is involved in several projects, including the use of social media in counter-terrorism operations and countering violent extremism, working with the private sector to develop best practice and understanding Russia’s influence in the Nordic-Baltic region.
Camber Warren
Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
Camber is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Previously, he was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the International Conflict Research (ICR) group and the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at ETH Zurich, and at Princeton’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, after graduating with a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University, with concentrations in International Relations and Quantitative Methods. His research focuses on the study of international security, conflict processes, ethnic politics, statistical methods, and computational modeling. He is particularly interested in building new linkages between micro- and macro-level evidence in the study of armed conflict, both within and between states.
Benjamin Ang
Senior Fellow, Centre of Excellence for National Security [CENS], RSIS, NTU
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Benjamin Ang is a Senior Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at RSIS. He leads the Cyber and Homeland Defence Programme of CENS, which explores policy issues around the cyber domain, international cyber norms, cyber threats and conflict, strategic communications and disinformation, law enforcement technology and cybercrime, smart city cyber issues, and national security issues in disruptive technology.
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Prior to this, he had a multi-faceted career that included time as a litigation lawyer arguing commercial cases, IT Director and General Manager of a major Singapore law firm, corporate lawyer specialising in technology law and intellectual property issues, in house legal counsel in an international software company, Director-Asia in a regional technology consulting firm, in-house legal counsel in a transmedia company, and senior law lecturer at a local Polytechnic, specialising in data privacy, digital forensics, and computer misuse and cybersecurity.
Benjamin graduated from Law School at the National University of Singapore and has an MBA and MS-MIS
(Masters of Science in Management Information Systems) from Boston University. He is qualified as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and was a Certified Novell Network Administrator back in the day. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter.
Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Malaysia
Gayathry Venkiteswaran is Assistant Professor at the School of Media, Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. Among the courses she teaches or has taught are Political Communication, Propaganda and Public Relations and Communication Technologies for undergraduates. She is the module convenor for the Foundations in Media, Communications and Politics offered as a pre-requisite for the ICS programme. She has an MA in International Relations from the Australian National University (ANU), and is currently pursuing her Phd in UNMC on the topic of media reforms in Southeast Asia.
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Gayathry has over 20 years of experience as a journalist, editor, media activist, researcher and media educator, working in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. She was previously the Executive Director of the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance, a not-for-profit network of media freedom and journalists' organisations in the region to promote press freedom and freedom of expression. Prior to that, she headed the Malaysian Centre for Independent Journalism, during which she and her team successfully campaigned for the enactment of the
Freedom of Information laws in Selangor and Penang; ran an independent online radio station; conducted citizen journalism training and activities to promote media literacy among the public; and engagement with various stakeholders on mainstreaming rights to press freedom and freedom of expression. Gayathry has published several articles and book chapters, among them, the use of the ICTs by civil society in the case of the Sg. Selangor Dam campaign, gendering the study of the internet, media freedom and journalists safety in Southeast Asia, freedom of association and assembly online and freedom of expression and religion online in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Yvonne Chua
Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines Diliman and Co-Founder of VERA Files
Yvonne has been the training director of the PCIJ and a regular writer for i, now I Report, the Center’s quarterly journal, since 1995. She is a professorial lecturer at the University of the Philippines, where she teaches journalism part-time, and editorial consultant of Tulay, Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran’s fortnightly newpaper. Since January 2003, she has been a member of the Commission on Higher Education’s Technical Committee on Communication.
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As journalism trainer, Yvonne has trained scores of journalists in the Philippines and abroad, including Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal and Mongolia. She has spoken about investigative reporting and media and current issues before various groups at home and abroad, among them the Investigative Reporters and Editors in the US, Article XIX in London, the OECD Forum in Paris, the International Corruption Conference in Prague and Transparency International conferences.
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Yvonne has won several reporting awards, including first prize in the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Investigative Journalism for her report on corruption in textbook procurement for public schools. Her book, “Robbed: An Investigation on Corruption in Philippine Education,” is a National Book Awardee for Journalism. Yvonne was also part of the team that put out the award-winning series on former President Joseph Estrada’s unexplained wealth and excesses in office. The reports formed part of the bases of the impeachment complaint against the former president.
Gulizar Haciyakupoglu
Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), RSIS, NTU
Gulizar Haciyakupoglu is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), at RSIS, NTU. Her research focuses on deliberate manipulation of information, influence operations and trust attribution in digital space. She has published articles, book chapters and commentaries on disinformation campaigns and influence operations in various countries in APAC.
Gulizar holds a Ph.D. with Lee Kong Chian Scholarship from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Communications and New Media Department (CNM). She received her MA in Political Communication from the University of Sheffield and Bachelor’s degree in Global and International Affairs from the Dual-Diploma Programme of the State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton and Bogazici University Turkey.
Eley joined TÜV SÜD in 2015 and played a major role in founding TÜV SÜD’s worldwide first Digital Service Center of Excellence in Singapore. With 25 years of experience in the telecommunications sector from R&D to sales in Europe and Asia, she has always been active in developing and implementing new, cutting edge technologies. She identifies herself as a “global citizen” and feels at home where the innovation is. Eley has B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering.
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